Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: What's happening now?

We look at what’s been happening in the northern region of Tigray in Ethiopia since the armed conflict in November between the regional government and forces supporting Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. We reconnect with people who have not heard from their relatives in Tigray since the conflict began.

More European countries have decided not to recommend the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for over 65s. One of them is Switzerland, and we’ll get our regular expert Dr Emma Hodcroft in Bern to explain the decision. We also discuss a trial launched in the UK to to see if giving people different Covid vaccines for their first and second doses works as well as the current approach of using the same type of vaccine twice.

The International Criminal Court in the Hague has found a former commander of the Uganda-based Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. We bring reaction from the region.

(Photo: Ethiopians, who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, prepare a meal within Hamdayet village on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in the eastern Kassala state, Sudan December 16, 2020. Credit: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)