The decision to move away from the towns of Abi Adi, Adigrat and Axum has major medical and humanitarian consequences for the residents of Tigray. “We know that countless patients are left without medical attention and some of them will die,” an MSF spokesperson wrote in a statement.
The aid organization has been present in the region since 2002, when the conflict started there. Civilians, medical personnel and aid workers are not spared and are even opposed. Ambulances are being looted and aid workers were rescued by soldiers last month stopped to prevent them from treating the wounded of an air raid.
The UN has called on militias from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to “immediately and definitively” support the ceasefire the Ethiopian government unilaterally signed last week. proclaimed.
The TPLF fighters called the unilateral declaration of the ceasefire to allow aid “a sick jokebecause they believe it is the government that has refused humanitarian aid.
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