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Ethiopian forces have mounted a fresh battle for the strategic northern city of Dessie, residents said on Sunday, hours after Tigrayan rebels claimed to have taken control of it.
He replaces Debretsion Gebremichael, whose immunity from prosecution was removed Thursday.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a \"massacre\" in the Tigray region, that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party.
The \"massacre\" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict between the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
\"Amnesty International can today confirm... that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the southwest of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,\" the rights group said in a report.
Amnesty said it had \"digitally verified gruesome photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers.\"
The dead \"had gaping wounds that appear to have been inflicted by sharp weapons such as knives and machetes,\" Amnesty said, citing witness accounts.
Witnesses said the attack was carried out by TPLF-aligned forces after a defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian military, though Amnesty said it \"has not been able to confirm who was responsible for the killings\".
It nonetheless called on TPLF commanders and officials to \"make clear to their forces and their supporters that deliberate attacks on civilians are absolutely prohibited and constitute war crimes\".
Abiy ordered military operations in Tigray on November 4, saying they were prompted by a TPLF attack on federal military camps -- a claim the party denies.
The region has been under a communications blackout ever since, making it difficult to verify competing claims on the ground.
Abiy said Thursday his army had made major gains in western Tigray.
Thousands of Ethiopians have fled across the border into neighboring Sudan, and the UN is sounding the alarm about a humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
[VOA] Rebel forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region denied reports Wednesday that they had killed dozens of civilians over a two-day period in the Amhara area.
Good luck finding a firepool, here. Jacob Zuma is now off to spend his days in the recently revamped Estcourt Prison - here's what it looks like.
[African Arguments] There are reports of Ethiopian and Eritrea troops going out of their way to loot and destroy beloved churches, mosques and monasteries.
COGTA MEC Xolile Nqatha has also ordered the village chief to apologise to the man and woman who were humiliated during the experience
[Nation] The Ethiopian government on Wednesday warned it will cancel ceasefire deal if fighters loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front violate truce.
Ethiopia is in east-central Africa, bordered on the west by the Sudan, the east by Somalia and Djibouti, the south by Kenya, and the northeast by Eritrea. It has several high mountains, the highest of which is Ras Dashan at 15,158 ft (4,620 m). The Blue Nile, or Abbai, rises in the northwest and flows in a great semicircle before entering the Sudan. Its chief reservoir, Lake Tana, lies in the northwest.
Federal republic.
Archeologists have found the oldest known human ancestors in Ethiopia, including Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba (c. 5.8–5.2 million years old) and Australopithecus anamensis (c. 4.2 million years old). Originally called Abyssinia, Ethiopia is sub-Saharan Africas oldest state, and its Solomonic dynasty claims descent from King Menelik I, traditionally believed to have been the son of the queen of Sheba and King Solomon. The current nation is a consolidation of smaller kingdoms that owed feudal allegiance to the Ethiopian emperor.
Hamitic peoples migrated to Ethiopia from Asia Minor in prehistoric times. Semitic traders from Arabia penetrated the region in the 7th century B.C. Its Red Sea ports were important to the Roman and Byzantine Empires. Coptic Christianity was brought to the region in A.D. 341, and a variant of it became Ethiopias state religion. Ancient Ethiopia reached its peak in the 5th century, then was isolated by the rise of Islam and weakened by feudal wars.
Modern Ethiopia emerged under Emperor Menelik II, who established its independence by routing an Italian invasion in 1896. He expanded Ethiopia by conquest. Disorders that followed Meneliks death brought his daughter to the throne in 1917, with his cousin, Tafari Makonnen, as regent and heir apparent. When the empress died in 1930, Tafari was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I.
Haile Selassie, called the “Lion of Judah,” outlawed slavery and tried to centralize his scattered realm, in which 70 languages were spoken. In 1931, he created a constitution, revised in 1955, that called for a parliament with an appointed senate, an
An airstrike hit a busy market in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray village of Togoga on Tuesday, according to health workers who... View Article
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By The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court just undercut the Voting Rights Act again. Having gutted the section that required pre-approval of state voting laws to protect the rights of minorities to vote in Shelby v. Holder, Republican-appointed justices now have castrated the backup clause – Section 2 – […]
The Second Italo-Abyssinian War was Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia, a process it began after the 1885 Partition of Africa. Italy was defeated in its first attempt at conquest at the battle of Adwa in 1896, allowing Ethiopia to become the only African nation to remain free of European control. Italian colonial forces however still remained in neighboring Eritrea and Somalia, and it was only a matter of time before the two nations would clash again.
The prospect of war increased dramatically after the fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, took control of Italy in 1922. He sought Ethiopia for its resources but also to salvage the pride of the only European nation defeated by an African country. Taking Ethiopia would have also completed the Italian domination over the Horn of Africa.
