The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says recent aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray region is not enough, pledging further efforts to scale up deliveries of relief supplies.
The agency said that a total of 169 trucks carrying about 4,300 metric tonnes of desperately-needed aid supplies reached Ethiopia’s Tigray region in April.
It said that the supplies were, however, a small fraction of the needed quantity.
It said the latest convoy of 27 trucks carrying nearly 1,000 metric tonnes of food and other essential items reached Tigray’s regional capital of Mekelle on April 29-30.
According to the agency, it is the fourth humanitarian convoy reaching Tigray since the aid transport resumed at the beginning of April after more than three months of interruption.
It added that essential services, including electricity, communications networks, and banking, remained cut off in the region.
The agency said that the UN and its partners would continue to work with authorities to scale up deliveries of relief supplies into Tigray, including seeds and fertilizer, ahead of the critical summer planting season.