UN: Over 30,000 children risk death in famine-hit Tigray

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An elderly Ethiopian woman sits next to a sack of wheat after it was distributed to her by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Saturday, May 8, 2021. (File:AP)
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GENEVA: Tens of thousands of malnourished children risk dying in hard-to-reach areas of Ethiopia's troubled Tigray region, now hit by famine, the United Nations said Friday.
"Without humanitarian access to scale up our response, an estimated 30,000-plus severely malnourished children in those highly inaccessible areas are at high risk of death," UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters in Geneva.

Topics: Tigray