ADDIS ABABA: Humanitarian convoys have begun to reach Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, a United Nations spokesman said Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), after the area was cut off in early November by a government military offensive.

Fighting has raged since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched military operations targeting Tigray’s ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.

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