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Ethiopia: Sweeping emergency powers and alarming rise in online hate speech as Tigray conflict escalates

November 5, 2021November 6, 2021User2

Ethiopia is teetering on the brink of a human rights and humanitarian catastrophe, Amnesty International warned today, amid worrying developments linked to the escalating Tigray conflict. On 4 November the Ethiopian government granted itself sweeping new emergency powers which arbitrarily restrict human rights and threaten the independence of the judiciary. Meanwhile there has been an […]

US Sanctions Individuals, Firms for Supporting Iran’s Drone Program

October 29, 2021October 30, 2021User2

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned individuals and companies allegedly associated with a network of companies linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The department said in a statement Friday that the targets “provided critical support” to Tehran’s drone program. It said they helped spread Iranian drones to “Hezbollah, Hamas, Kata’ib Hizballah, the Houthis, and […]

Russia Warns Turkey After Ukraine Drone Strike

October 28, 2021October 29, 2021User2

ISTANBUL — Russia is warning Turkey over arms sales to Ukraine after a Turkish-made drone attacked Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine. A Kremlin spokesman has warned that Turkey’s ongoing arms sales to Ukraine threaten to destabilize the region. The warning follows Kyiv’s release of the video Tuesday showing a Turkish-made drone used for the first time […]

How to turn confrontation about Africa’s biggest hydropower dam to cooperation

October 26, 2021October 27, 2021User2

Since Ethiopia announced the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, there have been disagreements between Egypt and Ethiopia on the filling and operation of the dam. With turbines of about 5100 MW it has more than two times the energy generating power of the nearest major hydropower dam – the High Aswan Dam […]

NASA to Launch Craft to Explore Jupiter’s Asteroids

October 15, 2021October 16, 2021User2

The U.S. space agency, NASA, is preparing to launch a craft Saturday to boldly go to a part of space never visited before — the asteroids of Jupiter. The spacecraft Lucy is set to take off before dawn Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is embarking on a 12-year mission during which it will travel more than […]

Africa Needs to Do A Lot to Take Fair Share of Space Resources : AU Commissioner Agbor

October 14, 2021October 15, 2021User2

AU Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology, Sarah Anyang Agbor said a lot has been happening in space activities in the last decade, but more needs to be done as the space resources are becoming more congested and contested. At the press conference she gave on the progress in the implementation of Pan African […]