Pro-Government Groups Say They Have Seized Airport in Ethiopia’s Tigray Capital

Groups loyal to the Ethiopian government announced on Friday that they had taken control of the airport in Mekelle, the capital of the northern Tigray region.

The groups said the seizure followed a counteroffensive against rebel forces.

The announcement concerned the airport, rather than control of Mekelle as a whole. The brief account gave no further details about the extent of the fighting.

No casualty figures were provided, and the account did not indicate whether airport operations had been affected. The reported takeover was not independently confirmed in the information available.