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A Former Texas state trooper has been accused of sexual assault. Lee Ray Boykin Jr. has been arrested and charged... View Article
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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.
The local icon was gunned down on a Texas interstate.
Former Amazon, Inc. employee Chris Smalls sued his former employer on behalf of a class of similarly situated African American and Latino workers for its failure to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) and complying with other safety guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. “As New York City was fast becoming the epicenter of this deadly and … Continued
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He was their anti-science standard-bearer. He made it seem to be blamingimmigrants and minoritieshad no penalties.He emboldened falsehoods of a grand conspiracy focusing on nationalistsand championedthe usage of police andthe…
South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison told the Washington Post Tuesday, he is interested in becoming the Deocratic National Committee Chair.
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis pledged Wednesday to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offered prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a day after the Vatican released a detailed report into the decadeslong church cover-up of his sexual misconduct. The Vatican report blamed a host of bishops, cardinals and popes for […]
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) - India should embrace split-captaincy and put Rohit Sharma in charge of their T20 squad, several former cricketers said after the opener led Mumbai Indians to a fifth Indian Premier League (IPL) title on Tuesday.
The article Rohit should be India’s T20 captain after IPL success, say former cricketers appeared first on Stabroek News.
Kenya's hilarious teenage lockdown sensation has snagged the channel's African Social Star award.
U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood has been reelected over Republican businessman and state lawmaker Jim Oberweis in a close Chicago-area race.... View Article
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President Donald Trump solicited his supporters to help pay for the legal fight against alleged voter fraud in the 2020... View Article
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A bipartisan task force of former presidents has recommended that outgoing commander-in-chief Donald J. Trump be allowed to immediately use all of his accumulated vacation ...
By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO Pardon. Need to interrupt the partying now that Joe Biden is the 46th president-elect, and the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. soon needs to carry his a**, as one of my wiseacre colleagues loves to say. But seriously, I need to whisper offstage to a cohort of […]
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A Free state police captain, who worked at the family violence, child protection and sexual offences unit, has been arrested for grooming and several counts of sexual assault.
The nine-year-old girl had been sent to the local tuckshop by her mother, where she would be brutally murdered. Police have reminded South Africans that there is no waiting period to report a missing person and further condemned mob justice
Now the the election is over, the work continues. For Byrd that culminates in years of organizing around the liberation of Black people who are on one track to be free in a country which routinely weaponizes against them.
Social media regulations in Africa are not fighting hate speech and disinformation.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Getting the flu vaccine is especially important this year. If you get the flu, you may need to be hospitalized, in this time of COVID-19, in an already overwhelmed healthcare system. Get your flu shot. Avoid getting the flu. Stay out of the hospital due to the flu,” said Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., […]
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In a recent interview, Debbie Allen shared the rejection she experienced from the North Carolina School of the Arts because she was told she had the wrong body type.
The news of Cardi's new kicks was swiftly met with backlash becuase the cover photo featured the \"Bodak Yellow' taking cues from the Hindu goddess Durga giving her 10 arms while holding a pair of the new sneakers.
… to vote for Obama, two African-American women looked at me like …
After spending nearly two decades behind bars, a Nashville man is released from prison after a judge ruled he was... View Article
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[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- The committee set up by Sudan's Attorney General to investigate the cases of people missing since the start of the 2018 December Revolution has found a mass grave which may contain the bodies of some of the people who are still considered as 'missing' the missing after what is known as the Ramadan 29 massacre in front of the army command in Khartoum, which caused the death of at least 127 people.
University of Iowa refuses to fire the team’s head coach.
By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times For those in the Birmingham-metro area who know and have met Kamala Harris, it comes as no surprise that the California senator and vice-president-elect would shatter yet another glass ceiling. U.S. Rep Terri Sewell listed a number of “firsts” achieved by Harris. “She is first and foremost well qualified […]
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Carl Niehaus, outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court, claimed Ace Magashule is being politically targeted.
Black Lives Matter activist Cori Bush scored a number of firsts when she won her race for Congress in Missouri on November 3. The 44-year-old St. Louis native became the first Black congresswoman from the state of Missouri as Blavity previously reported . But like many new members of Congress lately, Bush has some tough decisions to make, including what to wear to Capitol Hill. The reality of being a regular person going to Congress is that it’s really expensive to get the business clothes I need for the Hill. So I’m going thrift shopping tomorrow. Should I do a fashion show? ⬇️ — Cori Bush (@CoriBush) November 11, 2020 Thankfully a few congresswomen gave her some expert advice on how to look congressional on a budget.
