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Nearly half of the 2,000 people surveyed support providing low-income families with school vouchers.
Abiy's government and the regional one run by the Tigray People's Liberation Front each consider the other illegitimate.
\t There was no immediate word from the three AU envoys, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe. AU spokeswoman Ebba Kalondo did not say whether they can meet with TPLF leaders, something Abiy's office has rejected.
\"``Not possible,'' senior Ethiopian official Redwan Hussein said in a message to the AP. ``\"Above all, TPLF leadership is still at large.'' He called reports that the TPLF had appointed an envoy to discuss an immediate cease-fire with the international community ``masquerading.''
\t Fighting reportedly remained well outside the Tigray capital of Mekele, a densely populated city of a half-million people who have been warned by the Ethiopian government that they will be shown ``no mercy'' if they don't distance themselves from the region's leaders.
\t Tigray has been almost entirely cut off from the outside world since Nov. 4, when Abiy announced a military offensive in response to a TPLF attack on a federal army base.
That makes it difficult to verify claims about the fighting, but humanitarians have said at least hundreds of people have been killed.
\t The fighting threatens to destabilize Ethiopia, which has been described as the linchpin of the strategic Horn of Africa.
\t With transport links cut, food and other supplies are running out in Tigray, home to 6 million people, and the United Nations has asked for immediate and unimpeded access for aid.
AP
by Kimberly Durden, Contributing Writer, Chicago Defender For many, 2020 was to be the year of clear vision and focus. Entrepreneurs planned for this year to be their greatest year yet. People made goals to live their best life: obtaining better overall health and wellness, traveling more, taking more risks, earning more money, etc. But … Continued
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Article: What Are We Gonna Do Now To Save Our Democracy? - Now that Trump is toast. It's time we got back to normal again. Normal Bates, Motel 6. Mama rockin' away in the fruit cellar, like it's 60s all over again. Her smokin' bones. Hmph. No, but seriously, let's figure this stuff out. Together.
If there was ever more of a need to stress the importance of hunkering down this winter, it is now, because Texas has become the first state to surpass a million Coronavirus cases in the United States last week, as the country battled a third wave of new infections and recorded over 100,000 infections three times in less than a week.
A small group of young aviators at Dunbar HS is learning how to become aircraft mechanics and licensed pilots. Chicago has a rich history of aviation that is often unknown. During the 1920s, most African Americans migrated to the North in search of better opportunities. Some people associated the black community in Chicago with the … Continued
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The U.S. government will test its coronavirus distribution networks while vaccines await emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The images of young girls abducted by Boko Haram in 2014 shocked the world. The girls, known as the Chibok girls became a symbol of violence against women in Nigeria. Six years have passed but violence against women is still very rife.
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, photographer Etinosa Yvonne puts a spotlight on these female victims of violence.
''It was like writing down what they were going through and how it affected their mental health. They don't understand what they're going through, they know they're getting psychological help. But because they can't contextualize it, they're going through what they're going through and they're trying to understand what's happening on a day-to-day basis. The problems of self-esteem are very present and I have noticed that many of them don't have confidence in themselves and this prevents them from trying anything, from trying to get out of this situation they find themselves in'', she said.
Mental health problems is still taboo in society. But recently, the activism of a younger segment of the population has brought the issue to the fore.
''Because it's a taboo subject and people who have problems are told \"oh you're crazy, you have to go to church or you have to go to an imam to get prayers\". There has never been a need to sit down and discuss it. So they might stop saying that, but since it's a taboo subject they have to keep it (mental health) to themselves'', the photographer added.
For the photographer, society needs to question the way it works and especially how both sexes are viewed.
''So, it will take a lot of education for us to be accommodating and to first be emphatic towards these people. I think that as a society there needs to be a lot of unlearning...the glorification of men, and the objectification of women also needs to end. Because we have a society in which women are seen only as objects of sexual desire, of housekeeping. All these horrible opinions have to stop. It's hard for people to say, \"Okay, it's happening, it's wrong and needs to stop'', Yvonne said.
But we have to make sure that both boys and men are part of a fairer world for the women of tomorrow.
HISD drama For the past two-plus years, Dr. Grenita Lathan has worked tirelessly for the children of the Houston Independent School District. She's risen above the drama and stayed focused on the long-term goal of educating the children of HISD. Lathan is credited with pulling dozens of academically challenged schools into compliance and earning a […]
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Family members of a Black woman who was killed when a white police officer fired through a window of her mother’s Texas home have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the officer and the city. The federal lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of Texas last week. It lists Atatiana […]
… will also fight for the Black American community that saved his campaign … powered by energized majorities of Black Americans in critical states, in coalitions … . But this sparked change. The African American Roundtable and other community groups …
VLG: A national neurological injury and malpractice injury law firm, is investigating case of septic emboli strokes and heart valve damage.
CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, November 28, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Greg Vigna, MD, JD, a physician Board …
President-elect Joe Biden has selected seven highly-qualified women, representing various backgrounds, to serve on his senior communications team.
To hear it from the nation’s Spanish-language media, 2020 was supposed to be the year that Latinos, having displaced African-Americans as the nation’s largest ethnic minority, asserted their power and at long last brought change to the country. But the exact opposite happened, and the media outlets that heralded this wave have so far avoided serious scrutiny.
