The war against the TPLF will not be quick or easy, and it already looks to be going badly for Eritrea's president. There is little doubt now that Eritrean forces are participating in the war in Tigray. Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55295650">denied</a> it and Eritrea's foreign minister has <a target="_blank" href="https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/africa/2020-11-10-eritrea-denies-troop-incursion-into-ethiopias-tigray/">insisted</a> "we are not part of the conflict". But other disagree. On 8 December, Reuters <a target="_blank" href="https://in.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-u-thinks-eritrea-joined-132146159.html">reported</a> that "a U.S. government source and five regional diplomats" told them the US believes Eritrean soldiers have crossed into Ethiopia. The EU and UK support this assessment. And in the last few days, a top-ranking Ethiopian general <a target="_blank" href="https://news.yahoo.com/ethiopian-general-admits-eritrean-troops-205909536.html">confirmed</a> that Eritrean troops have been in Tigray. Major General Belay Seyoum, head of the Northern Command, <a target="_blank"…
On Jan. 6, the U.S. Capitol was taken over by Trump supporters with MAGA signs, Confederate flags and even firearms. Now the FBI and the Metropolitan Police Department are asking for help to identify the terrorists who laid siege to the Congressional headquarters. According to CBS, acting Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee said at Jan. 7 press conference, “As we speak, we have members of the Metropolitan Police Department that are scouring the area hotels, businesses, etc. trying to identify some of these individuals that still may be taking up residence within our city.” FBI Director Christopher Wray added, “The violence and destruction of property at the U.S. Capitol building yesterday showed a blatant and appalling disregard for our institutions of government and the orderly administration of the democratic process.”…
ATLANTA — Democrats moved a major step closer to gaining control of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday morning as Georgia voters elected the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the pastor at the storied Ebenezer Baptist Church, in a hard-fought runoff contest that became roiled by President Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in the state.Mr. Warnock’s victory over the Republican incumbent, Kelly Loeffler, represented a landmark breakthrough for African-Americans in politics as well as for Georgia: He became the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from the South. For Democrats to take the Senate, which is crucial to enacting President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s first-term agenda, they also need to win Georgia’s other Senate runoff held on Tuesday. The votes were still being counted in that race between the Republican candidate,…
Violence against women and girls is a global human rights challenge which must be fought to a standstill, JOY YESUFU writes. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, emerging data and reports from those on the frontlines showed that all types of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence, have escalated. The trend is described as shadow pandemic growing amidst the COVID-19 crisis, which calls for global collective efforts to eradicate it. As COVID-19 cases continue to strain health services, essential services, such as domestic violence shelters and helplines reached capacity, more needs to be done to prioritise addressing violence against women in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts. The United Nations (UN) secretary-general's Unite to End Violence against Women campaign, a multi-year effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women…
Zimbabwean music maestro Thomas Mapfumo channeled his revolutionary rasp and talked tough about Africa at the third edition of African Crossroads. The Chimurenga music legend was the headline performer and guest of honour at the event which was screened from seven hubs on December 10 and 11. His prerecorded set included liberation-era songs while his interview ranged from decolonial sonics and African unity to clueless leaders and new-school protest artists. Africa can only survive as one unit because foreigners are currently coming to Africa with vested interests to get a piece of the continent's vast resources, Mapfumo noted, adding that regional intergovernmental bodies did not quite capture the dream of one Africa. The intergovernmental organisations such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) seek among others to achieve economic development,…
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LAWRENCEVILLE, GA - NOVEMBER 07: Election personnel check in provisional ballots at the Gwinnett County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections offices on November 7, 2020 in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Several counties in Georgia continued to count ballots even as news outlets have declared Joe Biden the winner of the race for President. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Georgia’s Trump supporters are not giving up. On Saturday, scores massed outside the statehouse in Atlanta, a small sea of mostly men in red MAGA hats hoisting signs hurling accusations against Joe Biden and wearing campaign T-shirts saying “STOP the STEAL.” It barely mattered that Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had certified Biden’s unexpected nearly 13,000-vote victory one…
