The Guardian Weekly

Tigray region on brink of humanitarian disaster

The Tigray region of northern Ethiopia stands on the edge of a humanitarian disaster, the UN has said, as fighting escalates and stocks of essential food for malnourished children run out.

The World Food Programme said last Friday that it would be distributing its last supplies of cereals, pulses and oil next week to Tigray, where more than 5 million people are estimated to be in need of food assistance.

Clashes between forces loyal to the federal government and fighters with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front have held up food convoys to Tigray for a month.

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