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The Ethiopian government expelled seven UN officials accusing them of interference in internal politics
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.
Image: Toby Melville, Reuters
The Trump administration has determined that top Chinese firms, including telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies and video surveillance company Hikvision, are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, laying the groundwork for new US financial sanctions.
The designations were drawn up by the defence department, which was mandated by a 1999 law to compile a list of Chinese military companies operating in the US, including those “owned or controlled” by the People’s Liberation Army that provide commercial services, manufacture, produce or export.
Huawei, China Mobile, China Telecom, AVIC and the Chinese embassy in Washington did not respond to requests for called the allegations “baseless”, noting it was not a “Chinese military company”, and had never participated in any RD work for military applications but would work with the US government to resolve the matter.
The list will also turn a spotlight on US companies’ ties to the Chinese firms as well as their operations in the US
Last week, China threatened retaliation after President Donald Trump signed legislation calling for sanctions over the repression of China’s Uighurs.
The list “is a start, but woefully inadequate to warn the American people about the state-owned and -directed companies that support the Chinese government and Communist Party’s activities threatening US economic and national security,” Republican senator Marco Rubio, who sponsored the Uighur bill, said in a statement.
[Ethiopian Herald] Safaricom Ethiopia PLC will start operating in 2022 as per the business license agreement, said Ministry of Finance.
US biotech firm Moderna reported \"positive interim\" results on Monday in the first clinical tests of its vaccine against the new coronavirus performed on a small number of volunteers.
The complete results of the phase 1 test, the first in the development of a vaccine and which in this case involved 45 participants, were not yet known.
\"These interim phase 1 data, while early, demonstrate that vaccination with mRNA-1273 elicits an immune response of the magnitude caused by natural infection,\" Tal Zaks, Moderna's chief medical officer, said.
The clinical test was carried out by the National Institutes of Health, and the US government has invested a half billion dollars in the development of Moderna's vaccine candidate.
Phase 2 tests, with a larger number of subjects, should begin soon, and according to Moderna.
Department of Health acting director-general Dr Anban Pillay \"abused the power\" of his office when he wrote to the chairperson of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) to recommend an investigation be launched into its president, Professor Glenda Gray, the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) said on Monday afternoon.
Pillay had requested an investigation into Gray's comments, claiming she had \"made a number of false allegations against the government\", GroundUp reported last week.
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ASSAf said Pillay asked for the investigation into Gray simply because she held different views from the political authorities on the lockdown restrictions.
Gray has been at the forefront of a public spat between the health department and South African scientists over lockdown regulations, after she told News24 in an interview that the country's lockdown approach was \"unscientific\", a claim she has since denied.
ASSAf said Health Minister Zweli Mkhize had a \"measured reply\" when he disputed aspects of Gray's remarks in a statement last week, but it's Pillay subsequent actions which are concerning.
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the slashing of jobs in the South African media industry and worse seems yet to come.
African countries are pushing for the UN's top rights body to launch a high-level investigation into \"systemic racism\" and police violence in the United States and beyond, according to a draft resolution seen on Tuesday by AFP.
In the draft resolution, the African group strongly condemns \"continuing racial discriminatory and violent practices perpetrated by law enforcement agencies against Africans and people of African descent and structural racism endemic to the criminal justice system, in the United States of America and other parts of the world recently affected.\"
The commission, the text said, should \"establish facts and circumstances related to the systemic racism, alleged violations of international human rights law and abuses against Africans and of people of African descent in the United States\" and elsewhere by law enforcement agencies, especially those incidents that resulted in the deaths.
The text also calls on UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet to include updates on police brutality against people of African descent in the United States and elsewhere at each future council session.
\"Many other cases of persons of African descent (have) faced the same fate because of their origin and police violence,\" Burkina Faso Ambassador Dieudonne Desire Sougouri told the council on Monday.
On June 8 activists from Black Lives Matter and other concerned residents asked Council member Elissa Silverman (I- At-large) via Twitter if she would defund the police; however, while the Jewish politician expressed her support of the movement, she used her reply for a backhanded deflection towards support for anti-Semitism.
Let’s break down the moments leading up to the Council member’s tone-deaf tweet towards Black Lives.
Black Lives Matter replied to one of the Council member’s tweets writing, “But the real question is, will you #DefundPolice in DC?”
The following morning, Black Lives Matter replied enraged at the Council member’s assertions and accused her of not listening to Black people.
