Aid agencies warn military blockades restricting vital aid to Tigray and other stories

Today we look at the crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region amid continuing violence, the rising death toll in Israel’s attacks on Gaza, and more

May 19, 2021 by Peoples Dispatch

In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region as fighting continues, the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and the arrests of Palestinian protestors, the Covid-19 related deaths of over 1,600 people reported by a teachers’ union in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and the vote by workers at the Volvo Trucks plant rejecting a tentative deal negotiated between the company and the UAW union in the US.