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(Repeats article published on June 11) More than 350,000 people living in famine conditions - UN estimate Number of malnourished children rising, UN says Many farmers say last harvest looted or destroyed - UN official Farmers lack seeds, oxen and security for May planting season
By Katharine Houreld and Giulia Paravicini
ADIGRAT/ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, June 11 (Reuters) - The northern highlands of Ethiopia became a global byword for famine in the mid-1980s, when drought and conflict combined to create a disaster that killed as many as one million people. Now hunger is stalking the Tigray region again, and a senior UN official alleges that starvation is being used as a weapon of war.
ADIGRAT/ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA The northern highlands of Ethiopia became a global byword for famine in the mid-1980s, when drought and conflict combined to create a disaster that killed as many as one million people. Now hunger is stalking the Tigray region again, and a senior UN official alleges that starvation is being used as a weapon of war. More than 350,000 of Tigray s nearly 6 million people are living in famine conditions, according to an analysis by United Nations agencies and global aid groups first reported by Reuters on Thursday. Nearly 2 million others are one step away from such dire deprivation, they said. Ethiopia has disputed these estimates.
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