US Edition1,300 Displaced Died of Hunger in Volatile Ethiopian Region: Official
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Lack of food and medicines killed displaced in the Ethiopian region. Federal and international NGOs are reducing, with the risk of a new armed conflict in the horizon.
At least 1,300 people have died of hunger in refugee camps in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region in the past three years. The African Union estimates that at least 600,000 people have died in clashes between government forces and militias from Tigray region between 2020 and 2022. About one million people have fled the conflict within the country and sought refuge in refugee camps. The head of aid in Tigray region says in an interview with the AFP…
1,300 displaced died of hunger in volatile Ethiopian region: official
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) : More than 1,300 people have died from hunger in displacement camps in Ethiopia’s volatile Tigray region over the past three years, a local official told AFP on Monday. A civil war between the federal government and forces from the northern Tigray region in 2020-2022 killed at least 600,000 people according to African Union estimates. Around one million people remain displaced in camps. “For the past three years, 1,309 people …
About 1,300 people died of hunger and no drugs in camps moved to Tigray since the Ethiopian region emerged at the end of 2022 from war, and the situation worsened according to official sources.
A total of 1,309 people have died of hunger and lack of medication in Tigray internally displaced persons camps since the end of 2022, a local official announced on Monday, 23 March. Three years after the peace agreement, a million people are still living in camps in this Ethiopian region.
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