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Libya’s key coast road open

Libya’s key coast road open

LIBYA'S warring sides reopened the main coast road across the frontline, a key element of a ceasefire they agreed last year that has involved months of negotiations. The U.N.-backed 5+5 committee drawn from commander Khalifa Haftar's eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) and western-based forces that have supported Tripoli-based governments said in a statement the road was open from 0900 GMT. The road, which stretches along the length of Libya's coastline, the most populated part of the country, was cut between the cities of Misrata and Sirte, where the frontline stabilised last summer. It was not open to military traffic, the…
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‘Only combatants hit in Tigray air strike’

‘Only combatants hit in Tigray air strike’

AYENAT MERSIE ONLY combatants, not civilians, were struck in an air strike this week in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the country's military spokesman said today. Colonel Getnet Adane told Reuters in an interview in Addis Ababa that the combatants in the town of Togoga were dressed in civilian clothes. An air strike killed at least 43 people in the town on Tuesday, a medical official told Reuters. The strike took place after residents said new fighting had flared in recent days north of the regional capital Mekelle. A resident of the town told Reuters on Wednesday that the air strike a…
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