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Interview: UN genocide prevention adviser says Ethiopia’s warring parties must talk

By DW
14 November 2021   |   11:15 am
The UN's special adviser on genocide prevention, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, says the parties fighting in Ethiopia's war have few options but to negotiate.

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