New data from the World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed the magnitude of the hunger emergency gripping Tigray, where at least 4 million people face severe hunger and 350,000 of them are facing famine. The data showed that millions of people urgently need food.
WFP has swiftly mounted an emergency food assistance operation deploying more than 180 staff and increasing food distributions to reach 1.4 million people. In 53 villages visited by WFP, 50 percent of mothers and almost a quarter of children screened are malnourished.