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[Dalsan Radio] The Acting Governor of the Gedo region, Ibrahim Mohamed Madobe, says the deployment of AMISOM personnel to support Somali Security Forces in providing adequate security in Garbaharey in the Gedo region of Somalia has restored public confidence on the safety and security of the electoral process.
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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David N. Dinkins, the first and only Black person to hold the post of mayor in the city of New York, died Monday night. He was 93 years old.
[East African] Somalia's Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has said the country is working towards a free, fair and timely election to sustain its rise from years of conflict.
The special envoy of the African Union to Mali and the Sahel, Pierre Buyoya has resigned from his post.
The former Burundian simply confirmed to the AFP that he had submitted his resignation, without further details or reason for the resignation.
Buyoya was sentenced to life imprisonment in his country in October for the 1993 assassination of his predecessor Melchior Ndadaye.
He denounces a \"political trial\" and said he would appeal the ruling.
A senior AU official told AFP on condition of anonymity that ‘Mr. Buyoya resigned because he wants to \"devote all his time and energy to his defense and wants to avoid a situation in the AU that would become embarrassing for a member state.’’
Another senior official who also spoke on condition of anonymity added that Buyoya’s resignation \"was accepted with gratitude for the excellent work done in Mali on behalf of the AU.\"
The African Union has not made any comment on Buyoya's conviction since the verdict was announced on October 20 in Bujumbura.
The Burundian judiciary convicted Mr. Buyoya, along with about twenty of his relatives, for \"attacking the head of state, attacking the authority of the state, and attack tending to bring about massacre and devastation\".
Mr. Buyoya's name had already been mentioned in connection with the assassination of President Ndadaye, without any proof being provided.
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 ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In a time of plague and raw division, President-elect Joe Biden appealed for unity Wednesday in a Thanksgiving-eve address to the nation asking Americans to 'steel our spines' for a fight against the coronavirus that he predicted would continue for months. . But even as he implored Americans to join in healing and common purpose, President Donald Trump asserted that the election should be overturned, a futile call but one that stokes the divisions Biden is trying to overcome. With COVID-19 cases surging nationwide, Biden called on Americans to take precautions […]
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A cross-country lobbying campaign for Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' Senate seat has pitted factions divided by race, gender and geography against one another and heightened internal tensions within at least one influential caucus on Capitol Hill.
[Shabelle] The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has concluded the training of 336 journalists in reporting on Sexual and Gender based violence, with the last training concluded in Garowe, the capital of Puntland State of Somalia.
[East African] Juba
[East African] Juba -- The Human Rights Watch has urged the African Union Commission to engage South Sudan's unity government to speed up the establishment of the hybrid court as stipulated in the 2018 peace agreement.
Ethiopian PM says troops ordered to move on Tigray capital.
We are living in unprecedented times and the challenges it creates and its impact on the daily lives of everyone.
Today is the 328th day of 2020. There are 38 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1998: The European Union lifts a worldwide export ban on British beef. The ban was imposed after experts announced a possible link between 'mad cow' disease and a fatal disease in humans.�OTHER EVENTS1499: Perkin Warbeck, pretender to English throne, is executed.
