A ceasefire in Tigray, but in the displaced peoples’ camps, the suffering goes on – in pictures

A woman carries a child through the 70 Kare camp for internally displaced people (IDP), about three miles from Mekelle, the capital of Tigray. About 7,000 Tigrayans are living there.

Mabrit, 23, plays with her three-month-old baby, Majsut, at 70 Kare. No food has reached the camp for months. In June, the UN and the US suspended food aid deliveries in Tigray after some was found to have been stolen.

Seven Teklehaymano, 45, lives in a school that has become an IDP camp in Abiy Addi, a town in central Tigray about two hours’ drive from Mekelle. Teklehaymano says she scours the ground for seeds that she can mix with water to feed her and her two-year-old, Ashenafi.

Simon, 13, who lives in Wukro, 30 miles from Mekelle, collects seeds and fruit that have fallen from trees. ‘I was hungry and there was nothing to eat,’ he says.

In Adwa, about two hours’ drive from the Eritrean border, people wait outside the Don Bosco mission, where volunteers distribute soup every morning.

Hundreds of women and children queue outside the mission every morning waiting for the doors to open.

Salesian Catholic missionaries, who run the Don Bosco centre, say they have supported 100,000 people in four centres across Tigray during the conflict.

Embeba is four years old but weighs 10kg – about 6kg below the average weight of a western child of her age. She was admitted to Mekelle’s Ayder hospital for treatment. The hospital sees two or three children a day with complications from severe acute malnutrition.

Brzaf Gebremedhn, 75, lies on a sheet on the floor at the camp in Abiy Addi. She had not eaten for several days and was painfully weak.