PERRY, Ga. — The Republican Senate candidates in Georgia are spending tens of millions of dollars on an almost entirely negative advertising campaign, embracing a strategy of riling up the conservative base in hopes of generating enough turnout to win two critical runoff elections that will decide control of the Senate.Despite President Trump’s loss here, the incumbent Republican senators are not trying to broaden their appeal to a cross-section of voters. The early days of the runoff races look much like the months that preceded them, with the Republican senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, filling the airwaves with scathing attack ads.While the Democratic candidates, the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, have run as pragmatists in the mold of Mr. Biden, declining to endorse proposals like single-payer health care…
An NYPD officer was hospitalized early Saturday after he was beat up by a gang of men as he jogged in civilian clothes during his dinner break in Long Island City. The officer, whose name was not released, was in stable condition after the 6:30 p.m. Friday attack by a group of six to nine unidentified men, police said. Emergency responders were alerted by a good Samaritan’s 911 call to the attack at 51st Street and Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City. The officer was conscious and had suffered injuries to his head, throat, shoulder and knee. There have been multiple reports of a similar group of assaulting people in the area, police said. Source link
Actor Ricky Schroder and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell both helped get Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse out of jail on a $2 million bond Friday, according to a report. The baby-faced gunman — who faces murder charges in the Aug. 25 shooting during Black Lives Matter protests in the Wisconsin city — posed for a pic with the “NYPD Blue” actor after the bond was posted by his lawyers on Friday, CBS affiliate WBBM-TV reported. Lin Wood, one of Rittenhouse’s lawyers, posted the photo on Twitter shortly before 9 p.m. “FREE AT LAST!!!” Wood wrote on the post, which shows a smiling Rittenhouse standing between Schroder and attorney John Pierce. “Thank you; All Donors. Thank you, All Patriots. Thank God Almighty.” Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, claims he acted in…
Two suspects have been arrested in the murder of a missing college student who was found in a shallow grave near a highway in California, authorities said Friday. Ethan Astaphan and Sonita Heng were arrested Thursday in connection with the slaying of 21-year-old Juan Carlos Hernandez, a student at El Camino College in Torrence who vanished on Sept. 22, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Hernandez had last texted his mom to say he’d be home from work that night — but he never returned. Two days later, cops found his 2020 Honda Civic abandoned about two miles from his job at a marijuana dispensary, the Los Angeles Times reported. His body was found in a shallow grave dug up along Interstate 15 on Nov. 15, police said. Cops said…
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil – More than 1,000 demonstrators attacked a Carrefour Brasil supermarket in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on Friday after security guards beat to death a Black man at the store. The killing, which has sparked protests across Brazil, occurred late on Thursday when a store employee called security after the man threatened to attack her, cable news channel GloboNews said, citing the Rio Grande do Sul state military police. Amateur footage of the fatal beating and tributes to the Black victim were published on social media. He was identified in local media by his father as 40-year-old Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas. News website G1 later reported that an initial analysis by the state forensics institute indicated the cause of death could be asphyxiation. In a…
Several people were shot inside of a Macy’s at a shopping mall outside Milwaukee on Friday afternoon, according to reports. The gunman opened fire at the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin about 10 miles west of Milwaukee, the Journal Sentinel reported. The city’s mayor, Dennis McBride, told ABC News that the gunman was still on the loose as of about 5 p.m. eastern time. “Multiple injured victims have and are being transported from the north end of the Macy’s Department Store. None of the victims’ injuries appear to be life threatening. The perpetrator is ‘at-large’ at this time,” McBride told the network. “There are approximately 75 police officers on scene at this time. It will take time to provide additional, and perhaps, more accurate information, but information will be provided…
A woman was removed in handcuffs from a Costco in Northern California after she caused a scene while refusing to wear a mask, authorities said. Viral video of the Tuesday incident in Eureka showed the woman taunting customers on the line and downplaying the seriousness of the pandemic. “There’s no reason why I shouldn’t be able to shop without a mask on,” the woman says. “Haven’t you heard about the virus?” replies another woman who was recording the tirade. “The masks don’t work!” shouts the maskless woman. “This has going been on for almost a year now! If they work so well, why are people still getting sick? Can you answer that question?” “Yeah, I can. Because they don’t wear their masks,” the camerawoman replies. The video then cuts to…
The British truck driver who ferried a container where 39 migrants died said in court Thursday that he didn’t see the refugees being loaded into the truck because he was watching a “wee bit of Netflix” at the time, a report said. The driver, 23-year-old Eamonn Harrison of Northern Ireland, said in court that he got involved in the smuggling operation through his boss, Ronan Hughes, the Guardian reported. Harrison said Hughes directed him to pick up an illegal load in Northern France on Oct. 22, 2019, but he thought it was only stolen truck parts — not people, according to the report. When he got to the pick-up point, a man who spoke little English told him to stay in the cab, draw the curtains and sleep while the…
