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Doctors Beg For Food As 40% of Tigrayans Experience “Extreme Food Shortage”

 

CNA/Reuters: Nearly 40% of people in Ethiopia's Tigray lack adequate food: WFP 

NAIROBI: Fifteen months of war have left nearly 40 per cent of the people in Ethiopia's Tigray region without enough food as aid groups struggle to reach cut-off areas, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday (Jan 28). 

Although the ability of aid workers to enter Tigray improved during the summer months and "kept starvation at bay" for people there, no aid convoy has reached Tigray since mid-December, the United Nations agency said in an assessment. 

Many people were using extreme coping strategies like cutting the number of meals they eat daily, it said. "A new food security assessment, released today by the United Nations World Food Programme, shows that almost 40 per cent of Tigrayans are suffering an extreme lack of food, after 15 months of conflict," it said. Tigray region has a population of about 5.5 million people.  

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Doctors Beg For Food As 40% of Tigrayans Experience “Extreme Food Shortage”  

UN: ‘Extreme lack of food’ for many in Ethiopia’s Tigray -- AP  

Ethiopia civil war: Doctors among those begging for food in Tigray -- BBC  

‘We just sleep and hope we don’t perish’: 2m in Tigray in urgent need of food – UN -- The Guardian  

Report: 5,000-plus deaths under Ethiopia’s Tigray blockade -- AP  

Almost 40% of Tigrayans suffer ‘extreme lack of food’, WFP warns -- Al Jazeera  

Emergency Food Security Assessment: Tigray Region, Ethiopia - January 2022 -- Relief Web



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