The international community now has an urgent choice to make — one it has so far shied away from.
![A convoy of trucks part of the World Food Programme (WFP) on their way to Tigray are seen in the village of Erebti, Ethiopia, on June 9, 2022. - The Afar region, the only passageway for humanitarian convoys bound for Tigray, is itself facing a serious food crisis, due to the combined effects of the conflict in northern Ethiopia and the drought in the Horn of Africa which have notably caused numerous population displacements. More than a million people need food aid in the region according to the World Food Programme. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)](/https/www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/000_32DB4QU.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Ambassador Teferi Melesse assumed his post in London in September 2020. He joined the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993 and as a career di... plomat, has served at diplomatic missions to the People’s Republic of China, Belgium, Zimbabwe and at the United Nations.
The international community now has an urgent choice to make — one it has so far shied away from.