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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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By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Please leave a chair empty at this year's family Christmas dinner as a precaution, or face the possibility of having that chair empty forever. That's the stark dilemma Belgium's prime minister has set to urge smaller festive family gatherings, as Europeans battle with containing the surging COVID-19 pandemic over the holiday season. Alexander De Croo argued that the country's long-running, costly efforts should not be thrown away for the sake of a few warm and fuzzy hours exchanging gifts under the Christmas tree. 'I would not want the progress of the past […]
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WESTERN BUREAU: With the Hanover Health Department (HHD) now shifting its focus to match the community spread phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Haughton Grove section of Lucea in the community is now under special scrutiny. Within recent weeks,...
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In the wake of the Black Lives Movement, Kristina Morgan, a communications specialist, has released a self-published children’s book capturing a childhood in Jamaica that reinforces positivity, joy and diversity. “This book was inspired while I was...
The mayor of Florida’s Broward County has proposed a task force that would address issues of systemic racism. The South FloridaSun-Sentinel reportsthat the proposal is the third from Broward County Mayor Dale Holness that attempts to address the issue of systemic racism. Holness previously proposed […]
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By REGINA GARCIA CANO, MATT SEDENSKY and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Vivian Zayas can't keep herself from scrolling through photos of last Thanksgiving, when her mother stood at the stove to make a big pot of rice and beans and then took a seat at the edge of the table. That was before anyone had heard of COVID-19 and before it claimed the retired seamstress. Ana Martinez died at 78 on April 1 while recovering at a nursing home from a knee replacement. The family is having their traditional meal of turkey, yams, green beans and rice and beans — […]
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… would be only the second African American and the first Black woman … in 1993 as the first African American to become Agriculture secretary.
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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jawan M. Jackson recently got to do something he's been yearning to do for months — sing and dance again with his Broadway cast. Jackson is one of the stars of 'Ain't Too Proud — The Life and Times of The Temptations' and he reunited with castmates for the first time since theaters shuttered to prepare for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday. 'I was most happy with just seeing all my old friends I haven't seen in months, some who flew in specifically for the show to do […]
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By KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The infection of a single cafeteria worker was all it took to close classrooms in the small Lowellville school district in northeastern Ohio, forcing at least two weeks of remote learning. Not only did the worker who tested positive for the coronavirus need to quarantine, but so did the entire cafeteria staff and most of the transportation crew, because some employees work on both. The district of about 500 students sharing one building had resumed in-person instruction with masks and social distancing and avoided any student infections. But without enough substitute […]
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The Women of Troy started their season on a high note with an 85-55 win over the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) Lions. USC shot at 46.3 percent and capitalized off of 20 LMU turnovers.
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By The Associated Press undefined NEW YORK (AP) — 'Jeopardy!' record-holder Ken Jennings will be the first in a series of interim hosts replacing Alex Trebek when the show resumes production next Monday. Producers announced Monday that Jennings, who won 74 games in a row and claimed the show's 'Greatest of All Time' title in a competition last year, will host episodes that air in January. A long-term host to replace Trebek, who died of cancer on Nov. 8, will be named later. 'By bringing in familiar guest hosts for the foreseeable future, our goal is to create a sense […]
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By Associated Press Undefined COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State coach Ryan Day has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not be with the Buckeyes when they play at Illinois on Saturday. Ohio State said Friday it had an increased number of positive COVID-19 tests in the program this week, but the game against the Illini was still on. Buckeyes veteran defensive line coach Larry Johnson will act as interim coach with Day unavailable.
