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Centenarian Ermita Weekes’ sharp mind has been attributed to her love for solving crossword puzzles. When the media interviewed Weekes on her 100th birthday on Thursday June 2, at the Harmony Hall, St Philip home where she lives with her daughter Judy Luke, Weekes held the attention of her loved ones and friends who gathered […]
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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.
AP
[This Day] -Says news network exhibiting panic by seeking to clarify its tweet 35 days after
“Because of the racial inequities we have built into our essential systems, they have become combustion engines of misery. The virus flows freely in high-risk areas like holding cells, police encounters, low-wage workplaces, and public transit. The pistons of residential segregation, generational poverty, and targeted disinvestment along racial lines apply pressure … We can only […]
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Citing low traffic on the competitive Guyana to Barbados route, local airline Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) has reduced its five-time-a-week operations to once a week, according to Managing Director Alexandra Correia.
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Graveside Service was held Thursday, November 19, 2020 at Greenwood Memorial Park. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary. On May 9, 1920, a precious life by the name of Alva Pearl Horne began in Rentiesville, Oklahoma along with her twin brother, Alvin. She was the third of ten children born to loving parents, Harriet […]
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Typically, U.S. Presidents do not speak during Thanksgiving, unless there is a situation of national emergency. However, on this unusual of Thanksgiving Days, President Donald J. Trump spoke from the White House, promising he would visit Georgia to campaign for U.S. Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in their fights to retain their seats in Congress. 'Speaking of Georgia, I'll […]
[Cameroon Tribune] The bill on the agreement between Cameroon and Switzerland will soon be forwarded to the Senate for scrutiny and adoption.
[The Herald] Francis Owusu, Padraig Carmody and Ricardo Reboredo
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday introduced his picks for key Cabinet positions, including Antony Blinken, who he has chosen as secretary of state and whose beliefs about the need to help refugees comes from a very personal place.Biden introduced Blinken, saying that Blinken's upbringing as the ...
The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has expressed shock at the passing of President of the Guyana Judo Association and council member of the GOA, Raoul Archer.
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[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed held discussion today with AU special envoys and briefed them about the current law enforcement operation underway in Tigary Regional State against the TPLF clique, according to the Office of the Prime Minister.
[Daily Maverick] Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed is expected to meet the envoys - but may not allow them to meet his opponents.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Many transgender women employed in hospitality and as sex workers have struggled during the coronavirus pandemic
(CNN)Diego Maradona is lying in honor for public viewing at Argentina's presidential palace, Casa Rosada, following his death aged 60. Hoards of fans congregated at the palace in Buenos Aires after the doors opened for the general public at 6 a.m. local time on Thursday. Alicia […]
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[Nation] Kapkatet Sub-County Referral Hospital in Kericho County is on the spot after a patient who was presumed dead was transferred to the mortuary.
[Nation] Deputy President William Ruto has maintained that there is still room for building consensus on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), hours after President Kenyatta launched collection of one million signatures for referendum.
Sonia Walkes has been with Con Edison for approximately four decades in various positions. As the category manager for the Supplier Diversity Program
By LISA RATHKE Associated Press COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) — St. Michael's College managed to keep coronavirus cases at bay for almost two months this fall with students tested upon arrival and once every three weeks. But in mid-October, cases at the small Vermont school started to climb. The outbreak was linked to an ice rink more than 40 miles (64 kilometers) away. The liberal arts college shifted to all-remote learning and closed the campus to visitors. By November, a total of 76 of the roughly 1,600 students had tested positive, the school said. 'It was very concerning to experience the […]
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[Dalsan Radio] The President of South West State of Somalia Abdi Aziz Hassan Mohamed (Laftagreen) said that his administration has faced the first challenge from Al-Shabaab.
