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UPI Top News: U.N. official says rape, sexual violence rising in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict

A female refugee and her child wait to receive aid at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan, not far from the Ethiopia-Sudan border, on December 1, 2020. File Photo by Ala Kheir/EPA-EFEA female refugee and her child wait to receive aid at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan, not far from the Ethiopia-Sudan border, on December 1, 2020. File Photo by Ala Kheir/EPA-EFE

Jan. 22 (UPI) — A top United Nations official is demanding an end to sexual violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia that has resulted from fighting between government forces and local factions.Pramila Patten, U.N. special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, called on all people in the conflict to end hostilities and stop using sexual violence as a weapon.

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