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Ethiopian forces have mounted a fresh battle for the strategic northern city of Dessie, residents said on Sunday, hours after Tigrayan rebels claimed to have taken control of it.
He replaces Debretsion Gebremichael, whose immunity from prosecution was removed Thursday.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a \"massacre\" in the Tigray region, that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party.
The \"massacre\" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict between the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
\"Amnesty International can today confirm... that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the southwest of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,\" the rights group said in a report.
Amnesty said it had \"digitally verified gruesome photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers.\"
The dead \"had gaping wounds that appear to have been inflicted by sharp weapons such as knives and machetes,\" Amnesty said, citing witness accounts.
Witnesses said the attack was carried out by TPLF-aligned forces after a defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian military, though Amnesty said it \"has not been able to confirm who was responsible for the killings\".
It nonetheless called on TPLF commanders and officials to \"make clear to their forces and their supporters that deliberate attacks on civilians are absolutely prohibited and constitute war crimes\".
Abiy ordered military operations in Tigray on November 4, saying they were prompted by a TPLF attack on federal military camps -- a claim the party denies.
The region has been under a communications blackout ever since, making it difficult to verify competing claims on the ground.
Abiy said Thursday his army had made major gains in western Tigray.
Thousands of Ethiopians have fled across the border into neighboring Sudan, and the UN is sounding the alarm about a humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
The Health Ministry has announced an additional 15 deaths due to covid19, along with 115 cases detected from samples taken between July 3 and 6.
The death toll is now 918.
In its covid19 update on Wednesday, the ministry said the people who died were six elderly men, three elderly women, two middle-aged men, one middle-aged woman, and one young adult man, all with comorbidities, as well as two middle-aged men without comorbidities.
There are 6,244 active cases.
Since March 2020, there have been 33,920 cases of covid19, of which 26,758 have recovered.
There are 334 people in hospital, five fewer than on Tuesday. Of these, 96 are at the Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility, with 12 in the intensive care unit and 24 in the high dependency unit. There are 39 at the Caura Hospital, 47 at the Augustus Long Hospital, seven at the St Ann’s Hospital, 49 at the Arima General Hospital, 42 at the new Point Fortin Hospital, 31 at the St James Medical Complex, 21 at the Scarborough Regional Hospital, Fort King George, and two at the Scarborough Regional Hospital, Signal Hill.
There are 119 people in step-down facilities, with none at the Claxton Bay Correctional Facility, 31 at UWI Debe, ten at UTT Valsayn, 21 at the Point Fortin Area Hospital, 26 at the Port of Spain field hospital, seven at the Couva field hospital, none at the Port of Spain General Hospital, 16 at the Tacarigua Facility, and eight in Tobago.
There are 272 people in state quarantine facilities, and 5,676 in home self-isolation.
There were 233 and 5,666 on Tuesday respectively.
There are 193 recovered community cases and 41 people have been discharged from public health facilities.
The total number of people tested to date was 238,972, of whom 101,755 were tested at private facilities.
As of Wednesday at 4 pm, 221,620 people had received their first vaccine dose. Of these, 90,392 received the AstraZeneca vaccine, 131,028 Sinopharm, and 200 received the Pfizer vaccine.
In all 129,849 people had received their second dose.
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