{"id":56992,"date":"2026-02-01T00:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/56992\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T00:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:33:08","slug":"drone-strikes-in-ethiopias-tigray-region-kill-one-injure-another-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/56992\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone strikes in Ethiopia&#8217;s Tigray region kill one, injure another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/reuters.jpg\" alt=\"Reuters Logo\" class=\"source-logo-inline\"\/><br \/>Saturday January 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1769868400Screenshot2026-01-31170620.png\" alt=\"Drone strikes in Ethiopia's Tigray region kill one, injure another\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One person was killed and another injured in drone strikes in Ethiopia&#8217;s northern Tigray region on Saturday, a senior Tigrayan official and a humanitarian worker said, in another sign of renewed conflict between regional and national forces.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s national army fought fighters from the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front for two years until late 2022, in a war researchers say killed hundreds of thousands through direct violence, the collapse of healthcare and famine.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting broke out between regional and national forces in the disputed territory of western Tigray earlier this week, according to diplomatic and government sources.<\/p>\n<p>The senior Tigrayan official said the drone strikes hit two Isuzu trucks near Enticho and Gendebta, two places in Tigray about 20 kilometres apart. A humanitarian worker confirmed the strikes had happened. Both asked not to be named.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigrayan official said the Ethiopian National Defence Force launched the strikes but did not provide evidence.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the ENDF did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what the trucks were carrying.<\/p>\n<p>TPLF-affiliated news outlet Dimtsi Weyane posted pictures on Facebook which it said showed the trucks damaged in the strikes. It said the trucks were transporting food and cooking items.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-government activists posting on social media said the trucks were carrying weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week national carrier Ethiopian Airlines cancelled flights to Tigray, where residents rushed to try to withdraw cash from banks.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigray war ended with a peace pact in November 2022, but disagreements have continued over a range of issues, including contested territories in western Tigray and the delayed disarmament of Tigray forces.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by Giulia Paravicini and Nairobi newsroom; Writing by Isaac Anyaogu; Editing by Alexander Winning and Hugh Lawson<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday January 31, 2026 One person was killed and another injured in drone strikes in Ethiopia&#8217;s northern Tigray&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[25],"tags":[33024,32794,65,13781,2650,33023,33022,22046,2656,1131,32795],"class_list":["post-56992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethiopia","tag-another","tag-drone","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopias","tag-in","tag-injure","tag-kill","tag-one","tag-region","tag-strikes","tag-tigray"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}