エチオピア事情：Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusが嘆くものの

　コロナウィルス関係では微妙にしくじり加減であって微妙に名を落としたTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus。WHOのトップの彼は、実はTigray人だったそうで。

BBC Tigrayans dying because of lack of medicine - WHO chief 13 Nov 2021

「The head of the World Health Organization has painted a gloomy picture of life in the Tigray region, in the north of Ethiopia, one year into a civil war.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is Tigrayan himself, told journalists in Geneva that the region was under an effective blockade.

"No medicine - people are dying; no food - people are starving."」

　薬も食料もなく、現地の人民は飢えている―と嘆きのコメントをだすものの、現地の状況は良くなる気配に欠ける感。

BBC Blinken concerned that Ethiopia could implode 13 Nov 2021

「US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is due in East Africa next week, has said that he fears that Ethiopia could implode if the civil war continues.

Discussing different ways forward, he told journalists in Washington DC that "out and out conflict... could lead to the implosion of Ethiopia and spill over into other countries in the region, and that would be disastrous for the Ethiopian people".」

　もしこのまま内戦が続けば内破するかも―というのは、なんというか、言われんでもそうだわい、という気はせんでもない。

BBC US sanctions Eritrea over Tigray war 13 Nov 2021

「The US has placed sanctions on Eritrea's military, its ruling party and two officials, accusing all of contributing to the war in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

The head of the US Treasury department's sanctions office, Andrea Gacki, condemned Eritrea for undermining the stability and integrity of the Ethiopian state, resulting in a humanitarian disaster.」

　エリトリアに対する制裁・規制が動いていくのは、まあ、一応良い方向ではあるんだろう。即効性には欠けるけれども。