Blockade of key roads to Geneina, the regional capital of West Darfur in Sudan, also lifted
New York/Addis Ababa/Rome: UN agencies today received approval from the Government for 25 international staff to move to the Tigray region. This clearance is a first step towards ensuring that aid workers in Tigray can deliver and ramp up the response given the rapidly rising needs in the region.
“As we told you, there have been a number of recent positive engagements with the Government of Ethiopia by senior UN officials, including the Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security, Gilles Michaud, and the High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, as well as recently, with the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley,”Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General, told reporters in New York.
Beasley, who had just wrapped up a trip to Ethiopia, said that WFP had accepted the Government’s request to help authorities and aid partners transport aid into and within Tigray. WFP had also agreed to provide emergency food aid for up to 1 million people in Tigray.
Humanitarian workers are looking forward to receiving approval for the remaining 60 NGO and UN staff who are in Addis Ababa and are ready to deploy to Tigray, as well as for rapid approvals of any additional requests put forward in the period ahead.
“While we welcome these clearances, we remain deeply concerned about the significant escalation in humanitarian needs in Tigray where people have endured more than three months of conflict with extremely limited assistance. We are also very concerned by reports of grave violations against civilians that we continue to receive,” Dujarric said, while reiterating UN’s call for the full resumption of free and unconditional access for humanitarian supplies and personnel to the Tigray region — including through blanket clearances for organisations operating in the area — so that we can immediately reach all the people in need with all the assistance they urgently require.
Of late though, there have been recent positive engagements with the Government of Ethiopia by senior UN officials, including the Under-Secretary General for Safety and Security, the High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme. These engagements have acknowledged the commendable measures being undertaken by the Government and partners to address humanitarian needs in Tigray. They have also concluded that humanitarian assistance must be expanded and intensified without delay.
However, the food and nutrition security situation is especially challenging. Latest estimates indicate that 2.5 to 3 million people require emergency food assistance in Tigray region. Reports indicate that the nutrition situation requires greater attention, with young children and pregnant and lactating mothers the most vulnerable.
Meanwhile, in a separate development, in Sudan too, a blockade of key roads to Geneina, the regional capital of West Darfur, was lifted yesterday. The lifting of the blockade, which lasted several weeks, will allow humanitarian organizations to scale up assistance to people displaced by the recent violence in West Darfur, both inside and outside Geneina.
To date, over 67,000 internally displaced people who are in Geneina have received food for one month as well as water, non-food items, and health services. “A rapid needs assessment of three affected villages outside Geneina is planned for tomorrow, with 45,000 people estimated to need assistance,” Dujarric said, and informed that an operational response plan was also being finalised to assist 100,000 people in West Darfur. The plan’s priorities included protection, water and sanitation, hygiene, shelter and education. The UN’s Sudan Humanitarian Fund has provided $1.3 million for the response. It may be mentioned that overall, humanitarian organisations need $1.9 billion to assist 8.9 million people across the country in 2021.
– global bihari bureau
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