As the pandemic started to unfold early in 2020, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a plea for a global cease-fire, saying the world needed to focus on “the true fight” against the coronavirus. Meanwhile, armed conflict rages on around the world,” Guterres added. Nearly 200 countries endorsed his cease-fire plea — so, too, did the U.N. Security Council, regional multilateral organizations and civil-society groups. Ethiopian refugees who fled the country's restive Tigray region queue to receive food aid at the Um-Rakoba camp in Al-Qadarif state, in Sudan, Dec. 11, 2020. In November 2020, fighting erupted in the Tigray region of Ethiopia between the Tigray People's Liberation Front and an alliance of Ethiopian and Eritrean defense forces.

Source: Ethiopian News December 28, 2020 18:56 UTC