'Chicago's public service workers have stepped up and protected this city during a deadly public health crisis not seen before in our lifetime and for that, we will always be in their debt. That's why since the start of this budget process, we have worked day and night with this administration to ensure not a … Continued
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DJ Khaled has never seen a high-profile project he isn't willing to co-sign. The Miami DJ, producer and all-around hype man took to Instagram to reveal he will be hosting renowned Trump supporter Lil Wayne's forthcoming new No Ceilings 3 mixtape.
Slain Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa's family waited in anguish as rumoured mastermind behind killing did not appear in court.
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way to use other methods like firing squads and poison gas. The amended rule, published Friday in the Federal Register, allows the U.S. government to conduct executions by lethal injection or use 'any other manner prescribed by the law of the state in which the sentence was imposed.' A number of states allow other methods of execution, including electrocution, inhaling nitrogen gas or death by firing squad. […]
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PARLIAMENT has recommended that the government immediately shuts down schools, blaming the rising COVID-19 cases on its failure to adequately prepare for the reopening of learning institutions after 57 pupils at Chinhoyi High School tested positive for the virus. BY MOSES MATENGA/NUNURAI JENA/PHYLLIS MBANJE At All Souls Mission School in Mutoko, over 20 pupils are reportedly showing signs of the virus. A Form 4 Chinhoyi High student tested positive for COVID-19 last Saturday and the cases ballooned to 57 yesterday. “We have 57 COVID-19 cases at Chinhoyi High School and we continue to test more learners. We started testing pupils after a 17-year-old girl tested positive last week” provincial medical director Gift Masoja said yesterday. “The examinations will continue but those who tested positive should write on their own the same applies with day scholars.” Mashonaland West provincial education director Gabriel Mhuma added: “The school has been sealed off, no boarder will be allowed to leave the school and all day-scholars were told to stay at home as a precautionary measure.” Although the Primary and Secondary Education ministry said it was yet to verify the cases in Mutoko, unconfirmed reports said day-scholars had been advised not to come to school while boarders were under quarantine until tests have been conducted. Schools have become COVID-19 hotspots aided by the cramped environment and non-existent social distancing. John Tallach, a mission school in Ntabazinduna near Bulawayo was shut down after reporting over 120 positive cases last week. The number has since risen to 184. Debating a report by the Parliamentary committee on Primary and Secondary Education chaired by Proportional Representation Member of Parliament Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, the MPs said the government was ill-advised and acted prematurely to open schools and exposed children to the deadly virus. Contributing to the debate, Sotherton MP Peter Moyo said schools should not have been opened in the first place and that the best way forward now was to close them to avoid a disaster. “I hope the whole world agrees with what has been said here that schools were not supposed to be opened. We have opened schools and children who were COVID-19 positive and negative were put at the same place hence infecting the whole school,” Moyo said. “What does this mean? It means that we made a mistake as a government. Schools were not supposed to have been opened before the necessary precautions to protect the children were taken. Only God knows whether these children will survive. Government should just close schools.” Schools reopened on September 28 for examination classes in a phased process that saw the last group open on November 9. Most schools, however, remained closed after teachers, who were on strike demanding a pay hike, failed to report for duty. There have been concerns that students were not ready for examinations due to the COVID-19-induced schools’ closure and strike by teachers, but government insisted examinations should go ahead. Moyo sa
[This Day] Feed Industry Practitioners Association of Nigeria, (FIPAN), has warned that the continued exportation of maize and soya bean is endangering livestock farming in the country, stressing that if the trend is not checked many more poultry farms would close down.
It is no coincidence that many of the major cities where President Donald Trump's campaign is making baseless claims of widespread voter fraud have large African-American communities, including Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukee. Black voters, for the most part, favored President-elect Joe...
He gave the kids access to his new memoir ‘A Promised Land.’
[Africa In Fact] While outgoing US President Donald Trump has repeated tantrums at the prospect of leaving the White House, a lesson in democracy from Malawi is worth paying closer attention to. Lazarus Chakwera was inaugurated as Malawi's sixth president on 6 July 2020 after winning a historic election, which was held after the judiciary overturned the 2019 presidential election and called for a fresh election. This is only the second time this has happened in an African country.
