Famine imminent in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region – UN

A woman leads a blind man to a visiting doctor amid a devastated area in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia (AP)

The UN’s humanitarian chief has warned that famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and the country’s north, and there is a risk that hundreds of thousands of people will die.

Mark Lowcock said that the situation has “horrible echoes” of the 1984 famine, and revealed that the area’s economy has been destroyed along with businesses, crops and farms, and that there are no banking or telecommunications services.