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After a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28. 2025, the country’s military and the myriad resistance groups fighting a yearslong civil war faced international calls for an immediate ceasefire. A pause in
The post Myanmar Military’s ‘Ceasefire’ Follows a Pattern of Ruling Generals Exploiting Disasters to Shore Up Control first appeared on Greater Diversity News.
\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.
1994: Five Iraqis and a Kuwaiti are sentenced to death in Kuwait for plotting to kill former US President George H W Bush with a car bomb during his visit to Kuwait in 1993.
2002: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says that shortly before September 11, 2001, Egyptian intelligence officials warned the United States that al-Qaeda was planning an attack on an American target.
2003: The Special Court for Sierra Leone, set up to try war crimes suspects from the country's civil conflict, make public a 17-count indictment against Charles Taylor, the president of neighbouring Liberia.
2008: The US military orders navy ships loaded with relief aid off Myanmar's coast to leave the area after the country's xenophobic junta refused to let them help survivors of a devastating cyclone the previous month.
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The content originally appeared on: CNN Myanmar's deposed civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, faces two years in jail after her sentence was halved by the country's military, state media MRTV reported on Monday.
Residents of the Western Cape were given a rude awakening early on Tuesday as an earthquake with a 3.4 to 3.5 magnitude struck at a depth of 5km about 47km from Saldanha.
Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing extends the state of emergency by two years, says elections in 2023.
The post Myanmar’s Junta Leader Declares Himself Prime Minister, Calls For Elections In 2023 appeared first on Zenger News.
Idi Amin Dada, who became known as the Butcher of Uganda for his brutal, despotic rule whilst president of Uganda in the 1970s, is possibly the most notorious of all Africas post-independence dictators. Amin seized power in a military coup in 1971 and ruled over Uganda for 8 years. Estimates for the number of his opponents who were either killed, tortured, or imprisoned vary from 100,000 to half a million.
He was ousted in 1979 by Ugandan nationalists, after which he fled into exile.
Date of birth: 1925, near Koboko, West Nile province, Uganda
Date of death: 16 August 2003, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
An Early Life
Idi Amin Dada was born in 1925 near Koboko, in the West Nile Province of what is now the Republic of Uganda. Deserted by his father at an early age, he was brought up by his mother, a herbalist and diviner. He was a member of the Kakwa ethnic group, a small Islamic tribe that was settled in the region.
Success in the Kings African Rifles
Idi Amin received little formal education: sources are unclear whether or not he attended the local missionary school. However, in 1946 he joined the Kings African Rifles, KAR (Britains colonial African troops), and served in Burma, Somalia, Kenya (during the British suppression of the Mau Mau) and Uganda. Although he was considered a skilled, and somewhat overeager, soldier, Amin developed a reputation for cruelty - he was almost cashiered on several occasions for excessive brutality during interrogations.
He rose through the ranks, reaching sergeant-major before finally being made an effendi, the highest rank possible for a Black African serving in the British army. Amin was also an accomplished sportsman, holding Ugandas light heavyweight boxing championship from 1951 to 1960.
A Hint of What was to Come?
As Uganda approached independence Idi Amins close colleague Apolo Milton Obote, the leader of the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), was made chief minister, and then prime minister.
Obote had Amin, one of only two high ranking Africans in the KAR, appointed as
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Mario Antonio Palacios, a 43-year-old Colombian man who was allegedly involved in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse last year, has been arrested in the United States. According to CBS News, the Department of Justice made the announcement on Tuesday, alleging that Palacios and others entered the presidential residence in Port-au-Prince on July 7 with the \"intent and purpose of killing President Moïse.\" The DOJ said Palacios is now charged with \"conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the U.S. and providing material support resulting in death, knowing or intending that such material support would be used to prepare for or carry out the conspiracy to kill or kidnap.\" According to the DOJ, Palacios fled Haiti and went to Jamaica following the assassination, but he agreed to travel to the U.S. after being deported from the island. Palacios, who is now in custody, could face life in prison if he is convicted. About 20 other Colombian citizens and a group of...
War, violence and other humanitarian emergencies forced about 79.5 million people out of their homes in 2019—almost double the number of people displaced a decade ago—according to a report by United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
Of the nearly 80 million people cited in the report, 26 million are refugees; an estimated 20.4 million people are in areas served by UNHCR’s mandate; another 5.6 million people are Palestine refugees registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Speaking in Geneva on June 25, the UNHCR chief noted that although the issue of displacement affects all nations, data showed that it was poorer countries that hosted 85 per cent of those forced from their home.
Nearly seven out of 10 people of those displaced came from Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar, the report added.
In the wake of the global crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN refugee agency has also reported an increase in the number of Rohingya refugees moving from Bangladesh and Myanmar, towards Malaysia and other States in South East Asia.
