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The government blames the former Tigray leaders and claims normalcy has returned in the region of six million people. It has denied widespread profiling and targeting of Tigrayans.
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.
John T. Gayton, one of Seattle, Washington’s earliest black residents, a community leader, and patriarch of one of the city’s most outstanding black families, came to Seattle in 1889. He was born in Benton, Mississippi to former slaves. With little formal education, he moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, and made the fortuitous decision to work for a physician, Dr. Henry Yandell, as servant and coachman. It brought him to Seattle when Dr. Yandell joined the movement to the new state of Washington.
Soon after his arrival in Seattle he tried his hand as painter, painting contractor, barber, and bellboy. He worked as a waiter at the Arctic Club and later at the Rainier Club, where he was promoted to headwaiter. In 1901 he became the first black steward at the Rainier Club, overseeing the servants and the preparation of food. Before long, he was called upon to cater large parties and banquets. He also catered everyday for a downtown restaurant.
Gayton studied bookkeeping at Wilson’s Modern Business School while working as a waiter and he studied law while working as a steward. He never took the bar examination but his background eventually served him well for in 1904 he began working for the new U.S. District Court as a messenger and bailiff. In August 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him U.S. District Court Librarian.
Because of Gayton’s broad experience with the court system and his knowledge of the library, young lawyers often called upon him for advice, as did immigrants seeking help in studying for citizenship exams. John Gayton served in this position for 20 years.
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By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, will meet on the debate stage for the first time Tuesday night in Cleveland. Millions of voters will get their first opportunity to compare the candidates' policies and personalities side by side on national television for 90 minutes just five weeks before Election Day and as early voting is already unfolding in some states. Here are some of the biggest questions heading into the night: HOW DOES TRUMP HANDLE BEING ON THE DEFENSIVE? In his first formal debate since taking […]
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Intelligence report shows a well-coordinated syndicate comprising unscrupulous employees from tax, customs, investigative and judicial agencies.
The remains of over 10,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi that were exhumed from different parts of the country have not been able to be to be given a decent burial due to COVID-19.
Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu, President of Ibuka, told The New Times that thousands of bodies that were exhumed before and during the COVID-19 period are waiting until the pandemic ends.
\"Exhumed bodies have been collected and maintained in designated places across the country until COVID-19 pandemic ends and the ban on social events is lifted,\" he said.
Among the 10,000 bodies, 8,500 were exhumed in Masaka, Kicukiro district.
Currently, it is expected that 3,000 more bodies will be recovered from Ruramira dam in Kayonza District.
Osceola Macarthy Adams 1890
[The Conversation Africa] Ethiopia's government, under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, is carrying out a military offensive in Tigray, Ethiopia's most northern state. A six month state of emergency has been declared in the region. Dozens of casualties have been reported amid fears that nine million people are at risk of being displaced.
As Ethiopia's 2021 election nears, a territorial dispute has flared between Amhara and Tigray, two northern regions.
Tigray and Amhara, the powerhouse regions of northern Ethiopia, are locked in a bitter land dispute exacerbated by national politicking that pits their elites against each other.
In late 2018, in north-western Amhara, local Amhara killed hundreds and displaced thousands of Qimant, an ethnic minority pursuing greater autonomy within the region, amid regional officials' claims that Tigray's ruling party is funding the self-rule campaign.
Were Tigray willing to instead grant political representation and language rights to minority populations in the territories, some Amhara officials have suggested this could help lead to an acceptable outcome.
The Amhara not only assert historical ownership of the land but also charge that TPLF rebels killed and uprooted Amhara in the disputed areas, thus altering the demographic balance in favour of Tigrinya speakers and laying the basis for a TPLF claim to the lands under Ethiopia's ethnic federal system.
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance on Sunday reversed the suspension of a number of Marondera district party members as factionalism and chaos continues to reign within the main opposition party. BY JAIROS SAUNYAMA This paper is reliably informed that some members from the provincial leadership announced that the whole district committee was dissolved on allegations of “disrespecting” the party leadership within the province. The opposition party’s secretary for rural strategies and mobilisation Happymore Chidziva was in Marondera at the weekend where he told party supporters that no district committee was dissolved. Chidziva yesterday confirmed his visit to Marondera saying it was meant to mobilise party supporters ahead of the 2023 elections as well as the formation of branches. “The district committee was not dissolved. It still exists as it was before. We visited Marondera to educate the members on their roles, use of resources, and how to build political consciousness towards 2021. Our terms of reference were on unity building, consulting on challenges and encouraging them to keep on forming new branches,” Chidziva said. Meanwhile, the MDC Alliance youth assembly has begun mobilisation of youths in rural areas in Zanu PF’s strongholds of Mudzi and UMP as part of the recently launched one million youth recruitment exercise. The youth leaders drawn from Marondera and Murewa have been deployed in rural areas as Chamisa seeks to make inroads into the rural areas. Chidziva said the exercise was going on well. He also rubbished claims that Zanu PF controled the rural votes. “We are doing our best (mobilisation). I do not believe that Mashonaland East is their (Zanu PF) stronghold, rather it’s the centre of intimidation and torture,” he said. Follow Jairos on Twitter@jairossaunyama
The Ethiopian government expelled seven UN officials accusing them of interference in internal politics
The IEC is conducting by-elections in 95 wards across the country on Wednesday.
\"Serious violations of international law, which may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, may have been committed,\"- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says the government wants a \"peaceful, democratic\" election
Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination to be president during the final night of the Democratic National Convention and asked voters to fully grasp the consequences of re-electing Donald Trump.
The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the grave humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region is deteriorating, with no sign of Eritrean troops withdrawing and alarmingly widespread reports of systematic rape and other sexual violence mainly by men in uniform.
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BY MOSES MATENGA/TATENDA SQUARE OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday described Zimbabweans as “a sad people” that are struggling to get
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Ethiopia on Thursday called on rebel forces in the war-hit Tigray region to adhere to a unilateral ceasefire it declared earlier this week, amid doubts about whether fighting would actually stop.
[VOA] The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in the country's Tigray region is sharply criticizing Ethiopia's actions, saying he believes it is genocide: \"They want to destroy the people of Tigray.\"
The reports of the 303 Committee and a memorandum by Thomas H. Karamessines, Deputy CIA Director entitled “Plans of Guyana Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, Leader of the People’s National Congress (PNC), to Rig the Elections Scheduled for Late 1968 or Early 1969” might be a good starting point for anyone who cares about facts.
Here is a sample:
“In a meeting of high level government and People’s National Congress (PNC) leaders [2 or 3 words deleted*] Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana and leader the PNC, gave instructions to rig the election scheduled for late 1968 or early 1969 in order to permit the PNC to win a clear majority.”
It is not lost on younger Guyanese that rigged elections produced a PNC government that inflicted a host of socioeconomic setbacks, including a brain drain that caused long-term damage to the country.
However, as long as the PNC, in one form or another, is the alternative, the Indo Guyanese vote will go to the PPP not because of race, but because of the record, reputation and persistent rigging by the PNC.
That may give elections the appearance of an ethnic contest but that voting pattern is simply a reflection of the fact that the PNC is the alternative.
Emergency workers said they had been denied access to the site of the bombing, some 30km west of the regional capital Mekelle
One of the two teens involved in the March incident recently plead guilty to felony murder and will be committed to the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services until she turns 21, while the other teen, a 13-year-old girl, awaits sentencing.
Republican Senator Tim Scott told Fox News host Trey Gowdy that “woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. We... View Article
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