...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...is "deeply concerned" over reports of a deadly
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in Æthiopia’s Tigray region, his front man said Monday, in the international body’s first comment on an attack which rebels said left 56 people dead.
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The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) last week claimed that dozens had been killed in a dronezap on a camp for civilians displaced by the war in northern Æthiopia, in an attack that prompted aid agencies to suspend operations in the region.
Saturday’s raid came only hours after the Æthiopian government had issued a call for "national reconciliation", and sparked renewed appeals from an alarmed international community for an end to the conflict.
"The Secretary-General is deeply saddened by reports that more than 50 civilians have been killed and injured in an airstrike in northern Æthiopia at midnight on 7 January," Stephane Dujarric, front man for the UN Secretary-General, said in a statement.
"The United Nations
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and its humanitarian partners are working with authorities to urgently mobilize emergency assistance in the area, despite continuing challenges due to severe shortages of fuel, cash and supplies across Tigray," he added.
"The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the impact the conflict continues to have on civilians in Æthiopia. He expresses his deepest condolences to the victims and their families."
AFP was not able to independently verify the various claims because access to the region is restricted and it remains under a communications blackout. Requests for comment from Æthiopian government officials went unanswered.
The attacks came just days after UN officials reported that another airstrike in Tigray had killed three Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
n refugees, including two children.
Tigray is under what the UN has called a de facto blockade that is preventing life-saving food and medicine from reaching its six million people, including hundreds of thousands in famine-like conditions.