SEOUL, REPUBLIC OF KOREA , April 5, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- An international NGO named HWPL, headquartered in South Korea and affiliated with the UN ECOSOC, issued a statement expressing deep concern about the crisis of human rights arising …
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday SCORES of people in areas including Diego Martin, Point Fortin and Woodbrook said they felt an earthquake just after 1 pm on Tuesday. It was initially said to be a 4.9 magnitude earthquake, but the UWI Seismic Research Centre later retracted that report, saying it was actually a 5.3 magnitude earthquake. It said, “Due to a technical error in the auto-solution system the previous solution is incorrect and has been recalled.” […]
In June 1940, as fighting was winding down in France, the pace of operations quickened in the Mediterranean. The area was vital for Britain, which needed to maintain access to the Suez Canal in order to remain in close contact with the rest of its empire. Following Italys declaration of war on Britain and France, Italian troops quickly seized British Somaliland in the Horn of Africa and laid siege to the island of Malta.
They also began a series of probing attacks from Libya into British-held Egypt.
That fall, British forces went on the offensive against the Italians. On November 12, aircraft flying from HMS Illustrious struck the Italian naval base at Taranto, sinking a battleship and damaging two others. During the attack, the British only lost two aircraft. In North Africa, General Archibald Wavell launched a major attack in December, Operation Compass, which drove the Italians out of Egypt and captured over 100,000 prisoners. The following month, Wavell dispatched troops south and cleared the Italians from the Horn of Africa.
Concerned by Italian leader Benito Mussolinis lack of progress in Africa and the Balkans, Adolf Hitler authorized German troops to enter the region to assist their ally in February 1941. Despite a naval victory over the Italians at the Battle of Cape Matapan (March 27-29, 1941), the British position in the region was weakening.
With British troops sent north from Africa to aid Greece, Wavell was unable to stop a new German offensive in North Africa and was driven back out of Libya by General Erwin Rommel. By the end of May, both Greece and Crete had also fallen to German forces.
On June 15, Wavell sought to regain the momentum in North Africa and launched Operation Battleaxe.
Designed to push the German Afrika Korps out of Eastern Cyrenaica and relieve the besieged British troops at Tobruk, the operation was a total failure as Wavells attacks were broken on the German defenses. Angered by Wavells lack of success, Prime Minister Winston Churchill removed him and assigned General
My prayer is that Professor Gambari would remain faithful to his core value of commitment to the nation of Nigeria and would do all in his power to promote more inclusive governance.
Professor Gambari is best known for his concentric circles approach to defending the national interest, with Nigeria being the inner circle projecting to West Africa, Africa and the rest of the world, with the core objective of always getting the best for the country.
I think the attempt by certain ethnic jingoists to paint Ibrahim Agboola Gambari with the Fulani \"cabalistic\" identity brush does great disservice to the country at this time where the expectation is that he would struggle for more inclusive governance in the national interest.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- President Kais Saied announced on Tuesday during the summit of African economies in Paris, France, Tunisia's support to international calls to lift patents on vaccines against COVID-19.
Nigerian nationalism asserts that Nigerians are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of Nigerians.[1] [2] Nigerian nationalism is a territorial nationalism, emphasizing a cultural connection of the people to the land — in particular the Niger and Benue rivers.[3] It first emerged in the 1920s under the influence of Herbert Macaulay who is considered the founder of Nigerian nationalism.[4] It was founded because of the belief in the necessity for the people living in the British colony of Nigeria of multiple backgrounds to unite as one people in order to be able to resist colonialism.[5] [6] The Nigerian nationalists goal of achieving an independent sovereign state of Nigeria was achieved in 1960 when Nigeria declared its independence and British colonial rule ended.[1] Nigerias government has sought to unify the various peoples and regions of Nigeria since the countrys independence in 1960.[1]
Nigerian nationalism has been negatively affected by multiple historical episodes of ethnic violence and repression of certain ethnic groups by the Nigerian government between the various peoples has resulted in multiple secessionist movements demanding independence from Nigeria.[1] However aside from instances of extremism, most Nigerians continue to peacefully coexist with each other, and a common Nigerian identity has been fostered amongst the more-educated and affluent Nigerians as well as amongst the many Nigerians who leave small homogeneous ethnic communities to seek economic opportunities in the cities where the population is ethnically mixed.[7] For instance many southerners migrate to the north to trade or work while a number of northerner seasonal workers and small-scale entrepreneurs go to the south.[8]
Herbert Macaulay became a very public figure in Nigeria, and on June 24, 1923, he founded the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), the first Nigerian political party.[9] The NNDP won all the seats in the elections of 1923, 1928 and 1933.[9] In the 1930s, Macaulay took part in organizing Nigerian