Directly after the organization replied to the tweet, Black Lives Matter DC organizer April Goggans also tweeted in response to the Council member.
LOS ANGELES — A new survey released by the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles reveals severe economic impacts of COVID-19 in Southeast Los Angeles County and neighboring communities served by the university.
The area is home to one of the highest concentrations of Latino residents and undocumented individuals in California, according to a recent report by the Pat Brown Institute.
Since early March, low-income communities in Los Angeles County, including the survey area, have seen COVID-19 infection rates that are higher than those in wealthier neighborhoods, according to reports by Advancement Project California and theLos Angeles Times.
The poll, conducted under the direction of Latino Decisions co-founder and managing partner Matt Barreto, follows a companion survey conducted last Dec. 5-27, by Latino Decisions for the Pat Brown Institute, the California Community Foundation and the SELA Collaborative before the onset of the pandemic.
The Living and Working in SELA survey of 1,017 residents depicted an economically stressed community, but also showed some signs of optimism — with a majority of respondents saying they believed their economic situation had improved over the last five years.
Exactly one hundred and thirty-six years to the day after Ida B. Wells was thrown off a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad train, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans in the era of lynchings.”
White folks could not stand her blunt description of their lynching behavior, which included her reporting that some Black men were lynched, not for rape, but because they’d had consensual sex with White women.
After three of her friends were lynched, primarily because of White economic envy, she traveled the South to document lynchings, going to lynching sites, interviewing witnesses, making clear that the trope that Black men were mostly lynched for “raping” White women was a falsehood.
Ida B. Wells would not have been a candidate for a Pulitzer citation without the ways the Black press embraced her.
Arbery’s dad described his massacre as a lynching, and it resonates with Ida B. Wells’ Pulitzer award.
June 26, 2020 (Milwaukee, Wis] Artistic Director Mark Clements and Executive Director Chad Bauman are thrilled to expand Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s leadership team with Tammy Belton-Davis as a loaned executive Chief Diversity Officer for a ten month appointment focusing on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategies, engagement and communications. Ms. Belton-Davis, founder and principal []
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Thousands of tertiary students hanging on to a thin thread of hope of travelling to the United States in the summer to earn funds to cover tuition and other costs for the upcoming academic year have had those dreams dashed with the Donald Trump...
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Saturday, May 16, welcomed the arrest of Félicien Kabuga, one of the leading architects of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, his spokesperson said in a statement.
Kabuga, one of the world's most wanted fugitives was arrested in Paris earlier on the same day, by French authorities as the result of a joint investigation with the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) Office of the Prosecutor.
Guterres said that Kabuga's arrest \"sends a powerful message that those who are alleged to have committed such crimes cannot evade justice and will eventually be held accountable.\"
The UN Secretary-General praised the cooperation between the UN mechanism and the French authorities for the arrest, underlining the responsibility of all states to cooperate with the IRMCT in locating and arresting any fugitives at large.
Following completion of appropriate procedures under French law, Kabuga is expected to be transferred to Arusha, where he will stand trial, according to IRMCT.
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“Bart S. Fisher is a partner in JJ&B, which represents the APNU+AFC Coalition” this is the disclaimer on an Op-ed in the Washington Examiner written by the high priced lobbyist hired by Joseph Harmon to influence the American government to disregard Guyana’s elections results.
Fisher makes an argument that alternates between the ridiculous and outright claptrap, but then Fisher falsely says “Rep. Yvette Clarke, a Democrat from New York and co-chairwoman of the Caribbean Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, has flagged this attempted election heist by the PPP, and warned the international community, including the U.S., the Organization of American States, and Caricom to stop interfering in Guyana’s internal affairs”.
Fisher previously lied to the US Government when he claimed to have been retained to represent the Government of Guyana.
Congresswoman Clarke will no doubt clear the air in the coming days but Guyanese need not wait to condemn Fisher’s outrageous attempt to aid the subversion of our democracy and must let Fisher and others understand that US Government sanctions have been promised for anyone who seeks to benefit from the electoral fraud perpetuated by Mr. Mingo and his as yet unknown co-conspirators.
My understanding of the US State Department statement is it does not preclude American citizens from serious consequences and personal sanctions.
[VOA] The U.N. has released $40 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund to help tackle a new outbreak of Ebola and other health and humanitarian crises in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
