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EXCLUSIVE: 350 000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray in famine

EXCLUSIVE: 350 000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray in famine

GIULIA PARAVICINI and MICHELLE NICHOLS AN analysis by United Nations agencies and aid groups estimates that about 350,000 people in Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region are in famine conditions, according to an internal U.N. document seen by Reuters. The Ethiopian government disputes the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis, according to the notes of a meeting on the situation in Tigray of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) - made up of the heads of at least 18 U.N. and non-U.N. organizations. "On the risk of famine, it was noted that the unpublished IPC analysis figures were being disputed by the…
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