Tigray: Eritrean refugees ‘scared and struggling to eat’ amid aid obstacles

For the first time in weeks, aid teams have reached refugee camps in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, only to find that some Eritrean nationals living there have likely died of preventable diseases, while others are “scared and struggling to get enough to eat”, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.

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25,000 refugees in unsettled Tigray region receive urgent UN food supplies

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