The government of Tigray has accused Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed Ali and the country’s armed forces of genocide. An airstrike on Friday hit a kindergarten in the northern Tigray region, killing more than seven people, including children and medics. A statement by Kassa Gebremichael regretted that terror was unleashed on innocent civilians in Mekelle. “This vicious
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Ethiopian military airstrike on Friday destroyed a kindergarten in the northern Tigray region. The air assault claimed the lives of at least seven people including children and medics. The government raided the affected area two days after fighting broke out south of the Tigray border. The situation might have jeopardized a five-month truce between the
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Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday jetted to Ethiopia to mediate in the conflict between the nation’s government and the northern Tigray region, his spokesman said. “He is on his way to Addis Ababa for talks,” Kehinde Akinyemi told AFP on the visit of Obasanjo to the Ethiopian capital. “He is going there for
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Ethiopia on Friday announced its first case of the new coronavirus, the second to hit East Africa which had so far been spared from the rapidly spreading illness. A 48-year-old Japanese man who had arrived in the country on March 4 from Burkina Faso was confirmed to have contracted the virus, the health ministry said.
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