The war in Ethiopia's Tigray region has claimed thousands of lives and displaced as many as 2 million people. For VOA, Yan Boechat has this inside look into the lives of the displaced and injured in Mekelle, Ethiopia.
Tigray's Displaced and Injured in Photos
- By Yan Boechat

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Many of the 200,000 displaced people in Mekelle, Ethiopia, are living in schoolhouses converted into camps; June 3, 2021.

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A young girl lives in a classroom on June 3, 2021, in Mekelle, Ethiopia. About 2 million people have been displaced since November 2020, when the war began.