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UN chief António Guterres is encouraging Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to persevere with efforts to overcome their differences and reach agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance
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Ethiopia: Commentary - the 2015 Declaration of Principles Is Not a Treaty and Ethiopia Does Not Have Obligations Therefrom
The Normative Status of the 2015 Agreement on the Declaration of Principles
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Africa: End Abusive Sex Testing for Women Athletes - Tests Violate Rights, Ruin Lives
[HRW] Women track and field athletes, largely from the Global South, are abused and harmed by "sex testing" regulations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The regulations target women in running events between 400 meters and one mile, and compel women they target to undergo
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Nigeria protests against police violence enter tenth day | Africanews
Protests against police violence in Nigeria entered the tenth day on Saturday with more than 10,000 people invading the streets of
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Beyoncé Speaks Out Against Violence Towards #EndSARS Protesters After 12 Shot Dead During Peaceful Demonstration
On Tuesday ( Oct 20) Beyoncé took to Instagram to share her support of protestors and activists fighting on the frontlines of the #EndSARS movement and speak out against the violent attacks that they are facing at the hands of police. According to published reports, Amnesty International has
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Egypt: No Pretense of Judicial Review for Hundreds
They said that Supreme State Security prosecutors and criminal court judges have renewed detentions, including for scores of their clients, without transporting detainees to hearings or giving lawyers the opportunity to enter
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Ethiopia: For Grave Rights Concerns, Truth Should Not Be Casualty of Conflict
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Nigeria: International Criminal Court to Probe #EndSARS Violence, Killings
[Daily Trust] The International Criminal Court, ICC has said that it will "analyse materials" it has received about the violence which hit Nigeria last month following protests against police brutality.
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Protesters reportedly shot dead in Nigeria | Africanews
Amnesty International said late Tuesday there was “credible but disturbing evidence” that security forces in the megacity of Lagos had fatally shot protesters who were demonstrating against police brutality despite a new curfew going into
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Report: Belgian nursing homes failed patients amid pandemic - Black News Channel
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities 'abandoned' thousands of elderly people who died in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic and did not seek hospital treatment for many who were infected, violating their human rights, Amnesty International said in an
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Ethiopia: Why an Ethiopia-Egypt War Over River Nile Dam Might Be 'Good'
The quarrel is over the rate at which Ethiopia fills the reservoir behind the dam and its effect on water supplies downstream in Sudan and Egypt--for who the Nile is the primary water
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Amnesty Shuts Down Operations in India, Citing ‘Witch Hunt’ by Government – The Wilmington Journal
Citing a 'continuing crackdown on Amnesty International India over the last two years and the complete freezing of bank accounts,' Amnesty International has shut its India operations, sparking a debate about civil liberties in the [...]
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Kenya: Treasury Declines KQ Sh7 Billion Bailout Appeal
The Treasury has refused to offer a commitment to Kenya Airways's request for a Sh7 billion emergency bailout after its aircraft were grounded due to the restrictions on international passenger flights sparked by the coronavirus
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Prolonged detention of political leaders in Togo stirs up concern | Africanews
After more than forty-eight hours of arrest and several hours of interrogation, opposition leaders Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson and Gérard Dodji Djossou are still in police custody at the Central Intelligence and Criminal Investigation
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OBBO: Why an Ethiopia-Egypt war over River Nile dam might be
The quarrel is over the rate at which Ethiopia fills the reservoir behind the dam and its effect on water supplies downstream in Sudan and Egypt—for who the Nile is the primary water
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Newswire : Nigerian environmentalists question whether massive coastal fish die-off is related to oil spills
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Ethiopia: Sudan and Ethiopia Agree to Resume Nile Negotiations
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Cameroon: Prison Fire Seriously Injures Inmates
Authorities in Cameroon are investigating a fire inside a maximum-security prison in the port city of Douala that sent three inmates to the hospital with serious
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Ethiopian National Defense Forces Base comes under attack - Voice Online
IN THE early hours of November 4, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) attacked the... The post Ethiopian National Defense Forces Base comes under attack appeared first on Voice Online.
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Burundi: A Perfect Storm Is Brewing in Burundi
While most of the world tries to slow the spread and limit the death toll of Covid-19, Burundi is expelling health
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Egypt: Security Forces Abuse, Torture LGBT People
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Ali, Ayaan Hirsi (1969- )
Writer and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somaliaon November 13, 1969.  Her father, Hirsi Magan Isse, was a prominent Somali intellectual andrevolutionary leader.  As a child, Alihad to move with her family to Saudi Arabia,Ethiopia, and Kenya, due topolitical turmoil in her own
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