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ANALYSE - De la tactique au physique, il manque encore beaucoup de choses aux hommes de Mauricio Pochettino pour être au niveau. Un mal pour un bien? Les attentes étaient grandes pour les débuts du PSG en Ligue des champions, mercredi, à Bruges. Si plusieurs joueurs majeurs manquaient à l’appel (Verratti, Gueye, DiMaria…), le club
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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.
AP
Bundini Brown said to Muhammad Ali in his bruising fight with Joe Frazier, “Champ, you have to put your hands together.” In boxing lingo, that meant you had to do more than jab, you must throw combinations, you have to win by more than the popular vote, you have to convincingly knock someone out of
There's been an outpouring of tributes and grief from the world of football after news broke that Diego Maradona died at the age of 60.
Nigerian football players, coaches and officials give their thoughts following the death of Argentinian football icon.
\"Diego is an icon, he's a legend. He lives football and football lives him. He represents football and also football represents him. When you hear his name, it's synonymous with football, and he's one of - if not the most - colorful, the greatest player we’ve seen on the planet, \" expressed Adam Mohammed Mouktar, Chairman of the Football Association of the Federal Capital Territory.
Some say his skills were extraordinary, his every move leaves football lovers transfixed.
\"If you look across the pages of our newspapers today apart from the internet, you will see that most of the papers led with the death of Maradona. That is to show you the power of football and the power of somebody that was devoted, \" said Segun Ogunjimi, sports journalist.
The 60-year-old battled a series of health and addiction problems before his untimely passing in Buenos Aires.
He tragically passed away on the same day as Manchester United legend George Best.
[This Day] The federal government has repeatedly assured that the current economic downturn will be transient, but experts remained cautious, especially as the threat posed by COVID-19 subsists, writes James Emejo
[Nation] National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi will on Tuesday decide which of the two referendum Bills before the House takes precedence as the country prepares for a vote to amend the Constitution.
[Premium Times] It was a sad day in Zabarmari village as hundreds of residents in the rice-producing community located in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State gathered to bury the 43 corpses of farmers that were slaughtered the previous day.
It was late on the first Tuesday in November, and Captain Hussen Besheir, an Ethiopian federal soldier, was on duty at a guard post outside the military camp in Dansha.
It was close to midnight when he saw headlights approaching.
Ten armed members of the Tigrayan special forces got out of the vehicle and demanded to see the camp's commander.
\"'We're not here for you',\" Hussen recalled them saying. \"'We want to talk to the leaders.'\"
Hussen refused. An argument ensued and gunfire rang out.
They were the first shots in a conflict that has since engulfed northern Ethiopia's Tigray region, killing many hundreds of people and forcing tens of thousands from their homes.
This week AFP visited the Dansha barracks, home to the Fifth Battalion of the Northern Command of the Ethiopian military, after gaining rare access to Tigray, where a near-complete communications blackout has been in place since the fighting began.
Shell casings littered the camp's grounds, and bullet holes were punched in the walls of buildings and sides of military trucks.
A metal sign at the entrance reading, \"We need to protect the constitution from anti-development forces and lead our country to renaissance,\" was so perforated with gunfire as to be almost illegible.
'Betrayal'
Hussen and others described hours-long rifle and grenade battles against fighters loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), including special forces and militiamen, joined by some federal soldiers of Tigrayan ethnicity who turned against their comrades.
Echoing a statement from Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Hussen said soldiers \"were killed in their pyjamas\", adding, \"What happened here is even worse than that.\"
\"Betrayal alone wouldn't describe the feeling that I have. These are soldiers who have been eating and drinking with us,\" he said of those former federal troops who allegedly turned their guns against them.
The government in Addis Ababa has claimed the attack on Dansha - and a simultaneous assault on another barracks in the regional capital Mekele - as justification for its military offensive in Tigray since November 4.
It points to an interview on Tigrayan media in which a prominent TPLF supporter, said a pre-emptive strike was \"imperative\".
\"Should we be waiting for them to launch attacks first? No,\" said Sekuture Getachew, in the interview, which Abiy's office has called a \"confession\".
Confrontation between Abiy and the TPLF was a long time coming. The TPLF dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades until anti-government protests swept Abiy to power in 2018.
Since then the TPLF has complained of being sidelined and scapegoated for the country's woes.
The rift widened after Ethiopia postponed national elections because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tigray went ahead with its own vote, then branded Abiy an illegitimate ruler.
Ethnic forces
Tadilo Tamiru, a sergeant in the government-aligned Amhara special forces, was 50 kilometres to the south with his 170-strong unit, in a small town along the bo
A Force to Be Reckoned With
Caroline Esinam Adzogble is a twenty-eight-year-old woman from Ghana who can now boast about being the youngest woman — in not only Ghana but in all of Africa to an accredited international college, Potters International College .
The inspirational entrepreneur began establishing the educational institutional — which is based in Accra, Ghana on African soil, at the young age of twenty-two. And she was still an undergrad student at college studying business administration and computer science when she initially launched the school in 2012 as an IT training institution.
