The Ethiopia Tigre region was fell into a fire again, Tan Saide: I can't send money to my relatives there

Jimu Journalist Hu Li

According to the BBC report on August 27, with the breakdown of the Ethiopian ceasefire agreement, the people in the Tigley area in the northern part of the country fell into a war again. Tan Desai, Director -General of the World Health Organization (WHO), revealed that he could no longer remit money to Ethiopia's war -torn relatives.

Tan Saide (source: BBC)

On August 24, local time, Tan Dezai, who was the Minister of Health, Ethiopian, said, "I want to share a story with you with you, where I have many relatives in the Territ region. I know that many of them are starving, so I want to send them money, but I can't send them money, I don't even know who they are dead. "

It is reported that since the outbreak of the Tigley conflict in Ethiopia in November 2020, the region is isolated from the outside world, and there is no electricity, network, telephone, and banking services.

Due to this inconvenience, the middlemen who have earned the handling fee from the Togre region to the Togre area. These intermediate chambers of commerce walk to Tigre and the border area to personally deliver funds. A Sayaba, who lives in the capital of Ethiopia, said: "I have found a person who can remit money to Togre, and he collects a fee of 20%of the amount of remittance." According to the British media, these middlemen sometimes will sometimes meet Charge more than 40%.

In March of this year, after the federal government drove the "Terrass People's Liberation Front" (referred to as "Titan") forces to drive out the Amhara and Afal region, it announced unilateral ceasefire and prepared the National Dialogue Committee and the Peace Commission. Hope to resolve the conflict peacefully.

Recently, the Ethiopian Government Communications Services Department issued a statement saying that the "Tigre People's Liberation Front" (referred to as "Titan") violated the ceasefire agreement and ignored the current peaceful efforts. The direction was launched, and the National Defense Forces and the local state security forces were cooperating with the attack of the "people." On August 26, local time, an air strike in a children's playground in Tergre, which has caused 7 people to die.

During the war, tens of thousands of civilians died, and millions of people urgently needed food assistance. The World Grain Program said that the degree of food in nearly half of the 5.5 million population of Tigre is "serious".

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