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A de facto blockade preventing medicines and other life-saving supplies reaching Ethiopia's Tigray has created "hell" in the war-ravaged region, WHO director general says. SOUNDBITE
Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region is under "blockade", the World Health Organization chief says, warning that people are starving to death and dying from lack of access to medicines. "People are dying because of lack of supplies," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself a from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, tells reporters from the UN health agency's Geneva headquarters. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voices hope that diplomacy led by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo can halt a deadly war in Ethiopia, as he hosts Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba at the State Department. SOUNDBITE
The UN rights chief slams the brutality characterising the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, following a joint UN-Ethiopian report warning of possible "crimes against humanity" by all sides. SOUNDBITE
USAID chief Samantha Power says that only 10 percent of the aid required by Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray is reaching the region, as humanitarian access remains hobbled by security woes and bureaucratic hurdles. SOUNDBITE
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.
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