Once-lush fields lie barren.
Ethiopian women gather at a community meeting in Mai Mekden, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Mothers, faces etched with worry, watch helplessly as their children weaken from malnutrition. The Ethiopian region of Tigray is peaceful but wars effects linger, compounded by drought and a level of aid mismanagement that caused the U.N. and the U.S. to temporarily suspend deliveries last year.
Tigray is now peaceful but war’s effects linger, compounded by drought and a level of aid mismanagement that caused the U.N. and the U.S. to temporarily suspend deliveries last year.in Tigray and the neighboring Amhara region in the six months leading to January, the national ombudsman revealed in January, a rare admission of hunger-related deaths by a federal government.
“Nothing here to eat. So, for the sake of getting food and to save their lives, they are displaced anywhere, far from here,” he said. “So, in this area, a lot of people are suffering. They are starved. They are dying due to the absence of food.”Hayale Gebrekedian, a Nebar Hadnet district leader for five years, listened to the pleas of villagers who streamed into his office one recent afternoon.
The region's drought has meant that some areas that usually get about 60 days of rain during the rainy season have seen only a few.Haile Gebre Kirstos, 70, continued to plough his parched land and plant sorghum in a village in Messebo, although rain fell “only two days during the last rainy season,” he said.
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