{"id":21953,"date":"2021-02-26T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=21953"},"modified":"2021-02-26T09:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:57:55","slug":"biden-calls-kenyatta-to-discuss-ethiopia-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/26\/biden-calls-kenyatta-to-discuss-ethiopia-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Calls Kenyatta To Discuss Ethiopia Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Joe Biden has discussed the crisis in Ethiopia&#8217;s Tigray region with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in a phone call on Thursday, the White House said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two leaders discussed the &#8220;deteriorating humanitarian and human rights crises&#8221; in Tigray,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/02\/25\/readout-of-president-joseph-r-biden-jr-call-with-president-uhuru-kenyatta-of-kenya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the readout of the call.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They also spoke on the &#8220;need to prevent further loss of life and ensure humanitarian access&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tigray has been hit by conflict since November between Ethiopian-led troops and forces allied with the region&#8217;s ousted ruling party, the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front (TPLF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands of people are reported to have been killed, and about two million have been internally displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Committee of the Red Cross&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-56147512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this week warned<\/a>&nbsp;that the need for humanitarian aid was &#8220;overwhelming&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House said that President Biden emphasised the US\u2019s commitment to working with Kenya to support regional peace and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden has discussed the crisis in Ethiopia&#8217;s Tigray region with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in a phone call on Thursday, the White House said. The two leaders discussed the &#8220;deteriorating humanitarian and human rights crises&#8221; in Tigray,&nbsp;according to the readout of the call. They also spoke on the &#8220;need to prevent further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":21954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,98],"tags":[4365,1079,125,4364,1466],"class_list":["post-21953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-joe-biden","tag-kenya","tag-tigray","tag-uhuru-kenyatta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21955,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953\/revisions\/21955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}