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Coco Gauff, 18 ans, va disputer la première finale de Grand Chelem de sa carrière. L'Américaine est venue à bout de l'Italienne Martina Trevisan, jeudi, en demi-finale du tournoi de Roland-Garros (6-3, 6-1). Elle affrontera la n°1 mondiale, Iga Swiatek, se dressera sur sa route le 4 juin.
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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
The NYC based fashion house, Tier is utilizing today to reintroduce the brand and remerge itself into another entity of fashion.
Students from 20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will compete in the inaugural HBCU Esports Homecoming Classic.
New Delhi, India - For the eighth day, tens of thousands of Indian farmers continued their protests against new agriculture laws, disrupting traffic and threatening to block all entry points to the nation's capital of New Delhi. The protests began Nov. 26against three farm laws introduced by the government in September 2020, which purportedly aim to break the monopoly of […]
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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.
[Nation] Deputy President William Ruto has finally indicated that he will throw his weight behind the push to amend the Constitution spearheaded by his boss Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga, a departure from his hardline stance on proposed changes to the Constitution.
SOUTHFIELD, St Elizabeth - All his life, Edward Richards has been fascinated by trees.That's one reason he joined the State-run Forestry Department in 1977 as a 23-year-old, staying put for 43 years until March this year when he retired.
[Monitor] When the three East African countries of Tanganyika (Tanzania), Uganda and Kenya had just attained independence in 1961, 1962 and 1963 respectively, they were fond of making five-year development plans.
Press Release - FAO's The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2020 takes a new look at water shortages and scarcity in the world
Sekwetje Mahlamba - accused number one in the Brendin Horner Senekal farm murder case - is still going ahead with his bail appeal.
From making Shea Butter in a mobile home with his two daughters to owning one of the most successful fair trade beauty companies, Olowo-n’djo T’chala is truly the story of successful entrepreneurship. T’chala grew up in Northern Togo in a farming community where he learned the importance of sustainability as a young age. He was […]
A disproportionately large number of poor and minority students were not in schools for assessments this fall, complicating efforts to measure the pandemic’s effects on some of the most vulnerable students, a not-for-profit company that administers standardized testing said Tuesday. Overall, NWEA's fall assessments showed elementary and middle school students have fallen measurably behind in […]
[East African] The Nation Media Group is set to hold the second edition of the Kusi Ideas Festival on December 8-9. This year's conference will focus on examining the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on African economies and livelihoods.
Sudanese model Aweng Ade-Chuol is fighting back against the rampant homophobia she's endured since marrying her wife in a most powerful way. Both the model and her wife are gracing the cover of the January 2021 issue of ELLE UK. The January 2021 issue of ELLE UK featuring Sudanese model, Aweng Ade-Chuol and her wife, Lexy. pic.twitter.com/8aapn11Dde — Asanda Sizani (@AsandaSizani) December 1, 2020 The iconic cover shows Ade-Chuol and her wife, Lexy embroiled in a passionate kiss while embracing one another.
\"I love you, Diego\" Pele has written on social media, a week after the death of his \"great friend\" Diego Maradona.
WORKERS of one of the major agricultural operations, Blue Agri Private Limited, have gone on strike over “extremely low” salaries of about $3 000 per month, NewsDay Business has established. BY MTHANDAZO NYONI The strike, which started a week ago, is crippling the company’s operations. “There is a farm in Mashonaland Central called Oban Farm whose workers, totalling about 200, have not been going to work because of poor salaries. “They are on strike,” Progressive Agriculture and Allied Industries Workers’ Union of Zimbabwe (Paawuz) secretary-general Raymond Sixpence, said. The farm, formerly owned by late John Dollar, is now being operated by Blue Agri. “The workers failed to raise US$1,50 as school fees for their children. “They approached the employer for help but the employer refused to give them. “So the workers have not been going to work for almost two weeks now. “Each student was supposed to pay US$1,50,” Sixpence said. The farm is exporting bananas, avocados, cut flowers among other products but is refusing to pay workers a living wage, according to Sixpence. Reached for comment, the company’s human resources manager Brian Wonenyika declined to comment, referring all the questions to his boss who could not be reached for comment. “I cannot comment on that. “You can call my boss,” curtly he said. Sixpence said farm workers in Zimbabwe were literally modern-day slaves, earning extremely low salaries, yet agriculture is the backbone of the economy. “They are now paid $3 180 per month at a time the government is bragging of making money out of tobacco and everything. “Farm owners can pay their maintenance and everything in foreign currency but cannot do that for the workers. “To