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The UN meeting as a new massacre is
The UN Security Council will meet on Thursday, April 15, in New York at the request of the United States to review the situation in Tigray province in northern Ethiopia. Diplomats will try to find a common position after learning that a new massacre involving the Eritrean army took place last Monday.
Two issues are on the agenda of the UN Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in Ethiopia: access to civilian assistance, first but also the announced withdrawal of the Eritrean army from Tigray.
However, this…
the three defendants sentenced to prison in
In France, the verdict has just been announced at the trial of the bombing of the French camp in Bouaké. At the end of almost three weeks of trial, the court has just sentenced the three defendants, Yury Sushkin, the Belarusian mercenary, Ange Gnanduillet and Patrice Ouei, the two Ivorian officers, to life in prison.
With our…
Dominic Ongwen speaks for the first time
Dominic Ongwen comes out of his silence. The former head of the LRA is still on trial in The Hague before the ICC, which in early February found him guilty of 61 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in northern Uganda between 2002 and 2005. As criminal hearings have taken room since Wednesday, this former trust man of Joseph Kony told his story and shares his problems and regrets.…
life sentence required against the three accused
In traceable time for several years, the Belarusian Yuri Sushkin and the Ivorians Patrice Ouei and Ange Gnanduillet Attualy, the alleged pilots and co-pilots in the rescue, are being tried in their absence for murder, attempted murder and aggravated destruction. Maximum penalty requested against them.
With Laura Martel, of…
Farmajo meets the new Mogadishu police chief, a former terrorist
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Outgoing President Farmajo met the new police chief in Mogadishu on Wednesday amid tensions in the Somali capital following an illegal extension of his tenure by the House of Commons in a move that has sparked war in the country.
Farmajo had its term extended as the lower house insisted that the country would now hold direct elections within two years, a move that technically overturned the September bargaining agreement, which among other things had approved an improved clan-based election model.…
reunion at the top between Riyad Mahrez and
Riyad Mahrez from Manchester City and Idrissa Gueye from Paris Saint-Germain will meet in the semi-finals of the Champions League on April 28 and May 4. The two men had played the final of the African Cup of Nations in Cairo 2019, won by Algeria. They also crossed paths in the Premier League.
By beating Dortmund, Manchester…
At least 17 killed in Somalia as the bus runs over the bomb
MOGADISHU, Somalia - At least 17 civilians have been killed in Middle Shebelle, a region that has struggled with stability following a bomb blast aimed at a minibus traveling from the capital Mogadishu, amid a running stalemate before the country’s election.
Officials said the incident took place near Gololey about 50 kilometers north of Mogadishu, the country's capital, which has been battling insecurity for the past few months.
The dead traveled from Mogadishu to Jowhar, the regional administrative capital of…
HRW condemns the resurgence of the measures
NGO published a report after arrests and violence due to the sexual orientation of the targeted. Cameroonian law only criminalizes the law, but the police use it to track down homosexuals or transgender people according to the organization, which condemns this penal provision, which is contrary to the Constitution and international treaties.…
the President of the Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah
Its goal is to find a way out of the inter-municipal clashes in the province, which have killed at least 144 people since early April. As early as January, murders had taken place in the city when pastors of Arab tribes had attacked their opponents in the Massalit peasant society.
To show that he took the matter very seriously,…
North Western of Somalia slumbers Farmajo’s “oppressive” regime
HARGEISA, Somalia - In the midst of ongoing political upheavals in Somalia, the self-proclaimed state of North Western of Somaliahas released Mogadishu's brewing tensions as "unprecedented" and dismissed the government of outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo as "oppressive" and "tyrannical".
In a statement from the Foreign Ministry, North Western of Somaliasaid it was "seriously concerned" about undemocratic and destabilizing events in "our neighboring country" Somalia, in another step that could trigger more…