{"id":347247,"date":"2021-02-03T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=347247"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:36:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:36:30","slug":"ethiopia-refutes-allegations-ngos-denied-access-to-humanitarian-corridors-in-tigray-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/347247","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia refutes allegations &#8216;NGOs denied access to humanitarian corridors in  Tigray&#8217; (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia refutes allegations that Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are denied access to reaching people who are requiring humanitarian assistance in restive Tigray region.<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing on Wednesday, Minister of Peace Muferiat Kamil dismissed reports on shutting of humanitarian corridors and blamed some media outlets for launching a well designed &#8216;misinformation and disinformation campaign&#8217; against the actual situations in the region.<\/p>\n<p>She said  the government currently is working with 26 NGOs to meet humanitarian needs of the over 2.5 million people in the region.<\/p>\n<p>She said so far the government has provided emergency food assistance to 1.6 million people there. &#8220;It is jointly working with the NGOs and UN aid agencies to reach the remaining people and provide the necessary assistance,&#8221; she added. Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"554\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YyQd6gDUFGs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia refutes allegations that Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are denied access to reaching people who are requiring humanitarian assistance in restive Tigray region. In a briefing on Wednesday, Minister of Peace Muferiat Kamil dismissed reports on shutting of humanitarian corridors and blamed some media outlets for launching a well designed &#8216;misinformation and disinformation campaign&#8217; against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":347248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Muferiat-Kamil.png?fit=797%2C343&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1skL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347250,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347247\/revisions\/347250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}