Why Ethiopia's Tigray region is starving, but no famine declared (BBC)
Posted: 16 Oct 2021, 17:38
Despite mass starvation occurring in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray, senior international aid officials are tiptoeing around declaring a famine nearly a year after the civil war erupted.
A report from Ayder Referral hospital in Tigray's capital city, Mekelle, this week described children dying of starvation.
The doctors provided photographs of small children suffering from acute malnutrition, their ribs and swollen bellies evidence of their plight. Those are the lucky ones as there is still a few weeks' supply of emergency therapeutic food at the hospital.
In Tigray's villages, the situation is grave. The war started last November and just two months later, the Catholic bishop of Adigrat described people perishing of hunger.
In June, one village committee compiled a list of 125 people who had starved to death in their isolated community.
Families who arrive in Mekelle after trekking for days on foot describe trying to survive on a diet of leaves and roots for weeks.
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A report from Ayder Referral hospital in Tigray's capital city, Mekelle, this week described children dying of starvation.
The doctors provided photographs of small children suffering from acute malnutrition, their ribs and swollen bellies evidence of their plight. Those are the lucky ones as there is still a few weeks' supply of emergency therapeutic food at the hospital.
In Tigray's villages, the situation is grave. The war started last November and just two months later, the Catholic bishop of Adigrat described people perishing of hunger.
In June, one village committee compiled a list of 125 people who had starved to death in their isolated community.
Families who arrive in Mekelle after trekking for days on foot describe trying to survive on a diet of leaves and roots for weeks.
Continue reading https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58921744
