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(CNN) —Thefuneral of Pope Francisgave Catholics across the globe the chance tobid farewellto a beloved pontiff – and for world leaders to rub shoulders at a fraught time for international diplomacy. More than 250,000 people packed into St. Peter’s Square for Saturday’s service, the Vatican said, with members of the public there to mourn along […]
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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.
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[New Times] Two years since President Paul Kagame urged concerned institutions to improve access to sunscreen body lotions and creams to afford people living with albinism normal lives, the products have arrived in the country and their distribution will begin soon.
[Nation] Legendary Congolese crooner Tabu Ley Rochereau, one of Africa's greatest musicians, left a rich legacy, which many will be relishing today as they mark his seventh death anniversary.
[RFI] The UN-run camps housing Eritrean refugees in the northern region of Tigray, Ethiopia have run out of food as of Monday, and the UN refugee agency is urgently calling for the federal authorities in Ethiopia to allow access to get food and supplies in.
There is an increasing number of cases showing law enforcement's intolerance towards journalists, South African National Editor's Forum (Sanef) Chair Sbu Ngalwa said.
[Nyasa Times] Chairperson for Parliamentary Health Committee, Dr. Mathews Ngwale says he will table the the controversial Termination of Pregnancy Billduring the February, 2021 Parliamentary Sitting with hope that legislators will give a nod to the bill.
[GroundUp] Progressive policies linked to drop in new infections in Southern Africa
[DW] Hundreds have died in the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region and thousands more have fled. As the TPLF and Ahmed trade jabs, thousands of refugees are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Sudanese camps.
Adewale \"Wally\" Adeyemo will be the deputy Treasury secretary, making the Nigerian-born Obama era official the first Black person to ever serve in that role.
Soldiers from Ghana's armed forces have been deployed to the volatile eastern Ghanaian region of Volta ahead of the general election which is scheduled for Monday, December 7. The move is part of what the government says are security measures put in place to forestall feared attacks that may spring up in the lead-up or...
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(Jamaica Observer) How does a shy, little, 'lisp-tongue' girl from Kingston end up as a Supreme Court judge in New York, beating back cancer and COVID-19 along the way?
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[RFI] Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met on Friday with three African Union (AU) envoys, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe. He refused them access to speak with leaders from the Tigray region, however.
Symone Sanders and Karine Jean-Pierre were part of a historic all-female communications team that will serve Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' administration.
THE Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has received 534 tablets for students with special needs from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), under the One Laptop or Tablet Per Child initiative.The tablets, valued at US$100,000, are aimed at providing the beneficiaries with greater access to online learning. The first batch of more than 200 devices has already been delivered to children.
Crusader Staff Report New Orleans Congressman Cedric Richmond, who once served as the leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, will be President-elect Joe Biden’s director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Richmond, 47, made the announcement last week after spending the last decade in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd District […]
