The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the grave humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is deteriorating, with no sign of Eritrean troops withdrawing and alarmingly widespread reports of systematic rape and other sexual violence mainly by men in uniform.
Mark Lowcock told a closed Security Council meeting that the U.N. knows that 4.5 million of Tigray’s nearly 6 million people need humanitarian aid and the government estimates 91% of the population needs emergency food.
He said his office received the first report earlier this week of four displaced people dying from hunger, and Thursday morning he received reports of 150 people in the Ofla district just south of Tigray’s capital Mekelle dying from hunger.
L Erythrée reconnaît la présence de ses troupes au Tigré, mais rejette les accusations d exactions contre les populations civiles
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Eritrea Acknowledges Presence in Ethiopian Human Rights Crisis
Country announces intention to withdraw Eritrean refugees / Getty Images Graham Piro • April 19, 2021 2:30 pm
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Eritrea acknowledged its troop presence in Ethiopia and announced its intention to withdraw from the country after months of denying it was involved in the human rights crisis.
The African country told the United Nations Security Council in a letter Friday that it is withdrawing its troops from the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, the site of an ongoing humanitarian crisis.
Eritrea s admission marks the first time the country has officially said it is involved in the human rights crisis, responding to months of international and humanitarian pressure to admit to its presence in Ethiopia. Human rights organizations have accused Eritrean troops of committing atrocities against Tigrayan refugees in coordination with Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed s government. The United Nations and the U
By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press
Published April 16, 2021
The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the grave humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is deteriorating, with no sign of Eritrean troops withdrawing and alarmingly widespread reports of systematic rape and other sexual violence mainly by men in uniform.
Tigrayan refugee Belaynesh Beyene, 58, who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia’s Tigray, sits in her shelter in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
told a closed Security Council meeting that the U.N. knows that 4.5 million of Tigray’s nearly 6 million people need humanitarian aid and the government estimates 91% of the population needs emergency food.
Eritrea says troops in Ethiopia s Tigray, vows pullout
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17/04/2021 - 10:01 The conflict in Ethiopia is now five months old EDUARDO SOTERAS AFP 3 min
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Eritrea has acknowledged its troops are participating in the war in Ethiopia s northern Tigray region but has vowed to pull them out amid mounting international pressure.
The first explicit admission of Eritrea s role in the fighting came in a letter posted online Friday night by the country s information minister, written by its UN ambassador and addressed to the Security Council.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops into Tigray in November to disarm and detain leaders of the region s once dominant political party, the Tigray People s Liberation Front (TPLF).
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