The United Nations has warned of a spreading civil war in the country with violence escalating in northern Ethiopia.
UN political affairs envoy, Rosemary DiCarlo said at a UN Security Council meeting that no one can predict what continued fighting and insecurity will bring.
DiCarlo said the risk of Ethiopia ‘descending into widening civil war is only too real’, adding that the political repercussions of ‘intensifying violence in the wider region would be immense, compounding the many crises besetting the Horn of Africa’.
Addressing the Security Council, the UN secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs said, despite much speculation on how the Ethiopian crisis would unfold in the coming weeks.
DiCarlo said there must be an immediate cessation of hostilities, as called for by the UN Secretary-General, African Union Commission chair, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) executive secretary, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, and the UN Security Council.
