UN / ETHIOPIA TIGRAY UPDATE

The situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray region is “volatile and unpredictable,” the United Nations said on Wednesday, adding that there is spillover of the conflict to neighbouring Afar and Amhara regions, with an estimated 200,000 people reportedly displaced in Amhara and more than 76,000 in Afar, following the entry of Tigray forces into the regions. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:34
• Production Date: 11 August 2021
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: ETHIOPIA
• MAMS Id: 2646508
• Parent Id: 2646508
• Alternate Title: unifeed210811e

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STORY: UN / ETHIOPIA TIGRAY UPDATE
TRT: 1:34
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 11 AUGUST 2021, NEW YORK CITY

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1.Exterior shot, UN Headquarters

11 AUGUST 2021, NEW YORK CITY

2.Wide shot, spokesperson at the podium
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“Our colleagues in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs inform us that the situation in Tigray is volatile and unpredictable, and there is spillover of the conflict to neighbouring Afar and Amhara regions. In Amhara, an estimated 200,000 people have been displaced and in Afar, more than 76,000 people are reportedly displaced following the entry of Tigray forces into the region.
OCHA is also looking into information that a health clinic and a school being used to shelter internally displaced people in Galikoma Kabele in the Fenti Zone were shelled and that a warehouse was ransacked. Within Tigray, humanitarian access has significantly improved with an estimated 75 per cent of the area now accessible, but the flow of humanitarian supplies into the region remains insufficient. Access via the only road through Afar Region remains partially open due to insecurity and thorough searches at checkpoints. Staff rotation to and from the region is improving. Last week, the UN Humanitarian Air Service operated two flights from Addis Ababa to Mekelle as planned. Convoys transporting UN staff from Mekelle to Semera took place on 3 August and 6 August.”
4.Wide shot, press room

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The situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray region is “volatile and unpredictable,” the United Nations said on Wednesday (11 Aug), adding that there is spillover of the conflict to neighbouring Afar and Amhara regions, with an estimated 200,000 people reportedly displaced in Amhara and more than 76,000 in Afar, following the entry of Tigray forces into the regions.

Speaking at the daily press briefing in New York, Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General said the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) “is also looking into information that a health clinic and a school being used to shelter internally displaced people in Galikoma Kabele in the Fenti Zone were shelled and that a warehouse was ransacked.”

“Within Tigray, humanitarian access has significantly improved with an estimated 75 per cent of the area now accessible, but the flow of humanitarian supplies into the region remains insufficient. Access via the only road through Afar Region remains partially open due to insecurity and thorough searches at checkpoints,” Dujarric said.

He also reported that humanitarian staff rotation to and from the region was improving, and last week, “the UN Humanitarian Air Service operated two flights from Addis Ababa to Mekelle as planned. Convoys transporting UN staff from Mekelle to Semera took place on 3 August and 6 August,” he said.