A conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region could trigger broader destabilisation in the country, UN aid chief Mark Lowcock told the Security Council on Wednesday as he warned that a dire humanitarian situation in the north was set to worsen. He said there were reports of increasing insecurity elsewhere, which could be due to a vacuum created by the redeployment of Ethiopian troops to Tigray, and that the United Nations was concerned about the potential for broader national and regional destabilisation. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “seriously concerned” over the situation in Tigray, a UN spokesman said late on Tuesday. Dozens of witnesses say Eritrean troops are in Tigray to support Ethiopian forces, though both countries deny that. Several senior UN officials recently visited Ethiopia to push for greater access to Tigray.

Source: Ethiopian News February 04, 2021 03:56 UTC