Ethiopian Minister for Women Filsan Abdullahi Ahmed noted February 11th that rape had been committed “conclusively and without a doubt” within Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region. The statement, which expressed a rare acknowledgement of the toll on Ethiopia’s Tigrayan population, comes after a task force conducted investigations into allegations of mass
The Rwandan economy is booming and has become a World Bank success story, a somewhat rare description in today’s global lending and loaning marketplace. Rwanda is situated adjacent to the larger and more economically prosperous Democratic Republic of the Congo, and nearby its East African counterparts Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.
In a historic move that could benefit the lives of more than one million migrants living in Colombia, President Iván Duque has announced that the country will give temporary legal status to the over 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees currently residing in Colombia. Provided they register with the Colombian
On February 1st, it was announced that Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong entrepreneur and protestor of the mainland Chinese Communist Party, will stay in custody until a top court rules on his request for bail. Lai was arrested in August 2020 for violating China’s newly adopted national security law, which
Chinese authorities have formally arrested an Australian journalist who was working with China’s state broadcaster CGTN on the charge of “illegally supplying state secrets overseas”. The move is the latest of such in the increasing tensions between China and Australia. In a statement, Australian Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, said that
In February 2020, former President Trump signed an agreement with Taliban leaders in Afghanistan. The agreement, commonly referred to as the Doha accord, stipulates that all American troops be removed from Afghanistan by this May if the Taliban cuts ties with al-Qaeda, engages in peace talks with the Afghan government,
For musicians, Brexit negotiations between Brussels and the UK turned out to be only perpetual hubbub, which would eventually fail them. Since the 1st of January, British musicians who want to tour in one or several European countries ought to sell an arm and a leg each time a customs
The Australian Federal Government has lost its appeal on a 2019 decision from Justice Mark Moshinsky that ruled that Tharnicca Tamil, the youngest child of the Tamil family (the last family on Christmas Island) had been denied procedural fairness by the Federal Government. The denial of procedural fairness stems from
On February 1, the Myanmar military seized power from Aung San Suu Kyi after her National League for Democracy (NLD) party won the general election. The military is currently in power and has declared a one-year state of emergency. The Myanmar military had claimed that the election was fraudulent, calling
Just a month into the Joe Biden presidency, democrats formally introduced the new immigration reform bill in Congress, which is a round-up of the immigration priorities that US President Joe Biden promised and laid out on of his first day in office. The bill would create an eight-year path to
For decades, we have seen the vilification of women in the media, however recently this has come to the forefront of conversation once again with the release of ‘Framing Britney Spears’, the New York Times made documentary examining the popstars life in the public eye. While Britney Spears has been
Late on Friday (19 Feb), hundreds of protestors gathered outside of parliament in Bangkok, holding a demonstration coinciding with the censure debate against Prime Minister Prayut-o-cha’s government by opposition lawmakers inside the building. In anticipation of the following protest, thousands of police officers were put ahead of an expected no-confidence
This month, peace activists in Bosnia-Herzegovina placed memorial plaques commemorating victims of the Bosnian war of 1992-95. It is part of broader efforts to recognize the suffering of war victims that were subjected to torture or other inhumane conditions. Despite their intentions, activists have run into challenges regarding these memorial
Canadian leadership has decided not to put in place a national handgun ban and, instead, has put the power of handgun laws into the hands of local communities. Despite gun control activists supporting legislation for a national handgun ban, Canadian leadership will allow individual communities to decide on their own
The Gulf of Guinea embraces the most economically dynamic and populous countries in sub-Saharan Africa, as evidenced by their average 3% annual GDP growth. While hydrocarbon resources contribute account for the main share of national revenues in Nigeria and Angola, the impact of oil extraction on GDP has been steadily
Loujain al Hathloul, a prominent women’s rights activist, has been released from a Saudi Arabian prison after she was detained in December 2018 for allegedly threatening Saudi Arabia’s national security and challenging its political system. These charges have been labeled as “extremely alarming and spurious” by UN human rights experts.
China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday, 11th February that the country’s broadcasting regulator would not be renewing the BBC’s license to broadcast its flagship World News programme, due to a “serious content violation.” Through an announcement on its website, the NRTA (China’s National Radio and Television Administration) said
Haitian President Jovenel Moise’s rise to power and administration has been anything but stable. Moise was elected in 2015 under allegations of fraud. He was elected again in 2016 for a five-year term but was sworn into office in 2017, claims Al Jazeera. He asserts that he deserves another year
Human Rights group Amnesty International published an article on 2 February calling on officials in Guinea to investigate the deaths of four individuals being held in detention in the Guinean capital, Conakry. These deaths come after the country’s president Alpha Condé controversially won the October 2020 election, sparking protests and
On the 1st of February, Myanmar’s military, also known as the Tatmadaw, planned a calculated coup d’état to overthrow Myanmar’s ruling political party called the National League for Democracy (NLD). The Tatmadaw arrested Aung San Suu Kyi who is the leader of the NLD, president Win Myint as well as
