LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY FULL

Prospects of the situation improving - at least in the short-term - are slim. And between the COVID-19 pandemic and the war, 2.3 million children in the region have not attended school and 22,500 teachers have not been paid since early 2020, according to Save the Children.Įlectricity supplies are slowly being restored and communication links are back up with the outside world, but over five million people out of a population of six million are still short of food.

Between November and March, barely 5,500 trucks of relief arrived in the region, enough to meet just a fraction of the needs after two gruelling years of war.Īround 1.8 million people are currently internally displaced within Tigray.

LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY FULL

But no one comes here to teach or learn: since war broke out in November 2020, the school, like others in the village, has housed hundreds of displaced people.Ī ceasefire between the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian federal government, signed in November last year, has done nothing to make it a place of learning again.įew people living here feel ready to return to their homes, and the school's courtyard is still full of tents emblazoned with the logo of the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) and young boys playing football.Īid has been generally slow to arrive in Tigray, despite the lifting of a government blockade. Only women and children are allowed through the doors of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training College in Abiy Addi, a village in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.

Mekele - 'Life is more and more difficult.

Long road to recovery