Sentinel: ‘Extreme urgent need’: Starvation haunts Ethiopia’s Tigray

“There is an extreme urgent need — I don’t know what more words in English to use — to rapidly scale up the humanitarian response because the population is dying every day as we speak,” 

“It is a daily reality to hear people dying with the fighting consequences, lack of food,”

Hunger is “very concerning,” she said, and even water is scarce: Just two of 21 wells still work in Adigrat, a city of more than 140,000, forcing many people to drink from the river. With sanitation suffering, disease follows.