UN Security Council holds first meeting on Ethiopia Tigray crisis
UN calls for humanitarian corridor as Ethiopia threatens to attack separatist Tigray capital, Mekele
An Ethiopian refugee, fleeing from fighting in the Tigray region, walks past a World Food Program tent, at a camp on the Sudan-Ethiopia border. Reuters
The UN Security Council will on Tuesday hold its first meeting on the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, diplomatic sources said.
The online meeting will not be open to the public and it is not yet clear if a statement will be issued afterwards, the sources said on Monday.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has ordered the leaders of the northern region of Tigray to surrender before a threatened all-out assault on its capital, Mekele.