ADDIS ABABA/NEW YORK About 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region are facing “catastrophic” food shortages, according to an analysis by…
About 350,000 in Tigray in famine: UN Published: 8:21 PM, Jun 10, 2021
A woman carries an infant as she queues in line for food, at the Tsehaye primary school, which was turned into a temporary shelter for people displaced by conflict, in the town of Shire, Tigray region, Ethiopia. Reuters SHARE
ADDIS ABABA/NEW YORK: About 350,000 people in Ethiopia s conflict-torn Tigray region are facing catastrophic food shortages, according to an analysis by United Nations agencies and aid groups. There is famine now in Tigray, UN aid chief Mark Lowcock said after the report s release on Thursday. The number of people in famine conditions.is higher than anywhere in the world, at any moment since a quarter million Somalis lost their lives in 2011.
The US and EU issued an impassioned plea Thursday for greater international efforts to tackle an emerging famine in Ethiopia's Tigray and end the conflict wracking the region. "Famine may already be happening in certain areas, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands. It's unconscionable," US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a roundtable event, decrying the failure of the UN Security Council to hold a public.