Ethiopia’s forces shoot at and detain U.N. staffers in Tigray
A woman who fled the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region holds her child inside a temporary shelter at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, on Monday.
(Nariman El-Mofty / Associated Press)
NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s security forces shot at and detained United Nations staffers as they tried to reach part of the embattled Tigray region, a senior official said Tuesday, and he blamed the U.N. staffers for trying to reach areas where “they were not supposed to go.”
The shooting occurred amid soaring frustration among humanitarian officials as desperately needed aid was still not freely reaching the Tigray region more than a week after the U.N. and Ethiopia’s government signed a deal for access.