BY JERRY OMONDI | CGTN AFRICA Rwanda will later this week receive the first batch of refugees stranded in Libya as part of commitment made by President Paul Kagame’s government in 2017 to help ease the migrant crisis in the North African country.
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By RT.com, Passengers from two rubber dinghies that sank just miles from the coast of Libya have told rescuers that as many as 240 migrants drowned attempting to make the journey to Italy. The UN says that 2016 has already seen a record number of migrant deaths at sea. In one of the disasters, the boat […]
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By Glen Ford | BAR Executive Editor The United States is methodically setting the stage for a so-called “humanitarian” military intervention against the small northeast African nation of Eritrea, under legal pretexts much like those used to justify NATO’s war of regime change against Libya, in 2011. As in Libya, the U.S. has hijacked the […]
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ብ ተስፋማርያም ሓጎስ፡ ዓለምና ሎሚ ኣብ ኣዝዩ ኣዕናዊ ኲናት ተሸሚማ ትርከብ ኣላ። እዚ ኲናት እዚ ጠንቁ እንታይ እዩ ? በዓል መን ካብኡ ይረብሑ? በዓል መንከ ይህሰዩን ግዳይ ይኾኑን ክንፈልጦ ዘለና ነገር እዩ ። እታ ድሕሪ ካልኣይ ኲናት ዓለም ርእሰ ሓያል ዓለምና ኮይና ዝተቐልቀለት ኣሜሪካ ንዓለምናን ኣብ ከርሳ ሓቝፋቶ ዘላ ባህርያዊ ጸጋታት ንምግባት ብምህንጣይን ኣብተን ባህርያዊ […]
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By Thomas C. Mountain, The recent Benghazi smokescreen produced by the US Congress may have tried to hide the war crimes committed by the USA and its western vassals in Libya but reality on the ground has blown all the smoke away bringing to light who the west really empowered once again, the Islamic State […]
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By Siobhan O’Grady, THE United States for years has praised Ethiopia’s fight against terrorism in East Africa, but that hard-line approach to extreme Islamism may have contributed to the bloody execution of dozens of Ethiopian Christians who were targeted by the Islamic State (ISIS) in Libya. Addis Ababa has been long consumed with a bigger […]
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By BBC, AT LEAST 300 migrants are feared to have drowned after attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa this week in rough seas, the UN says. UNHCR official Vincent Cochetel said it was a “tragedy on an enormous scale”. Survivors brought to the Italian island of Lampedusa said they were forced to […]
Continue ReadingBy AFP, AS many as 500 migrants are feared to have drowned after traffickers rammed and sank their boat in what the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) described Monday as “the worst shipwreck in years“. Horrific details of the shipwreck near Malta, told to IOM by survivors, came after dozens of African migrants were reported […]
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