For months, one great unknown in the Tigray conflict has been the fate of hundreds of thousands of people in vast rural areas beyond the reach of outside aid. Now those people are starting to arrive, many by foot, in the community of Shire, aid workers who are there and who have visited say. “It’s becoming a desperate situation very quickly.”The people arriving bring an idea of the deprivation gnawing at the Tigray countryside. Aid workers say some describe surviving by eating leaves — or the seeds they had put aside for planting, in a sign of even worse hunger to come. “People are starving,” Madiha Raza with the International Rescue Committee told the AP after visiting Shire recently.

Source: Ethiopian News March 11, 2021 08:15 UTC