Rebuilding schools and hospitals is the "number one priority" in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region after two years of brutal conflict, Janti Soeripto, head of the US-based charity Save the Children tells AFP. Four months since the federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a peace deal, medicine and food supplies were still insufficient, Soeripto said after a trip to the region, which remained largely cut off from the world during the fighting marked by numerous atrocities that spiled to neighbouring Afar and Amhara regions. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES