ADDIS ABABA — An Ethiopian government airstrike on the capital of the northern Tigray region on Friday forced a U.N. aid flight to abort a landing there, the United Nations said. In the neighboring Amhara region, people were fleeing intensified fighting. The United Nations suspended all flights to Mekelle after a U.N. plane with 11 passengers had to abort landing on Friday. Residents in Dessie, a city in Amhara, told Reuters people were fleeing, a day after a TPLF spokesperson said its forces were within artillery range of the town. There are now more than 500,000 displaced people in the Amhara region, the National Disaster Risk Management Commission told Reuters.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 22, 2021 22:19 UTC