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Tigray faces humanitarian crises

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2021 Jun 11, 10:03, United Nations
Displaced Tigrayans queue to receive food donated by local residents at a reception center for the internally displaced in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Photo: AP

 A high-level UN-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 UN official said late Wednesday.

The estimate was presented at a meeting on Monday of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, comprising 18 UN and non-UN organizations that is chaired by UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also attended, the official said.

Tigrayan woman walks out of a classroom-turned-kitchen after receiving food at the Hadnet General Secondary School Photo: AP
Tigrayan woman walks out of a classroom-turned-kitchen after receiving food at the Hadnet General Secondary School Photo: AP
An elderly Ethiopian woman sits next to a sack of wheat after it was distributed to her by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Photo: AP
An elderly Ethiopian woman sits next to a sack of wheat after it was distributed to her by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Photo: AP
An Ethiopian man carries a sack of wheat on his head to be distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula Photo: AP
An Ethiopian man carries a sack of wheat on his head to be distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula Photo: AP
A woman waits to receive foodstuffs such as wheat, yellow split peas and vegetable oil at a food distribution operated by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula Photo: AP
A woman waits to receive foodstuffs such as wheat, yellow split peas and vegetable oil at a food distribution operated by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula Photo: AP
An Ethiopian woman stands by sacks of wheat to be distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray Photo: AP
An Ethiopian woman stands by sacks of wheat to be distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray Photo: AP
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