More than 50 people have died in northern Ethiopia because there wasn’t enough food and water due to a drought, according to local officials who spoke to the BBC.
The Tigray Disaster Risk Management office said that 46 people who were forced to leave their homes due to drought have died.
People died in a town called Yechila, according to Gebrehiwot Gebregziabher, who is in charge of the office there.
In the nearby Amhara region of Wag Hemra, a local leader said that six people and 4,000 cows have died because there is not enough food due to a drought.
For over five months, the US and the UN stopped giving food to Ethiopia because they heard that a lot of it was being stolen.
This made the humanitarian crisis in the country worse. The war and bad weather events left millions of people needing help.
Parts of northern Ethiopia don’t have enough rain, but in the southern and eastern regions, there will be lots of rain.
The UN says that over 40 people have died because of floods and landslides in the past few weeks, with many of the deaths happening in the eastern Somali region.
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50 Ethiopians die from hunger as result of drought
