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Ex-Peace Corps Volunteers Plead With US for Help on Tigray

Associated Press

   NAIROBI - More than 350 former Peace Corps volunteers and a trio of
   former U.S. ambassadors have written to U.S. Congressional
   representatives urging them to condemn the violence in Ethiopia's
   Tigray region, warning that "as the fighting ostensibly winds down, we
   are quite sure that the war will continue on a much more pernicious
   level."

   The letter seen by The Associated Press also asks lawmakers to press
   for humanitarian aid to all parts of Tigray, and urge the United
   Nations to investigate and advocate for media access to the region "to
   document human rights abuses."

   Communications links remain difficult to parts of the Tigray region of
   some 6 million people, and only a small number of former volunteers
   have reached friends there. But "we have avoided explicit discussions
   on what is occurring due to safety concerns and our acute awareness
   that the Ethiopian government is monitoring all calls," Isabella Olson,
   a former volunteer who helped organize the letter, said in an email to
   the AP.

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