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Ethiopia has established an emergency center in the northern regional state of Tigray to meet the humanitarian needs of 2.5 million people, an Ethiopian official said on Thursday.
Mitiku Kassa, commissioner of the Ethiopian National Commission for Disaster Risk Management (NDRMC), said the center in the regional capital of Mekelle will have staff from Ethiopian ministries, Tigray interim administration offices, United Nations agencies. United Nations, bilateral partners and international non-governmental organizations to help it effectively coordinate humanitarian aid supplies in the Tigray region.
Kassa also said the NDRMC planned to establish incident command posts in two other regional towns of Tigray, Shire-Indaselassie and Adigrat, to ensure the proper use of humanitarian aid.
Months of fighting in northern Tigray Ethiopia between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which ruled the regional state of Tigray until last November, and the Ethiopian national defense forces are believed to have killed thousands , hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons and millions in urgent need. humanitarian aid.
Source: Xinhua / GNA
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