Here is the latest top stories from Press TV on August 20, 2021.

Ethiopia’s government calls on “all capable Ethiopians” to join the fight against rebels in Tigray and stop them from pushing beyond the embattled region.

The United Nations (UN)'s top aid official denounces as "dangerous" accusations by Ethiopia's federal government that aid workers were favoring and even arming rebel forces in the country's conflict-ridden region of Tigray.

Local authorities in Sudan’s Kassala Province have found around 50 bodies floating in the Tekeze River straddling Ethiopia’s Tigray region and Sudan over the past week, a Sudanese official says.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says more than 100,000 children in Ethiopia’s conflict-ridden region of Tigray could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, a 10-fold jump in average annual levels.

The United Nations Refugee Agency voices concern about the situation of refugees in Ethiopia, as an armed conflict worsens in the Horn of Africa country.

The UN says a convoy carrying food for Ethiopia's conflict-ridden region of Tigray came under attack at the weekend.

Police arrest hundreds allegedly for supporting Tigrayan rebels fighting in Ethiopia's war-torn northern region.

The war in Ethiopia’s restive region of Tigray looks set to intensify as a government ceasefire seems to come to an end and the neighboring Amhara region vows to go on the offensive against Tigrayan forces.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has passed a resolution calling for an end to the conflict in Ethiopia's restive region of Tigray and urged Eritrean troops to pull out of the area in a verifiable manner.