The UN Security Council has been told that increasingly alarming accounts of hunger-related deaths are emerging from the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, said life-saving humanitarian efforts were being crippled. He again appealed to the Ethiopian government to allow the unhindered movement of desperately needed …
Read More »Ethiopia: PM Abiy Ahmed to form a new government
Hours after his inauguration, the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who will lead the country for the next five years is expected form a new government on Monday. PM Abiy is nevertheless under intense pressure to unify his country under pressure of ethnic and political divisions, starvation and allegations of …
Read More »Ethiopia: rebels accuse government of blocking Tigray region
Ethiopia’s rebel fighters say a government blockade on the northern region of Tigray is to blame for the devastation that has left nearly a million people on the verge of starvation,the BBC reports. But the federal government has blamed the situation on them. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which is …
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