{"id":13245,"date":"2022-03-12T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=13245"},"modified":"2022-03-12T15:32:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T15:32:56","slug":"de-facto-blockade-for-more-than-a-year-deprived-7-million-people-in-tigray-of-urgently-needed-aid-un-health-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=13245","title":{"rendered":"De Facto Blockade for More than a Year Deprived 7 Million People in Tigray of Urgently Needed Aid: UN Health Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/globenewsnet.com\/news\/de-facto-blockade-for-more-than-a-year-deprived-7-million-people-in-tigray-of-urgently-needed-aid-un-health-body\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Globe News Net<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 11, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that 7 million people in Ethiopia\u2019s northern Tigray region need urgent help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor more than a year, a de facto blockade has deprived 7 million people in Tigray of urgently needed health care, and access to food. People are dying,\u201d WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For more than a year, a de facto blockade has deprived 7 million people in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tigray?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tigray<\/a> of urgently needed health care &amp; access to food &amp; people are dying. We call on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethiopia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethiopia<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eritrea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Eritrea<\/a> to guarantee immediate, safe access &amp; work for peace. Life is precious &#8211; everywhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EndTheSiege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EndTheSiege<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PzAPTeNCK8\">pic.twitter.com\/PzAPTeNCK8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrTedros\/status\/1501629598131445762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calling on Ethiopia and Eritrea to guarantee immediate and safe access, he said: \u201cLife is precious \u2013 everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A report released by the World Food Programme warns that an estimated 13 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia are facing severe hunger due to the driest conditions recorded since 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globenewsnet.com\/news\/lack-of-fuel-preventing-distribution-of-the-small-portion-of-the-critically-needed-essential-medical-supplies-in-tigray-region\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Health Organization last month called for \u201cunfettered access<\/a>\u201d into war-wracked Tigray, saying its first delivery of life-saving medical supplies since July last year had stalled due to lack of fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globenewsnet.com\/news\/almost-40-of-people-in-acute-hunger-in-embattled-and-blockaded-tigray-that-was-food-sufficient-before-the-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">40 percent<\/a>&nbsp;of people in Tigray, a region of six million people, face \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/globenewsnet.com\/news\/almost-40-of-people-in-acute-hunger-in-embattled-and-blockaded-tigray-that-was-food-sufficient-before-the-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an extreme lack of food\u201d, the UN<\/a>&nbsp;said last month. The dire assessment published by the World Food Programme (WFP) came as humanitarian groups increasingly curtail activities because of fuel and supply shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globenewsnet.com\/news\/more-than-300-civilians-killed-in-three-months-of-ethiopia-airstrikes-un\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UN rights office on Monday reported that at least 304<\/a>&nbsp;civilians had been killed in air strikes in the north, particularly Tigray, since November. The UH Rights office also said that it has received reports of \u201c306 rape incidents by Tigrayan forces in the Amhara region\u201d between November 1 and Dec. 5, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent study by Mekelle University and the Regional Health Bureau showed that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eepa.be\/?p=5887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">120,000 women<\/a>&nbsp;in a conservative Tigray came forward to report rape by either Ethiopian, Eritrean, or Amhara. Researchers say that the figure was only a tip of the iceberg, considering the sexual conservativism in Tigray into account. Tigray regional health bureau announced today that 7.3 % of the women who have been raped have been contracted with various sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dimtsiweyane\/posts\/4853278724770265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5 % have been infected with HIV<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The war began in November 2020 when Ethiopia\u2019s army, backed by Eritrean and Somalia national armies and troops from Ethiopian regional states, moved to oust a TPLF-led regional government in Tigray after a long-standing political hostilities between Abiy\u2019s ruling party and the TPLF. The other dimension of the war was a genocidal campaign that has been brewing by elites from Amhara and Eritrean government. The trio combined their forces to unleash the November 2020 \u2018war-of-annihilation\u2019 on Tigrayans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The more than 16-month-old war was marked by extreme brutality, including the use of rape and hunger as weapons of war, massacres and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/10\/politics\/blinken-tigray-ethnic-cleansing\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ethnic cleansing<\/a>&nbsp;against Tigrayans. As a result, the conflict has left thousands dead and forced many others to flee their homes with hundreds of thousands driven to the brink of starvation, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since June, Tigray has been put under a total humanitarian blockade by the Ethiopian government, with only&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globenewsnet.com\/news\/tigray-government-says-ethiopia-and-allies-using-hunger-as-instrument-of-war-a-quarter-of-children-diagnosed-with-acute-malnutrition-siege-already-killed-thousands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">less than 10 %<\/a>of the needed essential aid allowed to enter the region and no aid reached the region&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globenewsnet.com\/news\/ethiopia-aid-agencies-suspend-operations-in-tigray-due-to-fuel-shortage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">since December 15, 2021<\/a>. This has resulted in man-made famine to more than 900,000 people in the region and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globenewsnet.com\/news\/tigray-government-says-ethiopia-and-allies-using-hunger-as-instrument-of-war-a-quarter-of-children-diagnosed-with-acute-malnutrition-siege-already-killed-thousands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 5400<\/a>&nbsp;deaths as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An estimated 9.4 million people in northern Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray, Amhara, and Afar regions are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.&nbsp; Millions more are also suffering from severe food shortages, acute malnutrition is rising, disease and chronic illnesses are going untreated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Globe News Net March 11, 2022 The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,45],"class_list":["post-13245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-english","tag-globe-news-net"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23.png",1053,690,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23.png",300,197,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23.png",640,419,false],"large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23.png",640,419,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23.png",1053,690,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23.png",1053,690,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23.png",825,541,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23.png",590,387,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23-300x300.png",300,300,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23.png",600,393,false],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-23-100x100.png",100,100,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Axumawian Media"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?cat=2\" rel=\"category\">Article<\/a>","tag_info":"Article","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13247,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245\/revisions\/13247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}