The 10-year-old weighs just 22 lbs.

Her doctor says she's dying.

The guns may have fallen silent in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, but the suffering has not ended.

An acute food shortage now grips a population already hit by two years of war and struggling with drought.

Tsige's father Asmelash Shishay says her body is so damaged by malnutrition that she is unable to eat.

"Initially we were trying to give her soup mixed with milk but unfortunately, she doesn't take food now. This is all because we didn't have any food in the beginning."

Food deliveries had resumed to Tigray after a ceasefire deal in November.

But they have again been disrupted.

The U.N.'s World Food Program and the U.S. Agency for International Development have temporarily suspended food aid, alleging it was being diverted away from those in need.

Ethiopia's government has said it is investigating but criticized the suspension.

An Ethiopian government spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

Gebrehiwot Gebreegziabher is head of the Tigray Region Disaster Risk Management Commission.

He said that 595 people had died from the direct or indirect effects of hunger in several areas of Tigray.

The president of the Tigray interim administration, Getachew Reda, has said on Twitter that he had held talks with WFP officials about efforts to resume aid flows.

Both the WFP and USAID say they are working to ensure aid reaches the intended recipients and aim to restart deliveries as soon as possible.

WFP senior regional communications officer for Eastern Africa, Brenda Kariuki:

"We are currently on track to resume food distributions in July, starting in the Tigray region. We are also implementing a new targeting methodology to identify the most vulnerable in the communities and rolling out a new digital registration system so that WFP can better identify and verify beneficiaries to ensure that the right people are receiving critical food at the right time."

According to the WFP, around a fifth of Tigray's 6 million population was severely food insecure in February.

People like farmer Woldesilassie Gebremedhin and his three children are struggling to survive.

They live at a school in Aby Addi, a town hosting 51,000 people displaced by fighting.

An official at the makeshift camp said 118 people there were in a critical condition due to malnutrition.

Woldeselassie says his wife has already died of hunger.

"My wish and my prayer," he says, "is to not see my children dying before me."