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Loading the player... The U.S. is “gravely concerned by reported atrocities and the overall deteriorating situation” in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in the toughest statement yet from the U.S. on Ethiopia’s ongoing conflict. Accounts of atrocities by Ethiopian forces against residents of the country’s northwestern region of Tigray were detailed in reports by  The Associated Press and by Amnesty International. Ethiopia’s central government and ...

The authorities could do more to secure our schools After a six-day ordeal in the bush with their captors, 344 weary-looking schoolboys of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara returned home last Friday into the warm hands of the Katsina State government. “These students returned barefooted,” an emotional Governor Bello Masari told President Muhammadu Buhari who visited them at the government house. The president, who spoke in Hausa without an interpreter, congratulated the chi...