at least 9 UN staff and their family members are detained in the capital of Ethiopia Addis Ababa, RIA Novosti reports.
It is noted that the Department of Safety Organization and the relevant staff of the UN Security Service visited detainees. Verbal notes were also sent to the Foreign Ministry as a request for immediate release of detainee employees.
earlier, Ethiopian media reported that the Chamber of People’s Representatives of Ethiopia (Lower Chamber of Parliament) approved the regime of an emergency in the entire country to protect the population from the rebels. The emergency mode will be valid half a year.
North of Ethiopia is located in the epicenter of the conflict since November 2020. Then the country’s authorities accused the “People’s Front of Liberation”, which was dominated by almost three decades in the political life of Ethiopia, in an attack on the military base and began operations in the Picture with the support of neighboring Eritrea. In the spring of 2021, Ethiopian authorities announced that Eritrea brings troops from tiling. In June, the rebels in the Pitra took the administrative center of the city of Makele, the Government of Ethiopia announced a unconditional cease-fire. However, later the rebels stated that they began a new offensive, established control over the part of Typhan and invaded Amhara Region.