The United Nations Secretary-General declared that Ethiopia’s situation is “deviating from control” after the Ethiopian government had previously stated that it was preparing to enter into peace negotiations while reiterating its desire to retake control of federal sites in the northern Tigray region.
This occurs the day after the African Union demanded that the fights begin “immediately.”
Reporters in New York were urged by Antonio Guterres that “the fighting in Tigray must end right away.”
The situation in Ethiopia has gotten out of hand, he added, and violence and destruction have reached very unsettling heights. He also mentioned “the enormous price that civilians pay” and the “nightmare” that the Ethiopian people suffer.
In support of the Ethiopian Federal Forces in Tigray, Guterres demanded “the quick withdrawal of the Eritrean Armed Forces from Ethiopia” and asked “all parties” to permit the transport of humanitarian aid, which the UN has halted since fighting resumed at the end of August.
The escalating fighting in Tigray a week after it was announced that peace talks would take place in South Africa, which they did not, has alarmed the African Union, the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union in recent days.
Musa Faki Mohamed, the chairman of the African Union Commission, demanded “an immediate and unconditional ceasefire” on Sunday, expressing his “grave worry” over reports that the conflict in Tigray was intensifying.
The situation in Ethiopia is “out of control,” according to the UN
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