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Ethiopia: Tigray State - a Glance Through the Window

[Addis Fortune] Tigray Regional State is opening up slowly as accounts from people in the region during the past month emerge. Though the region's transitional government states it is working on rebuilding the state, aid actors are repeatedly calling for unlimited access to the region, which had nearly two million people dependent on assistance prior to the conflict,reports MAYA MISKIR, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER.

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