More than six million people living in major drought-stricken Ethiopian regions will need “vital” help by 2022, says a report.
The drought in the Somali region, as well as in southern and eastern Oromia, has a “Devastating impact on the lives and ways of life of the communities, after three consecutive seasons without rain” in the area, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha).
According to the report, published this January 5, but dated last Monday, more than 6.4 million people in affected areas will need food aid this year.
De facto humanitarian blockade in Tigray
This drought adds to the serious humanitarian crisis that affects millions of people, due to the war between government forces and rebels in the Tigray region (north).
In total, around 200,000 children and pregnant or lactating women suffer from moderate malnutrition and 14,000 children suffer from severe malnutrition, the text says.
At the end of November, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) stated that the humanitarian situation deteriorated rapidly in the north of the country (Tigré, Amhara, Afar), where 9.4 million people suffer from hunger because of the conflict.
In Tigray, where, according to the United Nations, there is a de facto humanitarian blockade, hundreds of thousands of people live in conditions close to famine. (I)
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