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Ethiopian army ordered to march on Tigray capital: prime minister - Fox News

Ethiopian army ordered to march on Tigray capital: prime minister - Fox News

Ethiopian army ordered to march on Tigray capital: prime minister - Fox News
Nov 26, 2020 1 min, 45 secs

Ethiopia's prime minister said Thursday the army has been ordered to move on the embattled Tigray regional capital after his 72-hour ultimatum ended for Tigray leaders to surrender, and he warned the city's half-million residents to stay indoors and disarm.

That means tanks and other weaponry can close in on Mekele, whose residents were warned of “no mercy” if they didn't move away from Tigray leaders in time.

The United Nations has reported people fleeing Mekele, but communications and transport links remain severed to Tigray, and it’s not clear how many people received the warnings in time.

The international community is pleading for immediate de-escalation, dialogue and humanitarian access as Ethiopian forces have fought their way through Tigray to Mekele.

But Abiy, last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, has rejected international “interference." His government has said three high-level African Union envoys for the conflict can meet with Abiy, but not with the Tigray leaders.

It also said distribution of supplies has begun in areas of Tigray now under government control.

Tigray people who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, walk at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Wednesday, Nov.

Misery continues for the refugees in Sudan, with little food, little medicine, little shelter, little funding and little or no contact with loved ones left behind in Tigray.

said shortages have become “very critical” in the Tigray region as its population of 6 million remains sealed off.

Fuel and cash are running out in Tigray, more than 1 million people are now estimated to be displaced and food for nearly 100,000 refugees from Eritrea will be gone in a week, according to the U.N. update released overnight.

Other people are frantically moving within the Tigray region from one district to another and “living within church compounds, streets, schools, health centers,” the statement warned, and it pleaded for a safe corridor to ship in aid as food runs out.

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