Ethiopia - Tigray Region Humanitarian Update Situation Report, 3 May 2021
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Humanitarian partners continue the scale-up effort to reach all people in need in Tigray; but the response is not commensurate to the needs.
Nearly six months into the conflict, most rural areas remain cut from communications and electricity, impacting access to health services and water supply among others.
Three Food operators are providing food assistance to food insecure people in the region.
Humanitarian partner continue to scale-up response to Gender-Based Violence, including identification and support to survivors US$427 million have been allocated to respond to the crisis as of 20 April.
Ethiopia - Tigray Region Humanitarian Update Situation Report, 30 April 2021
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Humanitarian partners continue the scale-up effort to reach all people in need in Tigray; but the response is not commensurate to the needs.
Nearly six months into the conflict, most rural areas remain cut from communications and electricity, impacting access to health services and water supply among others.
The three Food operators are providing food assistance to all the 5.2 million people in need across Tigray.
Humanitarian partner continue to scale-up response to Gender-Based Violence, including identification and support to survivors
US$485 million have been allocated so far to respond to the crisis.
Ethiopia - Access Snapshot - Tigray region (As of 31 March 2021)
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Humanitarian partners access to Tigray improved in March, with the replacement of the previous clearance process for the deployment of international aid workers at the Federal level with a new flexible notification system and further flexibility in the movement of relief cargo to the region. Despite these marked improvements, access to large areas continues to be impeded by insecurity, and the humanitarian response remains limited, particularly in rural hard-to-reach areas.
Five months since the start of the conflict, the population in rural areas (80 percent before the conflict), including those living in major towns in the North-Western such as Sheraro, Zana, Endabaguna and the whole Western zone, continue to lack access to essential services such as electricity, health, water and sanitation, and education.
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With relief agencies still blocked from reaching most of the war-ravaged Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, there are reports of hidden atrocities, starvation, ransacked hospitals, rapidly deteriorating conditions and the rising threat of famine.
Almost three months after the Ethiopian government declared victory in what it called its “law enforcement operation” in Tigray, and nearly four months after the conflict began, the fighting is continuing and the military and humanitarian situation is still “very out of control,” according to a European Union representative.