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Advertisement Pope demands food aid for starving key19396 people of Tigray world Pope Francis delivers his key19401 message during the Angelus noon prayer at the Vatican, © AP/Press key19410 Association Images Share this article
13/06/2021 | key19399 13:31 PM By Associated Press reporters
Pope Francis has demanded that humanitarian aid reach hungry people in the war-torn Tigray region of northern key19404 Ethiopia, where Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers are blocking food deliveries and key19405 other assistance.
Francis called for an immediate end to the fighting in Tigray, the key19398 return of social harmony key19402 and for “all food aid and health care assistance to be guaranteed”.
Speaking at his Sunday noon blessing, Francis said he was thinking of the people of Tigray who have been “struck by a grave humanitarian crisis that key19406 has exposed the poorest to famine. Today key19409 there is famine. There is hunger.”
Tigrayans wait to receive donated food in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia (Ben Curtis/AP)
The United Nations and aid groups say more than 350,000 people in Tigray face famine key19403 and 2 million more are a step key19400 away from the worst famine since 2011 in Somalia. Farmers, aid workers and local officials say food has been turned into a weapon key19407 of war,
rolex milgauss z blue replica with soldiers blocking or stealing food aid.
AdvertisementMore than 2 million of Tigray’s 6 million people have already fled, key19397 unable to harvest their crops. The war in Tigray started in November, shortly before the harvest season, as an attempt by Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed to disarm the region’s rebellious leaders.
On one side are guerrillas loyal to the ousted and now-fugitive leaders of Tigray. On the other are Ethiopian government troops, allied troops from neighbouring Eritrea and militias from Ethiopia’s Amhara ethnic group who see themselves as rivals to the Tigrayan guerrillas.
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