Starving Tigray: How Armed Conflict and Mass Atrocities Have Destroyed an Ethiopian Region's Economy and Food System and are Threatening Famine
Publisher: World Peace Foundation
Date: 2021
Topics: Basic Services, Governance, Humanitarian Assistance
Countries: Eritrea, Ethiopia
This special report from the World Peace Foundation documents how Ethiopian and Eritrean belligerents in the war in Tigray have comprehensively dismantled the region’s economy and food system. The authors provide evidence of ongoing actions to deprive people of objects and activities indispensable to peoples’ survival—actions that amount to international crimes. The authors track the process of deprivation conducted in a widespread and systematic manner. The report indicates that, in coming months, thus conflict will lead to mass starvation and a risk of famine; in the longer term, to sustained food insecurity and dependence on external assistance.