The European Union has berated the use of humanitarian aid as a weapon of war in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray.
The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the military was continuing to block the delivery of assistance.
The hostilities in the region have sparked growing needs for humanitarian aids as millions have been displaced with hundreds of thousands at the risk of starvation.
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According to him, only about 12% of the three million people in need of emergency shelter had been reached since early May.
More than 90% of Tigray’s population currently require urgent food aid.
The United States has expressed deep concern about increasing ethnic and political polarisation across Ethiopia.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK