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Hunger, death, devastation: No respite in #Tigray a year after #US aid cuts Lately, 88-year-old Nireayo Wubet spends many of his days burying friends and family members. As he grieves, he worries about whether there will be anyone left to offer him a decent burial when the time comes, as severe hunger ravages a large swath of his village in #Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. “We have little humanitarian support,” laments the octogenarian whose frail appearance is mirrored by many others in his village of #Hitsats, near the Eritrean border. “It’s not conflicts that will ultimately kill us, but famine,” he says. Once a proud farmer from Humera – currently a disputed area within the Amhara region – Wubet took shelter in Hitsats four years ago, after fleeing conflicts and ethnic strife that uprooted him and others in the region. He was first displaced in the middle of the Tigray war, which started in 2020, killing thousands of people and displacing millions more. He has not been able to return and reclaim his life even as the conflict ended in 2022. Hitsats is a destitute village that has been sustained mostly by humanitarian organisations, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – once Ethiopia’s largest source of humanitarian aid. But that changed abruptly a year ago when US President Donald Trump took office and promptly demolished the agency’s work and cut funding across the globe. Across Tigray province, humanitarian organisations including the World Food Programme (#WFP) say that up to 80 percent of the population is in need of emergency support. But the USAID cuts mean there is less humanitarian funding available overall, and what remains is often directed towards hotspots and global conflict zones that are considered worse emergencies. aljazeera.com/features/2026/…

7/ School destruction is intergenerational violence. It threatens sustainable peace, development, and the social fabric. Every day delayed is another generation lost. #EducationForAll #JusticeForTigray @UNESCO @UNESCO_DG @antonioguterres @TheGlobalGoals

6/ Rebuilding schools is urgent. Education is a right. Not a privilege. Peace and development cannot exist without it. @UNESCO @UNESCO_DG @antonioguterres @TheGlobalGoals #WesternTigray #JusticeForTigray #EducationForAll

5/ NO CLASSROOMS. NO TEACHERS. NO FUTURE. Children who survived war are now denied learning, safety, and opportunity. Education is protection. #EducationForAll #JusticeForTigray @UNESCO @UNESCO_DG @antonioguterres @TheGlobalGoals

4/ THIS IS INTERGENERATIONAL VIOLENCE Destroyed schools Prolonged displacement Lost skills, hope, and stability This fuels future conflict. #EducationForAll #JusticeForTigray @UNESCO @UNESCO_DG @antonioguterres @TheGlobalGoals

3/ NO EDUCATION → NO PEACE Sustainable peace and development are impossible without classrooms. Rebuild schools. Restore futures. #EducationForAll #JusticeForTigray @UNESCO @UNESCO_DG @antonioguterres @TheGlobalGoals

2/ When schools are destroyed and children are displaced, peace becomes impossible. Tigray’s future is being erased in real time. #EducationForAll #JusticeForTigray @UNESCO @UNESCO_DG @antonioguterres @TheGlobalGoals

1/ 80% OF SCHOOLS IN TIGRAY WERE DELIBERATELY DESTROYED Millions of children remain displaced. Education is not collateral damage. #WesternTigray #EducationForAll #JusticeForTigray @UNESCO @UNESCO_DG @antonioguterres @TheGlobalGoals

12/ School destruction is intergenerational violence: It threatens sustainable peace, development,& the very fabric of society. Rebuilding schools is urgent — for children & for the nation. #EducationForAll #JusticeForTigray @UNESCO @UNESCO_DG @antonioguterres @TheGlobalGoals

Without education, displacement becomes permanent. Children grow up without skills, hope, or access to livelihoods. This threatens sustainable peace, development,& the social fabric of Tigray. #EducationForAll #JusticeForTigray @UNESCO @UNESCO_DG @antonioguterres @TheGlobalGoals

This comes as #WesternTigray remains unresolved, tens of thousands of IDPs face starvation,& civilians are denied safe return. #WesternTigray #JusticeForTigray @DeputySecState @AussenMinDE @EU_Commission @eu_eeas @UNICEF @Refugees @UNOCHA @UNHumanRights @USEmbassyAddis