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Cairo's drum festival opened this week, bringing together around 40 folkloric troupes from around the world.
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.
President of the Jamaica Coffee Exporters Association (JCEA)Norman Grant is seeking Government intervention to the tune of $200 million for a recovery programme for the country's coffee farmers.According to Grant, during a recent meeting of the JCEA, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green committed to contributing $80 million to the coffee recovery programme through the Jamaica Agricultural Commodity Regulatory Authority.
[New Zimbabwe] South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says Africa has a risk of remaining with the least vaccinated population but carrying the highest burden of the coronavirus infections.
President-elect Joe Biden initiated a COVID-19 task force this week and planned to speak with governors about methods to control... View Article
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Gucci Mane and Jeezy had to follow up last year's Verzuz battle with a tour. The Legendz of the Streetz tour highlights the former rivals with several other street favorites. Check out the gallery inside.
[New Times] A number of testimonies recently compiled in 'a Tool Kit and Guideline on access to Genetic Resources', shows why Rwanda needs a law on exploiting genetic resources.
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Director for Africa, has paid tribute to African leaders for the progress they have made in their fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
\"We have seen African countries take very tough decisions to put in place some of the control measures
\"I am very pleased to have joined this celebration of Africa Day yesterday, and especially pleased to have been in the company of special envoys on COVID-19 in Africa,\" she said.
The Day is an opportunity to celebrate Africa's vitality and diversity, and to promote African unity and it is celebrated in various countries on the African continent, as well as around the world.
\"All countries in Africa now have a preparedness and response plan in place, compared with less than a dozen in the first few weeks of the pandemic.
\"And 51 have lab-testing capacity for COVID-19, compared with 40 countries 10 weeks ago; WHO continues to support Africa with other life-saving supplies,\" the director general said.
Elsewhere, South Africa is hosting nominal home ties for both Namibia and Malawi while Cameroon staged Central African Republic (CAR) against Cape Verde last week in Douala and CAR's game against Liberia on Monday.
The post Algeria coach in favour of ‘radical’ stadium bans appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
Condoms are a birth control method but also prevent spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
Residents and preservationists have registered their alarm as demolition continues in the Cairo cemetery complex known as the City Of The Dead.
The work's being undertaken as part of a new 17.5 kilometre highway project. The highway, named Al-Ferdaous - or Paradise - is intended to connect major road arteries and ease traffic in the city of 20 million, as well as provide better links to the regions.
But preservationists say that the work is destroying many important structures included in UNESCO's World Heritage Site of historic Cairo .
The City of the Dead has been developed over many centuries and contains the graves of ordinary people as well as the elaborate mausoleums of historical rulers and celebrated figures.
Cairo-based independent journalist Sharif Kouddous tweeted that his family burial plot was partially demolished to make way for the highway:
\"We had to move the bodies of my grandmother, grandfather and great-grandfather.\"
The complex also contains communities of people living in buildings and walled yards that surround each gravesite. Mother-of-three Menna said she was caught off guard when a bulldozer flattened much of the mausoleum her family use as their home:
\"The earth-mover suddenly hit the wall and we found ourselves throwing our things (out) in a panic. They kicked us out on the street.
\"It was awful. We moved the dead on straw mats.\"
She and her husband shifted several bodies, including the remains of her father, to a segment of her home that was still intact.
Menna's family has lived in the complex for three generations. For thousands of others unable to afford expensive Cairo rents, the burial chambers have provided homes.
Menna's family and many others have built extensions to the original mausoleums to augment their living areas.
Menna is now living with neighbours in a part of the cemetery that is not in the demolition area.
Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has responded that no registered Islamic monuments have been destroyed during the course of the demolition work.
But some antiquities experts say that’s too narrow a view; they say that, among the demolished sites are many that still have significant historical or architectural value.
Time Magazine has released its list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood and a number of phenomenal Black women made the coveted list.
A senior citizen was remanded on wounding and assault charges when he appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court on Friday.\tMickel McTavish, 66, of Bog Walk in the parish, was ordered to return to court on April 16.\tAllegations are...
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News The facility at San Fernando Hill. - WOMAN police constable Nicole Clement admitted she signed a report on the killing of three Moruga friends in 2011 knowing it was false. That report was the initial report the seven officers involved in the fatal police shooting on July 22, 2011, were required to give about the incident. Clement was one of those officers. She and her colleagues Sgt Khemraj Sahadeo, along […]
\"Witnesses have told police a shark attacked the teenager while he was surfing at Wilsons Headland at Wooli Beach, near Grafton,\" New South Wales police said in a statement.
