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WHO chief says 'very narrow window to prevent genocide' in Ethiopia's Tigray

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The World Health Organization chief condemns the situation in Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region, his native country. "The world is not paying enough attention," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells reporters from WHO headquarters in Geneva, stressing "there is a very narrow window now to prevent genocide in Tigray." SOUNDBITE

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