{"id":6463,"date":"2021-11-01T00:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T00:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6463"},"modified":"2021-11-01T00:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T00:06:53","slug":"why-ethiopia-wants-to-expel-un-officials-sounding-the-alarm-on-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6463","title":{"rendered":"Why Ethiopia wants to expel UN officials sounding the alarm on famine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;A civil war between Ethiopia\u2019s federal government and the country\u2019s northern Tigray region, which began late last year, has led to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/26\/africa\/ethiopia-tigray-dengelat-massacre-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">widespread<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ethiopia-tigray-abuses-amhara-96fda9f5bd3b4d76fe8f728eb343424f\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ethiopia-tigray-abuses-amhara-96fda9f5bd3b4d76fe8f728eb343424f\" target=\"_blank\">atrocities<\/a>\u00a0and created\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22545382\/tigray-famine-ethiopia-abiy-war\" target=\"_blank\">famine conditions<\/a>\u00a0in parts of the country. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s decision to expel UN officials from the country comes after they raised concerns about the worsening humanitarian situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN officials have repeatedly warned that Ethiopia\u2019s government is blocking the movement of critical supplies \u2014 like medicine, food, and fuel \u2014 into the Tigray region, with as little as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/africa-health-united-nations-only-on-ap-famine-a2b1639797c2a31973ce12985d82b865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10 percent of the needed humanitarian supplies<\/a>&nbsp;being allowed in. Those accusations were echoed this week by the head of the UN\u2019s humanitarian aid arm, as well as by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/ethiopia-northern-ethiopia-humanitarian-update-situation-report-30-sept-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a UN report finding the region on the brink of famine<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/10\/2\/22705570\/ethiopia-expel-un-officials-famine-civil-war\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/10\/2\/22705570\/ethiopia-expel-un-officials-famine-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A civil war between Ethiopia\u2019s federal government and the country\u2019s northern Tigray region, which began late last year, has led to widespread atrocities and created famine conditions in parts of the country. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s decision to expel UN officials from the country comes after they raised concerns about the worsening humanitarian situation.<\/p>\n<p>UN officials have repeatedly warned that Ethiopia\u2019s government is blocking the movement of critical supplies \u2014 like medicine, food, and fuel \u2014 into the Tigray region, with as little as 10 percent of the needed humanitarian supplies being allowed in. Those accusations were echoed this week by the head of the UN\u2019s humanitarian aid arm, as well as by a UN report finding the region on the brink of famine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[417,1416,1395,552,1093,1041,847,158],"class_list":["post-6463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-africa","tag-atrocity","tag-civil-war","tag-conflict","tag-ethiopia","tag-united-nations","tag-violence","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6464,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions\/6464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}