UN official: Key committee says 350,000 in famine in Tigray

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

PUBLISHED: 00:16 EDT, 10 June 2021 | UPDATED: 00:37 EDT, 10 June 2021

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A high-level U.N.-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimates that some 350,000 people in Ethiopia´s embattled Tigray region are facing famine conditions, a U.N. official said late Wednesday.