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In this week's Business Africa: the effectiveness of carbon credits called into question; Gabon's economy put to the test by the coup d'état and the African Union's membership of the G20.
He replaces Debretsion Gebremichael, whose immunity from prosecution was removed Thursday.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a \"massacre\" in the Tigray region, that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party.
The \"massacre\" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict between the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
\"Amnesty International can today confirm... that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the southwest of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,\" the rights group said in a report.
Amnesty said it had \"digitally verified gruesome photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers.\"
The dead \"had gaping wounds that appear to have been inflicted by sharp weapons such as knives and machetes,\" Amnesty said, citing witness accounts.
Witnesses said the attack was carried out by TPLF-aligned forces after a defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian military, though Amnesty said it \"has not been able to confirm who was responsible for the killings\".
It nonetheless called on TPLF commanders and officials to \"make clear to their forces and their supporters that deliberate attacks on civilians are absolutely prohibited and constitute war crimes\".
Abiy ordered military operations in Tigray on November 4, saying they were prompted by a TPLF attack on federal military camps -- a claim the party denies.
The region has been under a communications blackout ever since, making it difficult to verify competing claims on the ground.
Abiy said Thursday his army had made major gains in western Tigray.
Thousands of Ethiopians have fled across the border into neighboring Sudan, and the UN is sounding the alarm about a humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
London — Despite the fact that the Los Angeles Dodgers won a World Series in Texas and the Los Angeles Lakers just won an NBA title in Florida, Brooklyn’s Mike Tyson will soon fight what may be his final match in Los Angeles. Former heavyweight champions Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. vowed at … Continued
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TWO UNITED Nations agencies have warned that the labour market in Latin America and the...
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Kolkata - Roiled by the coronavirus pandemic and its lockdowns and shut downs, India's economy for the first time in the country's history is in a technical recession at the end of the first half of the 2020-21 fiscal year, according to the central bank. A technical recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth in GDP. TheReserve […]
President of the Jamaica Coffee Exporters Association (JCEA)Norman Grant is seeking Government intervention to the tune of $200 million for a recovery programme for the country's coffee farmers.According to Grant, during a recent meeting of the JCEA, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green committed to contributing $80 million to the coffee recovery programme through the Jamaica Agricultural Commodity Regulatory Authority.
By Professor Chris Imafidon - In J.J Rawlings, Africa, and indeed the world has lost a giant who led by example, a radical revolutionary who understood the relationship between rationale change and ideological dogma. The father of modern Ghana nation who laid down his life for Africa, when he had other options, such as living […]
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Anti-Jihadist Operation in Mali
Reports on the death by troops from the French-led Barkhane force military operation of Bah Ag Moussa, described as the military commander of the Al-Qaeda-aligned Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) in the Malian desert who had been on a United Nations sanctions list and was believed responsible for numerous jihadist terrorist attacks on Malian and international ally forces in the region. Friday’s announcement marks the conclusion to an operation launched Tuesday in a series of anti-jihadist action taken in recent weeks.
Regional Context
France has thousands of troops in West Africa to help fight jihadist around the area. The ousting of Islamist extremist groups from power in Mali by way of a military operation in 2013 saw a regrouping of jihadist forces in the dessert who have since wreaked terror and havoc in the region.
