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CARICOM brought its call for reparations to the United Nations, urging accountability for historical injustices against the Black community.
Abiy's government and the regional one run by the Tigray People's Liberation Front each consider the other illegitimate.
\t There was no immediate word from the three AU envoys, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe. AU spokeswoman Ebba Kalondo did not say whether they can meet with TPLF leaders, something Abiy's office has rejected.
\"``Not possible,'' senior Ethiopian official Redwan Hussein said in a message to the AP. ``\"Above all, TPLF leadership is still at large.'' He called reports that the TPLF had appointed an envoy to discuss an immediate cease-fire with the international community ``masquerading.''
\t Fighting reportedly remained well outside the Tigray capital of Mekele, a densely populated city of a half-million people who have been warned by the Ethiopian government that they will be shown ``no mercy'' if they don't distance themselves from the region's leaders.
\t Tigray has been almost entirely cut off from the outside world since Nov. 4, when Abiy announced a military offensive in response to a TPLF attack on a federal army base.
That makes it difficult to verify claims about the fighting, but humanitarians have said at least hundreds of people have been killed.
\t The fighting threatens to destabilize Ethiopia, which has been described as the linchpin of the strategic Horn of Africa.
\t With transport links cut, food and other supplies are running out in Tigray, home to 6 million people, and the United Nations has asked for immediate and unimpeded access for aid.
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Symone Sanders and Karine Jean-Pierre were part of a historic all-female communications team that will serve Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' administration.
[UNFPA] Mombasa, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda -- Each month, Pendo*, a 32-year-old sex worker living with HIV, received antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) and contraceptives at a drop-in centre near her home in Mombasa, Kenya. But under the COVID-19 lockdown, a police roadblock prevented her from accessing the centre.
Press Release - FAO's The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2020 takes a new look at water shortages and scarcity in the world
[MSF] On November 4, Ethiopia's prime minister ordered military action against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in the Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia, following an attack on a military base. The escalating conflict is already affecting hundreds of thousands of people, and it runs the risk of destabilizing other parts of the country and the region, with potentially catastrophic humanitarian consequences.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nairobi -- Compared to the pill, the single shot was so successful in preventing HIV in clinical trials among women in Africa that the study was wrapped up early
[UN News] A group of UN independent human rights experts have called on Egyptian authorities to \"immediately and unconditionally\" release activists arrested, apparently in retaliation, for discussing human rights issues with foreign ambassadors.
A shack covered by plastic in Sudan's Hamdayit refugee centre has become a source of smiles, sighs and tears for Ethiopian refugees, thanks to a hotline set up to trace relatives.
Crusader Staff Report New Orleans Congressman Cedric Richmond, who once served as the leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, will be President-elect Joe Biden’s director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Richmond, 47, made the announcement last week after spending the last decade in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd District […]
There is an increasing number of cases showing law enforcement's intolerance towards journalists, South African National Editor's Forum (Sanef) Chair Sbu Ngalwa said.
Opposition Senator Dr Floyd Morris has been elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.\tThe election was held Monday afternoon.\tThe committee is a body of independent experts who monitor the...
Despite its illegality the world over, forced labor continues to thrive in some parts of the world. On December 2 every year, the International day for the abolition of slavery aims to shed light on this exploitation.
According to the International Labor Organization, an estimated 40 million people are exploited around the world.
These modern forms of slavery include, forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking.
In the face of the pandemic and lockdowns limiting personal freedoms, UN experts warn this could actually be fueling exploitation.
An International labor organization’s protocol on forced labor has managed to convince 47 out of at least 50 nations to ratify the protocol on forced labor as at 2019.
11 of these countries are in Africa, including Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mali, Djibouti, Ivory Coast, Niger and Mauritania.
According to the ILO, so far this year, it has recorded 24.9 million forced laborers, particularly in private homes, the construction and agricultural sectors, while 15.4 million people were subjected to forced marriage and 4.8 million were reportedly victims of forced sexual exploitation.
[Monitor] At 2.46pm on August 7, the Ministry of Health tweeted its daily update on the coronavirus situation in the country. Thirty-one more people had tested positive for coronavirus the previous day, to bring the cumulative total to 1,254. There was also one new death, the statement noted, raising the total number of fatalities to six.
Opposition Senator Dr Floyd Morris will have the full backing of the Jamaican Government and the entire CARICOM region on Monday when he vies for a seat on the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which oversees an international...
Humanity is facing a new war, unprecedented in history, the Secretary General of the United Nations has warned. The stark message from António Guterres follows a year of global upheaval, with the coronavirus pandemic causing governments to shut down whole countries for months at a time, while wildfires, hurricanes and powerful storms have scarred the globe.
\"To put it simply, the state of the planet is broken. Dear friends, humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back and it is already doing so with growing force and fury,\" Guterres said.
Guterres said \"biodiversity is collapsing. One million species are at risk of extinction. Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes. Human activities are at the root of our descent toward chaos. But that means human action can help to solve it\".
The Earth continued to endure a period of significant heating in 2020 according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Its provisional assessment suggests this year will be one of the three hottest, just behind 2016 and 2019.
The warmest six years in global records dating back to 1850 have now all occurred since 2015. The most notable warmth was in the Siberian Arctic, where temperatures were 5C above average.
We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today. Every day is worth remembering.
THE Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has received 534 tablets for students with special needs from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), under the One Laptop or Tablet Per Child initiative.The tablets, valued at US$100,000, are aimed at providing the beneficiaries with greater access to online learning. The first batch of more than 200 devices has already been delivered to children.
[Algerie Presse Service] Havana -- The president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Brahim Ghali, participated, at the invitation of Cuba's Communist Youth Union, in the \"Pioneering Ideas\" event held Havana, where he put forward the determination of Western Sahara people to enter into a new stage of their sacred and legitimate fight.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says annual deaths from AIDS-related illnesses declined by 37 percent from 2010 through 2019 in Caribbean countries, while new yearly infections from the HIV virus dropped by 29 percent.
[DW] HIV infection rates are falling in many African countries, and effective drugs are increasing the life expectancy of patients. But the coronavirus pandemic has meant a major setback in the fight against AIDS.
