Tigray mothers share shocking accounts of dire famine conditions

Testimonies and footage from Ethiopia’s war-hit region suggest dramatic worsening of humanitarian situation.

Eighteen-month-old Haftom Hailay is too weak to cry. All the boy, weighing three kilogrammes, can do is sigh in pain. His mother, malnourished herself, has no milk to breastfeed him.

Where they came from in Aragure, a village east of Mekelle, the capital Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, the need for food is desperate.

“One month ago, everything ran out,” Haftom’s mother, Girmanesh Meles, 30 told Al Jazeera.