Deputy U.N. Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said on Friday she was deeply shaken by accounts of rape from Ethiopian women, which she described as "your worst nightmare.”
Highlights
- Deputy U.N.
- Secretary-General Amina Mohammed says she was deeply shaken by accounts of rape from Ethiopian women.
- Mohammed spoke to reporters in New York a day after returning from Ethiopia.
- She called for accountability for atrocities committed against women and recounted sights of famine in the crisis-torn country.
- War erupted in Ethiopia’s Tigray in November 2020, pitting the Ethiopian government and its allies, including Afar troops, against forces loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) The conflict has also been compounded by drought, which has left several hundred thousand people in Tigray suffering famine.
- The government has said it has prosecuted individual soldiers, although it has provided no details.