The United States estimates that up to 9,00,000 people in Ethiopia's Tigray region now face famine conditions amid a deadly conflict, even as the prime minister says there is “no hunger” there.
The hunger crisis in Tigray is the world's worst in a decade, and the new famine findings are “terrifying,” the head of the US Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, said Friday, adding that millions more people are at risk.
The new estimate more than doubles the warning issued earlier this month by the United Nations and aid groups that more than 3.50,000 people face famine conditions in Tigray.