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Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region is under "blockade", the World Health Organization chief says, warning that people are starving to death and dying from lack of access to medicines. "People are dying because of lack of supplies," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself a from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, tells reporters from the UN health agency's Geneva headquarters. SOUNDBITE
UN chief Antonio Guterres warns that Israel's military offensive on Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for their unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel, has created a "humanitarian hellscape" for civilians trapped in the besieged Palestinian territory. SOUNDBITE
Humanity's addiction to fossil fuels has "opened the gates of hell," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says as he opens a high-level climate summit. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization chief condemns the situation in Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region, his native country. "The world is not paying enough attention," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells reporters from WHO headquarters in Geneva, stressing "there is a very narrow window now to prevent genocide in Tigray." SOUNDBITE
The world "does not give equal attention to black and white lives" laments WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, comparing the attention given to Ukraine with that given to other countries such as Yemen and Syria. SOUNDBITE
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