Ethiopia’s leader said he would bury his enemy. His spokeswoman doesn’t think it was incitement to violence

“We will bury this enemy with our blood and bones and make the glory of Ethiopia high again,” Abiy said at the military headquarters in the capital, Addis Ababa, on Wednesday, a day after Abiy’s post was At least 16 UN staff members and dependents are among the detained, according to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric. Speaking to press in New York on Tuesday, Dujarric declined to detail the ethnicity of those detained. “These are United Nations staff members, they’re Ethiopians … and we would like to see them released, whatever ethnicity is listed on their identity cards,” he said. State Department spokesman Ned Price said the reports were “concerning,” and that “if confirmed,” the United States would condemn them. He added that the US understood from reports that those arrested were Tigrayan, and that “detention on the basis of ethnicity is completely unacceptable.”CNN’s Richard Roth and Jennifer Hansler contributed to this report.