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December 18, 2021

Pandemic Spawns New Wave of Anti-Migrant Sentiment

GENEVA — Marking International Migrants Day, the United Nations reports hostility and xenophobia are growing against migrants. It warns the stigmatization and marginalization of migrants amid a raging pandemic is putting many lives at risk.U.N. agencie…

Eritrea- A Country Born in the Struggle for Human Rights

Seventy-three years after the United Nations adopted the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and forty years after the Organization of African Unity (OAU) adopted its own African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the human rights situation i…

You Can Have Your Owns Opinions, But Not Your Own Facts

An oft-used quote declares that, “While everyone is certainly entitled to having their own opinions and beliefs, that entitlement does not extend to having their own facts.”I could not help but recall this quote this week as the New York Times publishe…

Dutch Government Holds Emergency Meeting on Omicron Spread

The Dutch government is holding an emergency meeting Saturday with health advisers about the fast-spreading omicron variant of the coronavirus before an expected announcement of more lockdown measures to stem its spread.The government proposed new meas…

SRE LeBELBA: The Reverend Trouser

Once upon a time while stroll¬ing around the town of Adi Keih, Southern Region, I overheard some elders discussing wed¬ding traditions during the good old days. I particularly was intrigued by the new word I heard; Sre leb¬elba. As they kept on chattin…