but in tigray the reality looks very different.n mekelle by his mother alem degefu birhan, after she was unable to produce breastmilk and he became dangerously underweight. >> when i was pregnant there were food shortages. when i got close to giving birth i had so many problems. my breasts ran out of milk because i had no food. jack: further down the ward are other children that have developed hydrocephalus, the swelling of the brain with spinal fluid, a condition that can be caused by malnutrition in pregnant mothers. if nothing is done, tigray could slide into famine. but using what's termed "the f-word" is sensitive for the government and aid agencies alike. the memory of 1984 haunts ethiopia, when pictures of the devastating famine shocked the world. 40 years later, the death rates, and numbers suffering severe acute malnutrition, do not now meet the un's technical famine definition. but for reda getachew, interim tigrayan president, he's not interested in semantics. >> i see people dying because there is no food on their plate

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