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Wait, third deadliest? And I hadn’t even heard of this
I mean I knew the media cared more about white people but HOLY SHIT
Yeah, it's crazy how little people talk about it despite it being incredibly deadly.
Today, Tigray province in Ethiopia has a man-made famine as a result of widespread deliberate destruction of crops, orchards, implements, seeds, and water infrastructure by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces during that war. 1.2 million people were displaced in the first year.
Food aid has been suspended by the UN and US because it was being diverted by government officials, which has led to an increase in starvation deaths this year, yet if they hear about it at all, most westerners seem to assume it's from "choosing to grow the wrong crops" smh.
The western news cycles ignore most of the world.
Wait, what was the second one then? The article doesn't say.