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9" December"2020 AFP Of the 50,000 people who fled their homes after violence erupted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, nearly half are children. An Ethiopian girl sings to her classmates, who are huddled together on a straw mat on the sandy ground of a refugee camp in neighbouring Sudan. Shielded from the hot mid-afternoon sun in a makeshift classroom built from wood and straw, the children sing back in unison. When they finish, they laugh as they break out into noisy applause, with nods of approval from their teacher, Bereket Weldgebriel. “Education is the light of the world,” says Bereket, a 35-year-old English and music teacher. He and the children in his class are among the almost 50,000 people who fled their homes after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government l...

8" Dwecember"2020 " www.theguardian.com/ US official among sources saying soldiers from Eritrea are fighting in operations against Tigray People’s Liberation FrontPeter BeaumontTue 8 Dec 2020 17.00 GMT A US official and other diplomatic sources have backed accusations that Eritrean soldiers are fighting alongside Ethiopian troops to help Abiy Ahmed’s government in the war on the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), complicating an already dangerous conflict. The claims made to Reuters, which interviewed several unidentified diplomats in the region and a US official, follow mounting allegations by Tigrayan leaders that Eritrea, long a rival of Ethiopia, had joined with Ethiopian forces against a common enemy despite denials from both nations.https://afbbf5f...

5 hours ago (10:40 GMT) 8 " December"2020" Aljazeera" Fellow Up News Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID vaccine 70% effective: Full trial data UK starts rolling out COVID-19 vaccine as drug-maker Pfizer moves closer to approval in the hardest-hit United States.Oxford University and AstraZeneca became the first Covid-19 vaccine makers to publish final-stage clinical trial results in a scientific journal, clearing a key hurdle in the global race to produce safe and effective drugs for the new coronavirus. A World Health Organization official warned only public health measures – not vaccines – can prevent a new surge of COVID-19 cases as the first vaccines are administered in the United Kingdom.Key workers given priority in Ireland’s vaccine rollout Workers deemed essential t...

7" December " 2020" Aljazeera" Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s quest to bring all Ethiopians together through increased centralisation is tearing the country apart Tigrayans who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region are seen at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, on November 27, 2020 Today, Ethiopia is once again in crisis. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s efforts to re-centralise all state powers in Addis Ababa and dismantle the multi-ethnic federation established in the 1995 constitution in the name of “national unity”, led to an armed conflict between the federal military and a regional government, ruined thousands of lives and livelihoods, and once again made Ethiopia a centre of instability and conflict in the Horn of Africa. It now seems Abiy’s push f...

7 December, 2020" SOURCE : AL JAZEERA The number of refugees arriving into Sudan from Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region has increased from about 400 a day to more than 800. It has been 26 days since the middle-aged woman from Humera, a city in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, lost contact with her husband and children. She is among the tens of thousands of Ethiopian refugees to have crossed the border into Sudan in recent weeks to flee the fighting that broke out early last month between federal government troops and Tigrayan rebels. Sitting inside a tarpaulin tent at a border refugee camp, she is checking again with the Sudanese Red Crescent Office for new information. Not ready to give up, she says she prefers to stay in the area, hoping that her loved on...

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5 Dec 2020" SOURCE : REUTERS A Chinese official’s tweet of an image of an Australian soldier that sparked a furious reaction from Canberra was amplified across social media by unusual accounts, of which half were likely fake, an Israeli cybersecurity firm and Australian experts said. The digitally altered image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child was tweeted by China’s foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian" Some of the accounts had already been identified in a data-set of 37,000 Chinese accounts targeting Australia since June, China-Australia tensions explained in 500 wordsChina-Australia ties under strainThe deafening silence on China’s human rights abuses Twitter declined Australia’s request to remove the tweet. The ...

5,December 2020" SOURCE : AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES Fighting is ongoing ‘in many parts’ of Tigray, complicating efforts to deliver humanitarian aid the UN says. The United Nations has said that ongoing fighting “in many parts” of Ethiopia’s Tigray is complicating efforts to deliver humanitarian aid despite a deal granting the UN access to territory under federal control. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced military operations in the northern region a month ago against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). We have reports of fighting still going on in many parts of Tigray. This is concerning and it’s a complex situation for us,” Saviano Abreu, spokesman for the UN’s humanitarian coordination office, told the AFP news agency on Friday. The confli...

4,December 2020 SOURCE : AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES Turkish president hits out at his French counterpart, renewing a war of words between the two leaders, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he hopes France will soon get rid of President Emmanuel Macron, describing him as a burden on France which was enduring dangerous times. “Macron is a burden on France. Macron and France are going through a very dangerous period actually. My hope is that France gets rid of the Macron trouble as soon as possible,” Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul after Friday prayers. Ties between Turkey and France have been particularly tense in recent months over policy differences on Syria and the publishing of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad in France. After Macron in...

4, December 2020" [File:Susana Vera/Reuters Antonio Guterres said ‘when countries go in their own direction, the virus goes in every direction’. More than 180 countries have joined Covax, a global collaboration working with manufacturers to distribute vaccines equitably ] United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday the world could be fighting the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic for decades to come even if vaccines are quickly approved. Guterres – speaking at the UN General Assembly’s first-ever session on the coronavirus pandemic – hailed the quick scientific progress but cautioned that vaccination was not a panacea for the ills affecting the planet. Coronavirus vaccine: How will poorer countries get a fair shot?Global warming bigger threat tha...