Posted on 10/02/2021 9:22:51 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
NEWYORK -The United Nations Security Council will privately discuss on Friday a decision by Ethiopia to expel seven senior U.N. officials, diplomats said, as malnutrition rates rise and famine looms in the country’s war-torn northern region of Tigray.
The United States, Britain, Ireland, Estonia, France and Norway, plan to raise the issue during a closed-door meeting of the 15-member body, but diplomats say any strong action is unlikely as Russia and China have long made clear they believe the conflict is an internal affair for Ethiopia.
The expulsions of the U.N. staff were announced by Ethiopia on Thursday, two days after U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths warned that a “de-facto” aid blockade had likely forced hundreds of thousands of people in Tigray into famine.
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to requests for comment on the expulsion of U.N. staff. Ethiopia has previously denied blocking food aid.
“As a major new military offensive looms, this seems like Ethiopia’s attempt to test if the international community is prepared to respond with more than words to an unfolding famine,” a senior Western official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.
War broke out 10 months ago between Ethiopia’s federal troops and forces loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls Tigray. Thousands have died and more than two million people have been forced to flee their homes.
The conflict’s spillover to neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions is fueling a rise displacement and people in need. In June, a U.N. assessment found that 400,000 people in Tigray were in famine-like conditions.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was shocked by Ethiopia’s move to expel U.N. officials and said on Thursday that the world body was engaging the government “in the expectation that the concerned U.N. staff will be allowed to continue their important work.”
The United States condemned the expulsions and warned that it would not hesitate to use sanctions against those who obstruct humanitarian efforts.
The United Nations stressed on Friday that it was critical that the aid operation continue in Tigray, where 5.2 million people need help.
Only about 11% of the trucks needed to bring life-saving food have entered Tigray since mid-July, U.N. humanitarian aid spokesman Jens Laerke said on Friday. He also said that 79% of pregnant and lactating women screened in Tigray last week were diagnosed with acute malnutrition.
“Until now there is no indication that it (Ethiopia’s decision) stops the operation,” he told reporters in Geneva.
U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said of the decision to expel U.N. staff: “The scale, seven people across three agencies, is extremely rare, if not unprecedented.”
These letters have to be carefully worded.
If they expel the UN representatives then who will groom and sex traffic the children?
Did someone upset a UN sex/money exploitation scheme? You can’t exploit anybody if they kick you out.
whoever wins...
Not this again. Ugh.
....expulsion of UN staff....
What’s the problem?
US out of the UN.
UN out of the US.
I don’t think we should kick the UN out of New York. It is better to keep your enemies close. But we could knock a few floors off that building and put a homeless shelter in the parking lot.
Beat me to it. The king of “we only allow negative results” wants to have some of their folks rape and pillage the locals?
Administration of the *conquered* parts of Western Tigray Zone and part of the Southern Tigray Zone were taken over by officials from Amhara Region.[29]
Warfare, the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, and a locust outbreak all contributed to an emergency food situation in the region in January 2021. Two million people faced food shortages; the situation was particularly dire in Shire Inda Selassie where there are 100,000 refugees. The Famine Early Warning Systems Network said parts of central and eastern Tigray are likely in Emergency Phase 4, a step below famine.
Africa. And Africans being...well, African. Land grab. Why?
Tigray's official language is Tigrinya, similar to that spoken in Eritrea just to the North. The total population (based on the 2020 Census, CSA) is 7,070,260. The majority of the population (c. 80%) are agriculturalists, contributing 46% to the regional gross domestic product (2009). The highlands have the highest population density, especially in eastern and central Tigray. The much less densely populated lowlands comprise 48 per cent of Tigray's area. 96 per cent of Tigrayans are Orthodox Christian
...as malnutrition rates rise and famine looms in the country’s war-torn northern region of Tigray.
An internal matter? Meanwhile, the UN has done exactly zero to address China's occupation of and aggression against its neighbors. Or, China's Ethiopian puppet at WHO.
So my take is Ethiopia has more balls than we do.
For so many reasons, I pray the President Trump is again in the White House in Jan 2025.
And there are a lot things I could say like...I wish the first thing he would do is ?????????
But, I really do wish that the first thing he does is evict the UN from NYC and the United States. Send them to wherever they want to go. Let all of those petty tyrants go from the safety and security they’ve been provided by the USA and the NYPD. Let them go live in one of the EU, Socialist Shangri-La’s, never to return to US soil.
After that he can grant a full pardon to EVERY SINGLE PERSON that has been rolled up in this January 6th witch hunt.
Exactly
War will always bring death and destruction...in a country as Ethiopia for sure. Which has always had famine issues. Heck I recall the seeing ads to help the famine in Ethiopia when I was a kid....
In the 1980s Ethiopia was in a famine? ..... events led to the Ethiopia famine: recurring drought, failed harvests, food scarcity, conflict that kept aid from reaching people in occupied territory, and government policies that relocated families and routed relief to certain areas.
Ethiopia repeats this over and over again.
IF you don’t have enough food to feed yourself-—GET PREGNANT!!!
Why is a country’s Civil War all the way over there in Africa the responsibility of the world, or the United States??? When the US fought our Civil War, no one came over here to intervene. Tribal warfare, where men, women, and children, and cattle and homes are slaughtered and destroyed is how things have been handled for centuries in Africa. You can’t legislate Love, or outlaw tribal hatred. Get over it!!!
ASOC:
Tigray’s official language is Tigrinya, similar to that spoken in Eritrea just to the North. The total population (based on the 2020 Census, CSA) is 7,070,260. The majority of the population (c. 80%) are agriculturalists, contributing 46% to the regional gross domestic product (2009). The highlands have the highest population density, especially in eastern and central Tigray. The much less densely populated lowlands comprise 48 per cent of Tigray’s area. 96 per cent of Tigrayans are Orthodox Christian.
Ethiopia is an Orthodox Christian country.
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