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[The Conversation Africa] Ethiopia's government, under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, is carrying out a military offensive in Tigray, Ethiopia's most northern state. A six month state of emergency has been declared in the region. Dozens of casualties have been reported amid fears that nine million people are at risk of being displaced.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
Tension between Amhara and Tigray, two of Ethiopia's most powerful regions, is increasing as the country approaches elections next year, says a new International Crisis Group report.
But it is the dispute between the Amhara and Tigray regions, the new report says, that “is arguably the bitterest of these contests, fueled in part by rising ethnic nationalism in both regions.”
William Davison, the Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Ethiopia, tells VOA that Amhara citizens believe that several key zones, notably the Wolqait and Raya areas, were annexed by Tigray when the current Ethiopian federation was mapped out in the early 1990s.
Plans to hold a vote have led political elites in Tigray and Amhara to adopt increasingly hardline stances toward each other, the report says, noting a recent warning from Prime Minister Abiy that any such act would “result in harm to the country and the people.”
But Dessalegn Chanie Dagnew, chairman of the opposition National Movement of Amhara, said via a messaging app that Ethiopia’s regional map based on ethnic territories has been the root cause of many tensions, not just between the Amhara and Tigray regions, but many others.
A Black business owner was forced to pull herself together after being attacked by a racist over her store's mask policy.
According to a local publication, ALX Now, Abyssinia Market Coffee House, a Black-owned Virginia based coffee shop was vandalized and the owner, Lily Damtew, was spat on after asking a white customer to wear a mask, a new policy Damtew enforced upon the reopening of her store.
Playwright Charles Fuller was born in Philadelphia March 5, 1939. Fuller co-founded the Afro-American Arts Theatre in Philadelphia, his hometown, in 1967. The Perfect Party (1969) was the first of Fullers plays to receive critical acclaim. Zooman and the Sign won an Obie Award in 1980. A Soldiers Play, about a murder on a Louisiana military base, won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was adapted into a film, A Soldiers Story, in 1984.
Actress and musician, Keke Palmer, believes Donald Trump is “inciting a race war” in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests that have reignited after the death of George Floyd. The 46-year-old Black man died after a white Minneapolis cop, Derek Chauvin, was filmed kneeling on his neck, ignoring the victim’s pleas...
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By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) - A special report released by the National Urban League reveals that the U. S. Census Bureau omitted at least 3.7 million African-Americans from its 2010 count, nearly five times the 800,000 'undercount' that the bureau has long reported. Largely due to the Coronavirus, the sluggish response to the 2020
[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- The Empowerment Elimination, Anti-Corruption, and Funds Recovery Committee announced the long-awaited establishment of branches in 15 of the 18 Sudanese states. People in El Borgeig in Northern State set up a sit-in yesterday in protest against mismanagement in the locality. Protestors in Omdurman blocked the roads of Ombadda to lend force to their demands. The employees of Kenana Sugar Company in White Nile state lifted their sit-in yesterday.
\tTrinidad (CMC): The leader of the main opposition United National Congress (UNC), Kamla Persad Bissessar, has written to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley requesting that international observers be present in Trinidad and Tobago...
The San Francisco Police Department announced it will no longer release most booking photos due to concerns about racial bias. SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced []
Exactly five years after Addis Ababa fell to Mussolinis troops, Emperor Haile Selassie was reinstalled on the Ethiopian throne. He reentered the city through streets lined with black and white African soldiers, having fought his way back against a determined Italian army with Major Orde Wingates Gideon Force and his own Ethiopian Patriots.
It was only five days after Italian forces under the command of General Pietro Badoglio entered Addis Ababa back in 1936, at the end of the 2nd Italo-Abyssinian War, that Mussolini declared the country part of the Italian Empire.
It is a Fascist empire because it bears the indestructible sign of the will and power of Rome. Abyssinia (as it was known) was joined with Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland to form the Africa Orientale Italiana (Italian East Africa, AOI). Haile Selassie fled to Britain where he remained in exile until the second World War gave him the opportunity to return to his people.
Haile Selassie had made an impassioned appeal to the League of Nations on 30 June 1936, which gained great support with the United States and Russia. However, many other League of Nations members, especially Britain and France, continued to recognize the Italian possession of Ethiopia.
The fact that the Allies ultimately fought hard to return independence to Ethiopia was a significant step on the path to African independence. That Italy, like Germany after World War I, had its African Empire taken away, signaled a major change in European attitude towards the continent.
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\tPrime Minister Andrew Holness has warned that there is no room for rogue elements in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) declaring that he is aware of public discourse about events affecting the organisation he leads. ...
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on Thursday asked UK citizens to be cautious and cited \"possible clashes throughout the country\" during the November 28 inauguration.
\"Political tensions are high and demonstrations and clashes are possible throughout the country, particularly in the western region; you should exercise caution and, where possible, avoid travelling around areas where demonstrations may take place,\" the FCO said in a statement.
The office is anticipating possible demonstrations and clashes during the inauguration and Britons planning to visit Kenya during this period have been asked to exercise caution and, where possible, avoid travelling around areas where demonstrations may take place.
The areas where FCO advises against all but essential travel does not include Kenya's safari destinations.
In April, when political parties were scheduled to hold their nominations ahead of the deadline by the electoral commission, UK advised its nationals against all but essential travel to north eastern counties of Garissa, Wajir and Mandera as well as Eastleigh in Nairobi.
[Nation] Private US contractors are conducting surveillance flights over Somalia from a US military base at Manda Bay, Lamu County according to reports by a worldwide network of investigative journalists.
With so much up in the air regarding NeNe Leakes' future with \"Real Housewives of Atlanta,\" rumors have already begun to circulate regarding potential replacements for the O.G. reality star.
Byron Allen believes in ownership. He owns Entertainment Studios, theGrio's parent company, which produces more than 60 syndicated shows, along... View Article
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Zendaya and John David Washington might be the first to star in a post COVID-19 film. According to Deadline Hollywood, the pair worked with Euphoria creator Sam Levinson on Malcolm []
The post Here’s How Zendaya And John David Washington Shot A Secret Movie From Quarantine appeared first on Essence.
[DW] As Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sends troops into the Tigray region, the country could be on the brink of a civil war.
Sydney Stewart, the newly installed Mayor of St Ann’s Bay, told the monthly meeting of the Municipal Corporation yesterday that he would review and reverse, if necessary, the approved sale of a lot of land in the heart of the capital for $10...
It all started with a pothole. After a heavy shower of rain two decades ago, a young Robert Nesta Morgan was frustrated by a huge pothole at his gate and went in search of answers. “It was about 1999. I had just started Clarendon College sixth form...
