Ethiopia’s ambassador in Khartoum, Yibeltal Aymeru, announced the arrest of some local employees of United Nations organizations on the basis of their cooperation with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
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“There are suspicions about some people working in United Nations organizations and they are being investigated,” Ethiopia’s ambassador to Khartoum, Yebeltal Amro, said in a press conference at the embassy. She said.
Imru stated that UN staff members were arrested on charges of “espionage” for their cooperation with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
Aymeru claimed that the Ethiopian government intends to establish a comprehensive national dialogue without the TPLF, and claimed that the army would soon win the war with the rebel groups.
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The Ethiopian ambassador pointed out that what was reported about the rebels’ siege of the capital, Addis Ababa, is baseless, and said that the latest clashes took place two weeks ago in an area about 380 km from the capital.
Aymeru claimed that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front committed war crimes and genocide by killing people and animals in the Afar and Amhara regions.
The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency in the country on 2 November due to rebel attacks in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which continued their advance southward.
Defensive task forces were formed to confront the possible attacks by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front on the capital, Addis Ababa.
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More than a year of conflict in the north of the country has also displaced nearly 2.5 million people, and more than 5 million people are in need of urgent assistance in the region.
The spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Stephane Dujarric, announced in a press conference yesterday that Ethiopia has detained 72 drivers from the World Food Program working in the north of the country, where conflicts continue.
