
Ethiopia: TPLF says it will continue fighting in self-defence
TPLF says it is now in charge of Tigray region and will act to defend local people.
A Tigray People's Liberation Front official, Berhane Gebrekristos, says the organisation is now back in charge of the restive Tigray region and will continue fighting in self-defence and to protect local people.
Prominent Nigerian separatist leader and head of the Indigenous People of Biafra group, Nnamdi Kanu, has been arrested and brought before the high court in Abuja.
South Africa’s Constitutional court has sentenced former president Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for contempt of court.
(Picture: People watch injured people arriving in ambulances to the Ayder referral hospital in Mekele, on June 24, 2021, two days after a deadly airstrike on a market in Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray region. Credit: Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)
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