A man awaiting trial in Australia for allegedly murdering his teenage girlfriend was killed in a prison beating, local reports said Thursday. Zlatko Sikorsky, 37, was taken to a Brisbane hospital in critical condition last Tuesday after getting his head bashed during a brawl with another inmate. He spent several days on life support before being declared dead Thursday morning, News.com.au reported. Sikorsky had been locked up on charges he brutally beat 16-year-old Larissa Beilby in June 2018 — before stuffing her body in a barrel and dumping it in the back of an abandoned truck. The teen’s dad had reported her missing on June 22, and her body wasn’t found until days later. Prosecutors said Sikorsky allegedly refused to take the girl to a hospital after he pummeled her.…
A Florida woman allegedly abandoned her sick 3-month-old son on the doorstep of a stranger’s home over the weekend, authorities said. Melissa Kelley, 33, is accused of dropping off her baby in his car seat on Patricia Tillman’s porch Sunday night saying she couldn’t care for the infant any longer, the Dayton Beach News-Journal reported. Kelley, of Astor, warned Tillman the baby had scabies — an infestation of the skin caused by a tiny burrowing mite — and that he had a dirty diaper, the outlet reported citing a police report. She added that the child’s father would pick him up before she ran off. Tillman eventually learned that the baby’s father was her daughter’s boyfriend, Clayton Zinck. When investigators reached Zinck’s parents they said they wouldn’t take the baby,…
A Texas woman was arrested Monday for allegedly punching a police officer who was trying to impound her pot belly pig, a report said. Arianna Swenson, 34, was charged with assaulting a public servant over the alleged attack on Hooks Police Officer Cole Ogden, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by TXK Today. Ogden and two employees with the Public Works Department were trying to corral the pig that has been the subject of multiple complaints, the report said. Swenson confronted the trio after they spotted the pig in a yard near her house. She was told to “step back” but refused their demands, according to the affidavit. The woman allegedly first pushed the public works employees before striking Ogden in the face. Swenson was being held in jail…
A 12-year-old New Orleans girl was reportedly charged with murder over the death of her 6-month-old brother, officials announced on Thursday. The juvenile was charged after the infant was found dead at the family’s St. Charles Parish home on Sunday, WWL-TV reported, citing police. “He was perfect,” the children’s aunt, Nicole Brown, told the outlet, referring to the young victim. “He was a beautiful baby.” Investigators did not reveal a cause of death. But St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne said in a statement that “the homicide did not involve the use of a dangerous weapon.” The sheriff added: “This is an horrific and tragic situation.” Sources told WWL-TV that the girl may have struck the boy. Brown told the news station that her niece “loved” her little brother. “What…
Scrap your Turkey Day travel plans — even if it’s only a short distance, the Centers for Disease Control urged Thursday. The public health agency released new holiday guidelines warning people to stay home for Thanksgiving festivities — and to mask up at the dinner table — due to sky-high national coronavirus infection rates. “The tragedy that could happen is that one of your family members, from coming together in this family gathering actually could end up being hospitalized and severely ill and die,” the agency’s COVID-19 incident manager, Dr. Henry Walke, said during a press conference Thursday. “CDC is recommending against travel during the Thanksgiving period.” Holiday revelers who opt to have Thanksgiving dinner with folks outside of their households should wear a mask at gatherings, according to the…
A 12-year-old boy in California was arrested Tuesday for an alleged prank phone call to police about a fake shooting that led to a SWAT response, a report said. The boy claimed that his mother shot his father and was hiding, with the gun, inside a bathroom, The Press Democrat reported, citing police. Police responded in numbers to a Santa Rosa address provided by the boy, but it was later determined he did not live there, the report said. The child was supposed to meet the police outside the residence. When he could not be found, police were able to reach the occupants of the apartment, who were unaware of the emergency response outside of their home. Investigators were able to track down and arrest the juvenile at a different…
