UN officials decline to disclose identity of detainees, but it has been widely reported that they are Tigrayans
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters that the 16 staff members are being “detained in facilities against their will.” The UN has not been given any reason for the detentions, he said.that the UN staff were detained because of “their wrongdoing and their participation in terror,” but did not provide any details.
From the first day of the state of emergency, people in the Ethiopian capital have been arrested in their homes and offices and in the street, and are now being held at various police stations across the city, the EHRC said. The British government became the latest to issue a similar warning. “It is likely to become much more difficult to leave Ethiopia in the coming days,” it told its citizensZambia, meanwhile, is the first African country to withdraw diplomats and other personnel from Addis Ababa. “On my orders … we have safely evacuated our fellow citizens from Ethiopia,” Zambian President Hakainde Hichilemaon Tuesday, posting photos showing dozens of Zambians boarding an airplane to leave Ethiopia.
“All these leaders here in Addis Ababa and the north agree individually that the differences opposing them are political and require political solution through dialogue,” he told the UN Security Council on Monday. “This, therefore, constitutes a window of opportunity.”
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