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[African Arguments] The state's one-sided narrative has not just shattered Ethiopians' shared understanding of reality but eroded the social fabric that held us together.
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.
Right now, a battle has ended, but the war hasn’t been won. But we have faith that decency and democracy will be restored under the Biden administration.
To high school seniorErika Alvarez, some of her most important history lessons didn't come up in class at Cinco Ranch High School in Katy. Instead Erika, 17, learned some of that history on social media, like in thisTikTok videoabout the1921 Tulsa race massacreperpetrated against one of the wealthiest Black communities in the country — a […]
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PASTOR AMY Williams, 95, who is believed to be the oldest serving black Pentecostal preacher...
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[UN News] It will take a variety of different actors to confront and deal with the \"daunting challenges\" in the Sahel region, the head of UN peacekeeping told the Security Council on Monday.
June 10: Speaker Keria replaced
\tEthiopia’s upper parliamentary chamber, the House of Federation (HoF), on Wednesday elected a new speaker following the resignation of Keria Ibrahim.
June 8: Speaker of Ethiopia’s upper parliament quits over postponed polls
\tKeria Ibrahim, speaker of Ethiopia’s upper parliamentary chamber, the House of federation, has quit her position citing a looming constitutional blank with postponed elections.
Privately-owned Addis Standard said Keria’s resignation was on the outcome of a Council of Constitutional Inquiry on deferred elections.
The former speaker belongs to the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front, TPLF, a former coalition partner of the now defunct Ethiopia Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front, EPRDF; which brought Abiy to power in 2018.
TPLF is currently the ruling party in the northern Tigray region but technically in opposition with the federal government.
Ten days after a teen was beaten at an illegal party, she is still hanging on to life in a coma at the University Hospital of the West Indies. Meanwhile, justice is being sought, with two women in custody and three still at large. The police are...
[The Point] The causes are not farfetched as studies have associated rising youth unemployment to increase of violent crime in The Gambia.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says he wants a tangible report of a stabbing incident at Hoërskool Elspark on Monday that left two pupils injured.
Facebook has been removing racist and misogynistic posts, memes and comments about Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The 2020 election victory... View Article
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By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia's government says its security forces shot at and detained United Nations staffers as they tried to reach part of the embattled Tigray region. Senior official Redwan Hussein told reporters that the U.N. staffers were to blame because they 'broke' two checkpoints to go to areas where 'they were not supposed to go.' He said the staffers have since been released. The shooting occurred amid soaring frustration among humanitarians as aid is still not freely reaching the Tigray region more than a week after the U.N. and Ethiopia's government signed a […]
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'My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking...
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(ThyBlackMan.com) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wasted no time in cheerleading Trump’s bogus claim that he’s still President. In a speech on the Senate floor, McConnell not only egged Trump on in pushing his fraudulent claim that he was cheated out of the Oval Office, but harped that Trump was “100 percent within his rights” […]
When asked for additional comment and whether he stood by his words in the
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Exams for Grades 8 to 11 at Brackenfell High School will be rescheduled ahead of a planned protest by the EFF.
The Pesticides Control Authority (PCA), an agency of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, is this week commemorating Pesticide Awareness Week, under the theme ‘PPE for COVID-19; PPE for Pesticides Use; Health and Safety for All’. I congratulate the...
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Eritrea's president arrived in Sudan on Tuesday for talks with officials amid tensions over a longtime border dispute between the two nations:
Nigerian billionaire Tony O. Elumelu has been conferred with Belgium’s oldest and highest national award: “The honorary distinction of Officer in the Order of Leopold” for his entrepreneurial drive across Africa and commitment to poverty eradication. The Belgian ambassador to Nigeria, Daniel Bertrand, presented the award to the business mogul on Sunday, November 15, 2020,...
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