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UN, Ethiopia strike a deal over aid workers’ access to Tigray (AlJazeera)
UN, Ethiopia strike a deal over aid workers’ access to Tigray
World Food Programme says it will ‘scale up’ operations in embattled northern region after reaching a deal with Addis Ababa.
![The conflict has displaced tens of thousands of people [Ashraf Shazly/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/000_8YB9VP.jpg?resize=770%2C513)
7 Feb 2021
The United Nations’ food agency says it has reached a deal with Ethiopia to expand access for aid workers and “scale up” operations in the country’s conflict-hit Tigray region.
David Beasley, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP), made the announcement late on Saturday amid growing fears of a humanitarian catastrophe in Tigray, a region of more than five million people.