Key Updates
- The TPLF has expanded its belligerence to other areas in Amhara and Afar regions.
- It has launched an invasion in the direction of Wag, Wolqait and border areas with Sudan (Amhara Region).
- In its aggression, the TPLF has continued using the human wave strategy, which places children, youth and the elderly as sacrifices.
- The Ethiopian National Defence Forces has been gallantly defending the attacks launched by the TPLF.
- The Government, while responding steadfastly to the attacks, launched by the TPLF in various fronts, has still not closed off the option of peace.
- Government continue to urge the international community to do what it can to pressure the belligerent group for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
Background
- UN Secretary General’s spokesperson, on August 28, 2022, said, deliveries of humanitarian supplies by road into Tigray have been suspended since the resumption of the new round of the conflict on 24 August 2022.
- The Spokesperson also added that the UN Humanitarian Air Services halted the transportation of operational cash as well as rotation of humanitarian workers.
- The UN calls for rapid and unimpeded passage for humanitarian workers and supplies into all of Northern Ethiopia in accordance with international humanitarian law.
- UNOCHA also declared that:
- In northern Ethiopia, the humanitarian situation continues to be alarming. There are reports of displacement in frontline areas in the Amhara and Afar regions.
- While humanitarian partners have resumed distributing food and other vital humanitarian supplies with in Tigray, deliveries of humanitarian supplies by road into Tigray remained suspended since 24 August.
Key Messages
- TPLF has intensified its belligerence and aggression to other areas in Amhara and Afar regions.
- TPLF continues to mobilise the Tigray youth for war, by conditioning military service for humanitarian assistance, and use the human wave tactics for its aggressions.
- TPLF’s extensive offensive, reignites the conflict and undermine the humanitarian truce declared by the Government of Ethiopia, hindering the transportation of humanitarian assistance to Northern Ethiopia.
- TPLF’s theft of 570,000 litres of fuel from WFP’s warehouse in Mekelle should not be left unheeded as it is being used for the new wave of aggression.
- The UN and other partners should expose TPLF’s expanded aggression:
- as the cause that affect the livelihood in Amhara and Afar regions,
- Inhibits humanitarian aid transportation as well as distribution in Northern Ethiopia.
- The UN and other partners MUST:
- expose TPLF’s irresponsible act of breaching humanitarian law, and,
- hold TPLF accountable for disruptions in the distribution of humanitarian assistance to the people of Tigray
- The international community SHOULD:
- Condemn, in clear terms, the provocations and expansion of the aggression by the TPLF.
- Pressure the TPLF to stop all hostilities and save the lives of thousands of Ethiopians.
- Not embolden the TPLF with a soft stance and with equivocal calls.
- Pressure the TPLF to come to the negotiation table without preconditions!
- The Government, while responding steadfastly to the attacks, launched by the TPLF in various fronts, is still committed to peace.
- Government continue to urge the international community to do what it can to pressure the belligerent group for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
