{"id":73067,"date":"2020-11-10T14:49:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.140.144.153\/2020\/11\/10\/ethiopian-jets-pounding-targets-in-tigray-region\/"},"modified":"2020-11-10T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:49:44","slug":"ethiopian-jets-pounding-targets-in-tigray-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/ethiopian-jets-pounding-targets-in-tigray-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian jets &#8216;pounding targets&#8217; in Tigray region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-responsive-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k1T7qmNMsn9GBQwre0D\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence continues in Ethiopia as the country&#8217;s military says it is &#8220;pounding targets with precision&#8221; in the northern Tigray region. Our correspondent reports. Also, Ivory Coast&#8217;s constitutional court has validated President Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s reelection to a third term. But opposition leaders continue to call for the formation of a rival transitional government. And as the world reacts to the election of Joe Biden, so too does Africa. While heads of state struck a diplomatic tone, NGOs and activists made it clear that Donald Trump will not be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1535,1076],"tags":[30580],"class_list":["post-73067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","tag-tigray-region","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ethiopian jets &#039;pounding targets&#039; in Tigray region - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/ethiopian-jets-pounding-targets-in-tigray-region\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ethiopian jets &#039;pounding targets&#039; in Tigray region - GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Violence continues in Ethiopia as the country&#039;s military says it is &quot;pounding targets with precision&quot; in the northern Tigray region. 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