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100,000 children in Tigray at risk of death from malnutrition – UNICEF

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Ethiopian refugees from Tigray region at the Um Rakuba refugee camp, the same camp that hosted Ethiopian refugees during the famine in the 1980s, some 80 kilometers from the Ethiopian-Sudan border in Sudan, 30 November 2020 (issued 02 December 2020). According to World Food Programme on 02 December, about 12,000 Ethiopian refugees from Tigray are accomodated in the Um Rakuba camp as over 40,000 Ethiopian refugees fleed to Sudan since the start of fights in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia. Ethiopia's military intervention comes after Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) forces allegedly attacked an army base on 03 November 2020 sparking weeks of unrest. According to reports on 02 December 2020, UN reached an agreement with Ethiopian government to provide aid for the Tigray region of Ethiopia. EPA-EFE/ALA KHEIR

More than 100,000 children in Tigray, Ethiopia, could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, a 10-fold jump over average annual levels, the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said.

UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado, speaking after returning from Tigray, told a U.N. briefing in Geneva that pregnant and breastfeeding women were acutely malnourished. “We need unfettered access into Tigray and across the region, in order to provide support children and women urgently need,” she said.

The United Nations needs satellite phones and other critical communications equipment for its aid operation in Tigray, U.N. spokesman Jens Laerke said, urging the Ethiopian government to grant permission.

Photo: Ethiopian refugees from Tigray region at the Um Rakuba refugee camp in Sudan. EPA-EFE/ALA KHEIR

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