Situation in Ethiopia s Tigray region horrific: WHO
Situation in Ethiopia s Tigray region horrific: WHO
Last Updated: Tue, May 18th, 2021, 11:40:09hrs
Geneva, May 18 (IANS) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has called for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ethiopia s Tigray and said that humanitarian workers should be granted unfettered access as the overwhelming majority of the region s inhabitants need immediate assistance.
The situation in Tigray is horrific, very horrific , Xinhua news agency quoted Tedros as saying said in a press conference on Monday.
Ninety-one per cent of the Tigray locals need food aid and many of them are dying of hunger, he said, adding that incidents of rape have also been reported.
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May 17, 2021
Years ago, I was at a workshop on society and technology hosted by Microsoft Research in New York City. It was a wonderful group of scholars and civil society leaders working on digital privacy, accountability and transparency. One evening during the event, a representative from Facebook gave a short introduction to a new feature the platform was about to launch. Graph Search, he explained, was based on an algorithm powering a semantic search engine that would allow Facebook users to dive deep into the “social graphs” of their network of friends, enabling them to search for people using detailed attributes collected from their activity on the platform.
When the first American bombs crashed into Baghdad in January 1991, the nature of war fundamentally changed.
Images of the First Gulf War were bounced off satellites and broadcast live to tens of millions of homes around the world.
Everyone saw how Iraq was systematically taken apart blow by blow. Since then, war has become more visible – its crimes ever harder to hide. But one conflict in the far north of Ethiopia has bucked the trend spectacularly, defying the information age.
For the last six months, communications blackouts and appalling access for human rights researchers and journalists alike have shrouded a conflict raging across the Tigray Region in shadows.
News: Joint intelligence, security task force says it foils two underground cells plotting to disrupt election, train youth in Amhara region & Addis Abeba
Addis Abeba, May 6, 2021 – The joint intelligence and security task force comprised of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), the Federal Police Commission, and Information Network Security Agency (INSA) announced that it has foiled underground cells allegedly plotting to disrupt the 6th general election.
According to the statement, the group was being provided with financial logistic support by ‘extremist’ diaspora based in different countries. It is also supported by members of political parties both opposition and ruling parties alike as well as members and former members of the defense forces and other clandestine armed groups. The statement also disclosed that the task force has collected various evidence including firearms, documents of money transfers an