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…
Tigray: Over 350,000 People Facing Catastrophic Conditions, Alarmed UN Agencies Cry Out for Help
Tigray: Over 350,000 People Facing Catastrophic Conditions, Alarmed UN Agencies Cry Out for Help
Africa RISING partners and farmers plant Desho grass in Tigray, Ethiopia, while observing safety protocols (Photo credit: Haimanot Seifu/ILRI)
Over 350 000 people are currently facing catastrophic conditions in Tigray region. This is the highest number of people a report has classified ”catastrophe” in a single country in the last decade.
Over 60 percent of the population, more than 5.5 million people are equally grappling with high levels of acute food insecurity, and the neighbouring zones of Amhara and Afar.