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The Dominican Republic is experiencing an increase in racist deportations and harassment of black-skinned people due to the election year, with the current president and leading presidential candidate Luis Abinader promoting anti-Haitianismo and empowering the police to round up and investigate any Haitian or Haitian-looking person for possible detention and deportation.
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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.
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President-elect Joe Biden declared \"America is back\" this week as he revealed some of the people who will staff his administration in key national security posts, vowing to roll back Donald Trump's \"America First\" foreign policy and embrace multilateralism. Among his picks are longtime adviser Tony ...
Several Caribbean countries, including Jamaica, are shaping up to miss the ambitious 90-90-90 United Nations target for the end of this year to help end the AIDS epidemic. Set in 2013, the target called for countries to have 90 per cent of those...
Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, who is seeking a second term, was ahead of his opponents on Wednesday, according to the partial results of the November 22 presidential election announced by the National Independent Electoral Commission (Céni).
According to the provisional results from 196 communes (out of 368) by the Céni, Mr. Kaboré received 58.14% of the vote, against 14.25% for the leader of the opposition, Zephirin Diabré and 13.62% for Eddie Komboïgo, the president of the former ruling party.
The Céni has one week to announce the results.
President Kaboré, often accused of \"inaction\" in the face of jihadist attacks, is aiming, as in 2015, for a victory in the first round of this election considered to be the most open in the history of Burkina Faso, a poor West African country that has experienced multiple coups d'état since its independence.
A victory in the first round would enable it to avoid a second round against a candidate supported by the entire opposition.
The presidential and legislative elections took place on Sunday under high security tension, with Burkina Faso experiencing its darkest hours since independence, undermined by attacks by jihadist groups that have killed at least 1,200 people in five years.
The Burkinabe opposition said Monday that the double voting was \"riddled with fraud\" and threatened to \"not accept results tainted by irregularities. It had already stated, on the eve of the election, that a \"massive fraud\" was in preparation.
Among the grievances cited by the opposition were the non-opening or late opening of polling stations, the unsecured transportation of ballot boxes, the lack of materials or personnel, and the arbitrary modification of the mapping of polling stations.
The parties of the presidential majority called Tuesday for \"respect for the results\" of the election, considering that \"the shortcomings noted, although regrettable, are not of a magnitude likely to significantly impact the outcome of the election\".
An opposition demonstration, initially scheduled for Wednesday morning in front of the center for the compilation and consolidation of results, was finally cancelled.
A tripartite mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU), present in Burkina to observe the vote, met with members of the opposition and the majority for \"preventive diplomacy\", according to a member of the mission.
The elections could not take place on at least one-fifth of the territory, depriving between 300,000 and 350,000 people of voting, according to the electoral commission.
[Daily News] A NEW intervention of mobile technology has been adopted in Tanzania to help people access information and save lives as the country accelerate the fight against Gender-Based Violence (GBV).
Had COVID-19 not been raging, local climate specialists and their colleagues from the 196 other countries party to the United Nations climate accord would now be gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, negotiating concrete steps needed to advance action on curbing the impact of climate change.
A Young Girl with a Loud Voice
November 25 is the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and was also the kickoff for the international 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign this year.
In the spirit of this forward-moving energy, Edrine K premiered a song yesterday titled ‘Decision’ appealing to girls to stay in school. A simple and matter of fact message that speaks to a much more complex global issue as far as gender equality.
The music video features the children of Compassion International Uganda - Kasese Cluster - and as per its description on the artist’s official YouTube channel, “This song seeks to encourage teenage mothers to go back to school — a pregnant teenager is not a bride. It also encourages those in school to make the right decision of staying in school until they complete. I hope this song inspires every young person to make informed SRHR & life decisions to enable them to live THEIR BEST LIVES! Go back to school, keep in school until you complete. Education is endless, it's never too late to go back to school if you decide.”
The almost 20-year-old singer appears to keep the subject matter close to her heart as she has already made a name for herself — both within her community and abroad, as a social activist who uses her art to fight for women’s rights in her native country, Uganda.
Early Years to Artistic Activism
Edrine K, born Edrine Kusemererwa on December 6, 2000 in Saluti Cell in Nyamwamba Division in Kasese municipality — one of the districts in Uganda that sees cases of child abuse. Especially as it pertains to the sexual abuse and early marriage of girls - who also often suffer discrimination when it comes to the opportunity to obtain a formal education. According to a 2016 report by Isis-WICCE-Uganda an international women’s rights organisation, at least every family in Kasese has a child between the ages of 13 and 17 that has either already married or been defiled.
