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WHO chief warns time running out to ‘prevent genocide’ in Tigray

People stand in line to receive food donations at the Tsehaye primary school, which was turned into a temporary shelter for displaced people in the town of Shire, Tigray [File: Baz Ratner/Reuters]

World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says there is a “very narrow window now to prevent genocide” in his home region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia.

Tedros, who previously served as Ethiopia’s health minister and foreign affairs minister, has been sharply critical of Ethiopian authorities throughout the two-year war.

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