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12" Aug"2024" There is 'legitimate growing call for Security Council that it is more representative, more responsive, more democratic, and indeed, more transparent,' says UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis The UN on Monday noted the need for an urgent reform, emphasizing that Africa being "manifestly underrepresented on Security Council is simply wrong." "Today's topic speaks to the urgent and long overdue need to reform the Security Council," UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis told a Security Council. The session took place after Sierra Leone, the president of the Council for August, arranged the high-level meeting on the topic the "Maintenance of international peace and security: addressing the historical injustice and enhancing Africa’s effective representat...

11" Aug-2024" Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been inaugurated for another five years after winning the July election with over 99% of votes. He has ruled the country with an iron fist since after the 1994 genocide. Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been sworn in for a fourth term after sweeping to victory in an election last month with more than 99 percent of the vote. Several dozen heads of state and other dignitaries from African nations attended the inauguration ceremony on Sunday at a packed 45,000-seat stadium in Kigali, where crowds had started gathering from the early morning Kagame took the oath of office before Chief Justice Faustin Ntezilyayo, pledging to “preserve peace and national sovereignty, consolidate national unity”. The outcome of the July 15 poll&nbs...

Kampala, Uganda — 11-Aug-2024-Voa Eight people, including two children, were killed when mountains of garbage collapsed at a landfill in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on Saturday, city authorities said. Local media said homes, people and livestock were engulfed in the landslide at the vast garbage dump in Kiteezi, a district in the north of Kampala, after heavy rainfall. "On a very sad note, eight people have so far been found dead, six adults and two children," the Kampala Capital City Authority, or KCCA, which operates the site, said in a statement. On a very sad note, eight people have so far been found dead, six adults and two children," the Kampala Capital City Authority, or KCCA, which operates the site, said in a statement. The disaster comes eight months after the c...

10" Aug"2024" Where Is the Mass Outrage Over Israel’s Abu Ghraib? The silence of Western media and politicians in response to revelations of systematic abuses of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody amounts to complicity. B’Tselem headlined its report: “Welcome to hell.” It’s been just over 20 years since CBS News published the sobering photographs that proved the U.S. Army was carrying out unspeakable crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. Rape. Degradation. Homicide. Torture, both psychological and physical. Sexual humiliation. The revelations of U.S. barbarity were greeted with horror around the world and played a major role in turning opinion against the Iraq War. In recent days, it has become all too clear that som...

16-Aug-2024- BBC Waxaa magaalada Hargeysa lagu aasay fanaanada Asma Xasan Ismaaciil oo ku caan ahayd Asma Saban oo ka mid ahay faaniinta xidigaha geeska ee ka dhisan Jamhuuriyada Iskeed Madaxnabaannida ugu dhawaaqday ee Somaliland. Sida uu BBC-da u sheegay abwaan Maxamed Siciid Cabdilaahi Xarago, marxuumada ayaa shalay gelinkii denbe ku geeriyootay magaalada Hargeysa. “Way caafimaad qabtay, wax xanuuna ahna ma qabin waa mowtul qafle 'geeri deg deg ah', waana u ducaynayaa haddaan nahay bahda xiddigaha geeska “ ayuu yiri abwaan Xarago. Guddoomiyaha kooxda xiddigaha geeska Cabdiweli Ibraahim Furinle ayaa BBC-da u sheegay in Asma ahayd mid ka mid ahayd xiddigaha kooxda. Waxaan ka tacsiyeynayaa geerida ku timo Asma, kaalinteeda kooxda waxay ahayd heesaa, kaalin fiican yeyna ...

9-July-2024"United Nations member states have ratified the Internet Convention United Nations —member states on Thursday approved a treaty targeting cybercrime, the body's first such text, despite fierce opposition from human rights activists who have warned of potential surveillance dangers. After three years of negotiations and a final two-week session in New York, members approved the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime by consensus, and it will now be submitted to the General Assembly for formal adoption. "I consider the documents … adopted. Thank you very much, bravo to all!" Algerian diplomat Faouzia Boumaiza Mebarki, chairwoman of the treaty drafting committee, said to applause. The committee was set up, despite U.S. and European opposition, following an initial...

7-July-2024" WHO calls emergency meeting to discuss jump in mpox cases from DRC Nearly 27,000 cases of mpox have been found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with about 1,100 deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO) has called an emergency meeting to discuss a jump in mpox cases spreading from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the announcement on Wednesday, amid an outbreak that has seen nearly 27,000 cases in the DRC and claimed about 1,100 lives, many of them children Since last September, cases have surged in the central African nation due to a strain of the virus that has now been detected in its neighbouring countries. https://twitter.com/BoodhariFarah/status/1821332222160314511?t=gh57N6qmTD46He...

7- Aug-2024" Who is Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh’s successor as Hamas chief? Hamas has appointed its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as the political chief-at-large to succeed Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in a suspected Israeli attack in Tehran last week. The announcement by the Palestinian group came on Tuesday as tensions skyrocketed across the Middle East, with Iran promising revenge against Israel for Haniyeh’s killing on its soil. Israel has not confirmed or denied its involvement in the July 31 attack. Seen as the architect of the October 7 attack against Israel, Sinwar will now try to push the movement through uncertain times across the region from an unknown location in Gaza. After two days of lengthy negotiations in Doha, Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar as its ne...

6-Aug-2024" Ethiopia: Human rights bodies failure to act as justice continues to elude victims of atrocities Reacting to the continued failure to take meaningful steps by African and global human rights bodies since armed conflict erupted in Ethiopia’s Amhara region a year ago, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah said: “Millions of Ethiopians are being denied justice despite having their lives shattered by conflict. Human rights violations have continued unabated, with no progress towards individual accountability, in the Amhara region since the latest armed conflict began a year ago. Reports of atrocities in the Tigray region, which first emerged three-and-a-half years ago, and abuses amid the ongoing prolonged armed conflict...

5"Aug"2024" Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned following weeks of deadly protests against the government. In an address to the nation, army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman announced on Monday the formation of an interim government following talks with political parties Local media showed images of crowds storming the prime minister’s official residence in Dhaka, overturning furniture, smashing glass door panels, and carrying off books and other items Army announces interim government after Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina flees Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled the country following weeks of deadly demonstrations. The removal of Hasina on Monday followed w...