Tigray crisis: People are ‘desperate’ says top aid official
Filippo Grandi, head of the UN Refugee Agency, has just returned from the region.
The humanitarian situation in Ethiopia's Tigray region is very grave, according to the head of the UN's refugee agency.
Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it was responsible for the deadly attack on a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Plus a fitting farewell to Focus on Africa’s David Amanor who, after years of delighting audiences on the airwaves as a presenter and correspondent in Ghana, is leaving the Â鶹Éç.
Photo: Ethiopian refugees who have fled the Tigray conflict. Credit: Getty Images.
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