UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock has said there is famine in northern Ethiopia after the release of a UN-backed analysis of the situation.Contents‘Death is knocking on our door’‘Cascading effects of conflict’The power of the word ‘famine’Why is there fighting in Tigray?When is a famine declared?“There is famine now,” he said, adding: “This is going to get a lot worse.”The study found that 350,000 people were living in “severe crisis” in the war-torn Tigray region.Tigray has been devastated by fighting between government forces and rebels, with 1.7 million people displaced since fighting began in November 2020.According to the assessment, the food situation in the region has reached the level of a “catastrophe”, which it defines as starvation and death affecting small groups of people spread over large areas.The tragedy behind Ethiopia’s man-made famineThe dilemma of declaring a famineWhy Ethiopia genocide debate may be a distractionThe UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), Food and Agriculture Organization and children’s […]
ETHIOPIA’S TIGRAY CRISIS: UN AID CHIEF SAYS THERE IS FAMINE
