The UN's outgoing humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock has told the UN Security Council that there is now famine in Tigray and blamed Eritrean forces: 'Eritrean soldiers are using starvation as a weapon of war ' adding that 'rape is being used systematically to terrorize and brutalize women and girls...
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This follows a warning from the UN aid chief Mark Lowcock that the war in Tigray and the destruction of food stocks were starving hundreds of thousands of people resulting in 'the worst famine … the world has seen for a decade...
According to UN aid chief Mark Lowcock rich countries would need to invest less than 1% of the trillions they have invested in their own Covid-19 response to protect poorer countries from the more drastic effects of the virus...
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- SIERRA LEONE
While Kabbah was at the UN Millennium Summit in New York Mark Lowcock Director General of Britain's Department for International Development flew to Freetown for a quiet word with Berewa...