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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andy Gregory

Tigray war: ‘I can’t help my starving family’, says Ethiopian World Health Organisation boss

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The chief of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that he is unable to send money to starving family members in Ethiopia’s war-ravaged Tigray region – and does not know whether some are dead or alive.

Six million Tigrayans are effectively trapped in the region’s humanitarian crisis, with electricity and access to the outside world having been largely cut off since the brutal civil war broke out in November 2020.

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