Africa Business Radio

The UN says its flights to Mekelle in Ethiopia'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.The Ethiopian government says its planes had been targeting a training centre used by Tigrayan rebels.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.Seven million people are now in urgent need of assistance and the UN says malnutrition rates are rising every day.