The images below are of the Korir dam and reservoir, about 45km (28 miles) north of the regional capital, Mekele. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people were killed in the conflict, or died because of starvation and lack of health care. Food grown on our land is better than food aid,” she says. He says the current situation in Tigray has echoes of the catastrophic famine of 1984 in which as many as a million people died of starvation. Relations between the Ethiopian government and aid agencies have been strained in recent years, amid allegations from the UN that food aid was being blocked from reaching Tigray during the conflict there.

Source: Ethiopian News July 25, 2024 22:09 UTC