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Geoffrey York

3 years

The Garima Gospels, one of the world's oldest surviving Christian manuscripts, is among the irreplaceable cultural treasures whose fate is unknown as the Tigray war rages on. Other historic manuscripts have been looted, and scholars are deeply worried.

Where are the Garima Gospels? In Ethiopia, scholars fear the worst for one of Christianity’s oldest...

After surviving 1,500 years of human history in a remote monastery, the Garima Gospels are now facing their most severe threat

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Caster Semenya after today's ruling: "I know that the IAAF’s regulations have always targeted me specifically. For a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down, but this has actually made me stronger. The decision of the CAS will not hold me back. I will once again rise above..."

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Canada is expanding its travel ban to include Nigeria, Malawi and Egypt. (After previously imposing bans on southern African countries.) Interestingly, there are far more confirmed cases of Omicron in European countries than in Nigeria, Malawi or Egypt. But they're not banned.

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Two South Africans with the coronavirus have been charged with attempted murder after they refused to obey self-isolation orders and continued to move around, according to South African Police Minister Bheki Cele.

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Authorities in Lagos said on Friday that hospitals had seen cases of chloroquine poisoning after Donald Trump touted the drug as a treatment against the coronavirus

Coronavirus: Nigeria reports chloroquine poisonings after Trump touts drug

Health authorities see long queues at pharmacies in wake of US president’s remarks, raising concerns about people ‘self-medicating without guidance’.

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South African Twitter is awesome. A cabinet minister denies the Guptas are SA citizens. Within hours, SA Twitter digs up a mountain of evidence to the contrary: SA passports; ID cards; voter registration data; internal government letters; and even photos of the Guptas voting.

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"The Ukrainians always came first, even though we Africans would be there for days and sometimes three days with no food. Everyone was just exhausted. Any time Ukrainians came, they told us to go back." Our report from the Polish-Ukrainian border:

Africans and Asians fleeing Ukraine subjected to racial discrimination by border guards

Videos showing Africans being pushed back from trains and border crossings have gone viral on social media, causing an uproar and sparking statements of concern by African politicians and officials

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Putin is scheduled to attend the BRICS summit in South Africa in August. South Africa, as a member of ICC and a signatory of the Treaty of Rome, will have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC arrest warrant against him. (Note: SA refused to arrest Omar al-Bashir in 2015.)

Lotte Leicht

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BREAKING‼️ The #ICC has issued arrest warrants for #Russian President Vladimir #Putin & Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova Lvova-Belova is the Russian official at center of scheme to forcibly deport thousands of #Ukrainian children to #Russia ICC statement👇

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Unlike other countries, South Africa isn't waiting for cases to flood into hospitals. Instead it is actively searching for cases in communities. "Only SA has done that," Prof. Karim says. (28,000 health workers are going into communities, screening and sending people for testing)

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I’m in Khartoum today, where the streets are filled with tens of thousands of incredibly brave and determined pro-democracy protestors - just 4 weeks after the massacre of 120 protestors by paramilitary forces. They refuse to give up their demand for civilian government.

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South Africa's Gift Ngoepe becomes the first African in baseball's major leagues-- and gets first hit

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Firefighters from South Africa have arrived in Edmonton. Sound up!

Working on Fire

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#2023WoFCanadianDeployment Song and dance from #MZANZI1 as they arrive in Edmonton, Canada. #MZANZI1 @environmentza @CIFFC @epwpza @kishugu

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Anti-apartheid fighter Denis Goldberg, flashing a finger of defiance from the exact seat in a Pretoria court where he faced the threat of the death penalty during the Rivonia trial in 1964. He asked for the photo to be published after his death. Photo by Masi Losi (Sunday Times)

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South Africa is ambitious: aiming to be one of the world's leaders in testing for the coronavirus. It has a potentially big advantage: large numbers of geneXpert machines, designed for TB testing, that can test for coronavirus within 45 minutes -- and now deployed in mobile vans.

