
US Senate passes unanimous resolution calling for withdrawal of Eritrean forces from Ethiopia
CNN
The US Senate has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray region, after a CNN investigation revealed that the soldiers were cutting off critical aid routes.
A CNN team traveling through Tigray in late April witnessed Eritrean soldiers, some disguising themselves in old Ethiopian military uniforms, blocking aid to starving populations more than a month after Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged to the international community that they would leave. The resolution, sponsored by Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman James E. Risch and passed by the Senate on Thursday, called on Eritrea to "immediately and fully withdraw its military forces from Ethiopia" and condemned human rights violations committed by the Eritrean military.
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