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World Service,27 May 2021,49 mins

President Biden calls for ceasefire in Tigray

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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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