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For thousands of Ethiopians who have fled fighting in the Tigray region to Sudan, this year’s Coptic Christmas on January 7 is a sombre celebration. There will be little feasting for those living hand-to-mouth in the crowded Um Raquba refugee camp.
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.
Rage has become abject fury this weekend, after the well-known matric parties allegedly caused a huge spike in COVID-19 cases. KZN is now in turmoil...
There are now more than over 350,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when.
As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.
We shall keep updating this list largely sourced from the John Hopkins University tallies, Africa CDC and from official government data.
SUGGESTED READING: Africa’s COVID-19 deaths pass 100,000 mark
Major African stats: June 28 at 09:30 GMT:
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\t\tConfirmed cases = 371,611
\t\tNumber of deaths = 9,485
\t\tRecoveries = 178,524
\t\tActive cases = 183,602
Countries in alphabetical order
\t\tAlgeria – 12,968
\t\tAngola – 259
\t\tBenin – 1,124
\t\tBotswana – 92
\t\tBurkina Faso – 941
\t\tBurundi – 170
\t\tCameroon – 12,592
\t\tCape Verde – 1,091
\t\tCentral African Republic – 3,429
\t\tChad – 865
\t\tComoros – 272
\t\tCongo-Brazzaville – 1,087
\t\tDR Congo – 6,690
\t\tDjibouti – 4,643
\t\tEgypt – 63,923
\t\tEquatorial Guinea – 2,001
\t\tEritrea – 191
\t\tEswatini – 745
\t\tEthiopia – 5,570
\t\tGabon – 5,209
\t\t(The) Gambia – 44
\t\tGhana – 16,431
\t\tGuinea – 5,291
\t\tGuinea-Bissau – 1,614
\t\tIvory Coast – 8,944
\t\tKenya – 5,811
\t\tLesotho – 24
\t\tLiberia – 729
\t\tLibya – 727
\t\tMadagascar – 2,005
\t\tMalawi – 1,038
\t\tMali – 2,118
\t\tMauritania – 4,025
\t\tMauritius – 341
\t\tMorocco – 11,877
\t\tMozambique – 839
\t\tNamibia – 136
\t\tNiger – 1,062
\t\tNigeria – 24,077
\t\tRwanda – 878
\t\tSao Tome and Principe – 713
\t\tSenegal – 6,459
\t\tSeychelles – 20
\t\tSierra Leone – 1,410
\t\tSomalia – 2,878
\t\tSouth Africa – 131,800
\t\tSouth Sudan – 1,942
\t\tSudan – 9,257
\t\tTanzania – 509
\t\tTogo – 615
\t\tTunisia – 1,168
\t\tUganda – 859
\t\tZambia – 1,531
\t\tZimbabwe – 567
SUGGESTED READING: rolling coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in Africa II
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1967: Israel defies international protests and unites divided city of Jerusalem for first time in two decades, following victory in Six-Day War.
2004: The US military announces the formation of a five-member military tribunal to preside over the first trials of terror suspects held at its naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
2013: Paying tribute to his personal hero, President Barack Obama meets privately in Johannesburg, South Africa, with Nelson Mandela's family as the world anxiously awaits news on the condition of the hospitalised 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader.
2017: A scaled-back version of US President Donald Trump's travel ban takes effect, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January.
South Korea's new leader, Moon Jae-in, dines with President Trump at the White House as part of an effort to reassure Washington that he would coordinate closely on dealing with the North Korean threat.
About five months before he was killed by Atlanta police in a Wendy’s parking lot — before his name and case would become the latest rallying point in a massive call for racial justice and equality nationwide — Brooks gave an interview to an advocacy group about his years of struggle in the criminal justice system.
Without his income from working full time in trucking, his wife was struggling with a new job and care of their kids, and she had to borrow money from a friend to get by, Brooks explained.
In 2018, Brooks traveled to Toledo, Ohio, and met his father for the first time.
In January, Georgia authorities brought Brooks back to the state on a fugitive warrant alleging he failed to notify them of his address and complete a theft prevention class as his probation required.
Brooks had stayed in touch with ARK Restoration and talked of returning there for work once he could move to Toledo with his family, Mikolajczyk said.
