#UN rights chief agrees to #Ethiopia request for joint #Tigray inquiry
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2B934E?__twitter_impression=true
"The UN Human Rights office the EHRC are developing an investigation plan, which includes resources needed & practical modalities, in order to launch the missions as soon as possible"

Biden Dispatches Senate Ally to Ethiopia to Address Crisis
Chris Coons to deliver a tough message to Abiy Ahmed.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/18/biden-chris-coons-senator-ethiopia-tigray-crisis/
Coons told Foreign Policy in a statement that he shares the administration’s concerns with the “deteriorating situation in the Tigray, which threatens the peace and stability of the Horn of Africa region.”

Ethiopia: Hunger and disease rife among displaced as aid workers gain access to new parts of Tigray https://www.nrc.no/news/2021/march/ethiopia-hunger-and-disease-rife-among-displaced-as-aid-workers-gain-access-to-new-parts-of-tigray/

Severely hungry children and pregnant women are among 37,000 displaced people that have arrived into Sheraro, northwestern Tigray, over the last few weeks.

Ethiopia: A rare view inside the conflict zone
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-56456793?__twitter_impression=true

Six-year-old Betlehem Tesfaye, who fled from near Aksum, about 50km (31 miles) to the east, lost both her legs in the conflict. Her mother was killed in the same explosion.

Her father spent his savings on her treatment. And now he does not know how he can get prosthetic legs for her.

Ethiopia ‘will be digging up mass graves for a decade’: inside Tigray’s dirty war https://t.co/oB23J160Hu

Holding a leaf from a eucalyptus tree, she said: “The innocent blood of Tigrayans will fertilise this ground and grow fresh leaves. Our dead children will not be forgotten.”

The Interview: This week,#Mekelle's interim mayor has resigned. #Tigray interim admin said he was dismissed for inefficiency.But in this interview, he revealed a dysfunctional interim admin besieged by inefficiency,corruption & struggling with insecurtity https://t.co/ItRklVrJSy

He confessed that “the Ethiopian leaders” responded by rather strongly worded languages such as “We are going to destroy” and “wipe out the Tigrayans for one hundred years”

“For me this referred to very serious human rights atrocities and crimes” he said, adding “If you wipe out a national minority, it’s obvious that we have to react because it looks like ethnic cleansing.”

https://addisstandard.com/news-ethiopian-leaders-told-me-theyre-going-to-wipe-out-destroy-tigryans-claims-eu-envoy/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

However, NEBE declined the request citing Article 123 of the Ethiopian Electoral, Political Parties and Elections Code of Conduct Proclamation which states, “The Board shall prepare and issue accreditation cards to stationary and mobile agents, journalists and election observers,” as a reason, according to the source. 
https://addisstandard.com/news-days-before-elections-electoral-board-rights-commission-engage-in-dispute-over-role-of-observing-elections/amp/?__twitter_impression=true