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The UK has suspended Covid-19 rules for travellers from Ethiopia to allow British citizens to leave the country as the war between the government and northern Tigray rebels and their allies intensifies.

The Gulf state says it will investigate conditions as video evidence emerges showing migrants fighting back raw sewage Saudi Arabia has agreed to investigate following a Sunday Telegraph investigation which revealed the Gulf State is keeping hundreds if not thousands of African migrants locked in cramped and unhygienic detention centres as part of a drive to stop the spread of coronavirus.

A total of 63 Ethiopian senior military and intelligence officers have been arrested for alleged corruption and human-rights abuses.

Ethiopia on Thursday appointed a woman to the largely ceremonial position of president for the first time.

Ethnic violence in Ethiopia left 23 people dead at the weekend, state media reported Monday, as protests against the killings gripped the capital Addis Ababa where an angry crowd gathered in the city centre.