The parents of thousands of Ethiopian students stranded in the war-ravaged northern region of Tigray on Friday appealed for help to evacuate them after the main university warned it could not feed them for much longer amid food and cash shortages.
A spokesperson for the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the parents' demands.
War erupted in Tigray in November between the Ethiopian military and the region's ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front . Three weeks later, the government declared victory when it captured Mekelle, but the TPLF kept fighting. In its notice, Mekelle University said it had bussed about 5,000 students to the neighbouring state of Afar on July 18, but that education officials expected to receive them never showed up. The buses returned to Mekelle, according to the university.
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