No food, medicine or electricity: The truth about life in Ethiopia's Tigray region

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

On Point, News, Npr, Daily, Talk Show

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Ethiopia’s government has turned the northern Tigray region into a virtual prison. Five million people. No way in. No way out. No food, no medicine, no electricity. How long can the world look the other way? Etana Dinka, Hayelom Mekonen and Ephraim Isaac join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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