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.
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