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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.
Ethiopia’s forces, Amhara forces, and Eritrean forces remain in Tigray. But their conduct, as well as that of other armed actors including the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, is anything but peaceful, according to the United Nations and Amnesty International.