Alex de Waal

The aid should flow to Tigray now, no mat­ter what. That is the law, and the Unit­ed Na­tions should up­hold it.

By al­low­ing much-need­ed aid to reach starv­ing Tigrayans, the Ethiopi­an PM may pre­vent his coun­try’s dis­in­te­gra­tion.

Un­der the ban­ner of na­tion­al sov­er­eign­ty, Ethiopia is sub­vert­ing Africa’s hard-won norms, prin­ci­ples and in­sti­tu­tions.