EXPLAINER: Why Ethiopia's deadly Tigray crisis is growing

whig Thursday, March 4, 2021 2:11:00 PM EAT | info [other]

A team from Medecins Sans Frontieres carries medicines on their backs across a hillside in Tsaeda Emba, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The United Nations in its latest humanitarian report on the situation in Tigray says the "humanitarian situation continues to.......

UN: 20 migrants die after tossed overboard en route to Yemen

TorontoStar Thursday, March 4, 2021 2:20:00 PM EAT | info [other]

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justiceinfo Thursday, March 4, 2021 1:49:00 PM EAT | info [other]

The UN rights chief said Thursday that her office had corroborated grave violations that could amount to “war crimes and crimes against humanity” in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, including by Eritrean troops. Michelle Bachelet stressed in a statement the urgent need for an independent investigation into.......

Thousands of FAKE Covid vaccines are seized in South Africa and China

dailymail Thursday, March 4, 2021 2:16:00 PM EAT | info [other]

A Chinese Ministry of Public Security spokesperson said: 'Chinese police are conducting a targeted campaign to prevent and crack down on crimes related to vaccines, proactively investigating and combating crimes related to vaccines in accordance with law....

Journalist Karima Brown dies after being hospitalised for Covid-19

businessday Thursday, March 4, 2021 1:27:00 PM EAT | info [other]

Veteran media personality Karima Brown has died‚ her employer eNCA confirmed on Thursday morning. The television host and political commentator had been hospitalised for several weeks, where she had been battling with Covid-19 related complications. Brown had been political editor at Business Day, during her career....

Oba Akiolu accuses youths of stealing $2m, N17m from his palace during #EndSARS protests bayo wahab

pulse Thursday, March 4, 2021 1:01:00 PM EAT | info [other]

Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu has said that youths that invaded his palace during #EndSARS protests in October 2020 stole $2m and N17m from his palace. The monarch said the youths wouldn’t have committed the offence if they knew the implication of what they did....

Nigeria’s COVID-19 deaths near 2,000 mark 41 mins ago Nigeria

ngrguardiannews Thursday, March 4, 2021 1:54:00 PM EAT | info [other]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 16 additional COVID-19 related deaths, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease since its outbreak in the country to 1,939. The NCDC made the disclosure on its official Twitter handle late on Wednesday....

Judge accuses EFCC of seeking favour, stops Oyo-Ita’s trial

ngrguardiannews Thursday, March 4, 2021 1:54:00 PM EAT | info [other]

EFCC re-arraigns Justice Ajumogobia. Justice Taiwo Taiwo of Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday, stopped proceedings in the ongoing trial of former Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF), Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita. Oyo-Ita and other defendants are facing trial over alleged fraud to the tune of N570 million....

Pakistan to receive more than 10m free coronavirus vaccines from COVAX

geo-tv Thursday, March 4, 2021 11:16:00 AM EAT | info [other]

A shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from the COVAX global vaccination program arrives at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana on Feb 24, 2021. Photo: AFP Some 238.2 million doses will be distributed around the world by the end of May through the Covax programme; Covax scheme aims to ensure.......

WhatsApp cannot share contact information, says South African regulator

siliconrepublic Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:57:00 PM EAT | info [other]

The South African information regulator says the Facebook company requires prior authorisation from the regulator to share users’ contact information. In January of this year, WhatsApp announced an update to its privacy policy , which sparked concern around the world among users and privacy experts....