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well, the Red Cross says the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigre region is struggling with shortages of food and medical supplies.

That's a day after Ethiopia's prime minister declared victory in a military campaign against to grind fighters.

Wounded fighters have been inundating hospitals in the regional capital, Makayla.

Ethiopian troops had been closing in on two grise regional capital since forces they're ignored an ultimatum to surrender on Wednesday.

They say they have seized control of all key installations, including the airport, onto freed thousands of troops allegedly being held hostage by to grind forces theory.

Ethiopian army says its main aim now is to track down any last holdouts after fully controlling Mekele, a city our army is hunting and going after and searching for the elements opposed to peace that are hiding in holes on pits.

Uh, but despite the Ethiopian armies declaration of victory to grind, forces say the conflict is not yet over.

They told Reuters news agency that they would continue their fight from areas not yet under government control.

Some analysts believe they could also be planning to conduct a guerrilla war from the mountains.

The fate of civilians is also causing concern tens of thousands have fled to neighboring Sudan.

They are very uncomfortable being in exile.

Many of them, as I've said many times already are have left behind everything.

Most of them are farmers and it is the harvest time and they cannot do it.

Another source of language for many refugees is the lack of information about what is happening to their loved ones back home.

Because the government has cut Internet and phone links to the region, aid agencies are also urging the authorities to open a humanitarian corridor to allow them to help people on the ground well for more.

We can now go to Addis Abeba and the Ethiopian minister in charge of democratization, Zajick, a brave, brave ah welcome minister.

Let's talk about the current situation in the country.

Ahmed, has said the fighting is over, but to Brian Forces claiming it's not yet finished, is the region entirely in the government's control?

Okay, uh, in our control, you know, it is Norman, like when Sarah machines, uh, Iraq was under the control of America, U.

Forces spokesperson used to say We are in control until they take up the whole as a capital city.

So this is the same propaganda were in control off the whole religion there.

Now we're control off each and every area of McGary.

I want to set us at one from getting threat.

By the way, we are not the one who cut the telecom connectivity integrate.

It is a typical left that cut the telecom connectivity with a view to keep the diagram people in communicating from the rest of the world so that they will contribute to continue to be fed from the force defending propaganda.

Now we are working with experts to reconnect the telecom connectivity and in some places it has already been restored.

Now it is, of course, a difficult for independent observers to verify these reports because access to Tigre has been tightly controlled since the start of the conflict.

When will media be allowed to access the Tigre region again?

There was an active military operation that would have endangered the lives of journalists a same time.

The telecom connectivity has bean cut have been destroyed by the TPLF Road Networks have been destroyed, airports are destroyed.

We're working to rebuild that without these facilities and the village owners cannot go and access information.

We have nothing to hide to hide as they assert off the reform introduced three years down the line is transparency, openness.

It is a situation that is forbidding us from allowing journalists to access.

Of course, as this happens, food and medical supplies are running low and alarm is growing over a humanitarian crisis.

How are you going to ensure delivery of badly needed supplies?

Ethiopia is the third largest off versus the largest off refugees in the world.

We are now supplying toe the region a great deal off food and other resources who were working with you and with U.

Agencies to supply those in need of food.

So and pretty much soon will also open a humanitarian corridor.

With all these efforts, we believe we'll we'll be ableto help out our citizens who are in their need of e.

I want to talk about that humanitarian corridor that you've proposed.

You say it's coming soon, but how soon is soon?

Those networks are those bridges that are already destroyed.

Well, the working day in there trying to rebuild the resource, the connectivity that that has been destroyed once that thing is in place will allow it.

Our many our relevant ministries working U N agencies, your agencies supply food.

And we can alleviate this to the human humanitarian corridor pretty much soon.

It is a situation that is stopping us from doing so.

We we want our We don't want our people to suffer.

We're doing everything we can, we're using and national food.

Uh, sorry to supply our people who were with with everything we can.

Our communities mobilized our holy chipping.

People are mobilized towards helping their their bill, their beloved ones there they're counterpart is in there.

They're people integrate Everyone in the national is working towards helping them out.

Well, the prime minister has rejected a dialogue with the Tigre People's Liberation Front leaders.

So how are you going to broker an end to this conflict without sitting down at the table together?

The TPLF is now ready usedto less than 100 people, then the top each alone of the developed The Korean people have embraced the rule of law operation.

Whenever our military personnel made their way toe one of the great cities they they they were welcoming.

Then they were coming in mass chanting, saying they don't want to pay lip anymore.

So typically with with whom are we goingto negotiate?

Apparently defeated militarily, It no longer has its people by side by side.

This is about making them accountable to what they have been doing now or we're lifting residing abroad.

I'm afraid we're going to have to leave it there, but thank you very much for coming on DW news.

And meanwhile, the fighting in Tigre has sent tens of thousands of refugees streaming into neighboring Sudan seeking a safe haven According to the U N.

Tw Samaria filed this report from a camp just inside the Sudanese border.

Uh, yeah likes to sing songs he learned growing up in Tigre.

He misses playing with his friends and especially with his older brothers.

I want to go back home because I want to play with my brother's E Miss my friends and my brothers.

It's been three weeks since I last saw his family.

His mother had brought him to his teachers doorstep when the bombs started falling on their hometown.

In whom era, she said she had to search for her two older sons as a for Yasser recalls without a second thought.

Our neighbors were dead, but we couldn't bury them, so we just kept running.

Europe saw a lot of things a seven year old shouldn't see, says I say for Yasu.

She's close friend of his mother and has known him for years.

He trusts her many other Children who flitted.