how does it look like in addis ababa, ethiopia, where you're based?nd we are trying to learn lessons from that. thing to have vaccines, and then on the other hand, there's another whole dimension of vaccination. and we've always maintained that vaccines without vaccination is no vaccine. so i think that we are focusing on building systems that enable us to roll out vaccines quickly once we get vaccines available. and as you rightly stated, we are very pleased that ghana and nigeria are starting to get vaccines. so our strategy as africa, cdc and others, is to work with these countries to make sure that the uptake of vaccines is as quickly as possible. learning from what we are seeing from europe. thank you so much. let's go to minsk in belarus, tojohn sweeney. john, your question. my question is, could i vaccine diplomacy foster the emergence of new alliances and or relations that _ shift geopolitical power? well, we've heard about vaccine diplomacy, haven't we? john, what do you say about that? i mean, you know, china has been sending vaccines to afr

how does it look like in addis ababa, ethiopia, where you're based?ing on in europe and we are trying to learn lessons from that. i think it tells us two things, it's one thing to have vaccines, and then on the other hand, there's another whole dimension of vaccination. and we've always maintained that vaccines without vaccination is no vaccine. so i think that we are focusing on building systems that enable us to rollout vaccines quickly once we get vaccines available. and as you rightly stated, we are very pleased that ghana and nigeria are starting to get vaccines. so our strategy as africa, cdc and others, is to work with these countries to make sure that the uptake of vaccines is as quickly as possible — learning from what we are seeing from europe. thank you so much. let's go to minsk in belarus, tojohn sweeney. john, your question. my question is, could vaccine i diplomacy foster the emergence of new alliances and or relations that shift - geopolitical power? well, we've heard about vaccine diplomacy, haven't we? john, what do you say about tha

during a government offensive charlotte bellus reports so many of them from the ethiopian capital addis ababa prime minister abi ark made address politicians after months of denials he conceded that eritrean troops were integrated last year during a government of intensive witnesses say while their eritrean soldiers killed and tortured civilians but to give the ethiopia's history will never forget the care our soldiers got from iraq trial when they were running from death we think that era trying people in government very much for what they did but we will not accept all the offenses on our people by your try and troops in november be launched is strikes and seemed federal troops into the region of to great saying he was responding to attacks by the 2 grain people's liberation front he no admits eritrean soldiers also into 2 gray but said it was out of fear they would be attacked he added eritrea had promised to leave when ethiopian forces were able to control the border because the way with others got there with regards to human rights violations war is destructive there is no question that

we can get more on the story now with journalist sam olga tacho he joins us from addis ababa. can you tell us more about what he has announced here. prime minister. was just. the highlight being. which the government has been denying for a while indeed been involved in the conflict in his own description he said it was before picked their own interest again in what they would be an attack by the foreigners and he has said useful to the president of. the 4th indicating that there are 3 of us will be moving away from the field and border your council just will be taking over and it's going to be thinking about media in the us and in the work and then you can you tell us more about the timing of this why he waited until this week to admit that eritrean troops were involved. i mean we just don't know. or need or can from parliament he hasn't been charged by the media. wasn't accessible to the media. from the beginning of the conflict until a few weeks ago so we're here to speculate why you might have or the government might have been denying that it was being denied by many on beh

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of more on this we're joined by chris in the ethiopian capital addis ababa he is the spokesman for the un refugee agency thank you for time mr belzer what is the u.n. hearing about the latest on the ground and take. well you have these stories too and the are of course very very concerning unfortunately we can't confirm them because we still have no access to the northern part of tikrit but we saw so much images of our refugee camps were destroyed and we've heard stories of course from refugees that totals up to these actions but again since we don't have access to the northern part of tikrit we can't confirm these reports that we have seen tens of thousands of people fleeing refugees fleeing are people still leaving the area i mean surely people can't feel safe given all of these allegations where are people going. yes indeed people are still fleeing so what we have now the more 60000 refugees refugees from this is normal is not not growing fast anymore but we have so-called internals place person sole or if it is their country if you look at. their home if you are 2 or part of gray o

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by skype now from addison now many to gras ins are leaving the region thousands of them are in addis ababa where you are now are we getting a more detailed picture of the humanitarian crisis in the region particularly as it's been concealed from us because of this virtual information blackout. many are part of cannot travel to the air it will not know we brought labor with the permission to proceed we have to rely on what the united nations. human rights commission are telling us and those that believe that they're there saying that region isn't quite that many people are short they took. their human rights of view this rape probably been acknowledged by the government but it's a disaster that there will be watching from that and it concerns us all all of what is known about how the fighting is unfolding inside the region itself obviously we're hoping for access to open up but are the killings and sexual violence still happening now. from what we know it's still happening there are many women that have being sexually abused raped acknowledged by the prime minister the u.n. agencies are tel