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How Blockade Is Escalating Death Rates In Ethiopia’s Tigray Region
A recent report by the World Food Programme (WFP) has shared that nearly 40% of people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are suffering “an extreme lack of food” following 15 months of fighting between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian government. According to the UN agency, the region which is home to about…
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Covid-19 Pandemic And Its Effects On Global Hunger
A recent report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) shared that the pandemic has made the world more vulnerable to food insecurity, pushing the aim to eradicate global hunger by 2030 further down the road. Due to the dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the world agency reports that around a tenth…