Ferial Haffajee

@ferialhaffajee

4 years

South Africa 🇿🇦 has 67 new mobile testing units (specced in less than a week and which can produce results in 45 minutes) to boost testing to among highest per capita in world 🌍 as country enters a new Coronavirus phase. Lockdown may be longer - depends on viral curve.

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Every two hours, a child dies at the Zamzam camp for displaced people in Darfur. Mortality is double the emergency threshold; 25% of children are acutely malnourished. “It is an absolutely catastrophic situation,” says Claire Nicolet, head of MSF’s emergency response in Sudan.

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The last tweet by South African cabinet minister Jackson Mthembu, who died of COVID complications today, was a brief but profound reply to an unsympathetic tweet.

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While students must have a GIC of $10,000, those in Nigerian stream must show $30,000 in their account. They must also take language proficiency tests despite English being Nigeria's official language. "When they meet this burden of proof, most from Nigeria are still refused."

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African students face higher financial burden, lower acceptance rates to study in Canada: “ @UCalgary professor Gideon Christian ( @ProfXtian ) came to Canada as an international student and says the system is denying African students the opportunity he had”

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Update on vaccine inequity: it's not getting any better.

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Choking in tear gas and dodging police who harass him at every stop on the campaign trail, Bobi Wine has one big goal remaining: sheer survival. Uganda's vote is a week away. “My most important mission is to be alive in 7 days," he says. (for subscribers)

Arrests and tear gas are daily routine in final days of Ugandan election

‘I expect a live bullet, targeted at me, at any time,’ says Bobi Wine, the leading opposition presidential candidate

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2 years

So today we learn: 1) Omicron was circulating in The Netherlands at least a week before the travel bans; 2) Omicron was found in Germany in someone with no travel history and no contact with travelers. Travel bans are pointless; the variant is already in community transmission.

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Authorities in the eastern German city of Leipzig, meanwhile, said Tuesday they had confirmed an infection with the Omicron variant in a 39-year-old man who had neither been abroad nor had contact with anyone who had been, news agency dpa reported.

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Carleton University has confirmed that professor Pius Adesanmi was among the 18 Canadians who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash today. He was "a towering figure in African and post-colonial scholarship." He was also beloved in Nigeria as a writer and columnist.

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China's state television company has purchased 20% of South Africa's biggest newspaper chain. The result: anyone who criticizes Chinese policies is censored and sacked. The new reality of Chinese investment in Africa.

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This is @azadessa 's full post with the news of his cancelled column because he wrote about China's internment of Uighurs. In it, he asks: "Is this where the continent's future relationship with China is headed?"

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More good news on testing in SA: the geneXpert machines are now validated & have received 10,000 cartridges for testing for coronavirus; 20,000 more are coming. SA is one of few nations in world to receive them. SA has about 180 of the machines; can do test results in 45 minutes.

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3 years

Zuma: I can't go to prison because it's too risky for me in a pandemic. Also Zuma: I'm not wearing a mask because of a "confidential medical condition." And I'm not vaccinated, even though my age group has been eligible since May. And super-spreader crowds at my house are okay.

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South African scientists were the first and fastest in the world to identify any of the new COVID variants that are sweeping across the planet. Their reward? Other countries blame SA for the "worst" variant. Highly unfair, as noted by @Tuliodna in a scientific briefing tonight.

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South Africa's transparency in sharing information on the new Omicron variant "should serve as a model for the world," says the US Secretary of State

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It's bizarre that the SA presidency is denying the Russian missile attack, which has been widely reported by international media and the Ukrainian authorities. Reuters journalists witnessed the African leaders going into an air-raid shelter during the attack.

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This mission has now unravelled. The Presidency rejecting Reuters reports, statements by Ukrainian officials about explosions in Kyiv while CR is there as “all lies and misinformation”, and it seems like SA did not have the correct permits in place upon arrival in Warsaw.

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21 employees of WHO, including doctors and epidemiologists, allegedly perpetrated sexual abuse and exploitation during an Ebola outbreak. Some even administered abortion pills to their victims when they became pregnant. My report on a "dark day" for WHO:

WHO employees perpetrated sexual crimes in Democratic Republic of the Congo during Ebola outbreak,...

