Ethiopia’s Tigray at ‘serious risk’ of famine, warns UN official
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Mark Lowcock, in reported briefing to Security Council, calls for scaling up of assistance in next two months.
The United Nations’ top humanitarian official has warned that urgent measures are needed to avoid famine in Ethiopia’s embattled region of Tigray, in a Security Council briefing seen by the AFP news agency. “There is a serious risk of famine if assistance is not scaled up in the next two months,” wrote Mark Lowcock, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, AFP reported on Wednesday. Now in its seventh month, the conflict in Tigray is estimated to have killed thousands of people and left some five million in need of aid.
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