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ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI, Nov 30 - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed lauded his troops on Monday for ousting a rebellious northern movement, but the leader of Tigrayan forces said they were still resisting amid fears of a protracted guerrilla conflict
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.
(NewsUSA) - Think this election season has been the craziest of all time? Think again. American elections have long been highlighted by drama, scandal and intrigue - and the surprising twists and turns of presidential campaigns have a habit of repeating themselves. Several aspects of the 2020 election cycle have undoubtedly been unique, with a … Continued
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The pro-Trump Facebook group called Stop The Steal had amassed over 300,000 members since its creation, calling for its members to take to the streets and protest the vote counting.
Yahya Jammeh is a Gambian politician and former military officer who was the second president of Gambia from 1994 to 2017. Jammeh ruled Gambia for twenty-three years after rising to power as a young army officer in a bloodless military coup in 1994 that ousted Dawda Jawara who had been the first president of Gambia. He was officially elected the second president of The Gambia in 1996 and reelected in 2001, 2006, and 2011. He was defeated in the 2016 Gambian presidential election by Adama Barrow and was subsequently forced to step down from power in 2017.
Jammeh was born on May 25, 1965, in Kanilai, Gambia, three months after the country gained its independence from Great Britain. Jammeh joined the Gambian National Army in 1984 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1989. In August 1992, he became commanding officer of the Military Police of Yundum Barracks. He received extensive military training from neighboring Senegal and military police training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Jammeh’s rise to power began on July 22, 1994, when he and a group of young officers in the Gambian National Army seized power from President Sir Dawda Jawara in a military coup by taking control of key facilities in the capital city of Banjul. The coup was known to be a bloodless coup that was met with little resistance. Jammeh’s group identified itself as the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) with Jammeh acting as chairman.
Soon after seizing power, the Jammeh-led AFPRC suspended the constitution, sealed the borders, and implemented a nationwide curfew. Jammeh’s new government justified the coup by decrying corruption and the absence of democracy under the Jawara regime. Army personnel were also dissatisfied with their salaries, living conditions, and prospects for promotions.
In 1994 Jammeh founded the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction as his political party. He was narrowly elected president in September 1996 in a national election which foreign observers declared was neither free nor fair. He
[Cameroon Tribune] Chief Dr. Dion Ngute laid the wreath and handed parcels from President Paul Biya and wife.
By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press PURULHA, Guatemala (AP) — Guatemalan search brigades pulled the first bodies Friday from a massive rain-fueled landslide where at least 100 people are believed to be entombed, as the remains of Hurricane Eta moved across Caribbean waters, strengthening enroute to Cuba. Governments worked to tally the displaced and dead, and recover bodies from landslides and flooding caused by Eta, now a tropical depression, that claimed dozens of lives from Mexico to Panama. In southern Mexico, across the border from Guatemala, 19 people died as heavy rains attributed to Eta caused mudslides and swelled streams […]
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“Passing gas” is a part of the digestion process. It is perfectly normal, and everybody does it. Did you know most people pass gas five to fifteen times a day? If you feel like you’ve got more gas than others, or more than you used to, it might be important to find out what’s causing […]
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May 10: 239 cases, Abiy appreciates US support
\tSunday May 10 new cases were 29 raising the total national tally to 239.
May 7: Tigray’s first cases takes tally to 191
\tEthiopia’s northern Tigray region recorded four cases of COVID-19, the first in the region.
May 6: Record 17 new cases take case count to 162
\tEthiopia recorded its highest single-day spike with 17 new cases confirmed today, it brings the national tally to 162.
May 1: Ethiopia’s recoveries passes active cases
\tEthiopia recorded two new cases in over 900 tests run as at close of day April 30.
April 23: Tigray region relaxes state of emergency
\tNorthern Tigray regional state, the first to declare a COVID-19 state of emergency have announced a relaxing of the measure, the regional information outfit reported.
