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Bloomberg: Ethiopia Suspends Two Humanitarian Groups From War-Torn Tigray

Posted on by Eyasu Berhe

Ethiopia suspended the activities of two humanitarian organizations working in the war-torn Tigray region as the conflict in the north of the country enters its ninth month.

Medecins Sans Frontieres, one of only a handful of experienced international groups providing frontline health care to people in conflict areas, said it was told to cease their operations by the government late last month. The Norwegian Refugee Council, which provides assistance to nearly 600,000 people in six regions across Ethiopia, was given similar orders.

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Ethiopia: Survivors describe being shot by soldiers in Tigray

Posted on by Sami Mulaw

Twenty injured people treated at hospitals supported by MSF

“The indiscriminate shooting of people far from a front line is shocking—in a public place, in a big town, in a busy moment of the day,” said Maricarmen Viñoles, the head of MSF’s emergency unit. “We urge all armed parties to this conflict to protect and respect people’s lives.”

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BBC: Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Hospitals ‘vandalised and looted’

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Nearly 70% of health facilities in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit northern region of Tigray have been vandalised and equipment looted, a report by medical charity MSF has found.

The facilities were “deliberately” attacked to make them “non-functional”, Médecins Sans Frontières said.

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MSF: People left with few healthcare options in Tigray as facilities looted, destroyed

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Violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has extended to attacks on health facilities, with barely one in 10 functioning. Of the 106 health facilities MSF teams visited, one in five had been or was occupied by armed soldiers; one facility is being used as an army base.

The damaged, looted facilities and resulting lack of medical staff means people in the region have very little access to healthcare. MSF urges all armed groups in the area to respect medical facilities and for services to be restored as soon as possible.

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France24: MSF denounces widespread attacks on Tigray clinics

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A statement issued Monday by Doctors Without Borders, know by its French initials MSF, said “treatment structures in the Ethiopian region of Tigray were looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate and generalised manner” according to its observers in the area.

The group said it had visited 106 sites between mid-December and early March, and that 70 percent had been looted.

Only 13 percent “functioned normally”, the French-language statement added.

“One health establishment in five visited by MSF teams were occupied by soldiers. In certain cases, this occupation was temporary, while in others, it continued during the visit,” the group said.

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msf: Tigray Crisis: “We are suffering from a lack of medical care

Posted on by Sami Mulaw

Inside Tigray, Ethiopia, most of the displaced people stay with the host community, while tens of thousands live in informal sites or are still hiding in the bush or the mountains. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation of hundreds of thousands of people who have been deprived of medical care for months and have received little humanitarian assistance.

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MSF: Ethiopia: “If seriously ill people can’t get to hospital, you can imagine the consequences”

Posted on by Eyasu Berhe

Albert Viñas has been involved in almost 50 emergency responses with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) over 20 years. He has just returned from his sixth mission in Ethiopia, where his role was to prepare the way for medical teams to access areas of eastern and central Tigray and assist people affected by the current crisis. Since violence broke out in this northern Ethiopian region in early November, some 60,000 people have taken refuge in Sudan and hundreds of thousands have been displaced within Tigray. He describes what he found.

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