The initial conflict that sparked the war took place at Wal Wal, an oasis in the Ogaden Desert in 1934. On November 22, 1934, Italian forces marched fifty miles into Ethiopia and clashed with Ethiopian troops at Wal Wal, leaving one hundred and fifty Ethiopians and two Italians dead. The League of Nations evaluated the conflict and exonerated both nations, although Italy was the clear aggressor. Great Britain and France, which dominated the League, hoped to prevent Italy from becoming an ally of Nazi Germany. Taking advantage of this situation, Mussolini signed agreements with France and the United Kingdom, thus isolating Ethiopia and forcing it to face Italy alone.
The impending attack from the Italians prompted Emperor Haile Selassie I to recruit and mobilize the Army of the Ethiopian Empire. His approximately half-million-man legion was armed with mostly bows and spears, with the exception of those who owned outdated rifles, some of which remained from the conflict forty years earlier. Only a quarter of the army had any combat training. With a miniscule arsenal of outdated artillery and anti-tank or aircraft guns, and a handful of planes including some piloted by African Americans and other volunteers, the Ethiopian nation was
Dozens of people were wounded or killed in an airstrike on a market in the town of Togoga in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region, witnesses told AFP Wednesday.
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the law enforcement operations in Tigray Regional State are proceeding as planned.
The convoy of cars leaving the Nkandla homestead at high speed before midnight has just arrived at the Escourt correctional facility.
[Egypt Online] Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli has paid a visit to New Aswan city to follow up progress achieved so far in carrying out development and services projects there.
While enjoying his lunch, an elderly construction worker was shot and injured on Wednesday afternoon. He was airlifted to hospital.
A month after the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court denied him bail, suspected Gupta associate Iqbal Sharma will be appealing the decision on Friday.
[The Conversation Africa] Ethiopia is holding parliamentary elections at a time of immense domestic turmoil and foreign pressure. This is due to, in particular, the Tigray conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and other ethnic-based violence.
As Makhadzi drops the official 'Ganama' track, fans are demanding answers from Makhadzi about King Monada.
THE United National Congress (UNC) has said THA Chief Secretary Ancil Dennis does not possess the mandate to speak on behalf of Tobago. He added that Dennis was “out of place” for describing the actions of the party’s leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, as “ridiculous and disrespectful.”
Dennis had made the statement at the post executive council media briefing in Scarborough, last Thursday, a day after Persad-Bissessar tore what she claimed was a “gutted” version of the Tobago Self-Government Bill.
The bill is one of two pieces of legislation aimed at giving Tobago greater autonomy. The other is the Tobago Island Administration Bill.
Debate on the Joint Select Committee’s report on the bills took place in the House of Representatives on June 28 and 29.
It reached the committee stage but no vote was taken.
This was because UNC MPs, led by Persad-Bissessar walked out of the Parliament chamber in protest against Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George’s decision to allow the Prime Minister an extra 60 minutes to wind up the debate on the bills.
During the debate, UNC MPs said the bills do not reflect the views of Tobagonians and called for more consultation.
In a release on Saturday, the party’s PRO Dr Kirk Meighoo said Dennis was in no position to describe Persad-Bissessar as “ridiculous and disrespectful.”
He said Dennis, who leads a holdover THA executive, owing to the six-six result in the January 25 THA election, was disqualified from speaking on behalf of Tobago.
“Ancil Dennis must keep his ridiculous and disrespectful mouth closed with regard to the fully legitimate positions and actions taken by the official Opposition of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago,” Meighoo said in the release.
He added: “Ancil Dennis is completely ridiculous and disrespectful to the people of Tobago when he purports to speak for the entire island of Tobago, after his party lost their majority in the last THA elections.”
Meighoo accused Dennis of holding on to the title of Chief Secretary, in order to “continue spending out the people's money,” while he has no popular electoral mandate to do so, or a properly functioning THA to provide oversight.
“If he wants a political future, the political novice Ancil Dennis must stop issuing any further ridiculous and disrespectful statements, and learn to respect the political will of the people of Trinidad and Tobago, rather than follow the instructions of his PNM political masters in Trinidad.”
Meighoo also accused Dennis of dismissing, without justification, the findings of an Auditor General’s for the period October 2019 to September 2020, which identified irregularities in the THA’s handling of covid19 relief initiatives.
Responding to the UNC’s release, Dennis told Newsday: “It is good that on this occasion the subject of the UNC press release isn’t longer than the body.”
Asked to comment further, he added: “This does not meet the requirement for any further attention.”
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Ethiopian troops and a militia in the country's Amhara region have been mobilizing following a series of attacks by Tigray forces, according to local reports.
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith says people shouldn't gamble with Covid-19 or their lives, reminding communities that vaccination remains the best protection as the pandemic continues.
BY SILAS NKALA OPPOSITION Zapu yesterday described the death of former Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (Zpra) commander, Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane (93), as
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Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has apologised for his role in a viral video in which he promotes a traditional Chinese medicine product for the treatment of Covid-19.
"Four mercenaries were killed, two were intercepted under our control. Three policemen who had been taken hostage have been recovered," said Leon Charles, the head of Haiti's national police.
