








“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








Today, the World Food Programme (WFP) published a report after studying the food insecurity in Northern Ethiopia and specifically the Tigray region, which has been under a humanitarian blockade and significantly hurt by the prolonged conflict since November 2020. The Federal Government and the regime in Addis Ababa have made lots of bureaucratic hurdles plus also used their power to stop convoys to enter into the region. Therefore, the results of this is having affects…
The WFP states seriously issues and the possible starvation for up to 2 million civilians, while over half of the population is eating a poor diet and four in five eats inadequate diets. That means the food they actually have isn’t proper or substantial of what a person needs. This being the vitamins, proteins, vegetables or anything else that might be lacking in the diet. As the region is struggling to both produce and import the needed basic food items, which the civilians needs to have a proper diet. That says it all about the problematic siege of the region.
Just read these paragraphs from the WFP report, which states the dire status on food insecurity there:
“The compounded effect of multiple drivers of food insecurity resulted in 83 percent (4.6 million people) of the population surveyed in the Tigray Region being classified as food insecure, of which two million (37 percent of the population) are severely food insecure. The highest prevalence of food insecurity was recorded in the North western, Eastern and Central zones. More than four in five households consume inadequate diets, and 57 percent of these households consume poor diets. Although the consumption of cereals has remained steady, the consumption of nutritious foods such as meat, vegetables and fruit has declined drastically since October 2020 on less than one day a week on average” (World Food Programme – January 2022 – Tigray Emergency Food Security Assessment, P:5).
“Food security in the Tigray Region is worrisome with 83 percent of households being food insecure (of which 46.4 percent are moderately food insecure and 37.5 percent are severely food insecure). The zones recording the highest food insecurity rates are the North western zone (93 percent), Eastern zone (86 percent) and the Central zone(84 percent). These zones also recorded the highest prevalence of households consuming poor diets due to the sporadic weekly consumption of nutritious foods such as milk and dairy products (on average consumed 0.4 days on weekly basis) or proteins (0.2 days per week in Central and North West and 0 days in East). In addition, the Central and Eastern zones are among those recording the highest prevalence of households who implement emergency coping mechanisms such as selling last female animals or of households who implement emergency coping mechanisms such as selling last female animals or reproductive animals in unsustainable way (20.9 and 32.1 percent, respectively)” (World Food Programme – January 2022 – Tigray Emergency Food Security Assessment, P: 24-25).
These two paragraphs states the devastation and the suffering if the people in the Tigray region. These statistics isn’t just numbers, but actually people who are not eating properly or have the ability to eat as they should. The results of the blockade is clear and the state wants at least 2 million people to suffer. Just so it can avenge the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). That is the sad reality here. The Federal Government is proud of and states times, and times again… that its doing so, because it’s for “unity”. A “unity” only worth and valued by Amhara elites. Therefore, the starvation, the famine and the food insecurity is done on the watch of the regime in Addis Ababa.
A government and a regime that doesn’t care. This is a deliberate act… and it’s sinister, tragic and could have been avoided. However, the regime is thriving on doing this. Peace.

As the Tigray Defence Force (TDF) did a tactical retreat in December 2021. Now, it is reported that the TDF has started to attack and invade several of districts within the Afar Region. Where the ARed Sea Afar Forces, Afar Regional Special Forces and Eritrean Defence Forces are defending the region. That is very clear, as well as Afar People’s Force (APF) are countering the TDF.
The TDF is reported to have gotten as far as Abaala, as the TDF targeted the districts of Magale, Abaala, Dalol and Barahle. There was also reports that the TDF tried to advance in Erebti located north of Teru, but they were defeated north of Magale. The latest front the TDF has created is around Konnaba, at a place called Mayrami.
There unconfirmed reports that the spiralling conflict in Afar Region have created 250,000 Internally Displaced People’s (IDPs). However, that is not yet verified or proven. Nevertheless, with the advance of TDF into Afar region. There should be expected ramifications of this warfare. Just like the conflict has lingering effects in other regions as well.
The TDF is clearly doing this, as they know the Federal Government of Ethiopia has no interests in negotiating or creating lasting peace. As the Generals and High Ranking Officials been stating the will to annihilate and pursuit the final end of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Therefore, the conflict was just ceasing for a moment and sooner or later, the ENDF would strike.
Nevertheless, the TDF has now advanced and has a new offensive. If they are trying to get to Mille or any other strategic town is unknown. What is obvious… is that the war isn’t over and the Tripartite Alliance isn’t over either. As the EDF, RSAF, APF and ARSF are fighting against the invasion. Peace.





