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U.N. Report Says Famine Underway In Tigray

June 10 2021

Ethiopia

About 350,000 people in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region are living in famine conditions, according to a U.N. document cited by Reuters.

The internal U.N. document dated June 7 says that "350,000 people across Tigray [are] believed to be in IPC 5 famine conditions."

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) grades food security on a five-point scale, with five being the most severe and indicating an ongoing famine.

The U.N. analysis comes from the notes of a meeting...

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