The UN agency World Food Program (WFP, for its acronym in English) on Monday accused a Armed group “Allegedly members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces or an allied armed force” of steal several humanitarian aid trucks The last friday.
The militiamen broke into a WFP compound in the town of Kombolcha on Friday night and they took the trucks by force, in order to “use them for their own purposes”, explained today the spokesman for the General Secretariat Farhan Khaq.
In the following two days, some of the vehicles were returned, but they still have three in their possession.
Apparently, some of the drivers or officials are also being held with the trucks, as the spokesperson called “for the immediate and safe release of all our personnel, colleagues and vehicles.”
It’s not the first time that these trucks with humanitarian aid have been the target of attacks in the past months in which the war between the central government and the rebels in the Tigray region (north of the country) has escalated.
In fact, the humanitarian aid that arrives in these trucks is the only one that receives the 3.7 million people who urgently need food assistance, as the UN recalled. (I)
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