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AfricaPress-eritrea:<\/strong> The Eritrean government has filed another complaint against the United Nations Security Council and UN heads of humanitarian agencies over the situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

The latest letter from the Eritrean mission and U.N. Ambassador Sophia Tesfamariam expressed frustration that representatives for the Horn of Africa nation were not included in their Tuesday meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, leaving Eritrea no opportunity to counter serious claims made against it<\/p>\n

\u201cThe circumstances surrounding the informal meeting yesterday also raise profound questions of the motive and intent of certain powers,\u201d\u00a0the letter said. Eritrea described the meeting with Mark Lowcock, the outgoing head of the UN humanitarian agency UNOCHA, as giving a platform to a leader \u201cwho has an axe to grind against Eritrea for reasons known to him alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some Eritrean forces are operating in the northern Ethiopian region, where fighting between the regional Tigray military and the Ethiopian National Defense Force began in November. The ongoing conflict left thousands displaced, with aid agencies warning last week that more than 5 million people were experiencing food insecurity so severe that it\u2019s reached a level not seen since the 2011 famine in Somalia.<\/p>\n

Eritrean leaders deny that they\u2019ve blocked humanitarian aid, a charge they say was leveled by Lowcock. They also deny that Eritrean forces are committing rape and other crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cEritrea has never hindered humanitarian access in the Tigray region. Eritrea has never used \u2018food as a weapon of war,\u2019 not even in the dark days of the struggle or during the 1998-2000 war with Ethiopia,\u201d said the Eritrean mission. \u201cThis is a well-known fact.\u00a0 The unfounded accusations peddled by certain forces against Eritrea these days are indeed driven to advance other political ends.<\/p>\n

Tesfamariam also sent an April 16 letter to the Security Council, and filed a formal complaint over the allegations with the UN Secretary General on April 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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