{"id":346935,"date":"2021-02-01T15:21:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=346935"},"modified":"2021-02-01T15:28:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:28:43","slug":"unhcr-chief-visits-refugee-camps-in-ethiopias-tigray-region-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/346935","title":{"rendered":"UNHCR Chief visits refugee camps in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Chief Filippo Grandi Monday paid a visit to refugee camps in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region where he gathered first hand information about the situation of Eritrean refugees.<\/p>\n<p>He said the objective of his visit to Ethiopia was to discuss how to resolve challenges faced by Eritrean refugees in the country \u201cMy duty is to help the government and its refugees\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint briefing he delivered with UNHCR chief, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister  Demeke Mekonnen said the government of Ethiopia is fully committed to address the outstanding issues related to refugees alongside the rehabilitation and reconstruction activities in Tigray.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, the chief of the U.N.\u2019s refugee agency said Grandi was \u201cdeeply troubled\u201d by the humanitarian situation in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, noting the number of Eritrean refugees already at risk there. Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"554\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AyoQrlp90Zk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Chief Filippo Grandi Monday paid a visit to refugee camps in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region where he gathered first hand information about the situation of Eritrean refugees. He said the objective of his visit to Ethiopia was to discuss how to resolve challenges faced by Eritrean refugees in the country \u201cMy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":346939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/UNHCR-2.jpg?fit=750%2C430&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1sfJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346940,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346935\/revisions\/346940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}