Ethiopia - Tigray Region Humanitarian Update Situation Report, 6 May 2021
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HIGHLIGHTS
Active hostilities remain the main access impediment for scaling up response in rural areas in addition to constrained communications
Humanitarian partners are scaling up response but can only fully implement with access constraints addressed
Three food operators have distributed more than 19,000 metric tons of food for the first round of assistance for 2021, reaching 1.1 million people across the region
COVID-19 screening started in all targeted 15 health facilities in Mekelle At least US$443 million have been allocated to respond to the crisis but more is needed particularly for non-food assistance
Situation Overview
Cairo: An explosion at the premises of a French humanitarian organisation in Yemen’s southern city of Aden occurred on Friday night, a day after a deadly blast at the city’s airport, according to local media.
A bomb went off in front of Action Contre La Faim, a non-governmental organisation fighting hunger, in Aden’s district of Khur Maksar, security sources said.
The blast damaged the gate of the site, Al Ghad news portal quoted a security source as saying.
The explosion occurred near an hotel in the area and rocked the whole district, the portal added without reporting casualties.
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