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Airports near Ethiopia’s Tigray state attacked with rockets

Airports near Ethiopia’s Tigray state attacked with rockets

GIULIA PARAVICINI  TWO airports in Ethiopia's Amhara state which neighbours Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces were targeted by rocket fire, the government has announced. One of the rockets hit the airport in Gondar and partially damaged it, said Awoke Worku, spokesperson for Gondar central zone, while a second one fired simultaneously landed just outside of the airport at Bahir Dar. The government blamed the ruling party in Tigray, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). "The TPLF junta is utilising the last of the weaponry within its arsenals," the government's emergency task force wrote on Twitter. Debretsion Gebremichael,…
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