More than 350,000 people in the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray are starving, according to a study published by five UN agencies. 

Hundreds of thousands of people are living under a "severe crisis" in the war-torn area and some 1.7 million people are displaced. Tigray is one of the states that make up the Ethiopian Federation, and was destroyed during fighting between government forces and rebel groups in November 2020.

"This severe crisis is due to the ongoing effects of conflict, including population evacuations, movement restrictions, limited humanitarian access..”

The Tigray area has a bloody history - in 1984, Tigray and the nearby province of Volo were the focus of a famine caused by a deadly combination of drought and war, which led to 600,000 dead.