At least 21 employees of the World Health Organization were alleged perpetrators of rape, sexual abuse or sexual exploitation

www.theglobeandmail.com

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4 years

The worst locust swarms in 25 years in East Africa. Climate change is almost certainly a key factor.

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The locust swarms - one as big as Moscow - that are devastating east Africa

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Far from the global spotlight: as many as 500,000 people in Tigray have died from war-related causes since Nov 2020, researchers estimate. They died from violence, hunger, lack of health care after hospitals were destroyed. Does the world care?

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South African science was crucial in helping UK discover its new variants; but then the UK govt claimed (wrongly) that the SA variant is more transmissible. No evidence to support this, according to @krisp_news scientists.

New Covid strain was spotted in South Africa

The discovery of a mutation of the Covid-19 virus in South Africa earlier this month allowed researchers time to share vital information with Britain.Experts f

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Nelson Mandela's ID book is among the items to be auctioned by his daughter Makaziwe to raise funds for a Mandela Memorial Garden in Qunu, Eastern Cape. After a two-year legal battle and objections from the SA government, she won the right to do the auction.

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A lion in the snow. Photo from the Aquila game reserve in the Western Cape. First snowfall there in 10 years. (Photo published by Aquila.)

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Hong Kong banned face masks. People wore them anyway, at near-universal levels, and a volunteer citizen army mobilized for other health measures. Result: only 4 deaths from COVID-19, few active cases, and the city is reopening schools, museums, libraries.

How Hong Kong Did It

With the government flailing, the city’s citizens decided to organize their own coronavirus response.

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The number of people forced to flee from war in Sudan has now surpassed 8.5 million. An appalling number. They're now internally displaced, sheltering in Sudan, or refugees abroad. "Thousands are crossing borders daily as if the emergency had started yesterday," says UNHCR.

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Delta variant detected in 97% of samples in Uganda and 79% in DRC. Cases in Africa rising 25% weekly. “The speed & scale of Africa’s third wave is like nothing we’ve seen before. Rampant spread of contagious variants pushes the threat up to a whole new level" -- Dr Moeti of WHO

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Botswana is paying $29 per dose for Moderna vaccines. The actual cost of production is $1.20 per dose, according to this report: That's a massive profit margin that Moderna is able to generate from an African country.

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Botswana's health minister said the government was paying the equivalent of $15 a dose for the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine and almost $29 a dose for U.S. company Moderna's shot.

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The rapid rise in coronavirus cases in Tanzania is partly a result of the government ignoring the international medical recommendations on social gatherings etc, says Dr. Moeti, the Africa director for WHO, at a briefing today.

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“We call for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, unimpeded access for humanitarian organizations and an investigation into allegations of war crimes by an international agency such as the UN." Statement this week by South Africa's Tutu Foundation.

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The blockade on medical aid to Tigray is worse than the WHO witnessed even in the worst days of the Syria and Yemen wars, its director-general says. "It is killing people."

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Everyone has an Archbishop Tutu story. This is mine. In August 1990, he made his first journey to a First Nations community in northern Canada. I went with him. (Thread)

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Last year, Cyril Ramaphosa announced a “youth employment scheme” to create 330,000 jobs per year in South Africa. A year later, the number of jobs created so far: just 2,000.

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Uganda's ICJ judge, Julia Sebutinde, was the sole judge (among the 17 on the court) who ruled against every one of the emergency orders against Israel. Even the Israeli judge accepted some of them. Will be interesting to see if Ugandan dictator Museveni comments on this.

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Canada has now imposed travel bans on a total of 10 countries. All 10 countries are African. There are 15 countries outside Africa that have reported a total of 68 cases of the new Omicron variant. None of these 15 countries have been subjected to travel restrictions by Canada.

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5 years

South Africa in a single tweet:

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Power cut in Zuma court room. The former President leaves in darkness.

