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Operational Highlights
• Humanitarian access to northern Ethiopia continues to improve in July, enabling relief actors to conduct assistance activities and deliver life-saving commodities in Tigray through the three corridors. However, the Gondar-Shire and Kombolcha-Mekelle corridors still encounter unpredictable security concerns.
• The Logistics Cluster continued to follow up on trucks' arrival report with partners. In July, partners reported the arrival of 47 trucks with 931 MT of humanitarian cargo carrying Health, Agriculture, ES/NFI, General Operations, and Nutrition items through Semera (98.1 %), Kombolcha corridor (1.6 %), and the rest 0.3 % for Gondar corridors.
• In the last month, support letters from the Information Network Security Agency (INSA) were still required to transport IT equipment to Tigray.
• In July, the number of arrival reports for partner trucks has shown a slight decrease from the month of June 2023.
In June 51 trucks reported arrival into Tigray carrying 1,176 MT of items and 20,000 litres of fuel.
• In the month of July, the Logistics Cluster continued its efforts on building up partner capacity through training. One training course was facilitated on Food Safety and Quality Control in Mekelle.
• In July, a total of seven Logistics Cluster coordination meetings were held in Addis Ababa, Mekelle, Bahir Dar, and Shire in which 38 partners participated.
• The Logistics Cluster published ten Information Management products in July 2023 including the June and the Midyear infographics.
• In the month of July, The Logistics Cluster also finalized the update of the Logistics Capacity Assessment (LCA). The document was published on the Logistics Cluster website