Ethiopian government forces shoot at UN mission: “We don’t need a babysitter”

An Ethiopian government spokesman confirmed that his country’s forces fired on a UN team because they ignored instructions and violated government checkpoints in the northern region of Tigray.

The spokesperson explained, according to Reuters, that “several United Nations employees were arrested and shot when they crossed two checkpoints to go to areas they were not supposed to go to, and when they were about to cross the third checkpoint, they were shot and arrested. “

The Ethiopian government said a UN team visiting the Tigray region was attacked after storming two checkpoints and confirmed that it did not need a “nanny” in the area, it said.

A United Nations security team was seeking to visit a refugee camp in Tigray, where a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees stated: “The humanitarian crisis in the Ethiopian region of Tigray is getting worse.”

“For a month, we have not been able to reach the 96,000 Eritrean refugees in Tigray,” he added. He added that these refugees were displaced to other sectors of Tigray or crossed the border into Sudan, as were the 49,000 Ethiopians who also fled the fighting.