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Niger junta orders top UN official to leave the country

Niger junta orders top UN official to leave the country

NIGER'S junta has demanded that the head of the United Nations diplomatic mission there leave the country within 72 hours, accusing the U.N. of excluding Niger from its General Assembly last month. The army officers who seized power in a coup in July did not have a representative at the meeting of world leaders in New York. A U.N. spokesperson in Niamey said she had no immediate comment. In a statement dated October 10, Niger's foreign ministry accused the U.N. of using "underhanded manoeuvres" instigated by France to prevent its full participation in the U.N. General Assembly and in subsequent…
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Eritrean forces accused of deliberately starving Tigray

Eritrean forces accused of deliberately starving Tigray

KATHARINE HOURELD and GIULIA PARAVICINI THE northern highlands of Ethiopia became a global byword for famine in the mid-1980s, when drought and conflict combined to create a disaster that killed as many as one million people. Now hunger is stalking the Tigray region again, and a senior UN official alleges that starvation is being used as a weapon of war. More than 350,000 of Tigray's nearly 6 million people are living in famine conditions, according to an analysis by United Nations agencies and global aid groups first reported by Reuters on Thursday. Nearly 2 million others are one step away…
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