Ethiopia's Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children
by Amir Aman Kiyaro
Mar 10, 2024
4 minutes
The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia's Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister's recent death in childbirth.
A two-year war between federal troops and regional forces killed one of her own sons, the rest of whom are already adults. And now, a lack of food stemming from the region's drought has left the youngest of the children she is raising malnourished.
She tries to forage seeds among the scarce greenery of the desert's yellow, rocky landscape. But she recently
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