thank you so much for speaking to us, mary ellen mcgraw, a t w. s. peace country director in afghanistan joining us there from couple thank you . while the world food program is old for warning that up to 7000000 people are in dire need of assistance in northern ethiopia, conflict is intensify in far and higher regions, pushing more people into hunger. that's in addition to the 5200000 people in need. of a day in the water and te gray region where fighting broke out in november. i'll just as mom it, i do reports in if you appears north unto the region, 9 months of war between the if you appeal federal government and lead us into great how spread into the neighboring regions of our for and i'm harder could be eating us vh military and crisis. so united nations warns that's what's effectively a blockade on a convoy and i will for pushing millions of people to the brink of farming. people like sadie ali and 5 children. they fled their farm 2 months ago, falling out of talk by 2 grey fighters. this makes sense in the upper region has now become then y

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