widespread accounts of massacres and sexual violence against civilians with us from their robi william davison, who's a senior ethiopia analyst with the international crisis group. and we thank you for your time, what we're hearing about today possible as strikes, integrity and indeed everything else i just mentioned there about displacement, about famine. so much of it is we just don't know for sure to be communication. got cut off from the region and things that going on, which we just can't know the full extent of it. and i think yet if the, the flow of information and the ability to verify information has been a problem during this war. you do to sort of interruptions, transport, telecommunications restrictions on media coverage and that type of thing. i think you'll see this development in terms of the strike is just the cut and i'm sure it will be some verification of that. it doesn't look like the world as strikes on on medical today. we should also know that this comes off the very serious fighting which is not actually being in take re region over the last week. instead, it's a result

above our near mean zillow, k, member of the global ethiopian advocates nexus art of nairobi is william davison, senior. if you're an artist of international crisis, group and young are being professor of politics and governance in africa at leyden university. thank you for joining us now. i mean, so there's a humanitarian situation in the to gray region. the situation is getting worse. and the other time when the un agencies was trying to deliver much needed help to the people there, the government stepped up its military campaign. how do you see the developments on the ground? well, i think the line of question has loaded the falls. not the job down government has done is level best to make sure that the ground people get to monetary and 8. that's why it's allowed many or most time years, including the many, the various un agencies to operate integrated training. so the actual culprits for the but it's $3.00 to $8.00 being delivered to a being delivered in the us all day or less. which plan sort of present that the people imbedded lands in armada and therefore compact the proper delivery of m

on for more than a year. thousands of people have been killed and more than 2000000 displaced william davison as senior. if you are listed international crisis group, he says that the government and artist of a might have to now negotiate with the rebels. i think it's important that it opens up the routes to and this is another major obstacle. so that's a great forces and it's also a large and significant. and it also allows to see great forces, easy a passage to the east, and perhaps to take control of the booty road, the main trade route. so it's important, those are special. so a large psychological below if the 2 great forces indeed take control of it. and i think, you know, they have a nice amount of control, but they're still fighting ongoing and, but it is part of the steady gains on the battlefield for the 2 great forces in july, we do not know whether they will face fit for resistance on the other fronts and northwest, i'm horror, around guns and these types of areas. but it does look like the 2 great forces have a significant military ascendancy where that actually takes us in terms

william davison, as a senior. if european analyst at the international crisis group, he says, taking control of jesse would be significant for the t p l f. i think it's important as it opens up the routes to and i just have about as another major sort of obstacle. so it's a great forces and it's also a large and significant hara. and it also allows to see great forces, easy a passage to the east, and perhaps to take control of the booty road, the main trade route. so it's important and those are special. so a large psychological below if the great force is doing the take control of it and i think, you know, they have a decent amount of control, but they're still fighting ongoing and, but it is part of the steady games on the battlefield for the 2 great forces in july, we do not know whether they will face stiffer resistance on the other fronts in northwest somehow right around guns and these types of areas. but it does look like that too great for to have a significant military ascendancy where that actually takes