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Millions On the Brink in Ethiopia’s Tigray, U.K. Document Says

Ethiopian soldiers head to a tent at the Um Gargour refugee camp in eastern Sudan where they have found interim sanctuary, on May 23.

Ethiopian soldiers head to a tent at the Um Gargour refugee camp in eastern Sudan where they have found interim sanctuary, on May 23.

Photographer: Hussein Ery/AFP/Getty Images

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Almost all civilians living in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are in need of life-saving aid and a famine may have already begun in the war-torn area, according to a memorandum by a British diplomat.

Millions of people in Tigray are “on the brink,” Nick Dyer, the U.K.’s special envoy for famine prevention and humanitarian affairs, said in the document, seen by Bloomberg. Dyer traveled to Ethiopia last month and met officials including Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen.