As wbtvs alex giles is on your side showing us how crews continue to work to get the tree out of the way. Reporter one by one the cars are taking a detour tonight. I have to figure how to get home. Reporter the path home is blocked by an ageold tree, uprooted this afternoon. I was in awe. I couldnt think of what happened. Reporter what happened was wild, windy weather. The kids normally catch the school bus here in the mornings, tomorrow they will be waiting somewhere else. The wind was strong but didnt realize it was going to be blowing down huge old trees. Reporter this wasnt the only one. The red cross called until to help out a family after heavy winds took down a tree on stone haven drive. Neighbors saw the aftermath. Been here 14 years, nothing like this ever happened to us. Really strong winds. Still blowing tonight. Christine that was alex giles reporting there. Charlottemecklenburg police told us the road could be shut down through the morning commute. We will remain at the sc
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NAIROBI, April 14 (Reuters) - Eritrean soldiers opened fire in an Ethiopian town on Monday, killing at least nine civilians and wounding more than a dozen others, a local government official told Reuters.
Berhane Gebretsadik, an administrator for Ethiopia’s federally appointed interim Tigray government, said on Wednesday that Ethiopian National Defence forces had intervened to repel the attack in the town of Adwa.
“It was the Eritrean soldiers who killed innocent people,” he said. “If it wasn’t for the National Defence who intervened and saved them (residents), they would have continued killing more people,” he said, referring to Ethiopia’s national army.
Seyoum Mesfin, Ethiopia’s long-serving former foreign minister, was one of the foremost African diplomats of his generation. He was gunned down this month in Tigray by the armed forces of a lesser man – Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister and Nobel peace prize winner. Some suggest it was the Eritrean military, Abiy’s allies, who killed Seyoum, although their presence in Tigray is officially denied. The circumstances of his death remain murky..
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Abiy Ahmed should hand back his Nobel peace prize over his actions in the breakaway region that have raised the spectre of famine again
Ethiopian refugee children who fled the Tigray conflict wait in a line for a food distribution by Muslim Aid at the Um Raquba refugee camp in Sudan. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Ethiopian refugee children who fled the Tigray conflict wait in a line for a food distribution by Muslim Aid at the Um Raquba refugee camp in Sudan. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Sun 24 Jan 2021 02.30 EST
Ethiopians in the war-scarred north are dying from lack of healthcare services, are suffering food and water shortages, and remain "terrified", according to aid agencies finally accessing remoter parts of Tigray region.