Ethiopia - International Responses

Alex de Waal speak with ABC Radio about the humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
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The sense of urgency and impending disaster in Ethiopia is escalating. 

The country has been bedevilled by violence- especially in its northern region of Tigray –for four months now.  

Now, on top of that, a drought is leading to mass starvation. 

The UN Security Council was briefed on Thursday.  

The US Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, made a couple of interventions earlier in the week, urging Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to find a way to stop the violence, so that, perhaps, the food catastrophe could be helped.  

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