Three capital of Tigre region was captured by the federal military less than a week ago, prompting Prime Minister Abiomed to declare victory over the two gray in People's Liberation Front.

But there's been little verifiable information since then.

On Wednesday, e TV broadcast footage and interviews from the city A So you can see life is getting back to normal.

Uh, a city has regained its normality.

Uh, people are moving about, shops are opening.

And as you saw, we're going to church.

Everything is, as you can see, very peaceful.

However, eight agencies have said medics in the city are running short on supplies, in particular gloves, painkillers on body bags.

Thing situation across the rest of Tigre is less clear.

Access remains tightly controlled and communications are largely down.

TPLF leaders have reportedly dug into the mountains surrounding Mackell, a and one aid worker in touch with the region.

Set fighting continues to the north, south and west of the highland city.

More than 45,000 people have fled for neighboring Sudan, but help is on the way for some of those still in the area.

Having struck a humanitarian access deal with Abby, aid agencies on Thursday were ready in convoys of trucks to take relief supplies to federally controlled parts of Tigre, a region where some 600,000 people relied on food handouts even before fighting broke out.