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South Africa's genocide application against Israel at the ICJ will be broadcast live on UN Web TV:

CIJ_ICJ

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PRESS RELEASE: the #ICJ will hold public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by #SouthAfrica in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 January 2024. Watch live on @UNWebTV

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Springboks captain Siya Kolisi, in post-game interview, says the World Cup victory is for everyone in South Africa -- including people in shebeens, poor and rural people. Says he's never seen as much support as today.

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Really bizarre to see Ethiopia's air force bombing the country's own infrastructure:

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Godfrey Kurauone is one of the many Zimbabweans charged with "insulting the President" after they criticized the government.

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I'm calling for the government of Zimbabwe to release all political prisoners, including Godfrey Kurauone, who represent the country's future. Justice demands it.

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"We ask forgiveness for not acting sooner” -- Rieaz (Moe) Shaik, the South African high commissioner to Canada, at a press conference today about the SA application to the ICJ on genocide in Gaza

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3 years

Before everyone in South Africa leaps to a bunch of wrong conclusions: 1)the AZ vaccine is still likely to be effective against severe illness and death; 2) Vaccines don't expire in 6 weeks; the "expiry date" kerfuffle is resolvable; 3) Some vaccinations are still proceeding.

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After years of spin-doctoring for dictators, British PR agency finally met its match when it meddled in South Africa

British public relations agency Bell Pottinger meets disaster in South Africa

Bell Pottinger formally apologizes to country, admitting that a racially divisive campaign devised for Zuma was offensive, unethical

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"Since the truce, there should have been at least 2,000 trucks going into Tigray. But there has been only 20 trucks in total – representing one percent of the need. In effect, the siege by the Ethiopian and Eritrean forces continues." -- Dr. Tedros, director general of WHO

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As house-to-house searches intensify in Addis Ababa, here are details of three of the biggest detention camps in Ethiopia where thousands of Tigrayans have been held and sometimes tortured in recent months. By @berhe_lucy in The Globe and Mail today:

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At a time when many South African politicians are using foreigners as scapegoats for SA's problems, it's always good to have the facts. New ISS report: migrants are 6.5% of the population; immigrants contribute 9% of GDP; they're less likely that South Africans to commit crimes.

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South Africa has now screened more than 3.6 million people in its communities, searching for people with symptoms of coronavirus. Of those, about 24,000 were sent for full testing. It's an excellent effort to search actively for cases, rather than waiting passively in hospitals.

Geoffrey York

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4 years

Nearly 10,000 people were tested in South Africa in the past day -- the biggest daily test number since the virus arrived. It helps explain the large number of positive results (a record 318 over the past day). About 3% of latest tests were positive -- similar to previous days.

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The Omicron variant had already arrived in the Netherlands on Nov. 19 -- long before the travel bans. "We have found the Omicron variant in two test samples that were taken on Nov. 19 and Nov. 23," the National Institute for Public Health said today. (Reuters)

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Among the revelations from the secret Covid vaccine contracts that were released in South Africa today after a court battle: Johnson & Johnson charged South Africa $10 a dose, which is 15% more than it charged the EU, and 25% more than the estimated not-for-profit price.

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3 years

New vaccinations in South Africa today: 6,471. New vaccinations in Zimbabwe today: 16,784.

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Caster Semenya: "I am very disappointed by this ruling, but refuse to let World Athletics drug me or stop me from being who I am. Excluding female athletes or endangering our health solely because of our natural abilities puts World Athletics on the wrong side of history."

The Honest Broker

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BREAKING: After many months of deliberation, the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland has refused to set aside a 2019 ruling against Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)

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The US military is trying to prevent Africa from becoming a "failed continent," says General Waldhauser, commander of the Pentagon's African command, at a Senate committee today. Hmmmm. Not sure if most Africans would see the US military as their last defence against chaos.

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Canada's controversial WE Charity, already facing investigations in Canada, is now the subject of a separate review in Kenya. Kenya's NGO Coordination Board today said it's looking into "regulatory and governance matters... including assets and officials" of WE's Kenya branch.

