Tue 09 November 2021:
Rosemary DiCarlo, the UN Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs, said on Monday that the fighting in northern Ethiopia jeopardizes the country’s and its people’s future.
“The year-long conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has reached disastrous proportions. The fighting places the future of the country and its people, as well as the stability of the wider Horn of Africa region, in grave uncertainty,” she told the Security Council in a briefing.
“There has been much speculation regarding how this crisis will unfold over the coming weeks. In a country of over 110 million people, over 90 different ethnic groups and 80 languages, no one can predict what continued fighting and insecurity will bring. But let me be clear: What is certain is that the risk of Ethiopia descending into widening civil war is only too real. That would bring about a humanitarian catastrophe and consume the future of such an important country,” warned DiCarlo.
The TPLF has formed the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist Forces with at least eight other factions, including the Oromo Liberation Army, in an attempt to depose Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Ethiopia announced a state of emergency last week after TPLF rebels made military gains against government forces, approaching the capital by 200 kilometres.
According to a joint UN-Ethiopia investigation revealed this week, evidence of unlawful or extrajudicial killings and executions, torture, and widespread arbitrary detentions, abductions, and enforced disappearances by both sides was discovered. The UN’s human rights director, Michelle Bachelet, went on to say that Ethiopian soldiers and their Eritrean partners are responsible for “big numbers of violations.”
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