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UN, Ethiopia Agree on Humanitarian Aid for Tigray Region

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   The United Nations said Wednesday it has reached an agreement with
   Ethiopia to provide humanitarian aid in the country's northern Tigray
   region, where a month of conflict has worsened an existing humanitarian
   crisis.

   The U.N. said the deal will give aid workers access to federal
   government-controlled areas of Tigray, where federal troops have been
   fighting the Tigray regional government.

   The pact will allow food, medicine and other types of aid to be
   transported into the area, home to an estimated 6 million people, for
   the first time since the fighting erupted on Nov. 4. Some 600,000
   people in the region were already dependent on food aid before the
   conflict began.

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