{"id":14172,"date":"2022-04-21T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=14172"},"modified":"2022-04-22T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:32:33","slug":"report-hunger-kills-hundreds-of-kids-in-ethiopias-tigray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=14172","title":{"rendered":"Report: Hunger kills hundreds of kids in Tigray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: AP News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least 1,900 children under 5 have died from malnutrition in Ethiopia\u2019s embattled Tigray region in the past year, according to a study conducted by regional health officials and seen by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deaths were recorded at health facilities across Tigray between June last year and April 1. Western Tigray, which is under the control of forces from the neighboring Amhara region, was not included in the survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A doctor involved in the study said the true number of child deaths from malnutrition is likely higher as most families are unable to bring their children to health centers because of transportation challenges. Most hunger deaths go unrecorded, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause we cannot access most areas, we do not know what is happening on the community level,\u201d said the doctor, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals. \u201cThese are simply the deaths we have managed to record in health facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tigray has been cut off from the rest of Ethiopia since June when fighters from the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front, or TPLF, recaptured most of the region as federal forces withdrew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banking services, phone lines and road links are all down in the region, a situation the United Nations has said amounts to a \u201cde facto blockade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethiopian authorities insist there is no deliberate effort to target Tigrayan civilians. They have urged Tigrayan fighters to surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of yellow split peas to be allocated to waiting families after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 8, 2021. At least 1,900 children under 5 have died from malnutrition in Tigray in the past year, according to a study conducted by regional health officials and seen by The Associated Press on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (AP Photo\/Ben Curtis, File)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

More than 90% of Tigray\u2019s 5.5 million people require humanitarian assistance, including 115,000 children who are severely malnourished, according to U.N. figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Civil servants have not been paid in months. Many have run out of cash to buy food and other goods because banking services have been shut down. The children of families living in urban areas are especially at risk of malnutrition, as their parents don\u2019t have farmland to grow food, Tigrayan health officials say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 700,000 people in Tigray are in the grip of \u201cfamine-like conditions\u201d due to the obstruction of aid, U.S. officials estimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethiopia\u2019s federal government unilaterally declared a surprise \u201chumanitarian truce\u201d on March 24, an announcement it said would allow aid to flow into Tigray. But nearly one month later, only four convoys of around 80 food trucks have entered the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLiterally nothing has changed,\u201d said an aid worker who recently visited Tigray. \u201cWe are just seeing a handful of trucks; these trucks are better than nothing but they are not going to feed the millions of people who need aid (in Tigray).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An estimated 2,000 trucks of food must enter Tigray every week to meet the region\u2019s needs, a U.N. official said at a meeting in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, on Wednesday, according to the aid worker, who attended. That\u2019s a sharp increase from the previous assessment of 600 a week. The aid worker also spoke on the condition of anonymity for safety concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just 3% of the vegetable seeds and 10% of the fertilizer required for the current planting season have reached Tigray, according to U.N. figures, raising fears of a poor harvest that would deepen the region\u2019s hunger crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some health officials in Tigray say they simply don\u2019t have enough supplies to treat many patients they encounter. Some who recently spoke to AP said shortages are so dire that some patients\u2019 relatives must personally buy medicines from private pharmacies at inflated prices and bring them to the hospital before their family members can be treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war, according to estimates by international aid groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is little hope for peace talks as Ethiopian authorities have outlawed the TPLF, effectively making its leaders fugitives on the run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – A worker walks next to a pile of sacks of food earmarked for the Tigray and Afar regions in a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Semera, the regional capital for the Afar region, in Ethiopia on Feb. 21, 2022. At least 1,900 children under 5 have died from malnutrition in Tigray in the past year, according to a study conducted by regional health officials and seen by The Associated Press on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (AP Photo, File)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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