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Vaccines in Africa are so limited that only 3% of Africans have managed to get even a single dose, but the United States worries about unvaccinated zoo animals...

NBC News

@NBCNews

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Unvaccinated snow leopard at the San Diego Zoo catches Covid-19, zoo says.

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"In the months before Nov 2020, Abiy moved troops toward Tigray and sent military cargo planes into Eritrea. His advisers and military generals debated the merits of a conflict. Those who disagreed were fired, interrogated at gunpoint or forced to leave."

The Nobel Peace Prize That Paved the Way for War (Published 2021)

This is the story behind how Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, won a Nobel Prize for making peace with his country’s longtime enemy — and then used the alliance to plan a war.

www.nytimes.com

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Prince Harry and Namibian activist Reinhold Mangundu: "The Okavango River Basin is under siege by ReconAfrica, a Canadian oil company. We believe this would pillage the ecosystem for potential profit. Some things in life are best left undisturbed."

Opinion | Protect the Okavango River Basin from corporate drilling

This African region is far more valuable in its natural state than any oil and gas reserves buried beneath it.

www.washingtonpost.com

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An overwhelming vote at the UN General Assembly to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine: 141 in favour; 5 against; 35 abstaining. (South Africa is among those that abstained.)

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South Africa's "peace mission" in just 12 hours in Kyiv: 1) denied the reality of a Russian missile attack; 2) told Zelensky to "de-escalate" his counter-offensive; 3) alienated most Ukrainians, including those who witnessed the missile attack, as this headline shows:

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@geoffreyyork One would have to try hard, arriving on a peace mission in a country devastated by war, to achieve this headline in 24 hrs.

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New details on atrocities committed by Somali troops (in alliance with Eritrean forces) against civilians in early months of the Tigray war. Exclusive by ⁦ @berhe_lucy ⁩ for The Globe and Mail.

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The Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga, who was arrested and jailed for her courageous protest against the Zimbabwean regime on July 31, was today named as one of the six finalists for the Booker Prize.

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It was a lonely battle last October when South Africa and India first proposed a temporary waiver on COVID patents. Since then, more than 100 countries have joined the proposal -- and today the Biden administration gave the crucial support of the United States.

Ambassador Katherine Tai

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These extraordinary times and circumstances of call for extraordinary measures. The US supports the waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines to help end the pandemic and we’ll actively participate in @WTO negotiations to make that happen.

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This is frightening: Africa is on the exact same fast-rising trajectory as Europe. It started later, but same accelerating path.

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A UN-appointed team of investigators is still struggling for access to atrocity sites in Tigray and elsewhere. In a statement today, it hopes for "unhindered access without delay, so that it may visit sites and speak freely and privately with survivors, witnesses, and others."

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“We are alarmed by the multiple, deeply disturbing reports we continue to receive of civilian casualties and destruction of civilian objects resulting from air strikes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region" -- UN human rights office. My report:

Ethiopian air strikes kill 108 civilians in Tigray region, UN says

Continuing wave of drone attacks on non-military targets could qualify as a war crime, human rights officials say

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The jazz legend from District Six, who was forced into exile during apartheid, is performing at a sold-out event at Cape Town's City Hall tonight. He celebrates his 90th birthday in October.

allAfrica.com

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Cape Town Welcomes Legend Abdullah Ibrahim for a Concert: #SouthAfrica

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Example of bizarre chaos in South African government. A cabinet minister claims (below) that he has arrived in Ukraine; then says nothing for 2 days; then admits it was false. Today he is tweeting insults at SA journalists who questioned his conduct. His false tweet is still up.

ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula

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Just landed in Ukraine 🇺🇦

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"Nowhere in the world are we witnessing hell like in Tigray," WHO chief Tedros told reporters. It is "so dreadful and unimaginable during this time, the 21st century, when a government is denying its own people for more than a year food and medicine..."

