Ethiopia to ease Ogaden aid delivery-UN
Reuters - October 18, 2007
Ethiopia has agreed to work with the United Nations in delivering humanitarian aid to its Ogaden region, where a crackdown on rebels had impeded the flow of supplies, the United Nations said on Thursday.
The U.N. and Ethiopia's disaster preparedness agency will soon establish joint centres in the worst affected areas of the arid, ethnic Somali region to facilitate shipments of food, medicine and veterinary support, the U.N. said.
"The Ethiopian government has assured the U.N. that humanitarian activities within Somali region will be unrestricted," said Fidele Sarassoro, the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Ethiopia.
Ethiopia had said it was clamping down on aid shipments to make sure they were going to the most-affected people and not Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels ...