Despite the victories data released by the government

United Nations: Tigrayans continue to fight in Ethiopia, complicating the sending of aid

Refugees from Tigray arrive at the banks of the Tekisi River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border.

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The United Nations Organization in Addis Ababa announced yesterday that fighting continues in "several parts" of the Ethiopian Tigray region, despite the victories data issued by the Ethiopian federal government, which complicates attempts to provide assistance to this region in northern Ethiopia, which has been witnessing an armed conflict for a month.

Tigray has been deprived of all supplies since November 4, when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent the federal army to launch an attack on the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, the party that has run the region and has been challenging the central authorities for months.

Last Wednesday, the United Nations signed an agreement with the Ethiopian government providing for it to be granted a "unrestricted" humanitarian corridor in Tigray, which it had been calling for for several weeks, warning of the possibility of a disaster in Tigray.

A spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance, Saviano Abreu, told «AFP»: «We have information that the fighting continues in several parts of Tigray.

It is an alarming and complicated situation for us. ”

The Ethiopian Prime Minister declared the military victory about a week ago, stressing that the military operation was "completed" and the battles ended, after the regaining control of the regional capital, Mikeli by the government forces, which are currently supposed to control almost all of Tigray's territory.

Yesterday, assessments of the security situation in the region were still ongoing.

Three UN officials confirmed to Agence France-Presse that they did not expect the aid to arrive in Tigray before next week.

One said, without revealing his name, that the federal government "has granted us access but we must have the same type of agreement with all parties to the conflict, in order to make sure that we have free and unconditional access to Tigray."

On the other hand, the rebel leader in Tigray said yesterday that protests broke out in the provincial capital, but state television showed pictures of people shopping or sitting on round benches in the city of Maqli, while the new chief executive of the government-appointed region said that peace is returning to the region.

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