Lack of access hinders delivery of aid to Ethiopia's Tigray region: NRC

Refugees.

Eritrean refugees at Mai Aini Refugee camp, in Ethiopia, on January 30, 2021. Nearly 100,000 refugees from Eritrea were registered in four camps in Tigray when fighting erupted last November between Abiy Ahmed's government and the regional ruling party, TPLF. PHOTO | EDUARDO SOTERAS | AFP

A global humanitarian organisation says delivery of critical humanitarian assistance to millions of people in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region has stalled.

In a statement issued on Monday, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said that humanitarian operations have not begun since conflict broke out in the region last year.