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

@DrTedros

2 years

'Hell' created by Tigray blockade, 'insult' to humanity'

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@KarlreMarks The full story is here:

African countries move to restrict European visitors amid coronavirus pandemic

In almost all of the dozen African countries where cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed so far, the cases were imported by travellers who had been in Italy, France, Germany or other European...

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Why is Jacob Zuma’s daughter celebrating the deliberate destruction of property?

Dudu Zuma-Sambudla

@DZumaSambudla

3 years

Mooi Plaza…We See You!!! Amandla ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽!!! #FreeJacobZuma

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Casualties from the air strike in Tigray’s capital today:

Kibrom Gebreselassie, MD

@kibrom30

2 years

More casualties are arriving. The total number so far in our hospital is 13. Four of them are dead (two children). #MekelleAirStrike

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3 years

Moderna won’t provide any vaccines to Africa, while Pfizer is offering limited doses only for African health workers — and cannot supply until March, according to this report. Serum Institute of India (producing AstraZeneca) seems to remain the best hope for Africa.

Paul Wallace

@PaulWallace123

3 years

Bleak. Africa has few options to procure Covid-19 vaccines as the outbreak worsens across many parts of the continent, South Africa’s presidency tells @business . Moderna and AstraZeneca have no vaccines available for Africa. @AntonySguazzin

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@geoffreyyork

2 years

Many South Africans are still wondering why their government could not bring itself to condemn this.

CBS Evening News

@CBSEveningNews

2 years

Drone footage released Thursday shows destroyed and smoldering buildings after Russian strikes in Borodyanka, Ukraine, located about 30 miles northwest of Kyiv.

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Ethiopia has detained at least 5,000 to 7,000 people under its state of emergency, the UN says. "Many are detained incommunicado or in unknown locations. This is tantamount to enforced disappearance, and a matter of very grave concern."

U.N. rights forum agrees to investigate abuses in Ethiopia

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Friday to establish an independent investigation into abuses in the Ethiopian conflict, after a senior U.N. official said there had been violations on all sides...

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Geoffrey York

@geoffreyyork

2 years

Tonight, Canada announces it is abandoning the "third-country testing" rule -- the rule that rejected South African COVID tests. The new exemption is for all airlines & flights, for next 4 weeks at least. Pressure by scientists & health activists has succeeded. The announcement:

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Geoffrey York

@geoffreyyork

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He was a Rwandan cultural icon, a hugely popular musician who often sang the national anthem at state functions. Now he is dead. His troubles began when he questioned the official version of the genocide. My report on the death of Kizito Mihigo:

Rwandan celebrity singer Kizito Mihigo found dead in police cell, latest in mysterious deaths of...

Police say he ‘used bedsheets to strangle himself,' but government opponents voiced skepticism on social media

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Geoffrey York

@geoffreyyork

3 years

Food shortages in war-ravaged Tigray region of Ethiopia are "dire and becoming more dire every day." This was the warning today from Dominik Stillhart, director of operations for the international Red Cross, who has just completed a visit to Tigray.

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5 years

Construction companies say South Africa is now worse than Iraq or Afghanistan; 84 projects have been abandoned due to extortion from thuggish gun-wielding “business forums” that demand a cut of the money. Police seem to be colluding with the armed gangs.

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In Tigray, half of all pregnant and breastfeeding women are malnourished, leading to poor pregnancy outcomes, low-birth weight, stunting and maternal death, according to new WFP assessment.

WFP Media

@WFP_Media

2 years

🚨 NEWS ALERT 🚨 A new @WFP assessment shows almost 40 percent of Tigrayans are suffering an extreme lack of food. Across north #Ethiopia more than 9 million people are in need of humanitarian food assistance, the highest number yet 👇

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2 years

So humanitarian aid for Tigray is still a negotiating tool for the Ethiopian government:

Lauren Blanchard

@LaurenBinDC

2 years

"Once the govt controls the airports, the navigation system & airspace fully, then we will allow aid to flow, both on the ground and in the air." - National Security Advisor Redwan Hussein on aid access to areas of #Tigray not yet under ENDF control

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Hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans were forcibly expelled from their homes in a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in Western Tigray that included mass killings and sexual violence by Amhara militias & their allies, a year-long investigation has found

Ethnic cleansing campaign in Western Tigray documented in new probe

A report due to be released on Wednesday concluded that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed in Western Tigray

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@geoffreyyork

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Nearly 230,000 children, pregnant women and new mothers in Sudan could die in the coming months due to hunger unless there is urgent funding, Save the Children says in new report. Already 729,000 children under the age of 5 are suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Sudan.

