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At least 12 local UN staff arrested in Ethiopia - humanitarian sources

Some of them were taken from their homes - source.

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by CLAIRE MUNDE

News09 November 2021 - 16:28
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  • •Some of them were taken from their homes - source.
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed

More than a dozen Ethiopian staffers working for the United Nations have been arrested in Addis Ababa in raids targeting ethnic Tigrayans under a  state of emergency, UN and humanitarian sources told AFP Tuesday.

"Some of them were taken from their homes," one of the sources said, while a UN spokeswoman in Geneva said requests for their release had been submitted to the foreign ministry.

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