Ending Tigray conflict will test UK’s claim to be ‘force for good’

Key parliamentary committee says government has duty to end violence and rights abuses in Ethiopia

The British government's claims that its new development strategy would make it a force for good" will be tested by whether it helps to end the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, a parliamentary select committee said on Friday.

Failing to act would be devastating" to the claim that the new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) could lead the world by combining diplomacy and development, the MPs said in their report on the humanitarian situation in Tigray.