Nearly 40 percent of people in Ethiopia’s Tigray face “an extreme lack of food” amid an extended de-facto blockade of the war-hit region, the UN said Friday. “A new food security assessment… shows that almost 40 percent of Tigrayans are suffering an extreme lack of food, after 15 months of conflict,” the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement. The dire figure comes as aid groups are being forced to increasingly curtail activities because of fuel and supply shortages, and as fresh fighting in northern Ethiopia limits avenues for getting aid in. Earlier Friday, the UN’s humanitari…

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