Almost 40 percent of people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are suffering “an extreme lack of food” following 15 months of fighting, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said, also sounding the alarm about rising hunger in neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions.
The dire figures announced on Friday were included in the United Nations agency’s latest food security assessment, which says “severe hunger” was tightening its grip in northern Ethiopia.
