Hello and welcome to Business Daily with me Vivienne Nunes. Today we're taking a look at Ethiopia.

A deadly internal conflict has been raging there for months. The human costs have been enormous.

Thousands killed, millions displaced. But that's not the only damage being done to Africa's second most populous nation.

The war has incurred a huge economic cost, too, that could take years to repair.

It is just not financially lucrative at this stage to set foot into a sector in a country as high risk as Ethiopia.

As the United States threatens further sanctions on those involved, we're asking if

Ethiopia can be brought back from the brink.

The economy is clearly just devastated in Tigray.

And with the war ongoing, one of the most worrying things about this situation is that there

is no obvious end in sight.

That's coming up in Business Daily.

Thank you. obvious end in sight. That's coming up in Business Daily. Sounds of Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital.

Life there has been relatively normal over the past few months, albeit more expensive.

Something will come to a little later in the show.

But it's a very different story in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray. It's very, very hard now to imagine what is happening

there. People are on the brink of famine. There is a great station in Tigray and I think the

wallet has to react and respond before it is too late.

That's Yamana Nagish.

He's a senior journalist with the BBC's Tigrinya service in Nairobi,

which serves audiences in Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Tigrindia-speaking diaspora.

Last November, a war broke out between the Tigray People's Liberation Front and Ethiopian

federal forces.

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