Ethiopia's Tigray Region Is Now Peaceful, But Extreme Hunger Afflicts Its Children

Lete Yohannes, 34, holds her baby Temesgen Muluhaw, 8 months old, who is suffering from malnutrition, at the Finarwa Health Center in Mai Mekden, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Feb. 27, 2024. Ethiopian women gather at a community meeting in Mai Mekden, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Feb. 27, 2024. Mothers, faces etched with worry, watch helplessly as their children weaken from malnutrition. Ethiopian farmer, Haile Gebre Kirstos, 70, uses a cattle-drawn plow to tend to his field in Mai Mekden, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Feb. 27, 2024.

The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia's Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister's recent death in childbirth.