Ethiopia: 'We Must Stop a Colossal Humanitarian Tragedy' in Tigray, UN Warns

The UN's humanitarian chief has warned that some 90 percent of people in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia are in desperate need of food aid, with hundreds of thousands living in 'famine conditions'. And yet members of the UN Security Council have failed to agree on meeting to discuss the situation. As he prepares to leave his post, Mark Lowcock told RFI why it's time for the international community to step up.

No one knows how many thousands of civilians or combatants have been killed since political tensions between Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigray leaders who used to dominate Ethiopia's government exploded into war last November.

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