{"id":46230,"date":"2026-09-23T10:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46230"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:12:26","slug":"ethiopian-airlines-suspends-flights-to-tigray-region","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ethiopian-airlines-suspends-flights-to-tigray-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Airlines suspends flights to Tigray region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ethiopian Airlines said on Wednesday \u200cit had suspended flights to three airports in the northern region of Tigray.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The carrier \u200bsaid on social media that \u200bflights to the regional capital Mekelle and \u2060the cities of Shire and \u200bAxum had been halted &#8220;due to the current \u200bsituation in Tigray region,&#8221; without giving further details.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Two local sources told\u00a0<em><span class=\"x_spanWithBackgroundColor\">Reuters<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>that Tigrayan forces, \u200bwho fought the federal government during \u200ba 2020 to 2022 civil war, had taken control of \u200cthe \u2060Mekelle airport from federal police overnight.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Spokesperson for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the federal government did not immediately respond \u200bto requests \u200bfor \u2060comment.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On Sunday, the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front, the political party \u200bthat runs Tigray and led \u200bthe \u2060region during the civil war, announced it had formed an alliance with six other \u2060armed \u200bgroups across Ethiopia aimed \u200bat overthrowing Abiy&#8217;s government.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22653,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-46230","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ethiopian Airlines said on Wednesday \u200cit had suspended flights","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46231,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46230\/revisions\/46231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}