The US and EU have issued an impassioned plea for greater international efforts to tackle an emerging famine in Ethiopia's Tigray and end the conflict wracking the region.
More than 350,000 people in Ethiopia's Tigray are suffering famine conditions, with millions more at risk, according to an analysis by United Nations agencies and aid groups that blamed conflict for the worst catastrophic food crisis in a decade.
U.N. aid agencies called Thursday for a humanitarian cease-fire in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, warning that 350,000 people are already in famine conditions there and 2 million more are just a step away. “We cannot let Ethiopia starve. We have to act now,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said at a meeting…
More than 350,000 people in Ethiopia's Tigray are suffering famine conditions with millions more at risk, according to an analysis by United Nations agencies and aid groups that blamed conflict for the worst catastrophic food crisis in a decade. "There is famine now in Tigray," U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock said on Thursday after the release of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis, which the IPC noted has not been.