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[VOA] Harare -- Women's rights activists, opposition groups and the United Nations are pressuring Zimbabwean authorities to arrest a man who had married a 14-year-old who died last week while giving birth at a church shrine. Zimbabwean police say they are investigating the matter.
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.
PETAL James, chief of branches at JN Bank, is confident that despite the onslaught of the global pandemic on many industries, investments in the housing sector in Jamaica have remained buoyant and resilient.James made the pronouncement recently as she addressed the annual general meeting of the Realtors Association of Jamaica (RAJ) at Karl Hendrickson Auditorium, Jamaica College, in St Andrew.
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
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[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The federal government announced today that it has dispatched food and medical supplies to Mekele city and several towns of Tigray Regional State as part of the humanitarian assistance being delivered to the region.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Oxfam International has warned that millions of Kenya will face starvation in 2021 as a result of La Niña conditions which will result in subdued rains in the Horn East and Central Africa.
(CMC)- Trinidad and Tobago's health minister, Terrence Deyalsingh, today, criticised persons who attended three birthday parties in Tobago resulting in one death and numerous other positive cases of COVID-19.\tSpeaking at a news...
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is under fire from residents after its councillors gobbled $1,5 million in two days at a workshop, while the city faces perennial water problems. BY PRAISEMORE SITHOLE A BCC confidential report seen by the Southern Eye showed that the workshop was held at Matobo Hills Lodge in the Matobo National Park on December 3 and 4 this year as part of the council’s annual general meeting. The report said the BCC sought funding for the workshop from their commercial entity, Ingwebu Breweries. But council workers said they were not impressed by the BCC’s extravagance at a time it has not yet paid workers salaries for November. The Zimbabwe Urban Council Workers Union (ZUCWU) branch chairperson Ambrose Sibindi told the Southern Eye that this was a clear indication that the BCC was not clear about its priorities. “Spending $1,5 million at a workshop in two days proves that the council suffers from a syndrome of wrong priorities. To claim that the workshop was funded by lngwebu Breweries does not exonerate the council from its wrong priorities as the company is owned by BCC,” Sibindi said. “As of now, the council has not paid workers salaries for the month of November, but they have the guts to squander over $1,5 million on such a lavish trip in just two days. To us the workers this is totally unacceptable and must be condemned,” he said. Sibindi said workers had complained on numerous occasions that they had an employer that did not care about their welfare, adding that the extravagance was evidence of their lack of concern for the plight of workers. Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights Leader Khumbulani Maphosa said the BCC councillors should be able to distinguish between what is socially right and wrong. “In my own understanding Ingwebu is a special purpose vehicle for BCC and if you look from the history of Bulawayo social service delivery was usually financed from such vehicles as Ingwebu. “They may be legally right in terms of spending the money at a workshop, but in terms of social justice it cannot be the best decision that could have been made by the leaders,” Maphosa said. He said, while councillors gobbled the $1,5 million at the workshop, Bulawayo’s roads were dilapidated, adding that the money could have been used to fix the roads. “Currently residents do not have water in most of the suburbs. Some of the money could have been used to buy water bowsers for every suburb or to fix the council bowsers which have broken down. This money could have been used to fix water pipe and sewer bursts in the city,” Maphosa said. Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni was not available to comment on the issue. Follow Praisemore on Twitter@TPraisemore
PARLIAMENT has poked holes into Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s 2021 budget allocation for the Primary and Secondary Education ministry after he allocated $55 billion towards education, 73% of which will be gobbled by employment costs. BY GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVA/NQOBANI NDLOVU Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education Priscilla Misihairabwi Mushonga (MDC-T) tore into Ncube’s allocation to the ministry despite kneeling before him in the National Assembly handing him two T-shirts which depict the Ncube and Madyira totems thanking him for allocating a budget for pregnant schoolgirls and sanitary wear. The committee said the 2021 Primary and Secondary Education ministry budget had weaknesses in that out of the $55 billion allocation, only 27% would go towards non-salary obligations, which would leave parents who are already grappling with the effects of COVID-19, heavily burdened with the responsibility of taking care of children’s educational needs. Misihairabwi-Mushonga also said that the $1,1 billion, which Ncube allocated for the school feeding programme, was inadequate to feed the millions of children who face starvation due to drought and the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown. “If you look at the issues to do with comparison of the 2020 versus the 2021 budget and if you look at the $55 billion, it does look like it is a lot of money, but if you do a calculation in terms of the percentage of what we got to gross domestic product (GDP), you will find that, in fact, the allocation has gone down,” Misihairabwi-Mushonga said. “I know that the minister was trying to juggle between education and health, but the difference is that in terms of health, he moved a little nearer (to the Abuja Declaration), but in terms of education where we have the Dakar Declaration, we really went down. “We say so particularly because the year 2021 is going to have more complications than we had in 2020. If you remember in 2020 we did not have teaching at school because we had a lockdown from March up to September. That is a bit of a concern,” she said. Misihairabwi-Mushonga added: “However, of most concern is the issue that of that $55 billion, 73% has gone to employment costs and only 27% has gone towards non-salary items. What it means is that the burden for taking children to school still remains with the parents who have suffered the big impact of COVID-19 and have not been able to get disposable incomes that they normally used to have.” She expressed dismay that Ncube only allocated $144 million for COVID-19 mitigation at schools, which she said was inadequate to fight the pandemic. Meanwhile, teachers’ unions have called on the Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema to forego the final year examinations for non-final year students as schools grapple with COVID-19. They said e-learning was a failure due to lack of data and connectivity, as well as information communication technology gadgets in some areas. “It’s very unreasonable to be evaluating learners that did not learn any
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Special to The Dallas Examiner Dallas Animal Services recently launched its partnership with Home To Home, an online platform that allows residents to proactively rehome their pets when keeping them is no longer [...]
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Tommy “Tiny” Lister died on Thursday at the age of 62.
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