UN Suspends Flights To Rebel-Held Ethiopian City

The UN says its flights to Mekelle in Ethiopia&#039;s Tigray region have been suspended after one of its planes had to abort its landing on the same morning as a military airstrike was carried out on the city.<br />The Ethiopian government says its planes had been targeting a training centre used by Tigrayan rebels.<br />The fact that airstrikes were being carried out in the same city on the same morning will be of great concern to the UN – as the plane had been cleared for take-off by the authorities in the capital, Addis Ababa.<br />Seven million people are now in urgent need of assistance and the UN says malnutrition rates are rising every day.