Ethiopia carries out deadly airstrikes in Tigray
New drone strikes have killed at least 17 people in Ethiopia’s war-torn region of Tigray, aid workers have said.
The UN has criticised Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and suspended programmes in Tigray after following the strikes.
Zandile Mafe, the arson suspect accused of set South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town has been charged with terrorism.. but what was made of the report that he's also been diagnosed with schizophrenia?
Plus tributes to one of Sierra Leone's last World War Two veterans who has died aged 101.
Photo: Medical staff in Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region attend to a patient. Credit: Getty Images.
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