U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council on Thursday that a conflict in Ethiopia has spread beyond the northern Tigray region and 'a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes.'
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a news conference before a meeting with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, July 2, 2021. REUTERS/Susana VeraUNITED NATIONS, Aug 26 - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council on Thursday that a conflict in Ethiopia has spread beyond the northern Tigray region and "a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes.
Gunmen killed at least 150 people last week in western Ethiopia in an attack by an armed group against local residents, the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said on Thursday."Inflammatory rhetoric and ethnic profiling are tearing apart the social fabric of the country," Guterres told the 15-member Security Council. "All parties must immediately end hostilities without preconditions and seize that opportunity to negotiate a lasting ceasefire.