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A UN report dated Saturday called on “all warring parties, at all levels, to grant uninterrupted humanitarian access to [the] affected population” in Tigray, warning that conflict-related disruptions were “contributing to the worsening of the humanitarian context”.
It noted that approximately 600,000 people dependent on food relief assistance , more than 400,000 people depend on relief and food aid due to food insecurity, in addition to 100,000 displaced people and nearly 100,000 refugees. “.
UN has confirmed that nearly nine million people near Tigray’s borders are “at high risk due to this conflict”, the report said, raising the possibility of “massive displacements within and outside of Ethiopia.”
Lawmakers on Saturday voted to suspend Tigray’s current leaders and install a caretaker administration.
In the capital, Addis Ababa, the mayor announced Sunday that 10 TPLF members who were high-ranking city officials had been arrested, accusing them of “betraying the people” and working “to destabilise the peace in our city and engage in cruel and terroristic motives.”
