{"id":12508,"date":"2021-10-18T12:36:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T12:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=12508"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:41:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:41:49","slug":"regional-capital-of-ethiopias-tigray-reportedly-hit-by-airstrikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=12508","title":{"rendered":"Regional Capital of Ethiopia&#8217;s Tigray Reportedly Hit by Airstrikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20211018\/regional-capital-of-ethiopias-tigray-reportedly-hit-by-airstrikes-1090004423.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sputnik<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 18, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has been deteriorating over the past few months, as hostilities reemerged between the central government and the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front (TPLF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mekele, the capital city of the Tigray region in Ethiopia, was hit by airstrikes on Monday, reports suggest. The broadcaster Tigray Television, controlled by the TPLF, stated that several people were wounded by the strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A civil war erupted in the East African country last year after the Ethiopian government accused the local governing party, the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front, of attacking a regional military base. In response, the party said that Eritrea (which was technically at war with Ethiopia until 2018) had dispatched troops across the border to support the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mekele?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mekele<\/a> under heavy air strikes by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbiyAhmedAli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AbiyAhmedAli<\/a>. Casualties reported around Planet hotel and Messobo. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jKCN86CpNp\">pic.twitter.com\/jKCN86CpNp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dil Na\u2019od (@DilNaodA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DilNaodA\/status\/1450052167671459840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military clashes that followed claimed thousands of lives and forced around a million people in the region to flee their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/461.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12509\" width=\"727\" height=\"482\"\/><figcaption><em>A tank damaged during the fighting between Ethiopia?s National Defense Force (ENDF) and Tigray Special Force stands on the outskirts of Humera town in Ethiopia July 1, 2021 Picture taken July 1, 2021 \u00a9 REUTERS \/ STRINGER<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initially, government forces managed to seize Mekele, but in June,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20211011\/end-of-truce-ethiopian-army-reportedly-launches-ground-offensive-against-tigray-rebels-1089841394.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TPLF militants reclaimed the city.<\/a>&nbsp;After that, an unconditional ceasefire was imposed in the region, but in October the government forces launched a new ground offensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Sputnik October 18, 2021 The situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has been deteriorating over the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,199],"class_list":["post-12508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-english","tag-sputnik"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1.jpg",510,680,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1.jpg",225,300,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1.jpg",510,680,false],"large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1.jpg",510,680,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1.jpg",510,680,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1.jpg",510,680,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1.jpg",431,575,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1.jpg",308,410,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1.jpg",510,680,false],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/464-1-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Axumawian Media"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12519,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508\/revisions\/12519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}