FEATURE-Six million silenced: A two-year internet outage in Ethiopia

So far this year, the ICRC has facilitated some 116,000 phone calls and oral messages "between family members separated by conflict and violence", said spokesperson Alyona Synenko. With almost half of the region's six million people in severe need of food, the shutdown as well as road blockades have hampered humanitarian aid deliveries, according to the U.N. World Food Programme.

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