Gift Karanda, one of the suspects in the 6kg gold smuggling scandal involving Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) boss Henrietta Rushwaya, yesterday denied State claims that he had implicated First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa (pictured) and his son, Collins. BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA He accused the police of lying when he appeared before magistrate Ngoni Nduna yesterday where Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative Raphinos Mufandauya (37), also denied having any links with Rushwaya. Karanda, a ZMF employee, who according to the police statement implicated the First Lady and her son as the owners of the gold intercepted in Rushwaya’s hand luggage, yesterday denied ever implicating the First Family, accusing the police of concocting the statements. But Detective Inspector Michael Chibaya, the investigations officer in the case, said he was unhappy that the defence wanted to scandalise the police and make it appear as if it was the law enforcement agents who wanted to maliciously drag the First Family into the case. Mufandauya, a CIO operative at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport accused of facilitating the smuggling of 6kg of gold using his airport pass to assist three other accomplices evade security checks, also denied any links with Rushwaya. Mufandauya and Rushwaya are being charged together with Ali Mohammed, CIO operative Stephen Chenjerai Tserai, and Karanda for smuggling, illegal possession of gold, criminal abuse of office and defeating the course of justice. Through his lawyer Joshua John Chirambwe, Mufandauya said he had no connections with Rushwaya and the other four accused persons. He instead, claimed to have arrested Rushwaya over the offence. He told the court that he had never met Rushwaya prior to the airport incident on October 26, 2020. “I have no personal links or any link whatsoever to any of the accused persons even in my phone that you seized from me as police, there is nothing which links me to the other four accused persons,” Mufandauya said. Chibaya denied that Mufandauya was the one who arrested Rushwaya. The five accused were remanded in custody and yesterday was their fifth appearance in court for bail hearing. In his submissions for bail application, Chirambwe argued that his client was arrested two days after Rushwaya, showing that he had no intention to flee trial. Chibaya insisted on opposing bail on the basis that if Mufandauya was granted bail, he would abscond trial and interfere with witnesses.
Born on the Grest Farm in Liberty County, Georgia, on August 6, 1848, Susie Baker King Taylor was raised as an enslaved person. Her mother was a domestic servant for the Grest family. At the age of 7, Baker and her brother were sent to live with their grandmother in Savannah. Even with the strict laws against formal education of African Americans, they both attended two secret schools taught by black women. Baker soon became a skilled reader and writer.
By 1860, having been taught everything these two black educators could offer, Baker befriended two white individuals, a girl and boy, who also offered to teach her lessons even though they knew it violated Georgia law and custom.
The Civil War brought Baker her freedom but not immediately. On April 1, 1862, at age 14, Baker was sent back to the country to live with her mother around the time Federal forces attacked nearby Fort Pulaski. When the fort was captured by the Union Army, Baker fled with her uncle’s family and other African Americans to Union-occupied St. Simons Island where she claimed her freedom. Since most African Americans did not have an extensive education, word of Baker’s knowledge and intelligence spread among the Army officers on the island.
Five days after her arrival, Baker was offered books and school supplies by Commodore Louis M. Goldsborough if she agreed to organize a school for the children on St. Simon’s Island. Baker accepted the offer and became the first black teacher to openly instruct African American students in Georgia. By day she taught children and at night she instructed adults. Baker met and married her first husband, Edward King, a black non-commissioned officer in the Union Army, while teaching at St. Simon Island.
For the next three years, Susie Baker King traveled with her husband’s regiment, working as a laundress while teaching black Union soldiers how to read and write during their off-duty hours. She also served as a nurse, helping camp doctors care for injured soldiers.
In 1866, the Kings returned to
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[SNA] Khartoum -- The Tripartite talks of Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam chaired by the Ministers of Water and Natural Resources of the three countries resumed, on Sunday.
A Zambian man accused in the fraud and money laundering case along with self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary, is allegedly an undocumented immigrant.
[New Times] Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee (RNOSC) is set to organise a training camp for young athletes as part of the early preparations for the 2022 African Youth Games.
Mluleki Ndobe allegedly shot himself in his Durban home on Friday evening. He had also been battling cancer for some time.
Police spokesperson Colonel Andrè Traut said 5 441 West Coast rock lobster tails were found in a body bag in the back of the hearse.
Hourly wages in statewill increase to $15 by Sept. 30, 2026 BY CHRISTINE SEXTON NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE – Florida voters on Tuesday approved gradually boosting the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, while narrowly rejecting a proposal that would have overhauled the state’s primary-election system. The hike in the minimum wage will […]
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Two Gauteng Health Department officials appeared in court on fraud allegations worth R400 000 on Thursday 5 November 2020.