One of President Trump’s campaign lawyers in Pennsylvania was placed under official protection following threats against her, according to court papers filed Wednesday evening. Philadelphia lawyer Linda Kerns “has been the subject of threats of harm, to the point at which the involvement of police and US Marshals has been necessary to provide for her safety,” the filing says. The stunning revelation came two days after Kerns, a solo practitioner, sought sanctions against a lawyer from the firm representing Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar for leaving her an “abusive voicemail” on Saturday night. Kerns also said in court papers Monday that she’d “been subjected to continuous harassment in the form of abusive emails, phone calls, physical and economic threats, and even accusations of treason — all for representing the…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide turned the tables on a failed-journalist ex-con from Brooklyn who became obsessed and started threatening her, The Post has learned. Melissa DeRosa — the governor’s right-hand staffer and a fixture at his famous COVID-19 updates — had been getting increasingly worrisome aggressive Twitter comments from an account for months before things escalated this past weekend, sources said. That’s when DeRosa, 38, started getting phone calls on her personal cell — culminating with him calling her a “c–t” and saying, “I’m gonna slice your p—y, you murderer,” sources said. “It’s a little bit unnerving,” the usually unflappable DeRosa admitted, according to a source familiar with the situation. The suspect was soon identified by law enforcement and sources as Gary Goldstein — whose Web site claims he…
Jeremie Pennick, a rapper from Buffalo known as Benny the Butcher, has been shot during a robbery attempt outside a Houston Walmart, police said Sunday. The 35-year-old got out of his Rolls-Royce along with two other people about 4:30 p.m. Saturday when they were accosted by five masked individuals who demanded their chains, police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said. The trio began removing their bling, but one of the suspects apparently thought they were too slow, so he shot the rapper in the leg before the group fled, Silva said. Pennick was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. The others who were with him were not hurt in the incident. A description of the suspects, who were seen in a Chevy Malibu, was not immediately released.…
Twice as many Americans say the justice system is “not tough enough” on crime rather than “too tough” — but the gap has narrowed considerably, a new survey released Monday reveals. The Gallup Poll found that 41 percent of respondents said the criminal justice system is not tough enough compared to 21 percent who said it’s too tough. The remaining 35 percent said the justice system was “about right” in addressing crime. The results are a far cry from a generation ago, when violent crime was a more pressing issue. In 1992, 83 percent of Americans said the justice system wasn’t tough enough on crime. In 2000, 70 percent of respondents said the system wasn’t tough enough. But a variance by political party and race persists. In the current survey,…
A black 15-year-old boy was found dead in a sugar cane field days after he vanished in Louisiana, according to authorities who are probing his death as a homicide. The body of Quawan “Bobby” Charles was discovered on Nov. 3 by Iberia Parish sheriff deputies in a creek near Loreauville after his family first notified cops in Baldwin about his disappearance on Oct. 30, sheriff officials said. Police in Baldwin met with one of the teen’s relatives that day, but failed to issue an alert or to launch a search for him, family members told The Advocate during a protest Saturday calling for answers in the ongoing homicide investigation. A preliminary autopsy released Friday indicates the teen likely drowned. Injuries to his face occurred post-mortem and were probably caused by…
The trouble broke out inside the main counting room in Detroit late on the morning of Nov. 4.It was the day after Election Day, and until then the process of tabulating votes from the city’s various counting boards had gone smoothly inside the TCF Center, the cavernous convention hall that plays host to the North American International Auto Show.As batches of ballots came in by van, workers methodically inspected and registered them at 134 separate tables, each monitored by voting rights observers and so-called election challengers from each party.But the posture of the Republican challengers shifted as the count swung in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. and word spread that President Trump would sue. One witness, a nonpartisan observer, Julie Moroney, heard a Republican organizer say, “Now we’re going…
Conservatives accused the media of turning a blind eye to violent attacks against Trump supporters at Saturday’s “MAGA Million March” in Washington, DC. “The President’s supporters have a right to peacefully rally supporting POTUS just like his opponents have that same right,” New York Rep. Lee Zeldin said on Twitter Saturday night. “The physical assaults today by violent leftists targeting his supporters is abhorrent,” Zeldin said. “The near total media blackout of the violence is terrible…& telling.” Thousands of Trump supporters gathered in the nation’s capital for the rally to show support for the president, who continues to contest his apparent loss in the election to former Vice President Joe Biden. But counter-protesters converged on rally participants later in the day and into night, leading to violent clashes. Activists through…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s squad could be expanding into the City Council. The Democratic Socialists of America on Saturday endorsed six candidates for Council seats in a bid to “take over” the city. The biggest name of the six is former public defender and Queens District Attorney candidate Tiffany Caban, who nearly upset then-Borough President Melinda Katz in the Democratic primary. Caban and others endorsed by the NYC-DSA had to answer a detailed questionnaire covering the group’s platform, which was shared with The Post. The platform includes efforts to defund the police, curb or eliminate “broken windows” and community policing, decriminalizing sex work and reduce the number of jails, prisons and inmates, an effort they’re labeling “decarceration.” The group also seeks to raise city income taxes on the wealthy; limit charter…
