UN Security Council Urges Access to War-Torn Ethiopia Region
- U.K. official says as many as 2 million people need assistance
- U.S. considers special envoy as regional security under threat
People walk next to an abandoned tank belonging to Tigrayan forces near Mehoni, Ethiopia.
Photographer: Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Getty Images
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The United Nations Security Council called for greater access to Ethiopia’s war-stricken Tigray region where as many as two million people require humanitarian assistance amid continued hostilities, according to a U.K. official.
“I think we all shared the view that the incremental progress we’ve seen so far is not enough,” Barbara Woodward, the U.K.’s permanent representative to the UN, said after a meeting of the Security Council in New York, referring to the issue of access to the northernmost area in Ethiopia.