Western powers have called on the Ethiopian government to stop detaining people based on their ethnicity.
The US, UK and others cited reports by human rights groups that many Tigrayans were being rounded up, including priests, the elderly and mothers with their children.
They said people were being held without charge in inhumane conditions.
The government denies it is targeting any ethnic group.
It says individuals who are suspected of supporting the Tigray People's Liberation Front and its ally the Oromo Liberation Army have been arrested.
The government says it has made significant gains against Tigrayan forces in recent days.

Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune says Algeria has agreed to give a grant of $100m to the Palestinian Authority.
Mr Tebboune says Algeria would be hosting a meeting of Palestinian factions in the near future.
The Palestinian Authority has major financial problems, which leaves it struggling to pay public sector employees.
Algeria has increased its activity over the Palestinian issue recently, just as its neighbour Morocco has been building new ties with Israel after signing a normalisation deal last year.

The federal government set to take a decisive step to enhance justice delivery as well as reduce drastically the number of inmates across custodial centres in the country.
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami stated that the project was initiated to ensure the hearing and determination of urgent and time-bound cases, using the digital platform.
He says the government will no longer be constrained by mobility, space and time in justice delivery on account of accommodation of the virtual court sitting facilities and deployment of incidental technology.
He noted stably the country’s justice system which is founded on the constitutional principle of fundamental rights to a fair hearing requires the court to hear and determine cases in public and in the presence of suspects or parties in court.

Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Sarafa Isola, called on the British authorities to review their decision to place Nigeria on the red list.
He believes rescinding its decision does not make the UK authorities weak but true leaders who have the interest of the people at heart.
He says changing decisions with more facts doesn’t portray as weakened but make a good leader who has courage.
UK authorities had over the weekend added Nigeria to the country’s red list category in a bid to contain the spread of the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron.
The British government went on to halt the process of making decisions on visitor visa applications in Nigeria and other countries on its red list.

The President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has condemned travel bans placed on African countries over the latest variant of COVID-19, Omicron.
Adesina in a statement says Global vaccines and travel apartheid against Africa are endangering lives, hurting economies, lives, jobs and livelihoods, from a pandemic Africa did not cause. End the apartheid. Respect Africa!”
UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid said most a significant number of Omicron cases have been linked to travel with Nigeria.

The National Bureau of Statistics says Nigeria’s trade balance in the third quarter of 2021 amounted to a deficit of N3,023.50 billion as the value of imports continued to outpace exports,
The deficit was an increase of 26.53% compared to the same period in 2020.
Total imports in the third quarter grew to N8,153.79 billion, showing an increase of 17.32% quarter on quarter and 51.47% on a year-on-year basis.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has condemned the red listing of Nigeria by the UK government over the two cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19.
Mr Mohammed described the decision as unjust and discriminatory.
The minister has, however, called on the UK government to rescind their decision immediately.
He also discussed the way forward and the upscale of the current responses to the pandemic including ongoing mass vaccination, surveillance and screening at the various points of entry.

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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has put the amount spent on subsidising petrol, between January and October 2021, at N1.03tn.
The NNPC says it would deduct its October 2021 value shortfall of N199bn from its November 2021 proceeds meant for sharing at the December 2021 Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting.
The oil firm referred to its subsidy spending as under-recovery, as it had repeatedly stated that it had no authorisation by the National Assembly to pay subsidy.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged world powers to take a hard line against Iran in negotiations aimed at reviving an international nuclear deal.
Israel has been watching with concern as world powers sit down with Iran in Vienna in hopes of restoring the tattered 2015 deal.
Continued Iranian advances in its atomic programme have further raised the stakes.
Bennett called on every country negotiating with Iran in Vienna to take a strong line and make it clear to Iran that they cannot enrich uranium and negotiate at the same time.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government rejected condemnation by Western nations over dozens of alleged summary killings of former security force personnel documented by rights groups since the Islamists returned to power.
The US, other Western nations, and allies said they were deeply concerned by allegations by Human Rights Watch and others that point to serious human rights abuses.
The State Department says alleged summary killings and enforced disappearances contradict an amnesty declared by the Taliban for former security force personnel after the Islamists defeated a Western-backed regime and retook control of the country in mid-August.
The Taliban’s Interior Ministry however rejected both the Western rebuke and rights groups’ allegations.