That report is not too far off the truth, more approaches were made than reported and it is correct about the vectoring being wrong from the tower.
actually the truth is that there was no tower present. it was a ground ops guy on the radio. the fuel figures are slightly off aswell, but not by much. The captain reported 2000 kg aswell. the radio controller at point tried to vector the aircraft onto a compound.
there is a lot more to this story than meets the eye.
there was a NOTAM and PPR allocated to the aircraft and the metars were also issued.
The aircraft called into the tower from Addis airspace and was given permission for the late landing.