<span style="color: #222222;">More than three lakh 50 thousand people in Ethiopia's Tigray are suffering famine conditions, with millions more at risk. The United Nations agencies and aid groups blame the conflict for the worst catastrophic food crisis in a decade.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">UN Aid Chief Mark Lowcock said that in Tigray, the number of people in famine conditions is higher than anywhere in the world, at any moment since a quarter million Somalis lost their lives in 2011. Most of the 5.5 million people in Tigray need food aid.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Ethiopian Government, however, said that the food shortages are not severe and aid is being delivered. Ethiopian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Dina Mufti said that the government was providing food aid and help to farmers in Tigray.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Fighting broke out in the region in November last year between government troops and the region's former ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, TPLF. Troops from neighboring Eritrea also entered the conflict to support the Ethiopian Government. The violence has killed thousands of civilians and forced more than two million from their homes in the mountainous region. </span><br />''