A Business Mogul Under 30
Also an accomplished business coach in her own right, Adzogble aimed to create an establishment where both working professionals and students could undergo training programs to obtain work in the field of tech.
The education mogul has been quoted as saying, “I am on the quest to uplift Education within Africa and beyond, to make education the most accessible and affordable to students located in over 146 countries.”
Indeed, as Adzogble is also the founder of the International African Education Summit (IAES Africa) , an international 360 student and agent recruitment company connecting students, agents and institutions across 43 countries. In addition to running several other businesses, this tireless and empowered young woman is also the president and co-founder of Caroline University as she continues to be a global advocate for education via her executive activities at Mercy Heart — a foundation which enables deserving students to study abroad tuition-free by way of scholarship grants.
No Sign of Slowing Down
If you can imagine it, the Ghanaian beauty has even more ventures — which include Admission in 30 Minutes, Everyday Travels and Tours, and Caroline Technology Solutions.
And to top it all off, Caroline Esinam Adzogble is also the CEO of a major business conglomerate originating from West Africa, Ghana, the Caroline Group. One of the largest in the education sector across the region.
Ten-year-old Samarwat Tkhal fled fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region this month -- now she sells food to survive, among tens of thousands of fellow refugees building a new life in neighbouring Sudan.
Tkhal, wearing a red T-shirt and yellow trousers, wanders the dusty streets of \"Village Eight\", a transit point just across the border into Sudan that has rapidly swelled into the size of a small town.
It is the first stop for many of the Ethiopians fleeing their homeland.
Tkhal holds up a box of chocolate cakes, as she shyly approaches potential customers.
\"My father gives me a box of 50 cakes every morning that I sell,\" she said. \"I work from morning to night.\"
Over 43,000 refugees have crossed into Sudan since fighting broke out in Tigray on November 4, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Friday, as he visited Sudanese camps crammed with those fleeing the conflict in northern Ethiopia.
While praising Sudan for upholding its \"traditional hospitality to people in need\", Grandi warned that the host country also \"urgently requires international assistance to support its efforts.\"
- Heavy fighting -
Hundreds have been killed in fighting between the federal government of Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and dissident forces of the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).
On Friday, Abiy is due to meet African Union envoys to discuss the worsening conflict, after he ordered the army to launch a final offensive against Tigrayan forces.
But while conflict rages at home, many of the refugees in Sudan are already eking out a living in their new surrounds.
Taray Burhano, 32, walks the streets selling cigarettes -- one-by-one, not by the pack.
\"I'm not making a fortune,\" said Burhano, who, like many, escaped with only what he could carry for the hard trek across the baking hot bush.
\"But at least I don't sit around and think about what happened to us.\"
Once a sleepy settlement, Village Eight is now a busy centre.
- Entrepreneurs -
Chekhi Barra, 27, sits on the ground waiting for clients.
\"Until a solution to the fighting is found, something has to be done,\" he said, adding that while aid is trickling in, people need more than what is provided.
Barra fled with his wife and son from their home in the town of Mai-Kadara, where Ethiopia's rights watchdog this week said at least 600 civilians were massacred.
Using the little cash he took with him, Barra invested in a box of 100 bars of soap, a basic necessity that he knows will generate a profit when sold individually.
\"I sell them for twice as much as I bought them,\" he said.
Despite losing their homes and businesses, the new Ethiopian arrivals to Sudan are not wasting their time.
Sylvia Tahai immediately resumed her work -- selling coffee.
\"As soon as I arrived, I went to buy coffee, cups, sugar and a coffee-maker\", the 23-year-old said, as customers crowded around her traditional Ethiopian flask brewing on a charcoal brazier.
Buhano Amha, 28, has built a stall where he sells tomat
Clay County once boasted two posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization of Civil War veterans. Their glory days were in the 1880s and 1890s, when they hosted a convention in Moorhead.
With the entry of each new government into office the electorate hears the same recitations about development.
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[Monitor] President Museveni has urged youth to engage in income generating activities instead of working hand to mouth as is the norm today.
By Dr Compton Bourne
Professor Emeritus of Economics, The University of the West Indies and former President, Caribbean Development Bank
When oil and gas production fields in Guyana are fully operational, the fossil energy sector is likely to be the predominant source of national economic activity through its direct contribution to foreign exchange earnings, government fiscal revenues, employment and labour incomes, and local purchases of goods and services.
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Press Release - Innovative aeroponic systems help tackle some traditional challenges for agriculture
A small group of young aviators at Dunbar HS is learning how to become aircraft mechanics and licensed pilots. Chicago has a rich history of aviation that is often unknown. During the 1920s, most African Americans migrated to the North in search of better opportunities. Some people associated the black community in Chicago with the … Continued
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Al Ahly coach Pitso Mosimane has taken to social media after guiding his side to victory over Zamalek in the CAF Champions League final.
[Daily Trust] Lafia -- Recently, a N6.4 billion fraud was uncovered in the 13 local government areas of Nasarawa State. The Commissioner for Local Government, Community Development and Chieftaincy Affairs, Yusuf Turaki, alleged that the fraud was perpetrated by accounting officers.
