The number of severely malnourished people in the Ethiopian war-ravaged Tigray region has increased dramatically, and the situation is expected to worsen following the recent suspension of food aid, as announced by the United Nations in its latest report.
According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the World Food Program (WFP) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) suspended food aid to Africa's second most populous country last month, justifying the move with a "wide-ranging and coordinated campaign" to divert donated supplies from reaching those in need.
In the AFP report on the situation, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that an estimated 8.8 million people in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia need food aid, in addition to millions of people in drought-stricken areas in the south and southeast of the country.
According to the report of the French Agency, "compared to the same month of last year (April 2022), cases of very acute malnutrition in Tigray increased by 196 percent," noting that the numbers "can be partially attributed to improved access to health facilities and data collection."
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