Nearly 40 percent of people in Ethiopia's Tigray region do not have adequate food after 15 months of conflict, according to an assessment released yesterday by the UN World Food Programme (WFP). The agency surveyed 980 households across the region and found that three-quarters of people are using extreme coping strategies like cutting the number of meals they eat daily. The war broke out in November 2020 and pits the Ethiopian government and its allies against Tigrayan forces loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the political party that controls Tigray region. The conflict has killed thousands and displaced millions across three regions in Ethiopia and into neighbouring Sudan.