World Awaits Clarity on Tigray Cease-fire
June 29, 2021 09:01 PM
FILE – People who were injured in a deadly airstrike on a market in Togoga wait on a bench for medical treatments at Mekelle General Hospital in Mekelle, June 24, 2021.
FILE – People who were injured in a deadly airstrike on a market in Togoga wait on a bench for medical treatments at Mekelle General Hospital in Mekelle, June 24, 2021.
A day after the Ethiopian federal government abruptly suspended nearly eight months of military operations against rebels in its Tigray region, communications with the country’s northern region remained sketchy at best, and humanitarians were hopeful the truce would hold so aid could reach the hundreds of thousands of people struggling in famine-like conditions.