NAIROBI – The United Nations fears “massive community transmission” of COVID-19 in Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region, fueled by displacement and the collapse of health services, as humanitarian workers finally begin to access the region two months after fighting began.
Hospitals have been looted, even destroyed.A new U.N. report based on the first on-the-ground assessments confirms some of the grim concerns around Tigray’s some 6 million people since the conflict erupted Nov.
4 between Ethiopian forces and those of the Tigray region. The crisis has threatened to destabilize one of Africa's most powerful and populous countries and pull in neighbors like Sudan.