The head of the World Health Organization has painted a gloomy picture of life in the Tigray region, in the north of Ethiopia, one year into a civil war.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is Tigrayan himself, told journalists in Geneva that the region was under an effective blockade.
“No medicine – people are dying; no food – people are starving.”
He also said that the phone lines were down and there was no fuel and no cash.
“So you can imagine the impact of that on the health of people.”
The Ethiopian government has denied that it has been deliberately preventing aid from reaching the north.
You can watch Dr Tedros speaking 46 minutes into the press conference embedded in this tweet:
