
Ethiopia’s Tigray war: The head of Ethiopia's Somali state aligns with army
Ethiopia's Somali region President Mustefe Omer is confident advances by Tigrayan fighters can be repelled.
The president of Ethiopia's Somali region Mustefe Omer has aligned with the Ethiopian army and is confident advances by Tigrayan fighters can be repelled.
Plus a South African whistleblower who testified at a major corruption inquiry tells us why he felt he had to flee the country.
And against the backdrop of the COP26 climate summit in Scotland, we meet residents in Liberia's West Point township, whose lives and livelihoods are being threatened by rising sea levels, due to the climate.
Photo: An abandoned tank in the Ethiopia-Tigray conflict. Credit: AFP/Getty
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