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With only a few weeks remaining in this condensed high school football season, Willowridge senior quarterback Rufus Scott has the Eagles flying into the playoffs. Currently, 'the Ridge' is tied for second place in Class 5A-2 Region III District 11 division, only trailing Fort Bend Marshall who is the only team to defeat Willowridge this […]
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It's that wonderful time of the year where bells are ringing, people are singing, and good ole' Saint Nick is preparing his way to come to town… in proper COVID fashion, of course. To spread the holiday cheer in the different circumstances, we're living in; Hey Carter Books hosts their first virtual story-time with Cocoa … Continued
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By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide the Supreme Court late Wednesday barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as hard hit by the virus. The justices split 5-4 with new Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the majority. It was the conservative's first publicly discernible vote as a justice. The court's three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented. The move was a shift for the court. Earlier this year, when Barrett's liberal predecessor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was still on the court, […]
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By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fans of Bad Bunny are used to expecting something different each time he releases new music. He's done it since his first studio album, 2018's 'X 100pre' ('Forever'); then with 'Oasis', his collaboration with J Balvin in 2019, and last February with his award-winning 'YHLQMDLG,' a 20-track project which explored love and loss through a combination of trap and reggaetón. Now he is surprising fans with 'El Último Tour del Mundo' ('The Last Tour of the World'), a 16-song collection written during the pandemic and released Friday in which he plays […]
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By Associated Press Undefined NEW YORK (AP) — The balloons were in the sky and the marching bands took to the streets for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, but coronavirus restrictions meant it was without the throngs of people usually scrambling for a view. Instead of its typical path through Manhattan, this year's parade was kept to the area in front of Macy's flagship store and aimed at a television audience instead of live crowds. There were some familiar balloon faces, of course, including Snoopy, Ronald McDonald, and SpongeBob SquarePants. But the bigger balloons were missing the […]
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Children will also get a chance to ride a bike for the first time.
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[The Conversation Africa] The Democratic Republic of Congo is the major source of some of the minerals used to manufacture components in household appliances, mobile phones, electric vehicles and jewellery.
African Medicine Gets No Love
Although media outlets in the West typically portray Africa as a “dark continent” full of poverty, disease and war, the African continent is not only the birthplace of humankind’s civilisation sitting on some of the planet’s most astounding natural riches but has also seen and continues to see some of the world’s oldest scientific practices and discoveries and new advancements. Advancements in the form of revolutionary medical procedures such as an awake craniotomy — a surgical term for creating a temporary opening by removing part of the skull in order to carry out activity on the brain of the living being with the objective of healing an ailment or correcting an issue such as removing brain tumours.
Awake Brain Surgery
A craniotomy is brain surgery and a type of neurosurgical technique. Awake craniotomy specifically refers to performing this surgery while the patient is still fully conscious i.e. awake and not under general anaesthesia. It is done in this way to reduce the risk of potential brain damage to the patient when carrying out such a delicate operation as the neurosurgeon is able to more effectively monitor the patient's neurological state by way of live feedback and key cues as she can communicate the effects — such as the loss of a movement in a limb or the loss the ability to speak or count when the doctor manipulates a certain part of her brain. An awake craniotomy can also be applied to surgical surgeries where tissues causing epileptic seizures are removed and according to experts in the field, the technique has made removing brain tumours — whether benign or malignant, safer and much less a medical taboo than before.
Brain Surgery by Traditional Healers in Kenya
And this medical advancement is available in Kenya. Neocolonial subliminal messaging in the western media aside, perhaps one should expect such a medical feat from Kenya — given the existence of an old cultural medicinal practice or traditional craniotomy by the ababari emetwe (surgeons of this traditional procedure) of the Kisii or South Nyanza ethnic group within the Bantu community in Kenya dating to so far back that the earliest passing records of it are from European colonial observers in the 1950s. According to the texts contained in \"Trepanation of The Skull by The Medicine-men of Primitive Cultures, With Particular Reference to Present-day Native East African Practice\", by Edward Lambert Margetts (in Proceedings of the Third World Congress of Psychiatry, Montreal: University of Toronto Press/McGill University Press, Vol.II, 1962), trepanning in Kenyan traditional medicine, which appears to share many technical similarities with today’s awake craniotomy, has been practised by traditional healers in various East-African communities.
The surgery practised by the Kisii in Kenya was typically performed to cure chronic head pain after trauma to the head and has been documented to have 5% fatality rate — following years-long observations of the medicine men’s practice in the 20th century.
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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumers increased their spending by a sluggish 0.5% last month, the weakest rise since April, when the pandemic first erupted, and a sign that Americans remain wary with the virus resurging across the country and threatening the economy. The October gain reported Wednesday by the Commerce Department followed a seasonally adjusted 1.2% increase in September. It suggested that consumer spending, the primary driver of the U.S. economy, is being restrained by a weakened economy and by the failure of Congress to provide another stimulus package to struggling individuals and businesses. […]
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