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On Tuesday, a teenage human trafficking victim charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced in an Iowa court. She was sentenced to five […]
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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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A youth who admitted to fatally stabbing a man at Leopold and Lombard streets in November, 2018, was yesterday sentenced to 14 years in jail.
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Family members of police violence victims have a unique perspective on the redesign of public safety, while the country discusses criminal justice reform. The Defender spoke with Marian Tolan, mother of Robbie Tolan, who in 2008 was racially profiled, pulled over and shot multiple times by City of Bellaire police. Tolan survived. Philonise Floyd’s brother, […]
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The deceased include a 42-year-old Eastern Cape mother and five children. The husband, according to police, has disappeared.
Archbishop of Washington Wilton Gregory broke new ground by becoming the first US cardinal of African descent in a Vatican ceremony. Pope Francis also gave the title to 12 others and warned the group against corruption.
A racist white man who rented property to a Black family with children was given a delayed, light prison sentence after admitting he was discriminating against and \"threatening to kill\" the tenants in North Carolina.
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I write to ask what crime has been committed by the Haitians who are being detained against their will by the government of Guyana and threatened with deportation.
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Batteries Not Included: Balenciaga To Reveal Its Fall/Winter 2021 Collection With A New Video Game
Comedian Bill Cosby and his supporters expressed confidence after his lawyer presented oral arguments to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas attorney general’s office has fired the last remaining whistleblower who alleged Ken Paxton broke the law in doing favors for a political donor — just days after aides had sued the agency alleging they suffered retaliation for making […]
Cancer patients who are undergoing (or have undergone) chemotherapy tend to experience neutropenia. This is typically a side effect of the treatment, resulting in a significantly reduced white blood cell count. Neutropenia is a condition where there are appreciably downsized levels of neutrophils being circulated in the blood. Alright, I heard your question: what are […]
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As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide the Supreme Court late Wednesday barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance... View Article
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Opinion - The abrupt postponement on November 19 of the BBI signature collection launch caught everybody by surprise. It was variously described by those involved as necessitated by a \"delay\" in printing due to last-minute \"minor editorial changes\".
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis raised 13 new cardinals to the highest rank in the Catholic hierarchy Saturday and immediately warned them not to use their titles for corrupt, personal gain, presiding over a ceremony marked from beginning to end by the coronavirus pandemic. Two new 'princes' of the church, from Brunei and the Philippines, didn't make it to Rome because of COVID-19 travel restrictions, though they were shown on giant screens watching it from home in the nearly empty St. Peter's Basilica. Throughout the socially distanced ceremony, which clocked in at an unusually quick […]
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One of three men charged for the 2014 murder of taxi driver Raphael Campbell was on Tuesday sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading instead to the lesser offence of manslaughter before Justice Navindra Singh.
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By AFRO Staff Pope Francis elevated 13 new cardinals to the preeminent circle of the Catholic Church Nov. 28, including the first African-American to hold the rank. Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, D.C., made history as he received his biretta (red hat) and ring denoting his loftier status during the consistory – ceremony – […]
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[Lesotho Times] THE Lesotho Police Mounted Police Service Staff Association (LEPOSA) has demanded that Police Commissioner Holomo Molibeli defers the opening of an \"inhabitable\" police post in Ha-Palima, Leribe, until it has been renovated to make it fit for human occupation. LEPOSA says it will not hesitate to sue Commissioner Molibeli if he does not yield to its demands.
Former “Basketball Wives” reality star Tami Roman is shining even brighter since leaving the show after season eight. She’s been working on her acting career, […]
[East African] Four weeks into election campaigns, Uganda's 11 presidential candidates have yet to articulate their foreign policy positions.
President-elect Joe Biden is reportedly considering Darrell Blocker for the role of director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Fox Newsfirst... View Article
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PARIS (AP) — French activists fear that a proposed new security law will deprive them of a potent weapon against abuse — cellphone videos of police activity — threatening their efforts to document possible cases of police...
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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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The Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides” of 1961, died Nov. 23. He was 83. Former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders, a friend of Boynton’s, on Tuesday confirmed his passing. Boynton was arrested 60 years ago for entering the white […]
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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
Seniors also are finding themselves at a growing rate of homelessness. The coronavirus outbreak has only exacerbated the housing problem in unprecedented ways.
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