Hunger in Northern Euthopia

After 15 months of conflict, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) released a new food security assessment on January 28 showing that nearly 40% of Tigrayans are food insecure.Meanwhile, more than 9 million people, the highest number ever, are in need of humanitarian food aid across all three conflict-affected regions in the north.According to the Tigray Emergency Food Security Assessment, 83 percent of people in Tigray are food insecure. Families are depleting all resources in order to feed themselves, with three-quarters of the population using extreme coping measures to stay afloat. Families rely almost entirely on cereals, limiting portion sizes and the number of meals they eat each day to stretch whatever food is available