New airstrikes hit capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region

20/10/2021 19:15

        New airstrikes have hit the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region, as video showed injured people with bloodied faces being helped into ambulances and thick black smoke rising into the sky. Ethiopia's government said it was targeting facilities to make and repair weapons, which a spokesman for the rival Tigray forces denied.
        
        Meanwhile, the United Nations told The Associated Press it is slashing by more than half its Tigray presence as an Ethiopian government blockade halts humanitarian aid efforts and people die from lack of food.
        
        The war in Africa's second-most populous country has ground on for nearly a year between Ethiopian and allied forces and the Tigray ones who long dominated the national government before a falling-out with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner.