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Purity Chepkirui on Sunday afternoon delivered back the World Athletics Under-20 Championships women’s 1,500m title to Kenya after nine years. The last two laps was a supremacy battle between Kenya and Ethiopia with Chepkirui and compatriot Winnie Jemutai putting Diribe Welteji and Jiwot Mehari to the sword. However, it’s Chepkirui,…
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.
[Mo Ibrahim Foundation] The 2020 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), launched today by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, highlights a decline in African governance performance for the first time since 2010.
[WHO] Brazzaville -- The World Health Organization (WHO) finds that 18.3% of COVID-19 deaths in the African region are among people with diabetes, one of the conditions that global studies have found to increase the risk of severe illness and death among patients infected with the virus.
[Nation] Kenya and the UK will sign their agreed trade deal once London lifts its Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, officials have said.
Aid agencies are unable to restock food, health and other emergency supplies to Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, where federal troops are fighting with local forces, the United Nations warned on Thursday.
[Nation] More than 10 clubs in the Coast have been shut down for flouting the Ministry of Health guidelines that seek to combat the spread of Covid-19.
Kenya's Harambee Stars face a must-win clash against Comoros at the Malouzini Stadium in Moroni from 7pm (Kenyan time) Sunday night and coach Jacob "Ghost" Mulee, who is eyeing the team's first win in four 2021 Africa Nations Cup qualification outings, has issued a rallying cry to his charges.
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia's defiant Tigray regional government said Saturday it fired rockets at two airports in the neighboring Amhara region as a deadly conflict threatens to spread into other parts of Africa's second-most populous country. The Tigray regional government said in a statement on Tigray TV that such strikes would continue 'unless the attacks against us stop.' Ethiopia's federal government said the airports in Gondar and Bahir Dar were damaged in the strikes late Friday, asserting that Tigray regional forces were 'repairing and utilizing the last of the weaponry within its arsenals.' Fighting […]
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[CPJ] Nairobi -- Today the Committee to Protect Journalists called on Ethiopian authorities to immediately release broadcast journalist Bekalu Alamrew, who was arrested on November 4 and has not been formally charged.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Half a million reusable masks, 123 tonnes of soap and 1,750 hand-washing stations. These numbers are music to the ears of business consultant James Irungu Mwangi - telling the story of the efforts he led to protect Kenyan slum-dwellers from COVID-19.
Ethiopian forces have liberated a town in the Tigray region, the government's emergency taskforce has announced.
[East African] The value of government funds stolen through corrupt deals in Kenya by state and public officers increased to Ksh140.2 billion ($1.4 billion) in 2019 from Ksh67.1 billion ($671 million) in 2017, according to the annual report by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (ODPP).
Ethiopia's Minister of Defence Kenea Yadeta on Wednesday denied allegations that Eritrea is assisting Ethiopia in the fight against Tigray People's Liberation Front or TPLF in the Tigray region.
The statement comes after the Tigray president on Tuesday accused Eritrea of attacking his region at the request of Ethiopia, saying that \"the war has now progressed to a different stage.\"
Up to 200,000 refugees could pour into Sudan while fleeing the deadly conflict, officials said Wednesday, while the first details are emerging of largely cut-off civilians under growing strain.
Communications remain almost completely severed with the Tigray region a week after Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced a military offensive in response to an alleged attack by regional forces.
He insists there will be no negotiations with a regional government he considers illegal until its ruling “clique” is arrested and its well-stocked arsenal is destroyed.
Reports grew of the targeting of ethnic Tigrayans across Ethiopia, the Tigray Communication Affairs Bureau said in a Facebook post.
The administration of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, announced rallies in support of the federal government's measures there and in other cities in the Oromia and Amhara regions Thursday, along with a blood drive for the Ethiopian army.
The European Union, the African Union and others have urged Abiy for an immediate de-escalation as the conflict threatens to destabilize the strategic but vulnerable Horn of Africa region.
Ethiopia’s federal government and Tigray’s regional government, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, blame each other for starting the conflict. Each regards the other as illegal.
The TPLF dominated Ethiopia's ruling coalition for years before Abiy came to office in 2018 but has since broken away while accusing the prime minister's administration of targeting and marginalizing its officials.
