Troops from the two countries have attacked fighters in the northern Adayabo area, a Tigrayan rebel spokesman says. Getachew Reda, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front spokesperson, said on Thursday that both nations’ forces had attacked rebels in Adayabo in the north of the region. “Our heroic national defence forces are defending this invasion with full preparedness and resolve,” the government …
The latest attack follows a hit on a children’s play area on Friday that killed seven people, including women and children. An air raid has hit a neighbourhood near a hospital in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, said the head of another hospital which received casualties, less than a week after fighting shattered a four-month-old ceasefire. Ethiopian government …
Dozens of people have been reportedly killed after an air attack targeted a busy market in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray village of Togoga on Tuesday, a day after residents said fighting had flared north of the regional capital, Mekelle. Two doctors and a nurse in Mekelle told the Associated Press news agency they were unable to confirm how many people were …
Ethiopian forces ‘struck homes, hospitals, schools and markets’ in the first weeks of the war, according to the HRW report. Ethiopian forces shelled heavily populated areas in the first weeks of the conflict in the Tigray region, killing at least 83 civilians and displacing thousands, Human Rights Watch has said. “At the war’s start, Ethiopian federal forces fired artillery into …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – It has been more than two weeks since the Ethiopian military took control of Mekelle, the capital of the country’s northern Tigray region, from the now-overthrown regional government. But a testimony given to Al Jazeera by a doctor who worked at Mekelle’s main hospital until their return last week to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, has offered …