The young activist has shared her memories growing up of observing many young girls around her be mistreated, discriminated against, sexually assaulted and even made to marry. Many others — like K herself who has to switch schools due to financial changes, would abandon their studies for lack of money to pay tuition.
Born in a polygamous family to Yeres Kyakimwa, a food vendor in Kisanga Market and Seith Kazige, a social worker, the rising star showed interest in music from the tender age of five to later join the St Barnabas Church of Uganda choir in Saluti — of which she is still a member. The young activist says that the gender-injustice that permeated her surroundings is what inspired her to create music that explored the harsh realities of many girls in Uganda.
She saved around Shillings 60,000 over three years to produce her first song in 2017, ‘Your Awesome Jesus,’ a gospel song. And since then, the singer-songwriter had a first breakthrough and viral hit by way of ‘Get off my Way’ in 2018.
A Girl's Decision to Finish Her Educati
By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In a time of plague and raw division, President-elect Joe Biden appealed for unity Wednesday in a Thanksgiving-eve address to the nation asking Americans to 'steel our spines' for a fight against the coronavirus that he predicted would continue for months. . But even as he implored Americans to join in healing and common purpose, President Donald Trump asserted that the election should be overturned, a futile call but one that stokes the divisions Biden is trying to overcome. With COVID-19 cases surging nationwide, Biden called on Americans to take precautions […]
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We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today. Every day is worth remembering.
[Nation] A survey conducted in Homa Bay County has found that poverty is the main reason for early exposure to sex.
In a news release, Biden’s campaign officials noted that “these diverse, experienced, and talented individuals demonstrate President-elect Biden’s commitment to building an administration that looks like America.” The campaign noted further that each has deep government expertise and will be ready to help the president-elect deliver results for working families on day one.
The contents of a recent letter from Gaston Browne, the Antigua and Barbuda prime minister, to his Barbados counterpart, Mia Mottley, appears to reflect both frustration in St John’s and long-running difficulty among Caribbean Community (CARICOM)...
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[East African] Somalia's Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has said the country is working towards a free, fair and timely election to sustain its rise from years of conflict.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca in recent weeks, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, as the company races to deploy its vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. The hackers posed as recruiters on networking site LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach AstraZeneca staff with fake job offers, the sources said. They then sent documents purporting to be job descriptions that were laced with malicious code designed to gain access to a victim’s computer. The hacking attempts targeted a “broad set of people” including staff working on COVID-19 research, said one of the sources, but are not thought to have been successful. The North Korean mission to the United Nations in Geneva did not respond to a request for comment. Pyongyang has previously denied carrying out cyberattacks. It has no direct line of contact for foreign media. AstraZeneca, which has emerged as one of the top three COVID-19 vaccine developers, declined to comment.r The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss non-public information, said the tools and techniques used in the attacks showed they were part of an ongoing hacking campaign that U.S. officials and cybersecurity researchers have attributed to North Korea. The campaign has previously focused on defence companies and media organisations but pivoted to COVID-related targets in recent weeks, according to three people who have investigated the attacks. Cyberattacks against health bodies, vaccine scientists and drugmakers have soared during the COVID-19 pandemic as state-backed and criminal hacking groups scramble to obtain the latest research and information about the outbreak. Western officials say any stolen information could be sold for profit, used to extort the victims, or give foreign governments a valuable strategic advantage as they fight to contain a disease that has killed 1.4 million people worldwide. Microsoft said this month it had seen two North Korean hacking groups target vaccine developers in multiple countries, including by “sending messages with fabricated job descriptions.” Microsoft did not name any of the targeted organisations. South Korean lawmakers said on Friday that the country’s intelligence agency had foiled some of those attempts. Reuters has previously reported that hackers from Iran, China and Russia have attempted to break into leading drugmakers and even the World Health Organisation this year. Tehran, Beijing and Moscow have all denied the allegations. Some of the accounts used in the attacks on AstraZeneca were registered to Russian email addresses, one of the sources said, in a possible attempt to mislead investigators. North Korea has been blamed by U.S. prosecutors for some of the world’s most audacious and damaging cyberattacks, including the hack and leak of emails from Sony Pictures in 2014, the 2016 theft of $81 million from the Central Bank of Bangladesh, and unleashing the Wannacry ransomware virus in 2017. Pyongyang has described the allegations as part
A Cameroonian military tribunal has jailed the head of the main opposition party's women's wing for six months for "plotting revolution", according to an order seen by AFP.
Goff will help lead efforts to help propel Biden's legislative efforts through Congress, which includes policies promising to lengthen, ensure, and enrich the lives of Black people in America.
