200 people dead in northwest Nigeria.

About 200 people were buried following killings of civilians by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Zamfara state with many still unaccounted for. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 2040 EAT On 9 Jan 2022. An estimated 200 people were killed and 10,000 displaced in attacks by armed bandits in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara following military…

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Hundreds Killed, Thousands arrested in Kazakhstan.

Fuel price rises sparked the unrest a week ago in provincial areas but the violence quickly reached large cities. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated On 9 Jan 2022 at 2023 EAT More than 160 people were killed and 5,000 arrested in Kazakhstan after the riots that shook Central Asia’s largest country over the past week….

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Ahmaud Arbery murderers sentenced to life in prison

A white father and son convicted of killing a black jogger have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A jury found Travis and Gregory McMichael and their neighbour, William Bryan, guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020. Bryan also received the maximum penalty of life, but was offered the…

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Ethiopia announces freedom of prisoners of war.

Gov’t says it will release several leading TPLF members and opposition leaders from the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated On 7 Jan 2022 at 0935 EAT The Ethiopian government has announced it would pardon and release some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees, including oppositon figure Jawar Mohamed  and senior…

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‘The Indian Farmers Protest’ New Book release by Sir-Inder Deol

“An accurate definition of poetry does not exist, for it cannot easily be defined. Nor is it something that can necessarily be explained, rather it is something to be experienced.” Sir-Inder DeolThe wait is almost over Sir-Inder Deols’ much-anticipated release The Indian Farmers Protest (The Resistance Collection) is coming out on the 11/01/2022. I have…

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Russia troops arrive in Kazakhstan

Street battles resume in the country’s largest city, Almaty, as Russia sends in paratroopers to quell countrywide uprising. By Faith Barbra Namagembe Updated at 0720 EAT on 6 Jan 2022 Fresh violence erupted in Kazakhstan’s largest city on Thursday as Russia rushed in paratroopers to put down a countrywide uprising in one of Moscow’s closest…

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