An Ethiopian couple has donated funds they had set aside for a lavish wedding to buy food and other supplies for people displaced in the war-torn Tigray region.

Bride Meaza Tadese and groom Kalab Belay gave away $8,500 (£6,100).

“Our donation will not solve the issues of the Tigray people, but we are just contributing what we have,” Ms Meaza.

Tigray has been devastated by a humanitarian crisis after Ethiopia sent its troops in November last year to fight against the TPLF, the-then regional ruling party, which had attacked army bases in the region.

Thousands of people are thought to have been killed and about 1.7 million people displaced from their homes.

Earlier this week the UN humanitarian chief said the situation in the Ethiopian region of Tigray is worse than previously thought.

But the Ethiopian government rejected suggestions that the northern region was experiencing a famine.