The capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, Mekele, was hit by an air strike on Tuesday, a Tigrayan rebel spokesman and a hospital official said on Twitter. "Abiy Ahmed's drones targeted the Adi Haki campus of the University of Mekele," Getachew Reda, a spokesman for the Tigray rebels, assured on Twitter. Kibrom Gebreselassie, head of a hospital in the Tigray region, also said on Twitter that Mekele was hit "by a drone strike" early this morning. The government has accused the Tigray rebels in the past of staging civilian deaths following air strikes and has insisted that it was only targeting military sites. The renewed fighting has completely disrupted the flow of humanitarian aid by road and air to the Tigray region and its neighbors in Amhara and Afar, according to the United Nations.

Source: Ethiopian News September 13, 2022 17:18 UTC