Food aid into Ethiopia’s Tigray ‘not matching needs’: UN

The UN says 90 percent of Tigray's six million people are dependent on food assistance [File: Claire Nevill/WFP via AP]

Aid deliveries into Tigray are “not matching the needs” of the stricken region, the United Nations food agency has said, even as a ceasefire takes hold in war-torn northern Ethiopia.

The World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners “urgently need access to all parts of the region to deliver food and nutrition assistance to 2.3 million vulnerable people,” the WFP said in a statement on Friday.