page = columns | reuters.com url = https://www.reuters.com/journalists/joseph-menn analysed @ 2021-06-11 22:16 UTC The northern highlands of Ethiopia became a global byword for famine in the mid-1980s, when drought and conflict combined to create a disaster that killed as many as one million people. Now hunger is stalking the Tigray region again, and a senior UN official alleges that starvation is being used as a weapon of war. Peru's Castillo tells backers to 'stay alert' as vote count tensions rise
The northern highlands of Ethiopia became a global byword for famine in the mid-1980s, when drought and conflict combined to create a disaster that killed as many as one million people. Now hunger is stalking the Tigray region again, and a senior UN official alleges that starvation is being used as a weapon of war. Peru's Castillo tells backers to 'stay alert' as vote count tensions rise