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International Cooperation, Women Peacekeepers, Training Crucial in Addressing Criminal Accountability for Officials on Mission, Sixth Committee Hears

October 7, 2022October 8, 2022User2

Delegates Take Up Report on United Nations Rule of Law Activities Speakers underscored the importance of international cooperation in ensuring criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission, while also highlighting pre-deployment training and the role of women peacekeepers in preventing acts of sexual exploitation and abuse, as the Sixth Committee took up […]

ETHIOPIA PEACE TALKS DELAYED FOR LOGISTICAL REASONS -DIPLOMATS

October 7, 2022October 8, 2022User2

NNA – African Union-led peace talks proposed for this weekend to try to end a two-year-old conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have been delayed for logistical reasons, Tigray regional forces and two diplomatic sources said on Friday. Ethiopia’s government and Tigray forces said on Wednesday that they accepted the AU’s invitation to talks in South Africa, which […]

AU Peace Talks on Ethiopia’s Tigray Postponed

October 7, 2022October 8, 2022User2

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Diplomats say African Union-sponsored peace talks planned for this weekend between Ethiopia’s federal government and Tigrayan rebels have been delayed due to logistical problems. AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat invited the leaders of the warring parties to attend a summit in South Africa, according to a leaked letter. The talks were […]

Ethiopia: UNHRC decision underscores critical need to continue monitoring human rights abuses

October 7, 2022October 8, 2022User2

In response to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNRC) decision to extend the mandate of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) to continue to monitor and document crimes under international law and human rights violations in the country, Muleya Mwananyanda, Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa, said: The […]

Will the Lights in Britain Go Out This Winter? | Will Turkey Attacks Greece in 2023? | New ‘Great War of Africa’ Is Raging, and more

October 7, 2022October 8, 2022User2

·Putin Confronted by Insider Over Ukraine War, U.S.Intelligence Finds Insider’s dissent deemed important enough to be included in Biden’s daily intelligence briefing ·Putin at 70: Isolated, Irrational and Fearing for His Health Russia’s “flourishing is my joy,” Putin said, but there is little flourishing in the Kremlin today ·U.K.Winter Blackouts Warning If Energy Imports Dry Up Millions of […]

Horn of Africa Regional Ministers Call for Coordination to Deal with Food Insecurity

October 7, 2022October 8, 2022User2

NAIROBI — The East African bloc IGAD, aid groups, and development partners have called for greater coordination to fight growing hunger in the region. An estimated 51 million people across East Africa are in dire need of food, water and medicine. Ministers from the eight nations of IGAD — the Intergovernmental Authority on Development — met […]