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US Calls on African Union to Exert Pressure Over Worsening Crisis in Tigray

February 28, 2021March 1, 2021 web desk

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday called on the African Union and other international partners to help address a deepening crisis in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region as he condemned alleged atrocities in fighting there.

Blinken’s statement …

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US Report Documents Atrocities, Ethnic Cleansing in Tigray, NY Times Says

February 28, 2021March 1, 2021 web desk

An internal U.S. government report obtained by The New York Times says that Ethiopia is conducting “a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing” under the cover of war in the Tigray region, an area largely controlled by Amhara militias in the …

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Journalist’s Home Set Ablaze Amid Niger Violence

February 27, 2021March 1, 2021 web desk

The home of a Radio France International (RFI) reporter was burned down Thursday during post-election violence in Niger’s capital, Niamey.

RFI correspondent Moussa Kaka and his family were not harmed in the attack, but their house was badly damaged.

The …

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UN Launches Multimillion Dollar Appeal for Uprooted Central Africans

February 27, 2021March 1, 2021 web desk

GENEVA – The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, is appealing for $164 million to assistance and protect nearly 1.5 million Central Africans uprooted by conflict and violence.

Civil conflict in the Central African Republic has uprooted about one-third of the country’s …

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Human Rights Violations Eroding Fundamental Freedoms Globally, Bachelet Says

February 26, 2021February 27, 2021 web desk

GENEVA – U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet warns a proliferation of human rights violations around the world is eroding fundamental freedoms and heightening grievances that are destabilizing.

Presenting a global update Friday to the U.N. Human Rights …

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Hundreds of Nigerian Schoolgirls Taken in Mass Abduction

February 26, 2021February 27, 2021 web desk

LAGOS, NIGERIA – Gunmen abducted 317 girls Friday from a boarding school in northern Nigeria, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation.

Police and the military have begun joint operations …

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Medical Oxygen Scarce in Africa, Latin America Amid Virus

February 25, 2021February 26, 2021 web desk

DAKAR, SENEGAL – A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck nations in Africa and Latin America, where warnings went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and doctors say the shortage has led to …

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US Restoration of Foreign Aid to Ethiopia Signals New Course 

February 25, 2021February 26, 2021 web desk

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration reversed a policy that had linked foreign aid to Ethiopia to its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) hydropower project signaling a decided change in U.S. relations with Ethiopia, analysts say.

“It is a fairly predictable …

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184,000 Displaced in West Darfur Need Food, Shelter

February 25, 2021February 26, 2021 web desk

WASHINGTON – More than 180,000 people who were displaced during recent fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region are in dire need of food, shelter and other assistance according to the International Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC).

The Switzerland-based organization called on Sudan’s …

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US Calls on African Union to Exert Pressure Over Worsening Crisis in Tigray

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WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday called on the African Union and other international partners to...

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An internal U.S. government report obtained by The New York Times says that Ethiopia is conducting “a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing”...

Journalist’s Home Set Ablaze Amid Niger Violence

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The home of a Radio France International (RFI) reporter was burned down Thursday during post-election violence in Niger’s capital, Niamey....

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GENEVA - The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, is appealing for $164 million to assistance and protect nearly 1.5 million Central...

Human Rights Violations Eroding Fundamental Freedoms Globally, Bachelet Says

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GENEVA - U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet warns a proliferation of human rights violations around the world...

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