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The UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock has said there is famine in northern Ethiopia after the release of a UN-backed analysis of the situation. "There is famine now," he said, adding: "This is going to get a lot worse."

The study found that 350,000 people were living in "severe crisis" in the war-torn Tigray region, as well as neighbouring Amhara and Afar. Getachew Temare is a human rights activist living in the USA who still has family in Tigray. He says his family say it's worse than the 1984 famine:

"The livestock of the farmers have been either looted or slaughtered by the military, and still the rural areas of Tigray are blocked from accessing humanitarian relief... they have finished even their emergency grains... there are many thousands living in caves and they're not getting any food."

(Photo: A displaced child waits for food at a school in Mekele. Credit: AFP)