Aid Flows to Ethiopia’s Tigray Region as Peace Deal Takes Hold
- World Food Programme convoy delivers food, medical supplies
- Some details of ceasefire still need to be ironed out
Internally displaced people carry jugs in a makeshift camp where they are sheltered in the village of Erebti, Ethiopia, on June 9.
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A World Food Programme convoy carrying food and medical supplies entered previously inaccessible parts of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on Wednesday, two weeks after the signing of a peace deal to end the nation’s civil war.
“More food, nutrition, medical cargo will follow imminently, via all routes possible,” the United Nations agency said on Twitter.