\"Several board-riders came to his assistance before the injured teen could be helped to shore. First aid was rendered for serious injuries to his legs and despite CPR efforts to revive him, the 15-year-old died at the scene,\" police said.
Beaches in the area including Wooli, Diggers Camp and Minnie Water have been closed. Police are investigating the incident. This was Australia's fifth fatal shark attack this year.
Last week, a 36-year-old man in the Australian state of Queensland died after being attacked by a shark while spearfishing.
In June, a shark killed a 60-year-old surfer at Salt Beach near Kingscliff on the far north coast of New South Wales.
CNN's Angus Watson reported from Sydney, Australia, and Isaac Yee reported from Hong Kong.
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Figures released by Statistics New Zealand place South Africans as the third-largest group of migrants to the country for the year ending September 2020.
Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative (CMPI) is a mentorship program that was launched last fall for talented student musicians from traditionally under-represented backgrounds.
For application guidelines and to sign up, visit that African American and Latinx musicians hold less than 3 percent of the positions in major American orchestras (League of American Orchestras), the mission of CMPI is to identify and develop gifted and motivated orchestral students from under-represented backgrounds for acceptance into top-tier conservatory, college or university classical music programs in preparation for careers as professional musicians.
Students from upper income communities and white communities have had the tools and access to resources needed to be successful in classical music,” Thompson said.
Upon their graduation we will be creating a critical mass of student musicians of color going to conservatories and professional music schools, which will be affecting the statistics of future makeup of American orchestras,” Thompson added.
All seven high school senior fellows in the program have earned spots in highly competitive professional music schools including Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia), DePaul University (Chicago), Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, 2 fellows admitted), Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University (Baltimore), Rice University (Houston) and University of Texas (Austin); notably, the students’ musical and academic achievements earned them a total of some $3.8 million in financial aid scholarships.
[Egypt Online] President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has issued directives to establish a modern electrical infrastructure in the New Delta project area using the most advanced techniques to meet any increase in electrical loads in the future.
The Congressional Black Caucus on Monday introduced “The Justice in Policing Act of 2020,” legislation designed to make the nation’s police more accountable to the nation’s citizens, especially its black citizens, in the wake of the brutal in police custody death of George Floyd.
Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, called the out the names of other unarmed black men and women killed by police.
Bass (D., California) said the names of several victims before asking other members of the CBC to shout out the names of other black men and black women killed by police.
In the wake of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s murders, we must ask ourselves: how many more times must our families and our communities be put through the trauma of an unarmed black man or a woman’s killing at the hands of police who are sworn to protect and serve them?
The bill, if passed and signed into law, it would:
Ban chokeholds, carotid holds, and no-knock warrants at the federal level and limit the transfer of military-grade equipment to state and local law enforcement
Establish a National Police Misconduct Registry to prevent problematic cops who are fired or leave an agency from moving to another jurisdiction without any accountability
Amend a federal criminal statute from a “willfulness” to a “recklessness” standard to successfully identify and prosecute police misconduct
Require state and local law enforcement agencies to report us of force data by race, gender, disability, religion and age
Mandate the use of dashboard cameras and body cameras for federal officers and require state and local enforcement to use existing federal funds to ensure the use of police body cameras
Prohibit federal, state and local law enforcement from racial, religious and discriminatory profiling, and mandate training on racial, religious, and discriminatory profiling for all law enforcement
Reform qualified immunity so that individuals are not barred from recovering damages when police violate their constitutional rights
Establish public safety innovation grants for community-based organizations to create local commissions and task forces to help communities to re-imagine and develop concrete, just and equitable public safety approaches
Create law enforcement development and training programs to develop best practices and require the creation of law enforcement accreditation standard recommendations based on President Obama’s Taskforce on 21st Century Policing
Improve the use of pattern and practice investigations at the federal level by granting the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division subpoena power and create a grant program for state attorneys general to develop authority to conduct independent investigations into problematic police departments
Establish a Department of Justice task force to coordinate the investigation, prosecution and enforcement efforts of federal, states and local governments in cases related to law enforcement misconduct.
This summer James Harden got into a public fallout with ex Rockets GM Daryl Morey.
For just the second time in more than seven decades, a Democrat will carry Arizona in a presidential election, a monumental shift for a state that was once a Republican stronghold. CNN projected on Thursday that President-elect Joe Biden will carry Arizona, defeating President Donald Trump and providing Democrats in Arizona and the universe of allied grassroots organizations in the […]