COVID-19 and the paralysis in the education sector have widened inequalities between pupils from elite and poor backgrounds. BY Phyllis Mbanje Pupils in rural areas and the urban poor are bearing the brunt of the salary impasse between the government and teachers. “COVID-19 and the reopening of schools in the midst of a job action by teachers have worsened inequalities in accessing education, with the poor suffering the most,” Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) lecturer Simbarashe Gukurume said yesterday. Gukurume was speaking during a discussion convened by the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) on the staggered reopening of schools after a six-month closure induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. He said while the majority of private schools were not affected that much, pupils from poor neighbourhoods were losing out on education. “What the private schools simply did was to shift to online learning because probably the infrastructure was already in place, but it is not the case for the urban poor and those in the rural areas,” he said. Teachers downed tools in September when schools reopened for examination classes and efforts by government to end the strike have failed, with schools opening for the last batch last Monday, amid teachers’ ongoing strike for better working conditions. The strike has forced some parents and pupils to petition government to postpone end-of-year examinations, but authorities have insisted the examinations will go ahead. Speaking at the same event, education rights defender Pride Mkono said rural pupils were the hardest-hit by both COVID-19 and teachers’ industrial action. “In rural areas, it is not only about COVID-19 and teachers’ salaries, but school feeding. Poor families have been further affected because pupils used to be fed at school and because the schools are closed, most of them are starving at home,” he said. He said government had no comprehensive plan for such schools and the bulk of these children cannot attend school because they are hungry and would rather stay at home, even if teachers were to report for work. “We have heard that President Emmerson Mnangawa who had gone to officially open Marovanyati Dam in Buhera expected a huge welcome from teachers and students, but the school was virtually shut. He was shocked that there are no teachers and children are not going to school,” he added. Mkono bemoaned the lack of preparedness on the part of government on handling COVID-19 threats at schools. “The ministry issued guidelines on what schools needed to put in place in order to be COVID-19 compliant, but there has been challenges with this. “They have not provided the requisite resources for teachers to be compliant with regulations.” “Most schools cannot afford sanitisers and have no running water. Most cities are experiencing severe water shortages and schools have not been spared. “There are also issues around testing. No testing has been done in rural and public schools and pupils and teachers are just going back to school.” He added: “All this leaves both the teachers and pupils
For months now, soon-to-be-Former President Donald Trump has called into question the democratic process that lies at the heart of our representative democracy. He has been joined in this scurrilous attack on the nation's electoral process by fellow Republican lawmakers who seem to be more loyal to him than to the nation. In deciding the […]
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RIO GRANDE CITY — It was a strange sight in Starr County: More than 70 vehicles, decked out with Trump 2020 flags, parading 13 miles along the Texas-Mexico border from Roma to Rio Grande City. Even Roel Reyes, who flew an “All Aboard the Trump Train” flag from the back of his Harley Davidson, was surprised to have so much […]
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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A huge fear for Wall Street coming into this month was a contested U.S. presidential election, one that could drag the market through more painful uncertainty. Now, more than a week after Election Day, President Donald Trump and his allies are challenging the results in a number of states that gave Joe Biden enough Electoral College votes to claim victory. And yet the S&P 500 has shot up more than 8% this month, as of Thursday, to the edge of its record high. While Trump has leveled unsubstantiated claims of […]
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Time is operating out for thousands and thousands of People who nonetheless have not gotten stimulus checks they usually’re probably the folks most in want.The Inside Income Service is racing…
[African Arguments] From plane crashes to COVID complications, over twenty of President Tshisekedi's allies died in the course of just one year.
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By Greg Garrison | ggarrison@al.com The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute hosted a virtual roundtable of Black mayors on Thursday, moderated by TV Evangelist and best-selling author Bishop T.D. Jakes, and came away with $3,000 in donation pledges. After Jakes led a broad discussion with four Southern mayors of what they hope for from President-elect Joe Biden’s […]
Researchers at Oxford University in Great Britain noted that first-time diagnosis of anxiety, depression, and insomnia increased two-fold in patients after they’ve recovered from COVID. Further, they discovered that COVID survivors also found significantly higher risks of dementia.
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Avid Support Outside Court
Hundreds of supporters of Ace Magashule, the Secretary-General of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, staged protests on Friday as some even tried to force way into the magistrate's court in Bloemfontein, the capital of the Free State, where Magashule appeared for his hearing over alleged graft revolving around the equivalent of 13.9 million euros in contracts to audit houses with asbestos roofs — awarded under former president Jacob Zuma's corruption-tainted nine-year administration between 2009-2018. His successor Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to root out corruption in South Africa, which has seen the ANC at the head of national politics since the icon Nelson Mandela came into power in 1994 after the fall of the white supremacist oppressive apartheid regime.
The court appearance follows an arrest warrant issued on Tuesday over Magashule's alleged failures to conduct oversight and report corrupt dealings.
The ANC said it would monitor developments closely.
The year two thousand and twenty has been an ongoing saga of life-altering events. Many of the adorned, traditional celebrations, trips, and gatherings were canceled, rescheduled, or modified for the safety of humankind. As the holiday season approaches, COVID-19 restrictions have once again forced us to make drastic changes to holiday family gatherings, but there … Continued
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