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Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation in recent months, say officials
Displaced Tigrayans queue to receive food donated by local residents at a reception centre for the internally displaced in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 9, 2021
NEARLY 400 people have died of starvation in Ethiopia’s Tigray and Amhara regions in recent months, the national ombudsman said on Tuesday.
It’s a rare admission of hunger-related deaths by Ethiopia’s federal government which usually insists that these reports are “completely wrong.”
Ethiopia’s ombudsman sent experts to the regions, which are gripped by drought and still reeling from a devastating civil war that officially ended 14 months ago.
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