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[East African] The Sudanese military on Tuesday accused Ethiopian forces, for a second time in the past few days, of threatening its forces and civilians near a tense border section.
He replaces Debretsion Gebremichael, whose immunity from prosecution was removed Thursday.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a \"massacre\" in the Tigray region, that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party.
The \"massacre\" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict between the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
\"Amnesty International can today confirm... that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the southwest of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,\" the rights group said in a report.
Amnesty said it had \"digitally verified gruesome photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers.\"
The dead \"had gaping wounds that appear to have been inflicted by sharp weapons such as knives and machetes,\" Amnesty said, citing witness accounts.
Witnesses said the attack was carried out by TPLF-aligned forces after a defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian military, though Amnesty said it \"has not been able to confirm who was responsible for the killings\".
It nonetheless called on TPLF commanders and officials to \"make clear to their forces and their supporters that deliberate attacks on civilians are absolutely prohibited and constitute war crimes\".
Abiy ordered military operations in Tigray on November 4, saying they were prompted by a TPLF attack on federal military camps -- a claim the party denies.
The region has been under a communications blackout ever since, making it difficult to verify competing claims on the ground.
Abiy said Thursday his army had made major gains in western Tigray.
Thousands of Ethiopians have fled across the border into neighboring Sudan, and the UN is sounding the alarm about a humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
Manute Bol was one of the tallest players in NBA history and a political activist in Africa. He was born in Sudan in 1962 in the Dinka tribe. He lived in Sudan for most of his childhood and teenage years. He tended cattle for his family as a young boy and there is a popular story that he often used to relate during interviews about how he had once killed a lion with a spear back in Sudan. Bol was 7 ft 7 in tall, which was not unusual for where he came from. His tribes people are amongst the tallest populations of the world and his family members were all exceptionally tall. His father was 6 ft 8 in, his mother was 6 ft 10 in and his great grandfather was 7 ft 10 in tall.
Bol began to play basketball at the age of 15. He held a job in the Sudanese military, playing on their national team. During one his games, an American coach from Fairleigh Dickinson University noticed him and advised him to go to the United States to play for the NBA. Bol went to the United States to try his luck but as an underweight, lanky kid he did not have much luck. He tried to enroll at college but his unfamiliarity with Western culture and poor English skills did not get him admission. So he worked on his physique and began training hard and enrolled for additional English classes at the ELS Language Centers. In the 1985 NBA Draft, he was selected to play for the Washington Bullets. He first played with them from 1985 to 1988, during which time he set the NBA rookie record for most number of blocked shots. He later returned to the Washington Bullets in 1993-1994 to help train Gheorghe Mureșan, a 7 ft 7 in tall Romanian who was new to the game.
After leaving the Bullets, Bol played with the Golden State Warriors between 1988 to 1990, the Philadelphia 76ers between 1990 to 1993 and the Miami Heat between 1993-1994. He made brief returns to each of these teams until his retirement after a 10 year career in 1996. He wore size 16 and a half sneakers and was extremely agile. During the 1987 season, Bol, at that time the tallest player in
[United States Mission to the United Nations] United Nations -- Thank you, Mr. President. And let me start by thanking our esteemed colleague from Estonia for chairing us last month in such an extraordinarily successful way. I'd also like to thank all the briefers for your comprehensive briefing on the ongoing crisis in Tigray. The United States deeply appreciates the work you and your teams have done and that you continue to do. I also want to thank my colleagues on the Council for participating in today's open briefing.
[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles has been removed from the list of countries whose residents are not allowed to enter Australia because of concerns over the COVID-19 Omicron variant, which has not been detected in the island nation, the tourism department said on Wednesday.
[Vanguard] Gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked Rijiya village in Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State, during which they killed six people and several others abducted.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Executive Board of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) has decided to convene the steering committee for a meeting Wednesday, November 10, in Hammamet, UGTT spokesperson Sami Tahri told TAP on Sunday.
An unpublished analysis by United Nations agencies and aid groups estimates some 350 000 people in Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region are in famine conditions, according to an internal UN document.
[VOA] Mekelle, Edaga Hamus, Ethiopia -- Fifteen-year-old Beriha lost one eye in the war and was permanently blinded in the other.
[RFI] Ethiopia's army captured the town of Alamata, in southern Tigray, 115 kilometres from the regional capital Mekelle, according to a statement on Monday by the Ethiopian government, as a conflict between the federal government and Tigray region continues to escalate.
On Monday (Nov. 29), Rihanna was bestowed with the honor of national hero in her native Barbados, adding to the revelry of the island nation becoming the world's newest republic.
[Dalsan Radio] Somalia's new foreign minister, Mohamed Abdirqzak, has for the first time responded to the ongoing war in Ethiopia.
Ethiopian PM Ahmed announces government reshuffle amid stalemate in the fighting in the Tigray region
THE EDITOR: The Prime Minister has acknowledged that sea bathing has therapeutic value. The fact that the covid19 virus affects the respiratory system, there is more reason for the unpolluted refreshing sea air to be accessible to citizens.
There is no doubt that the Government is duly concerned about the large gatherings associated with our culture of partying. Perhaps this could be mitigated if the beaches are opened with a strict ban on alcohol and music within one mile of the shoreline and all other public health regulations are enforced.
IMAAM IQUBAL HYDAL
Felicity
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