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Alarabiya News: Over 90 pct of people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region need emergency food aid: UN

June 1, 2021 5:56 PM / Leave a comment

An 11-year-old girl holds her one-year-old brother Barakat at the doorway to a classroom now used as their living space, at the Tsehaye primary school, which was turned into a temporary shelter for people displaced by conflict, in the town of Shire, Tigray region, Ethiopia, March 15, 2021. (File Photo: Reuters)
An 11-year-old girl holds her one-year-old brother Barakat at the doorway to a classroom now used as their living space, at the Tsehaye primary school, which was turned into a temporary shelter for people displaced by conflict, in the town of Shire, Tigray region, Ethiopia, March 15, 2021. (File Photo: Reuters)

Over 90 pct of people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region need emergency food aid: UN

AFP, Geneva

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More than 90 percent of people in Ethiopia’s troubled northern Tigray region need emergency food aid, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it appealed for $203 million to scale up its response.

The UN’s World Food Program said it was alarmed at how the conflict had increased already-high levels of hunger in Tigray.