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Carla Anna
NAIROBI, KENYA (AP) — Ethiopian government criticizes global crisis as 'unethical' by World Health Organization Director-General doing. His claim that the country's Tigray region is "the worst disaster on earth" and that the lack of attention from world leaders may be due to the skin color of the Tigrayans.
On Thursday, a spokeswoman for the Ethiopian prime minister told journalists that comments by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus "do not deserve such a high-profile position". Billene Seyoum suggested that Tedros himself was also of his Tigrayan ethnicity and that he should decline his post if he wanted to speak as such.
In an emotional statement at her press conference the next day, she said that her six million people in Tigray had over the last 21 months, with the Ethiopian army in late 2020. A conflict broke out between the Tigre forces.
"I haven't heard a head of state in any of the developed countries talk about the situation in Tigre in recent months. Anywhere. Why?" Tedros asked. "The reason may be the color of the skin of the Tigray people."
The conflict in Ethiopia has had a severe impact on the region and could destabilize the strategic and sometimes turbulent Horn of Africa region.
After the Tigray forces recaptured most of the region in his June 2021, little humanitarian aid was allowed to the Tigray. Humanitarian workers and local health workers said people were starving and lacked basic medical supplies.
Aid has begun to flow to a greater extent in the past few months amid international reconciliation efforts, but the offerings are essentially out of reach for the millions of people trapped there. are widely said to be inadequate to meet the needs of the United States.Aid groups say there is still a significant shortage of fuel to deliver supplies.
Resuming basic services and banking remains a major demand of Tigre leaders. A prime minister's spokeswoman said on Thursday that "an operational environment needs to occur" for the return of these services, including ensuring the safety of service workers in the region. 40}
She also referred to the government's proposal to "convene peace talks within the next few weeks", stressing that it must be without preconditions. She accused Tigre leaders of "looking for excuses to avoid these peace talks".
She dismissed her Tigray forces' allegations of renewed attacks by Ethiopian forces as a "mechanism to divert" debate over the peace process.
The Ethiopian government has said it is ready to hold talks "anytime, anywhere", led by its preferred mediator, the African Union envoy.
The Ethiopian government said within minutes of Monday's declaration of elections that Kenya's president-elect had been declared dead in a sign that it would reject other US-backed mediation efforts by neighboring Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. Congratulated William Ruto. win.
