Life-saving help for Tigray set to arrive

GENEVA: The World Health Organization voiced hope yesterday that its life-saving assistance would arrive in Ethiopia’s war-ravaged Tigray region in the next few days, after the warring sides agreed to facilitate humanitarian access.

Ethiopia’s government and Tigrayan rebels agreed to facilitate immediate humanitarian access to “all in need” in Tigray, as part of a deal reached at the start of the month to end the brutal two-year conflict in the northern region.

The region, home to some 6 million people, is in the grip of a severe humanitarian crisis due to lack of food and medicine.