EU crisis envoy urges Ethiopia to restore Tigray communications

By AFP,  3 December 2020

The European Union’s crisis management commissioner Janez Lenarcic (L) met with Ethiopian refugees during a visit to the Um Raquba reception camp in eastern Sudan

The European Union’s crisis management commissioner Thursday urged the Ethiopian government to restore communications in its northern Tigray region and called on both sides to cease hostilities.

“I urge… the Ethiopian authorities to lift the communication blockade,” Janez Lenarcic said at Um Raquba camp in neighbouring Sudan, where he spoke with Ethiopian refugees who had fled their homeland over the last month.