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Earlier this month, the United Nations warned that 180,000 South Sudanese could return by August and called for more than $95 million in urgent assistance.
The court enjoys global jurisdiction.
Investigators will now need the authorization of the court’s judges to open a probe. Bensouda appealed for support from Nigeria’s government.
She said the army has dismissed accusations against government troops after examining them.
Boko Haram strictly opposes formal education. In 2015, Nigeria enlisted the support of neighbors Chad, Cameroon and Niger to try and defeat the group.
While the joint operations made the group lose considerable territory, they have not been able to wipe it out.
The ICC has conducted investigations in several African countries. In Sudan, Libya and Ivory Coast, former leaders were indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after the investigations.
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: British High Commissioner to Jamaica Asif Ahmad said he is impressed with Jamaica’s coronavirus preparation, response, and state of readiness, noting that it is exemplary. Ahmad was speaking at the launch/groundbreaking of...
Making Sense of 2020 focuses on the year from a journalists and newsroom perspective. The year 2020 is a year unlike any other, and Chicago newsrooms and journalists, were challenged to cover the multitude of issues and events happening simultaneously. WTTW's new series, Making Sense of 2020, explores the problems Chicagoans faced this year. Its … Continued
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A family separated as they fled Ethiopia's Tigray region have been reunited in Sudan.
Tsiga Tegra's husband was detained by armed men for seven days in their village before being released, but the experience left the family feeling they had no choice but to flee.
Leaving in various directions they had no idea if they would see each other again but were finally reunited in Hamdayet - a reception center hosting thousands of refugees from Ethiopia fleeing to Sudan.
Although safe, they are struggling to cope.
There is a lack of food, sanitation and healthcare, alongside the threat of waterborne disease.
The UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency), together with Sudanese authorities, have moved some 12,000 refugees from Hamdayet and Abderafi border points to Um Rakuba camp, situated some 70 kilometers away from the Ethiopian border.
Nearly 50,000 Ethiopians have fled to Sudan, following conflict in Tigray.
The nation's top infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci, recently addressed skepticism among the Black community surrounding the safety of a coronavirus vaccine, stating that one of the major vaccine candidates has been worked on by an African
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The South African alcohol industry says, in support of the government's efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19, it has decided to withdraw brand support for festive season events.
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AT the time people thought the government has now reformed and breathing a new political life, the opposite is happening. Last week’s arrest and detention of MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti on allegations of insulting a Russian national Tatiana Aleshina, is clear testimony that a leopard will not change its spots. This has exposed the new dispensation’s hatred of the opposition and selective application of the law or simply abusing law. Judging from the way the Judiciary or our courts are handling cases involving opposition and civic society activists, one would be left with no option, but to conclude that some animals are not equal to others. Arrests, harassments, detentions of opposition activists have become a common place in Zimbabwe. Police and prison cells are being used to harass and torture opposition and civic society activists. It has now become so easy for opposition activists to be fast-tracked to prison than a member of Zanu PF to be fast-tracked to a police interrogation desk. Vice-President Kembo Mohadi threatened his harmless and defenceless wife with an axe, but he never got arrested. That is gender-based violence at play. If the rule of law was applied, by now Mohadi should have been locked up or appeared before a court of law. Members of the opposition are arrested nearly every month and are given stringent bail conditions, some being denied bail a number of times and then released after establishing that they had no case to answer. This demonstrate that there is selective application of law and opposition activists. It has nothing to do with whether one is guilty or not. It has to do with your political identity. Instead of investigating and bringing Tawanda Muchehiwa's abductors to book, the government is wasting resources on investigating a spurious charge of assault against Biti. There is an urgent need to reform our legal system. The Judiciary is being abused to cow opposition activists. Biti is not the only one who has been caged for such charges. Harare mayor Jacob Mafume was also arrested and denied bail on frivolous charges. Leonard Koni
The U.S. gave the final go-ahead Friday to the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine, marking what could be the beginning of the end of an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. Shots for health workers and nursing home residents are expected to begin in the coming days after the Food and Drug Administration authorized an […]
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The Coronavirus is still ravaging the lives of people. Families are losing love ones every day. Our country has fallen, yet there does seem to be help on the way. There have been serious conversations about the development of a vaccine that would curb the spread of COVID-19. Two pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer and Moderna are leading the way in this […]
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The Trump administration Thursday carried out its ninth federal execution of the year in what has been a first series of executions during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years, putting to death a Texas street-gang member in the slayings of a religious couple from Iowa more than two decades ago.
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday a statewide curfew from midnight to 5 a.m. until February — part of his latest measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic as cases and hospitalizations surge.
After a three-day boat trip from Western Sahara, Mohceine Ait Lamadane reached the Canaries and from there travelled to Italy, taking advantage of a system swamped by arrivals and slowed by the coronavirus.
\"I paid 2,000 euros ($2,430) for the crossing,\" 23-year-old Lamdane told AFP in late November after disembarking at Arguineguin port in Gran Canaria where Spain's coastguard drops off migrants picked up at sea.
And barely 10 days later, he was in Italy \"with his two brothers\", confirmed his cousin Moulay Omar Semlali, 40, who lives in Gran Canaria, the archipelago's largest island.
It was Semlali who picked him up from Arguineguin, a small fishing port that has in recent months taken centre stage in the crisis, with its temporary camp -- that was only set up to process migrants and run virus tests -- completely swamped.
At one point, more than 2,100 people were staying there, mostly sleeping rough on the ground in conditions deplored by international rights groups, politicians and legal officials.
Following the criticism, the government dismantled the encampment on November 30, after announcing plans to build emergency encampments to house 7,000 people.
In normal times, when someone enters Spain illegally, the police identify him or her and issue them a deportation order, except in cases where they qualify for international protection as a refugee.
The process must be carried out within the first 72 hours as after that \"detention is illegal,\" explains Daniel Arencibia, a lawyer who works with migrants in Gran Canaria.
They are then sent to a temporary camp where they wait until they are sent back home.
But the three-day deadline hasn't always been respected by the authorities, who have been completely swamped by the arrival of nearly 20,000 people this year, 10 times the number in 2019.
- After 72 hours, free to go -
In November, a local judge spoke out to remind the authorities that migrants can no longer be held \"against their will\" beyond the initial 72 hours.
Nor can those awaiting deportation be sent to temporary detention centres, most of which have either been closed or forced to radically limit their capacity due to the pandemic, which has also put repatriations on hold.
Although the government has dismissed the idea of transferring migrants to mainland Spain -- as demanded by the authorities in the Canary Islands -- officials admit that some managed to make the journey themselves and from there, travel to other parts of Europe.
Ahead of Arguineguin's closure, many people turned up at the port to search for relatives or friends, an AFP journalist said.
Abdel Rostom, a Moroccan national who lives in Gran Canaria, came to look for the relative of a friend who arrived by boat \"in order to send him over to mainland Spain\".
And when around 200 migrants showed up in the southern city of Granada, the Spanish government's rightwing and far-right opponents accused it of chartering a plane to fly them all over.
But the government denied the allegation, saying they were f
Miami Heat athlete Moe Harkless is joining forces with The Prisoner Wine Company for a good cause — and just in time for the holidays.
There will be no horse racing for the foreseeable future as approval from the COVID-19 Task Force for the return of the sport was not granted.
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