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Newsday: 27/05/2021 04:06 GMT : President Biden calls for ceasefire in Tigray

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27/05/2021 04:06 GMT : President Biden calls for ceasefire in Tigray

President Biden calls for ceasefire in Tigray

BBC World Service - Newsday, President Biden calls for ceasefire in Tigray

The US leader has appealed for halt to human rights abuses in Ethiopia's Tigray region

Mr Biden also said forces from Eritrea and Ethiopia's Amhara state must withdraw.

US President Joe Biden demands a ceasefire in Tigray, in Ethiopia and calls for Eritrean troops to leave. A Tigrayan activist gives her reaction. 

India has been hit by a second deadly cyclone in the space of a week. A journalist there describes the impact this time round. 

And we report from northern Mozambique, where survivors of the recent Islamist attack have told the BBC they had to pay bribes to flee the town of Palma after the army and police blocked access.

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