Ethiopian bishop urges action to save millions in TigrayBishop Tesfasellassie Medhin restated his call for local and international communities to act to save people trapped in warPeople, who fled the violence in Ethiopia's Tigray region, fetch water at May Weyni secondary school, which has been turned into an Internal Displaced People (IDP) camp registering 10,500 people, in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 23, 2021. (Photo: AFP)On the date marking 700 days of war in Ethiopia's region of Tigray, Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin of Adigrat restated his call to the local and international community to act to save millions of people. People must "exercise their moral duty (to) be a voice of the voiceless and enforce international treaties to save more than 7 million live from vanishing," Bishop Medhin said in a statement Oct. 4. Fighting began again Aug. 24, shattering a five-month humanitarian truce the government announced in May to allow aid to reach millions of needy people. The war in Tigray started when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali announced military action against the Tigray People's Liberation Front.

Source: Ethiopian News October 06, 2022 07:08 UTC