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Hunger Stalks Ethiopia’s Tigray Region After Six Months of War

  • Humanitarian groups report malnutrition in children, women
  • Aid convoys blocked in Tigray amid continuing insecurity
An Ethiopian refugee with her new born daughter in a makeshift tent at the Border Reception Centre. 

An Ethiopian refugee with her new born daughter in a makeshift tent at the Border Reception Centre. 

Photographer: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

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Bloomberg News

Severe malnutrition among children and pregnant women is increasing in Ethiopia’s Tigray region after six months of conflict, the United Nations and humanitarian groups said.

Aid convoys are being blocked by combatants, delaying the provision of food to those in need in the northern region, the UN said in a report published Friday. A cluster of humanitarian groups reporting to the UN said that of more than 19,000 children below five that were screened, 431 were identified as severely malnourished, while about 2,721 women were found to be acutely malnourished out of 4,447 that were screened.