Experts have compared the fighting to an inter-state conflict, with each side heavily armed. The Tigray region has an estimated quarter-million fighters, along with four of the Ethiopian military's six mechanized divisions.
That's a legacy of Ethiopia's long border war with Eritrea, which made peace after Abiy came to power but remains at bitter odds with the TPLF.
Press Release - Ubuntu Life announced today that their Lamu Mules are included in this year's Oprah's Favorite Things holiday gift list featured in the December issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, and on OprahMag.com .
[Nation] Kenya has cemented its diplomatic presence in Mogadishu with a new embassy building, as it seeks to improve formal trade relations with Somalia.
[Nation] President Kenyatta and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga face a litany of demands from constituencies key to the passing of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Referendum Bill and who have threatened to reject it if their demands are not met.
[Nation] Ol Kalou town used to be a reticent rural backwater, until it was chosen as the headquarters of Nyandarua County -- a reluctant second choice after Nyahururu was successfully claimed by Laikipia County at the dawn of devolution amid much political wrangling.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Swvl Kenya has commenced the rolling out of a new innovation that will allow commuters to use the platform for long-distance travel in Kenya, as part of their travel service.
[Monitor] They were all born in the upcountry, later came to Kampala, saw and conquered. Issa Sekatawa was league top scorer at Jinja-based Nytil FC and twice at Express FC. Mathias Kaweesa did it three times with three different clubs while Frank Kyazze emerged twice while playing for KCCA FC during the eighties. Of the three sharp strikers who charmed you most?
The president of Tigray the northern regional state of Ethiopia, Debretsion Gebremichael has accused Eritrea of supporting the military onslaught of the Ethiopian federal government in their region.
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) accused Eritrean forces of entering Tigray on November 9.
\"We have been suspecting and expecting Isayas's forces (Isayas Afwerki, President of Eritrea) to join him (Abiy Ahmed Prime Minister of Ethiopia) and it (Eritrea) has started taking military action since yesterday\" Debretsion Gebremichael, President of Tigray region said at a news briefing.
He accused Eritrean forces of using heavy weaponry in Baeker and surrounding areas. \"Isayas's forces' used heavy weaponry and they fired at Humera so that our people will be shocked, so that our people would panic, so that our people would scatter. To support Abiy's force on the Amhara side, he (Isayas Afwerki) began action backed with heavy weaponry from behind us as we were fighting in front of us. Therefore the war has now progressed to a different stage.\" Gebremichael claimed.
Eritrea’s foreign minister Osman Saleh Mohammed has denied the accusation.
The TPLF was part of Ethiopia’s minoritarian ruling coalition until Abiy’s appointment in 2018. Tensions between the TPLF and Abiy’s administration have escalated in recent months.
Abiy, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, ordered air strikes and sent troops into Tigray last week after accusing the TPLF of attacking a military base.
Tigrayans say Abiy's government oppresses and discriminates against them and behaved autocratically in postponing a national election.
Tigray has a population of about 9 million people.
[Nairobi News] BBC journalist Ciru Muriuki has revealed that her father died from Covid-19 as she urged her fellow Kenyans to take the disease very seriously.
The initial results from clinical trials show that an injection is 90% more effective than taking a daily pill to prevent HIV among women.
[DW] Two cities in the Amhara region have been struck by rockets fired by forces from the neighboring Tigray region, the government has claimed. Hundreds of people have been killed so far this month in a spiraling conflict.
[Nation] Stephanie Gogo has loved creating, supporting and consuming art for as long as she can remember.
THOUSANDS OF refugees have fled to Sudan to escape clashes in Ethiopia. More than 11,000...
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[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Israel deploys a special locust fighters task force to support the Ethiopian authorities efforts in fighting locust swarms that hit the country, the worst in 25 years.
[Nairobi News] Instagram sensation Elsa Majimbo is the 2020 winner of the E! People's Choice Awards in the African Social Star category.
[The Conversation Africa] Twenty years after he left political office, probably nothing divides Ghanaians more than their opinions regarding Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings who has died. His lingering political influence on Ghana may be second only to Kwame Nkrumah. Some like Rawlings, some hate him.
Kenya's hilarious teenage lockdown sensation has snagged the channel's African Social Star award.
