By Veronica Stracqualursi and Nima Elbagir, CNN

Updated 3:51 PM ET, Thu May 13, 2021

(CNN) The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee is calling on the Biden administration to enact sanctions in response to the ongoing human rights abuses in the Tigray region of Ethiopia after a CNN investigation found that Eritrean soldiers were blocking critical humanitarian aid to starving and wounded civilians.