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'Hell' created by Tigray blockade says WHO chief

AFP, 13 Jan 2022

A de facto blockade preventing medicines and other life-saving supplies reaching Ethiopia's Tigray has created "hell" in the war-ravaged region, WHO director general says. SOUNDBITE

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