Ethiopia's Prime Minister ABIY AHMED has denied that there is hunger in the country's war-torn Tigray region.

Prime Minister AHMED while speaking at a polling station on the day of the country's general election, admitted there was a problem but said the government could fix it.

His comments come a week after the United Nation's humanitarian chief, MARK LOWCOCK, told a closed session of the Security Council that there was famine in Tigray.

MARK LOWCOCK added that starvation was being used as a weapon of war by troops from neighboring Eritrea who are fighting alongside Ethiopian forces in Tigray. 

A study released on June 10 by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification initiative found that 350,000 people were living in what it described as catastrophe and famine.