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The UN rights chief slams the brutality characterising the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, following a joint UN-Ethiopian report warning of possible "crimes against humanity" by all sides. SOUNDBITE
Eyewitnesses who have fled Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region, is under fierce bombardment. CNN reports a communications blackout in the region has made reporting on claims from both sides difficult. About half a million residents live in Mekelle. UNICEF says roughly half of them are children. More than 43,000 Ethiopian refugees have crossed into neighboring Sudan since fighting began on November 4th. The number of people internally displaced inside Tigray is growing daily. According to the UNHCR, the pre-existing refugee camps in the region only have food supplies to last three days.
Passengers arrive in Addis Ababa after Ethiopia's national carrier Ethiopian Airlines resumes commercial flights to and from Mekele, in the Tigray region. After a shutdown lasting 18 months, families and loved ones are reunited, a day after an Ethiopian delegation made the first high-level government visit to the rebel-held region since the signing of a peace deal last month. IMAGES
The EU welcomes the announcement of the cessation of the hostilities between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, two years after the conflict broke out. The war's toll is unknown, but the US envoy to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, recently said that the devastation and deaths "rival what we're seeing in Ukraine". SOUNDBITE
The representative for the Ethiopian government reads out a joint statement agree upon by both sides of the Ethiopian conflict. "The government of Ethiopia will further enhance its collaboration with humanitarian agencies to continue expediting aid" he says, as part of a successful peace process facilitated by the African Union in Pretoria SOUNDBITE
The representative for the Ethiopian government reads out a joint statement agreed upon between the two sides of the Ethiopian conflict. "We have also agreed on a detailed programme of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration for the TPLF combatants" he says, as part of a peace process that has seen the warring parties come to an agreement at talks facilitated by the African Union in Pretoria. SOUNDBITE
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