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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
A de facto blockade preventing medicines and other life-saving supplies reaching Ethiopia's Tigray has created "hell" in the war-ravaged region, WHO director general says. SOUNDBITE
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
USAID chief Samantha Power says that only 10 percent of the aid required by Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray is reaching the region, as humanitarian access remains hobbled by security woes and bureaucratic hurdles. SOUNDBITE
UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein condemns a lack of action to rein in increasingly brutal conflicts around the world, describing places like Syria, Yemen and Myanmar as "prolific slaughterhouses". SOUNDBITE
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.
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