FILE – Displaced children from Western Tigray wait to receive food outside a classroom in the school where they are sheltering in Tigray’s capital, Mekele, Feb. 24, 2021. Hunger and sexual violence have continued to rise dramatically since then.
The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that an already dire situation in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is getting worse five months into the conflict, with hunger and sexual violence rising and no sign of an Eritrean troop withdrawal.