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A coroner established that the 11 died from either lung congestion, shock or haemorrhage following multiple injuries.
The court enjoys global jurisdiction.
Investigators will now need the authorization of the court’s judges to open a probe. Bensouda appealed for support from Nigeria’s government.
She said the army has dismissed accusations against government troops after examining them.
Boko Haram strictly opposes formal education. In 2015, Nigeria enlisted the support of neighbors Chad, Cameroon and Niger to try and defeat the group.
While the joint operations made the group lose considerable territory, they have not been able to wipe it out.
The ICC has conducted investigations in several African countries. In Sudan, Libya and Ivory Coast, former leaders were indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after the investigations.
The pandemic has only magnified systemic sexism and racism in housing, possibly leaving millions of women and their families homeless come January.
By Victor Omondi A lustrous, entirely electric Quant 48Volt was unveiled by the German company, Nanoflow Cell, this year at the Geneva Motor Show. The company aimed to reveal the first-ever production car in the world to be powered by salt water. The Quant 48Volt has performance figures rivaling the best of the best in […]
Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has sounded the alarm about the increasing number of coronavirus deaths in the U.S.
[Huawei] Duse, a remote town in Northeast Kenya with a population of around 3,000 people, had no connectivity until 2017, when RuralStar, a solution providing remote broadband coverage, was launched and brought transformational impact.
[This Day] On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, Hon. Oluwabunmi Ayobami Amao assumed office as the new Director General of the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation. Few months down the line, Chiemelie Ezeobi writes that Amao has established herself as a champion of Arts and Culture with her constant move to revive and restore the rich cultural heritage of Africans and African Diaspora.
Among the thousands of people fleeing the five-week-old conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region are a few dozen men, women and children from Eritrea, one of the world's most authoritarian states.
They were already living as refugees in Tigray, which had long been a safe haven for them during years of conflict and repression in Eritrea.
But when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government launched a military operation against Tigray's ruling party, the Eritrean refugees' illusion of safety was shattered as violence escalated around their camps.
\"Suddenly soldiers came to our camp and they started shooting,\" Kheder Adam told AFP in a Sudanese refugee camp. \"The situation was very serious. There was a lot gunfire.\"
Kheder and his family had originally settled in one of the refugee camps in the Sheraro area of Tigray near the Eritrean border around two years ago, he said.
For years, Ethiopia and Eritrea had been officially in a state of war.
In 2018, Abiy took power, ending years of political dominance by the Tigray People's Liberation Front -- sworn enemies of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki.
Abiy and Afwerki signed a historic peace agreement that same year, winning the Ethiopian leader the Nobel Peace Prize.
After the dramatic shift in alliances, Abiy's forces launched their operation in Tigray on November 4, Eritreans who had long benefitted from protection in Ethiopia appear to have become a target.
Since then, a few Eritrean refugees have managed to escape to Sudan.
The UN, meanwhile, has expressed fears for the safety for those still in Tigray, home to some 96,000 Eritrean refugees living in four refugee camps.
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Kheder, 30, who was separated by the recent violence from his wife and two children, aged three and one, was among several Eritrean refugees interviewed by AFP at a reception centre for new arrivals from Ethiopia in Hamdayit on the eastern Sudanese border.
\"Some of the soldiers were Eritreans, some of them were (Ethiopian) federal soldiers,\" said Kheder, of the attack on the camp in Tigray.
\"They were shooting at all people. All -- women, men, children,\" he said.
His comments were echoed Friday by a US State Department spokesperson -- though the Ethiopian government, a US ally, has denied the claim.
\"I feel worried and sad to be a refugee again. There I was a refugee, and here I am also a refugee. It's really difficult,\" said Kheder.
He cited Eritrea's notorious policy of universal, indefinite conscription as one reason why he fled his home country in the first place.
\"They forced us\" to undergo a mandatory national service in Eritrea, he said. \"That's why we decided to go to Ethiopia.\"
The Eritrean regime once used its war against Ethiopia to justify its system of universal conscription.
But the system remains in place despite the fact that the war ended in the year 2000, followed by the peace agreement in 2018.
