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Humanitarian aid sought in Ethiopia Conflict making food, health care even more scarce CARA ANNA | Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya – From “emaciated” refugees to crops burned on the brink of harvest, starvation threatens the survivors of more than two months of fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region. The first humanitarian workers to arrive after pleading with the Ethiopian government for access describe weakened children dying from diarrhea after drinking from rivers. Shops were looted or depleted weeks ago. A local official told a Jan. 1 crisis meeting of government and aid workers that...

Starvation haunts Ethiopia's Tigray Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA In this Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021 photo provided by Medecins Sans Frontieres, a Medecins Sans Frontieres, worker supervises trucks being loaded with supplies in Mekele to be sent to other parts of the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia. From “emaciated” refugees to crops burned on the brink of harvest, starvation threatens the survivors of more than two months of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.   | Photo Credit: AP From “emaciated” refugees to crops burned on the brink of harvest, starvation threatens the su...

A local official told a Jan. 1 crisis meeting of government and aid workers that hungry people had asked for ‘a single biscuit’

WHITERIVER — Coming out of curfew at 5 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 27, the White Mountain Apache Tribe entered into Phase One of their Revised Phase Reopening Plan which was approved by the Tribal Council on Dec. 1. The Dec. 1 council resolution also included a revised funeral arrangement and services policy; tailgate vendors guidelines; a recommendation that a vendor area be designated between the Whiteriver Restaurant and Game and Fish Department, and a prohibition on vending between H-Market and the Tribe’s Personnel Department. A 72-hour shelter-in-place lockdown was implemented by the...

Now focused on assessing the damage. we're in sort of a recovery and assessment phase moving from a direct emergency phase. that's great news for residents that are on the ground there, obviously, still dealing with those aftershocks. >> pretty remarkable to see las vegas a basketball game taking place at the time and some people ran for the exits. you just made your way to ridgecrest in the last couple hours. give us a sense of what the road conditions are and as you drove into this town what sort of damage did appear? >> yeah, you don't see a lot of damage, especially because i was coming fr...