U.N. Staff Members Reportedly Arrested
Eritrea has arrested some United Nations staff members working for a regional peacekeeping mission, accusing them of trying to smuggle young people out of the country, the government’s website said.
It said the U.N. staff members received money to sneak the people out. At U.N. headquarters in New York, chief spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the mission was aware of one arrest.
Last year, Eritrea expelled Western U.N. peacekeepers and banned the mission’s helicopter flights.
U.N. staff is in the country to monitor a 620-mile border with Ethiopia and prevent a recurrence of a 1998-2000 war that killed about 70,000 people.
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