be fair, we think employees should get at least $8 500, for the least paid,” he said. “The employers are very adamant; they still want to continue exploiting workers. “We have tried to engage them but they are not willing. “Now there are strikes at the farms, the workers are withdrawing their labour,” he said. Zimbabwe’s monthly cost of living as measured by the Zimbabwe National Statistics agency, went up by 4,1% to almost $18 000 in September. In South Africa, the lowest paid farm workers earn about US$230 per month. Sixpence said the agricultural sector was losing workers to artisanal mining and vending due to poor salaries. “The agricultural industry will end up having a shortage of labour. “Workers are more than beggars now and the General and Plantation Workers' Union of Zimbabwe when it negotiates it settles for peanuts. “The Labour Act is taking long to be amended whereby we should all be part of the negotiation table,” he said. He said there were more than 10 workers’ unions in Zimbabwe but only two were allowed to negotiate for workers’ salaries. Sixpence said the challenge was that most government officials and ministers were farm owners, hence their reluctance to improve the welfare of workers. “They (government officials) are employers hence and they do not want to pay. “Now it is black monopoly capital. “We were fighting whi
Questions were raised about irregularities in the issuing of non-transferable permits by Cape Nature to a third-party, on behalf of the City of Cape Town.
(AP)- Suspected members of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, killed at least 40 rice farmers and fishermen while they were harvesting crops in Nigeria’s northern Borno State, officials said.\tThe attack was staged yesterday in a rice...
Mamelodi Sundowns moved to the summit of the DStv Premiership log with a comfortable victory over Stellenbosch FC.
[Ghanaian Times] Bolgatanga -- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the Vodafone Ghana Foundation has organised a two-day trainer of trainees' digital technology empowerment workshop for 61 rural women engaged in agribusiness in the Upper East Region
[RFI] Critics of the authorities in Togo have slammed the arrest of key opposition figures held over accusations of plotting to destabilise the country. Gérard Djossou and Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson were arrested on Friday and Saturday in the centre of the capital Lomé by Togolese security forces.
The gender equality women enjoy in Zimbabwe today is well-earned from the shared sacrifices that women made side by side with their men during the liberation struggle, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Monica Mutsvangwa said on Friday. She was officially opening the annual conference in Nyanga of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe and delivering the keynote speech. She said the country’s Constitution, which requires the state to take measures to ensure that both genders are equally represented in all government institutions and agencies, reflects and honours the nation’s recent history as the product of an armed national liberation struggle. “I took part in the struggle together with many other youthful women and young girls. We fought an asymmetrical war pitting the population against a well-armed minority. “To win we had to organise everyone into a people’s war. It spared no-one as we strove for victory. Women had to equally participate side by side with their men to offset the enemy’s technological edge. “This gender equality should never be construed as an act of charity. That is why the revolutionary constitution of 1980 was founded on the bedrock of gender parity. Since then, as women, we never looked back,” she said. “Feudal bandage of male patriarchy was done away with. No longer does a woman need her father, brother or husband to be given majority status. She now enjoys full rights without any hindrance of male sanction,” she said. She pointed out that soon after independence education opportunities were expanded. Rural folk built classrooms for free to be rewarded with teachers from central government. As classes were opened, the girl child was accorded equal access. “This explains the 96% literacy rating by Unesco in a nation where women outnumber men,” she said. “From my vantage point of a female combatant of the Chimurenga national liberation struggle, I am really impressed. The Zimbabwe women have more than delivered in the last four decades of freedom and independence. “The most outstanding is the farming domain for a nation that is still dependent on agriculture,” she said. She said the majority of the 200 000 leaf tobacco farmers registered with the Tobacco Marketing Board were women, who, unlike their male counterparts, were prone to spending their hard earned money on the welfare of their family. The end result was rising levels of rural prosperity. “When Air Zimbabwe pioneered Africa’s commercial flights to China our women seized commercial opportunities with Guangzhou,” she said, adding that many of them built their own new homes in growing towns and cities. Zimbabwean nurses were in demand in the United Kingdom, Dubai and elsewhere. Other countries in the region welcomed Zimbabwean teachers, with women prominent among them. “Zimbabwe women have boldly ventured into mining especially chrome and gold as our bountiful mineral resources are reclaimed for the majority. “All these are shining cases of women breaking through the gender glass ceiling of