Rights groups say Eritrea's national service often extends for years and any act of desertion or perceived disobedience leads to
Jamaica-born lawyer Courtney Betty has joined protest action by Black public service employees in Canada to put an end to what they say are ‘systemic discriminatory barriers in hiring and promotional practices’. The group has filed a class action...
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday a statewide curfew from midnight to 5 a.m. until February — part of his latest measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic as cases and hospitalizations surge.
Former Education Minister Ruel Reid, Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President Professor Fritz Pinnock and their three co-accused are to hear on February 4 whether their fraud case will continue. \tAt that time, Chief Parish Judge...
BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES Organizations, churches and others are pitching in to spread holiday cheer all across Volusia County and in Daytona Beach’s Midtown as well. The Daytona Beach Police Department prides itself on community outreach. It has three activities planned to help spread holiday cheer on tap. “Shop with a Cop” is on […]
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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is getting the old gang back together. Increasingly deep into the process of selecting Cabinet members and other senior staff, the incoming Biden administration has a distinctly Obama feel. There's Denis McDonough, former President Barack Obama's chief of staff who Biden announced on Thursday would be nominated as the secretary of veterans affairs. Susan Rice, Obama's former national security adviser, was named the director of Biden's White House Domestic Policy Council. That's on top of Biden already tapping Obama's agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack, to head the department once again, […]
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Derrick Banks, once one of the harder working and more successful farmers on a section of land across from the Caribbean Estate housing scheme in Greater Portmore, is these days a broken man. On Tuesday when The Gleaner caught up with him at the...
By Sentinel News Service The Black Lives Matter PAC responds to former President Barack Obama’s recent remarks about “losing people with snappy slogans” and formally announces the launch of the organization’s Snappy Slogan campaign. The campaign can be found at http://www.snappyslogan.com. President Obama thinks you lose people with snappy slogans like #DefundThePolice. Our movement believes when leaders waste time criticizing a hashtag instead of talking about stopping the murders committed by law enforcement and white supremacists, we lose Black lives. If the former President is worried about whether #DefundThePolice is the right slogan, we must make it known that this […]
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[This Day] The Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (rtd.), yesterday said the Nigerian Army is one of the best in Africa and can defeat any enemy when given the right arsenals and assistance.
[Nairobi News] Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) Director-General Pavel Oimeke spent Thursday night at the Integrity Centre's basement cells after allegedly receiving a Sh200,000 bribe to approve the opening of a fuel station in Oyugis.
[Leadership] Abuja -- Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has expressed the commitment of the House to speedily pass the 2020 Finance Bill.
[Nairobi News] The government has cleared Stephen Mogusu's hospital bill, clearing the way for the deceased doctor's family to organize his final send-off tentatively planned for Friday.
[SPS] Washington -- Former US Secretary of State, James A. Baker, III, strongly criticized outgoing President, Donald Trump, \"deal\" with Morocco over Western Sahara, in a written statement published today of which SPS received a copy.
[CAF] The CAF Executive Committee met today, Thursday 10 December in Cairo. The committee approved major reforms aimed at better ways of combating corruption and bad governance, protecting the integrity of the game, as well as several measures in response to the health crisis linked to the Coronavirus. At the opening of the meeting, the members of the Committee observed a minute of silence in memory of the members of the confederation, who died in recent weeks, namely: General Séyi Mémène, f
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told Pfizer it intends \"to proceed towards an authorization\" of its coronavirus vaccine
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng is sticking to his guns after coming under fire for remarks he made about COVID-19 vaccines
[Nairobi News] Machakos Senator Bonface Kabaka has passed on.
[Nation] Treasury set aside Sh576 million for a State-funded medical cover for doctors on contract but the Ministry of Health did not make a follow-up, prompting a recall of the money.
[Atlantic Council] African nations have surprised the world with the ableness of their defense against COVID-19. But even as most African countries have escaped the high mortality rates experienced in the West, they have suffered disproportionately from the parallel plague of the global economic depression. Africa is expected to face its first recession in twenty-five years.
Document - Today, I announce the conclusion of the preliminary examination of the situation in Nigeria.
