Ethiopia’s war-scarred Tigray region regains some services | Malay Mail

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ADDIS ABABA, Dec 14 — Ethiopia sent civil servants in Tigray back to work today and ordered gun owners to disarm as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government sought to restore normality in the northern region after weeks of war. Some power and telephone links were also restored in regional capital...

An Ethiopian refugee who fled Tigray region holds a child inside a courtesy bus at the Fashaga camp, as they are transferred to Um-Rakoba camp on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Kassala state, Sudan, December 13, 2020. — Reuters pic

Thousands of people are believed killed and nearly a million fled their homes during air strikes and ground battles in Tigray that exposed bitter ethnic divisions around the vast nation. A 40-year-old driver reached by phone in Mekelle said power was back but there was little water and food was extremely expensive. “People are going outside because they are hungry,” he told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

 

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