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

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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