The first international convoy to provide humanitarian aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray region since mid-December arrived safely, the latest sign of progress in efforts to end the nation’s 17-month civil war.
The delivery of more than 500 tons of food and nutritional supplies for hundreds of thousands of people on the edge of starvation came after the two sides in the conflict last week agreed a conditional truce in order to deliver assistance to the region. The tentative agreement is the closest the two sides have come to a cease-fire since the war began in November 2020.