Ethiopian airstrikes in Tigray force UN flight to turn back – reports

Clouds of black smoke from fires in the aftermath of an airstrike in Mekele (AP)

Ethiopian military airstrikes forced a United Nations humanitarian flight to abandon its landing in the capital of the country’s Tigray region, aid workers said.

The development appears to be a sharp escalation in the intimidation tactics that Ethiopian authorities have used against aid workers amid the intensifying, year-long Tigray war.