UN Security Council calls for end to Ethiopia hostilities

Months of political tensions between Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed’s government and the Tigray leaders who once dominated Ethiopia’s government exploded into war last November

Ethiopian government soldiers on a road leading to Abi Adi, in the Tigray region. Picture: Ben Curtis/AP

The UN Security Council has called for an end to the conflict in Ethiopia, and for unhindered access for humanitarian aid to tackle the world’s worst hunger crisis in a decade in the war-torn Tigray region.

The UN’s most powerful body called on all parties to refrain “from inflammatory hate speech and incitement to violence and divisiveness”.