Monok: More than two million children in Ethiopia’s Tigray region cut off from humanitarian assistance

About 2.3 million children are struggling to obtain essential humanitarian aid, including treatment for malnutrition, vital vaccines, emergency medication and water and sanitation, the children’s rights organisation, the United Nations child welfare agency, UNICEF, said on Tuesday.

The crisis also worries almost 100.000 people Eritrean refugees in Tigray. UNICEF called for “urgent, sustained, unconditional and impartial humanitarian access” to the affected families and called on the Federal Government to make the freedom of movement possible for civilians who wish to seek protection elsewhere possible.