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@geoffreyyork

6 years

Congrats to Gift Ngoepe of Johannesburg, who on Thursday will become the first African-born player ever on the opening-day roster of a major-league baseball team. The Toronto Blue Jays have made the announcement. A look back at his first major-league hit:

Geoffrey York

@geoffreyyork

7 years

South Africa's Gift Ngoepe becomes the first African in baseball's major leagues-- and gets first hit

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@geoffreyyork

1 year

Many people in the replies are boldly predicting that SA won't arrest him. That misses the point. My tweet was about SA's legal obligations. Of course SA can ignore its obligations, but don't forget the cost: further damage to its reputation and a slide towards rogue status.

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WHO director: "Many people are dying from starvation. After the ceasefire agreement, I was expecting food and medicine would flow immediately. That's not happening. Let's give a chance to peace. But we would also urge the immediate delivery of food and medicine."

Eyewitness News

@ewnupdates

2 years

WHO urges 'immediate' food, medical aid for Tigray

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Rwanda is demanding that the UN halt any support to the SADC force in Congo (including South African troops) because "it is not a neutral force." But analysts ask: why should SADC be neutral in battle between a national government and a rebel militia?

Rwanda’s Diplomacy of Lament in the M23 Crisis

The conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), involving the M23, is escalating to a new level. The involvement of...

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@geoffreyyork

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While war raged in Tigray, Canadian mining companies still saw prospects there. One company wrote to the Ethiopian government this year, dangling $120-million in investment and asking for security of tenure for its sites in Tigray. Our report:

Canadian miners pursue prospects in war-torn Tigray

Some Canadian gold-mining companies see Tigray as a potential bonanza

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Geoffrey York

@geoffreyyork

3 years

The UN Security Council has failed to hold a single public meeting on the Tigray catastrophe and the emerging signs of famine there, says US ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield in a speech today. "Do African lives not matter?" she asks.

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Geoffrey York

@geoffreyyork

3 years

South Africa will receive one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in January and 500,000 further doses in February, sufficient for all of its health workers, Health Minister Mkhize announced today. The vaccine doses will be provided by the Serum Institute of India.

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Geoffrey York

@geoffreyyork

2 years

One year ago today, Eritrean troops began massacring hundreds of people in Ethiopia's holy city of Axum.

Amanuel Tedros

@emmanuel_tag

2 years

Eritrean troops fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray state systematically killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the northern city of Axum on 28-29 November 2020, opening fire in the streets and conducting house-to-house raids in a massacre.

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@geoffreyyork

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Cornelius Fredericks was a leader of the guerrilla war against German colonialists in Namibia. He was imprisoned with other Nama people at Shark Island concentration camp on Sept. 9, 1906. Some of the Nama were decapitated; their heads were sent to Germany for "racial research."

Geoffrey York

@geoffreyyork

10 years

this hard-to-find memorial is the only sign of a German concentration camp where 3,000 died on Shark Island, Namibia http://t.co/Qv7Kg8kJBH

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In Sudan, these appalling numbers keep climbing. Now nearly 7.4 million people are forced from their homes, either internally or across borders. By total numbers, it's the world's worst displacement crisis.

IOM Sudan 🇺🇳

@IOMSudan

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🚨 @DTM_IOM Sudan Monthly Displacement Overview: 🟡5,855,848 people recently internally displaced 🟡1,523,350 mixed cross-border movements 🟡Food security, health & non-food items remain priority needs. Read full DTM update here▶️

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