Ethiopia: dead after new bombings in Mekele, capital of Tigray

A view of Mekele, capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region in May 2021. © Sébastien Németh/RFI

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Rebel authorities in the Tigray region have accused the Ethiopian army of again shelling their capital Mekele on Wednesday (September 14th) for the second time in two days, shortly after they opened the door to a ceasefire. -fire and peace negotiations.

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It is the director of the Ayder hospital center in Mekele who gives this assessment: 10 dead, 14 injured, in a double drone strike on the district of Dagim Amsal, he says, located south-west of the Tigrayan capital, no far from the university campus which was

.

Two strikes, therefore, against a residential area where, according to Dr. Kibrom Gebreselassie, two women were first injured by a first shot.

Then a second shot was “ 

, according to him,

.

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Radio silence near Addis Ababa

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 ," immediately reacted Getachew Reda, close adviser to the president of the Tigray regional government.

The Tigrayan authorities who, moreover, pride themselves on having inflicted a heavy defeat on the federal army and its allies in the west of the province, while having lost the town of Sheraro.

But it is impossible at this stage to verify these allegations.

As in previous days, the Addis Ababa government for its part made no comment and did not respond to the press.

Since last week, the federal authorities have been stubbornly silent.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was in Kenya on Tuesday to attend the

, William Ruto.

He will be in Djibouti this Wednesday for an economic forum.

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