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.
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.”