NAIROBI: Tigray rebels on Sunday recaptured the north Ethiopian town of Lalibela, home to a Unesco world heritage site, local residents said 11 days after Ethiopian forces said they had re-taken control. The announcement marks another dramatic twist in the 13-month-old conflict that has killed thousands of people and triggered a deep humanitarian crisis in the north of Africa’s second most populous nation. Tigrayan fighters “are in the town centre, there’s no fighting”, said a resident reached by telephone on Sunday afternoon. They are already here,” said a second resident, adding that they appeared to have come from the east, in the direction of Woldiya. Most of the people, they already left because there might be a revenge.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 13, 2021 02:01 UTC