Director of the WHO tells that his uncle was "murdered" in the Ethiopian region of Tigre

The director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusrecounted on Wednesday that an uncle of his had been “killed” by Eritrean troops in the Ethiopian region of Tigré, devastated for two years by a bloody conflict.

Tedros gave a press conference before the United Nations correspondents association on Wednesday and at the end of his speech revealed that he had been about to cancel it because he was in a “difficult time” on a personal level.

“I have been informed that my uncle was killed by the Eritrean armyor,” he told reporters.

The head of the WHO explained that fifty other people were also killed in the military incursion in which his relative died.

“I hope that the peace agreement is maintained and this madness stops“, he claimed.

The Ethiopian government and the Tigre authorities They signed a ceasefire on November 2 after two years of fighting.

Several organizations have described this conflict as “one of the deadliest in the world.”

More than two million people have been displaced and hundreds of thousands are on the brink of famine, according to the UN.

Tedros, originally from Tigre and former Minister of Health and Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, has repeatedly called for peace and unrestricted access for humanitarian aid to the region.