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AlJazeera News: First foreign aid convoy enters Mekelle, says ICRC

Ethiopia: First foreign aid convoy enters Mekelle, says ICRC

Seven aid trucks deliver medicines, medical equipment and relief supplies to people in Tigrayan capital more than a month after fighting began.

A member of the Ethiopian government's Afar Special Forces unit poses with his weapon in the outskirts of the village of Bisober in Ethiopia's Tigray region [Eduardo Soteras/AFP]
A member of the Ethiopian government’s Afar Special Forces unit poses with his weapon in the outskirts of the village of Bisober in Ethiopia’s Tigray region [Eduardo Soteras/AFP]

The first international aid convoy carrying medicines and relief supplies has arrived in Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said.

In a statement on Saturday, ICRC said the convoy from the Geneva-based group and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) was sent in coordination with the Ethiopian authorities.