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Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says even with war in Ukraine, the world must not forget the crisis unfolding ‘out of sight’ in Ethiopia’s northern region

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged the world not to forget the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, saying that even amid the war in Ukraine there is “nowhere on Earth” where people are more at risk than the isolated region of northern Ethiopia.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director general, is from Tigray and has incurred the wrath of the Ethiopian government in the past after accusing it of placing the region under a de facto blockade. Prime minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has accused him of bias, and of spreading misinformation.

At a press conference in Geneva on Wednesday, Tedros implicitly addressed those concerns. He said such was the scale of the crisis, it would be a dereliction of his professional duty not to speak out.

By aiga

One thought on “‘Nowhere on earth are people more at risk than Tigray,’ says WHO chief”
  1. Nowhere on earth are people more at risk than Tigray,’yes indeed,when boliling down to couple of reasons balance in international news coverage and biased world leadership will be the principal factors as to why genociide on Tigray lack attention compared to the war in Ukraine. The world is giving attention to conflict
    based on their cultural and historical ties , including economic interest that might be at risk.
    The idea of national interest includes strategic military and economic concerns – are they a military or terrorist threat; do they have oil? – whereas the ability to identify can be affected by language, religion or historical ties, but is all too often reduced to such crude measures as skin colour.

    https://newint.org/features/2012/09/01/media-war-coverage/
    “It is little wonder that, when several senators recently tried to push a bill to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia over its conduct in Yemen, they found only a few sponsors and the motion was tabled in a 71-to-27 vote.”
    https://sangam.org/wars-attention/

    Revered people of Tigray are facing trials of various kinds-burned alive, thrown into a deep lake, body of water, condemned to die from starvation after so many days of agony and sufferings, traumatized watching their children dying from treatable diseases and hunger , and the list of unspeakable sufferings of Tigray goes without end. (James 1:2-4), Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial.(James 1:12)

    Our enemies committed a henious and repugnanat crimes by importing foreign genocidal teams from Somalia and Eritrea and accomplished their satanic mission by massacring our laity, church leaders, looting our priceless heritages.They waged religious and inter-ethnic war on Tigray to divide us and seed hostility with all neighboring tribes . Amhara elites pretended as if they love people of Afar while throwing youngsters of Afar into a fire serving Amhara elites as firewood and defensive wall-overkill.
    I have no idea how many times we have to remind these amhara elites who live in their little piece of the world of cannibalists, warmongers, rapists, and robbers of sacred heritages and their accomplice from Eritrea that it is IMPOSSIBLE to exterminate a great nation and great people of Tigray by reducing Tegaru to very few leaders-making demographic contraction to accede to the throne , engage in land theft like their anscetors out of their Hypnagogic hallucinations to install a regime based on hereditary connection to a royal bloodline. Muslim, Christian, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelic , we all Tegaru from various religious and political view are one and united than ever against the invaders and those satanic Amhara elites who use religion to manipulate their own people.Amhara elites and Higdef eritrean top dogs are evil and irreligious which exhibited when importing foreign soldiers to massacre our people based on their religion, and destroy our churches .
    For the past 500 days, World leaders are unwilling to bring the sufferings of people of Tigray to an end !!!! Politically motivated mere rhetoric , without actions, made so far by the international community coudn’t deter a savage enemy like Higdef, Eritrean regime, and its Ethiopian counterpart backed by Fano(i .e genocidal youth from Amhara)equipped with genocidal machines and hell-bent on exterminating Tigray.
    « There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.” ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
    Stop killings of Tegaru , and stop destroying Tigray and Stop the killings and mass arrest of all unarmed innocent civilians based on their ethnic ties, political views and firm standing against the genocidal gangster-Higdef and prosperity party. Tigray Prevail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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