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. Even now, as Ethiopia’s government asserts that it has reached over 4 million people with food aid, it is not enough. Only in recent weeks have Doctors Without Borders workers begun arriving in places that had been inaccessible.

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