Ethiopia launches fourth air strike on Tigray this week

Ethiopia said Thursday it had launched another airstrike on the capital of war-battered Tigray, the fourth such bombardment this week in a campaign it says is targeting rebel facilities.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has been locked in a nearly year-long war against the TPLF, though Tigray itself has seen little combat since late June, when the rebels seized control of much of Ethiopia’s northernmost region and the military largely withdrew.

On Monday Ethiopia’s air force launched two strikes in Tigray’s capital Mekele that the UN said killed three children and wounded several other people.