🚨 1/ Damning new report assessing aid response to the conflict in northern #Ethiopia. Given serious findings @antonioguterres should establish an internal review panel of @UN actions in #Ethiopia reliefweb.int/report/ethiopi… 2/ Key findings:
- Ineffective leadership & dysfunctional country team
- #Ethiopian govt’s blockade defining characteristic of crisis, but there was no collective action strategy for access/advocacy
- Humanitarian principles (ie. indept, impartiality etc) did not guide response

#1:🧵#KeepEyesOnSudan
Since June, tens of thousands of people from West Darfur's capital El Geneina+its surroundings have fled to #Chad seeking safety.
Over the past few days, @hrw researchers spoke to dozens of refugees, hearing stories of abuse+loss that are hard to comprehend. #2: @hrw team heard dozens of accounts from survivors who fled after witnessing killings. Some civilians were gunned down in the streets while trying to flee. Many have lost everything, following months of fighting during which looting of homes & deliberate destruction were rife.

1/ Thread on #DembiDollo students - For nearly 2 months, more than 17 students from Dembi Dollo university in Oromia, most female, have reportedly been missing @hrw @hrw 2/ An increasing number of Ethiopians, including several human rights organizations, have begun to speak out against the government’s response to the students' reported abduction bit.ly/2uyehgl