The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday that Eritrean troops 'murdered' his uncle in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
Director-General of the World Health Organisation Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends an ACANU briefing on global health issues, including COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine in Geneva, Switzerland, December 14, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel did not respond to requests for comment on the allegations. "I hope that this agreement will hold and this madness will stop but it's a very difficult moment for me," Tedros told reporters, adding that more than 50 other people had been killed in the same incident. The Ethiopian government and regional forces from TigrayHowever, troops from Eritrea, to the north, and forces from the neighbouring Ethiopian region of Amhara, to the south, who fought alongside Ethiopia's military in Tigray were not party to the ceasefire.
Ethiopia's government spokesman Legesse Tulu, military spokesman Colonel Getnet Adane, and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's spokeswoman Billene Seyoum did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tedros' remarks.
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