U.N. Security Council, for first time, declares concern about Ethiopia’s Tigray
Posted: 23 Apr 2021, 00:23
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...The council was unable to agree language last month with Western countries pitted against Russia and China, whose diplomats questioned whether the body - charged with maintaining international peace and security - should be involved.
U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock last week told the council the humanitarian crisis in Tigray had deteriorated with challenges to aid access, people dying of hunger and many reports of "gang rape, with multiple men assaulting the victim; in some cases, women have been repeatedly raped over a period of days." He said girls as young as eight had also been targeted.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, then challenged the body's silence, according to diplomats familiar with her remarks during the closed briefing, asking: "Do African lives not matter as much as those experiencing conflict in other countries?"...
...The conflict has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands more from their homes in the region of about 5 million. Eritrean troops - accused of massacres and killings in Tigray - have been helping Ethiopian troops.





