{"id":12523,"date":"2021-10-19T18:54:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=12523"},"modified":"2021-10-19T18:54:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:54:11","slug":"ethiopian-leader-says-tigray-blockade-deliberate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=12523","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Leader Says Tigray Blockade Deliberate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tghat.com\/2021\/10\/19\/ethiopian-leader-says-tigray-blockade-deliberate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tghat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 19, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Simon Marks, a journalist who focuses on the Horn of Africa, Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, has on Friday told UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres that the blockade on Tigray will continue until after the \u201cTPLF withdrew forces that crossed Tigray\u2019s borders into neighboring states\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In a call with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday, PM Abiy said Ethiopia wouldn\u2019t ease up humanitarian access for the U.N unless the TPLF withdrew forces that crossed Tigray\u2019s borders into neighboring states. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W9VH0Lf1iZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/W9VH0Lf1iZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Marks (@MarksSimon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarksSimon\/status\/1450471057383624718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although humanitarian workers and members of the international media had always known Abiy forces have been deliberately obstructing the delivery of aid to Tigray, prompting them to use the term \u201cde facto blockade,\u201d this is the first time the leader has conceded the blockade is deliberate and that its lifting is conditioned on the \u201cTPLF withdrawing from Afar and Amhara\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not clear what the Secretary General\u2019s response to the Ethiopian leader\u2019s concession of deliberate starvation of millions of Tigrayans was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tghat October 19, 2021 According to Simon Marks, a journalist who focuses on the Horn of Africa,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,71],"class_list":["post-12523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-english","tag-tghat"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1.jpg",1024,685,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1.jpg",300,201,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1.jpg",640,428,false],"large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1.jpg",640,428,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1.jpg",1024,685,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1.jpg",1024,685,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1.jpg",825,552,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1.jpg",590,395,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1.jpg",600,401,false],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/467-1-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Axumawian Media"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12526,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions\/12526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}