The representative of the World Food Program in Ethiopia Claude Gibidar said on Friday that the UN program provided more than 2,400 tons of food, medical, nutrition and other life -saving supplies to the Ethiopian Tigray region, after signing the peace agreement, earlier this month, and reopening all The four road corridors.
The UN actor- in a press conference, via video with journalists in Geneva- added that though the delivery of assistance inside the Tigray does not correspond to the needs; Where the program and its partners need urgently to reach all over the region; To provide food and nutritional assistance to 2. 3 million people there.
He pointed out that what was transferred from the food is sufficient for about 170 thousand people, pointing out that despite the arrival of the recent humanitarian aid obtained through Amhara to areas in the northwestern and southern regions of Tigrai, reaching some parts of the eastern and central regions of Tigray It is still restricted, which affects up to 170,000 mothers and children who need nutritional help.
He explained that, since the beginning of November, the program managed to reach 29% of its number of 2. 1 million people with food assistance in the Tigray region, and it continues to provide food aid in the Afar and Amhara regions of the two adjacents, noting that two years of conflict in northern Ethiopia succeeded more than 13. 6 million A person needs humanitarian food aid, and families were affected in Amhara and Afar, where 7 million and 1. 2 million people, respectively, need food aid.
He pointed out that about 22 million people across Ethiopia need food aid, including 9. 8 million people in the southern and southeastern parts affected by drought.
The World Food Program, through its representative in Ethiopia, urged additional financing; To support both the immediate and long -term needs of people affected by conflicts and climate shocks, indicating that it aims to reach more than 11 million people in Ethiopia with humanitarian aid over the next six months, but it faces a funding deficit of $ 422 million..
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