Horn Highlights: Starvation looms over Tigray and the Horn, Ethiopian soldiers ask asylum in Sudan, Violence in West Darfur

In this week’s Horn Highlights: Few aid trucks arrive in Tigray; 1,900 children dead of starvation, says Tigray bureau of health; Debretsion sends letter to UN urging for humanitarian corridors; Hundreds of Ethiopians line up to fight for Russia; Ethiopian soldiers ask for asylum in Sudan; Hundreds killed in violence in West Darfur; Several Horn countries agree on defence cooperation; Suicide attack in Somalia; Drought continues to threaten mass starvation in the Horn.

Horn Highlights: Aid convoys reach Tigray, 26 militiamen killed in ambush in Oromia, South Sudan leaders unify command security forces

In this week’s Horn Highlights: First aid convoys reach Tigray, more aid needed; WFP states 40% of Tigray faces “extreme lack of food”; Troops mobilising at Tigray borders; former government-appointed Tigray officials released; Asena TV says Eritrean refugees attacked in Amhara, 8 wounded; Amhara forces kill 26 Oromo militiamen and police in ambush; Eritrea replaces ambassador to Ethiopia with Chargé d’affaires en pied, AS reports; Ethiopia and Kenya reach agreement on bilateral and regional security issues; Sudan’s Burhan threatens to expel UN Envoy; and Security deal reached in South Sudan.