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[The Conversation Africa] Ethiopia's government, under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, is carrying out a military offensive in Tigray, Ethiopia's most northern state. A six month state of emergency has been declared in the region. Dozens of casualties have been reported amid fears that nine million people are at risk of being displaced.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D Clarke has strongly condemned the Donald Trump Administration's threat to deport international students, including Caribbean nationals, whose universities transition to online-only learning amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Bob Marley’s landmark “Redemption Song” was inspired by a speech delivered by Marcus Garvey at St. Phillips African Orthodox Church in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in October 1937.
There are now more than over 500,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when. As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.
We shall keep updating this list largely sourced from the John Hopkins University tallies, Africa CDC and from official government data.
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Major African stats: July 10 at 7:00 GMT:
Confirmed cases = 541,924
Active cases = 266,620
Recoveries = 262,842
Number of deaths = 12,462
Countries in alphabetical order
Algeria – 17,808
Angola – 396
Benin – 1,285
Botswana – 314
Burkina Faso – 1,005
Burundi – 191
Cameroon – 14,916
Cape Verde – 1,552
Central African Republic – 4,200
Chad – 873
Comoros – 314
Congo-Brazzaville – 1,821
DR Congo – 7,846
Djibouti – 4,955
Egypt – 79,254
Equatorial Guinea – 3,071
Eritrea – 232
Eswatini – 1,213
Ethiopia – 6,973
Gabon – 5,871
(The) Gambia – 64
Ghana – 23,463
Guinea – 5,881
Guinea-Bissau – 1,790
Ivory Coast – 11,750
Kenya – 8,975
Lesotho – 134
Liberia – 957
Libya – 1,342
Madagascar – 3,782
Malawi – 1,984
Mali – 2,370
Mauritania – 5,126
Mauritius – 342
Morocco – 15,079
Mozambique – 1,092
Namibia – 615
Niger – 1,097
Nigeria- 30,748
Rwanda – 1,210
Sao Tome and Principe – 726
Senegal – 7,784
Seychelles – 94
Sierra Leone – 1,598
Somalia – 3,038
South Africa – 238,339
South Sudan – 2,021
Sudan – 10,158
Tanzania – 509
Togo – 704
Tunisia – 1,231
Uganda – 1,000
Zambia – 1,895
Zimbabwe – 926
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The Eritrean government says a 2018 peace deal with Ethiopia remains in good shape and was progressing despite efforts by detractors to portray it as a stalled failure.
Information Minister Yemane Meskel posted the general state of the deal which chalks its second anniversary today, July 9. “Overall progress made so far remains significant by all contemporaneous standards,” he said in a tweet.
Today is the 2nd Anniversary of the historic Eritrea-Ethiopia Peace Agreement that was signed in Asmara bringing to an end the state of intermittent wars that existed between the two countries for almost 80 years and ushered in “a new era of peace and friendship” between them pic.twitter.com/V72v3xhYOf— Yemane G. Meskel (@hawelti) July 9, 2020
Adding: “ This is in spite of the desperate, last-ditch efforts of the regressive forces of inertia and darkness – TPLF and its ilk – to scuttle and rollback enduring peace with its dividends to the two countries.”
TPLF is the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front, the ruling party in Ethiopia’s Tigray region – it shares a long boundary with Eritrea, hosting the border crossing that were opened to fanfare but have all been shut unilaterally by Eritrea, according to reports.
TPLF is currently an opposition party to the new ruling party at the federal level, Prosperity Party led by PM Abiy Ahmed.
“The Eritrea-Ethiopia peace process has catalysed a conducive climate of regional cooperation. Substantial challenges that still remain will no doubt be scaled in the period ahead through resolute and concerted action on the basis of shared vision & prevailing political good will,” the minister added.
“It is important to remember there is no formal peace treaty between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Border controls have been reinstated. Talks on economic cooperation, use of ports stalled.
“What is holding Abiy & Isayas together is their mutual antipathy to TPLF and Tigray. Nothing more,” these were recent views shared by Rashid Abdi, a former Crisis Group researcher who is a keen political watcher for the Horn and East Africa region.
The second anniversary of the July 9 deal comes at a time Abiy is dealing with an internal crisis that spared protests in the capital and surrounding Oromia region. Over 200 deaths and 3,500 arrests have been made whiles today is the tenth straight day that internet access has been cut.
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May 29: Amnesty accuses Ethiopia of extrajudicial killings
\tEthiopian security forces in the Oromia region have executed 39 opposition supporters and arrested thousands of others accused of being members of an armed group, Amnesty International said on Friday.
The rights group said in a report that victims were accused of being supporters of the Oromo Liberation Army, the breakaway armed wing of the Oromo Liberation Front, which the government had previously declared a terrorist movement but which has been unbanned by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
“Security forces have continued to violate human rights despite reforms introduced by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and this is due to widespread impunity and lack of accountability for those violations,” Amnesty International’s Ethiopia researcher Fisseha Tekle said.
“The report is further proof that the new administration has not parted ways with the practice of forcefully stifling dissent, committing egregious human rights violations and carrying out extrajudicial killings,” the Oromo Liberation Front and the Oromo Federalist Congress, an opposition party, said in a joint statement, calling on the government to investigate the findings.
Based on interviews with 80 victims or direct witnesses of violence, Amnesty’s report said the Ethiopian army and regional security forces in Amhara and Oromiya were involved in inter- ethnic killings, mass arbitrary detentions and rape.
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[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- The Empowerment Elimination, Anti-Corruption, and Funds Recovery Committee announced the long-awaited establishment of branches in 15 of the 18 Sudanese states. People in El Borgeig in Northern State set up a sit-in yesterday in protest against mismanagement in the locality. Protestors in Omdurman blocked the roads of Ombadda to lend force to their demands. The employees of Kenana Sugar Company in White Nile state lifted their sit-in yesterday.
Mariah Huq is getting candid about her estranged friendship with Quad Webb. The 'Married to Medicine' creator and executive producer dished in an exclusive interview []
Gigaba was speaking in a radio interview.
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MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Opposition People's National Party's (PNP's) majority in the Manchester Municipal Corporation was reduced to just one yesterday after Faith Sampson, councillor for the John's Hall Division in Manchester North Western, changed sides to join the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).Sampson formally announced her decision at yesterday's monthly meeting of the Manchester Municipal Corporation.
According to reports, the president, prime minister and other government officials were detained by the military in Mali following a coup.
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Tension between Amhara and Tigray, two of Ethiopia's most powerful regions, is increasing as the country approaches elections next year, says a new International Crisis Group report.
But it is the dispute between the Amhara and Tigray regions, the new report says, that “is arguably the bitterest of these contests, fueled in part by rising ethnic nationalism in both regions.”
William Davison, the Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Ethiopia, tells VOA that Amhara citizens believe that several key zones, notably the Wolqait and Raya areas, were annexed by Tigray when the current Ethiopian federation was mapped out in the early 1990s.
Plans to hold a vote have led political elites in Tigray and Amhara to adopt increasingly hardline stances toward each other, the report says, noting a recent warning from Prime Minister Abiy that any such act would “result in harm to the country and the people.”
But Dessalegn Chanie Dagnew, chairman of the opposition National Movement of Amhara, said via a messaging app that Ethiopia’s regional map based on ethnic territories has been the root cause of many tensions, not just between the Amhara and Tigray regions, but many others.
[Dalsan Radio] A local official in Gofgadud in bay region 30 killometers from Baidoa town has been killed after Alshabab attack on Monday.
