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Published: 15 December 2021
Edit: Ahmed Al-Kumi
The United Nations announced today in a statement that the United Nations Human Rights Council will meet next Friday; To examine "grave human rights situations" in Ethiopia at the request of the European Union.
For his part, the European Union Foreign Policy Officer, Josep Burrell, stressed that the conflict in Ethiopia undermined the stability of Ethiopia and the region.
At a press conference following the meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Union States, Burrell noted that the fighting in Ethiopia was expanding and leaving a devastating humanitarian crisis.
This comes after the Tigray Liberation Front forces, yesterday Sunday, took control of the town of Lalibela less than two weeks after government forces and their allies took control of it. Lalibela is located in Amhara territory, and includes a World Heritage Site registered with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Tigray Liberation Front (TPLF) continues to strike fatally at Prime Minister Abu Ahmed's federal forces, causing several thousand casualties from the Ethiopian army.
Military confrontations continue on several fronts in Amhara and Afar province between the Ethiopian army and forces of the two territories, against the TJF, one year after the outbreak of conflict between the TJF and the Ethiopian army and its loyalist forces in the northern province of Tigray.