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Addis Ababa | Trucks carrying crucial food aid for Ethiopia's war-affected region of Tigray were blocked at a checkpoint in the neighboring Afar region on Tuesday, humanitarian sources said. The government and the rebels of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), who have been fighting each other for more than 14 months in the north of the country, blame each other for the situation. Last week, the UN said food distributions were at an all-time low in Tigray, where conflict has pushed hundreds of thousands of people into "near starvation conditions". On Sunday, 27 trucks carrying 800 tonnes of food set off from Afar for Tigray's capital, Mekele, using the only functional land route, according to the UN's World Food Program (WFP). But the convoy has bee...