Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: Army launches new offensive

Tigrayan forces in northern Ethiopia say federal troops and their allies have launched coordinated ground attacks on all fronts.

Plus, we have a report from South Africa where they are still counting the human cost suffered after nine days of looting and violent protests in July.

And we hear from the widow of the Burkinabe president and revolutionary Thomas Sankara who was killed 34 years ago, as the trial over his murder opens in Burkina Faso.

Photo: Ethiopian National Defence Forces soldiers walking. Credit: Getty/AFP.