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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lizzy Davies

Ethiopia: Tigray on brink of humanitarian disaster, UN says

A woman queues to receive food assistance in the Tigrayan town of Shire last year
A woman queues to receive food assistance in the Tigrayan town of Shire last year. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters

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 (WFP) said on 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.

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