The United Nations and aid groups are warning that 350,000 people in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region are suffering from famine. Millions more are in urgent need of food and assistance, UN agencies also say, but aid deliveries are difficult and dangerous.
April 6, 2021 last updated 8:40 ET A Tigrayan refugee woman sits in front of her shelter at Hamdeyat Transition Center, near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, March 14, 2021 (AP photo by Nariman El-Mofty).
Tigray Is Being Deliberately Starved to Death
Millions of people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region are facing starvation. Until now, it’s been a crisis without pictures. Those wrenching images of emaciated children and mothers with dull-eyed gazes, so sadly familiar from famine zones, have yet to emerge. But that’s because journalists aren’t permitted to travel to the worst-hit areas of Tigray, where hunger is deepening by the day. When the media can finally get access, or when starving villagers abandon their homes and flee to towns, the pictures will surely remind viewers of drought victims from Ethiopia’s 1984 famine, which prompted the famous LiveAid benefit concert and a vast outpouring of charity.
Some 5,000 people had arrived in the community of Shire between last Wednesday and Sunday, and humanitarian teams are being sent to find those said to be on the way
Starvation haunts Ethiopia s Tigray
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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 survivors of more than two months of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.