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.Bl…
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US Report Documents Atrocities, Ethnic Cleansing in Tigray, NY Times Says
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 northern pa…
Read More3 Years After, Parents of Nigerian Girl Abducted?by?Boko Haram Still Plead for Her Release
YOLA, NIGERIA – Three years ago this month, Boko Haram abducted 110 girls from a school in Dapchi, in Nigeria’s Yobe state. One girl remains in captivity. Her parents remain hopeful she will be freed but say the government is doing nothing to ensure h…
Read MoreUN Launches Multimillion Dollar Appeal for Uprooted Central Africans
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 th…
Read MoreJournalist’s Home Set Ablaze Amid Niger Violence
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. Th…
Read MoreHuman Rights Violations Eroding Fundamental Freedoms Globally, Bachelet Says
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. H…
Read MoreRwanda Paid for Flight That Brought Hotel Rwanda ‘Hero’ to Kigali
Rwandan Justice Minister Johnston Busingye said in an interview broadcast Friday that Kigali had paid for the plane that brought the hero of the hit movie Hotel Rwanda to his home country to be arrested and tried.A critic of Rwandan President Paul Kaga…
Read MoreHennessy Becomes the NBA’s First Global Spirits Partner
– Multiyear Partnership Expansion Makes Hennessy the “Official Spirit of the NBA” Worldwide– COGNAC, France, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Hennessy, the world’s best-selling cognac, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced a global expansion of their partnership, making Hennessy the “Official Spirit of the NBA” worldwide. The multiyear agreement, which marks the league’s first-ever […]
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