
“Across northern Ethiopia, it is expected that constant humanitarian food assistance will be required at least throughout 2022” (OCHA, 04.02.2022).
The situation across the region is worsening, as the humanitarian assistance is either stopped, blocked or not able to access. The bureaucratic constrains combined with prolonged war-effort is ensuring lives is in danger and living in dire straits. As unknown number of civilians in the Tigray region, Amhara and Afar is now touched by the conflict. These are all innocent civilians who is caught in a crossfire between the parties and the involvement of the Federal Government. They are the ones who is blocking the needed access to humanitarian assistance in the area.
The explanations of OCHA are very vivid and direct. There is clearly a need for help and people are starving and lacking needed food for their diets. It’s so deliberate, as these sorts of efforts continues months upon months with no end. The dire situation isn’t changing, and the government is blaming the victims for not accepting it. This is their scheme and the whole region is hurting because of it.
Escalated conflict ensures more IDPs:
“The situation in northern Ethiopia remains tense and volatile. While the situation in Tigray and Amhara regions was relatively calm during the reporting week with static lines of contact, heavy clashes were reported in Afar Region, along the border with Tigray, including in Abala, Berhale, Dalol, Erebti, Koneba and Megale woredas. These recent hostilities are further putting civilian lives at risk, increasing the humanitarian needs notably through higher populations’ displacement impacting livelihoods, and restricted access hindering humanitarian delivery to affected areas in Afar. According to the Afar regional authorities, more than 200,000 people have been displaced due to the recent fighting in the region and are scattered in remote areas with little or no access to critical items such as food and water. Reportedly, several internally displaced persons (IDPs) have arrived in Afdera town. Humanitarian partners could not verify the displacement figures as well as assess the needs of the displaced populations due to access constraints. The situation of the newly displaced people, however, is anticipated to be dire. This wave of IDPs comes on top of a previous caseload of previously displaced people, who have been returning to their places of origin, thus increasing the number of vulnerable people in need of urgent life-saving humanitarian assistance” (OCHA, 04.02.2022).
Fuel constrains:
“Fuel delivery is still restricted with no fuel for humanitarian operations allowed into Tigray since 2 August, except for two WFP trucks. Unable to receive sufficient fuel loans locally, partners had to reduce, postpone, or cancel critical operations such as distributions of food, water, medicine, and nutrition. Child protection services by one partner had to be completely suspended in the South-Eastern zone for lack of fuel and cash” (OCHA, 04.02.2022).
Food insecurity:
“Food assistance will be required throughout 2022 across northern Ethiopia. Population living in inaccessible areas (bordering areas and Western Zone), who were not covered in the assessment, will likely be facing an even worse food security situation since they have not been provided with assistance sufficiently. More than 9 million people need food assistance in northern Ethiopia. Regular flow of sufficient fuel, cash, and food supplies into Tigray to sustain food assistance. Provision of food assistance in hard-to-reach areas in Amhara and Afar” (OCHA, 04.02.2022).
This is just a bare minimum of the information from OCHA. As the records and the updates clearly indicates that the stocks are not only running low, but often empty. Because, of the tireless games of bureaucratic hurdles the Federal Government have been applying. While blocking and having their humanitarian assistance blockade of the Tigray region. Which is now in addition hurting Afar region and parts of Amhara. That’s all part of their way to try to defeat their enemies and make

















