“Families are exhausting all means to feed themselves, with three-quarters of the population using extreme coping strategies to survive,” the WFP said in its report released Friday, noting increases in begging and relying on just one meal a day. It called for all parties in Ethiopia’s war to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire and “formally agreed transport corridors” for aid after 15 months of war.
Published Friday, January 28, 2022 8:39AM EST
Tigrayan residents of Ethiopia’s capital attend an event organized by the city administration to protest against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, at the Abebe Bikila stadium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dec. 5, 2021. (AP Photo)
NAIROBI, KENYA — More than a third of the people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region “are suffering an extreme lack of food,” the United Nations World Food Program said in a new assessment of a region under a months-long government blockade.