WHO chief says ‘systematic blockade’ of Tigray killing people
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Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region is under “effective blockade”, the World Health Organization chief said Friday, warning that people were starving to death and dying from lack of access to medicines. “People are dying because of lack of supplies,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself a from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, told reporters from the UN health agency’s Geneva headquarters. WHO, he said, “cannot send supplies and medicines to Tigray because it’s under blockade, and the blockade is systematic”. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has been locked in a year-long war with the…