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Police install barricades outside the hotel Soria Moria in Oslo, where the Taliban are set to hold official talks with Western officials for the first time since returning to power in Afghanistan in August. Human rights and the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where hunger threatens millions, will be in focus during the talks. IMAGES
Nine rebel and opposition groups of Ethiopia hold a signing ceremony as they announce the formation of an anti-government alliance called the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces. The move comes one day after the one-year anniversary of the Ethiopian government's decision to deploy troops into the country's northernmost Tigray region. IMAGES
Ethiopia is facing an "immense humanitarian crisis," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says during a UN Security Council meeting, calling the decision by Addis Ababa to expel seven senior UN officials "particularly disturbing." SOUNDBITE
The head of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society says that 80 percent of the country's conflict-hit Tigray region is cut off from humanitarian assistance, warning that tens of thousands could starve to death. SOUNDBITE
Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed says his government "had every right" to deploy state forces to the restive northern region of Tigray, whose ruling party Abiy blames for instigating a conflict many fear could spiral into a protracted civil war. SOUNDBITE
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