Photo: Amanuel Sileshi / AFPThe drought is adding to the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, where the war between government forces and the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Army (TPLF) in the north of the country has already left millions there in desperate need of aid. Altogether, about 200,000 children and pregnant or lactating women were suffering from moderate malnutrition and 14,000 children acute malnutrition, it said. Several hundred thousand livestock deaths have also been reported because of a lack of water and feed, according to the report. In November, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said the number of people facing hunger across northern Ethiopia because of the conflict had surged to 9.4 million, in Tigray and also the neighbouring regions of Amhara and Afar. © Agence France-PresseAlso read: Ethiopia’s Abiy announces return to Addis Ababa from war front

Source: Ethiopian News January 05, 2022 19:41 UTC