Abuja, 10 December, 2021 – The United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), in collaboration with the Center for the Development of Youth and Sports (CDJS) of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), organized from 9 to 10 December 2021 in Abuja, Nigeria, the second annual forum of young women and men for peace and security in West Africa and the Sahel. The theme of this second forum, “Young women and men at the heart of innovation and the construction of peaceful and resilient societies”, aimed at discussing the initiatives and the means to be…
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Issued on: 11/12/2021 – 10:18 Benin opposition leader Reckya Madougou has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for terrorism by a special court in the capital Porto-Novo, following a brief trial that her lawyers condemned as a “political attack”. After more than 20 hours of hearings, Madougou was found guilty of “complicity in terrorist acts” by the Economic Crime and Terrorism Court, which on Tuesday sentenced another key opposition figure to 10 years.Critics say the court, set up in 2016, has been used by President Patrice Talon’s regime to crack down on the opposition and pushed Benin into authoritarianism.Speaking before…
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Strong family bonding between young children and their parents is so important in their development. The benefits of family bond are endless. Some benefits include: SecurityImportanceConfidenceHappinessHelps create memoriesHelps teach values etc.. Ideas for family bonding that you can do easily It’s easy to have fun if you know how to. Establish a routine where all members of the family know that you’re doing something together on certain days of the week. Eat together : Eating together is one way to improve family bonding. As a family, it has many benefits for everyone including kids. Eating at least a meal together in a…
Where did Omicron come from? By all accounts it is a weird variant. Though highly mutated, it descended not from one of the other variants of concern, such as Alpha, Beta or Delta, but from coronavirus that was circulating maybe 18 months ago. So where has it been all this time? And why is it only wreaking havoc now?Researchers are exploring a number of hunches. One is that Omicron arose in a remote region of southern Africa but failed to spread until now. Another is that it evolved in infected animals, such as rats, and then crossed back into humans.…
Issued on: 11/12/2021 – 08:01 Benin opposition leader and former justice minister Reckya Madougou was sentenced on Saturday to 20 years in prison for terrorism before a special court in the capital Porto-Novo. After more than 20 hours of hearings, Madougou, 47, was found guilty of “complicity in terrorist acts” by the Economic Crime and Terrorism Court, or Criet, which on Tuesday sentenced another key opposition figure to 10 years.Critics say the court, set up in 2016, has been used by President Patrice Talon’s regime to crack down on the opposition and pushed Benin into authoritarianism.”This court has deliberately decided…
Mau Mau has always been a dangerous topic in Kenya. Marked by the brutality of the British counterinsurgency against it, Mau Mau is acknowledged by historians to have been simultaneously a nationalist war of independence, a peasant revolt, a civil war within the Kikuyu ethnic group, and an attempted genocide of the Kikuyu people. This plurality of meanings, which successive generations of citizens, politicians and historians have attempted to smoothen out and fit into neat categories, refuses to be tamed. Instead, the struggle for Mau Mau’s memory continues unabated, with little sign of a ceasefire. The general contours of the…
A Detroit teen who was suspended for giving a haircut in school was recently handed a life-changing opportunity to master his craft. Cameron Tucker, 16, was given a day suspension at Renaissance High School in Detroit for playing bathroom barber. “In the middle of doing that, the teacher walked in, stared at us for about 45 seconds, and walked out,” Cameron recalled in an interview this month. His mom was informed about the incident. “We need someone to come pick up Cameron, he’s running a barbershop out of the third-floor bathroom,” his mother was told. “There’s line in there, hair all…
South Africa has recorded fewer severe cases in the Omicron wave of coronavirus infections sweeping the country’s economic hub compared to earlier in the pandemic, according to the latest data, although the health minister said it remained early days for assessing the variant’s severity.Just under a third of Covid patients in hospital in Tshwane, the centre of the country’s Omicron outbreak, needed specialist care or spent time in an intensive care unit in the past 25 days, compared with two-thirds in two previous waves this year, South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Friday.Four per cent of patients…
Egypt’s Zamalek celebrate winning the inaugural Basketball Africa League in Rwanda in 2021Organisers of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) hope the competition will be expanded in the future, with 12 teams once again set to take part in its second season.However, the 2022 campaign will see the sides from around the continent split into two conferences of six teams, with a total of 38 games – an increase from 26 matches in the inaugural season played in Kigali, Rwanda earlier this year.One conference will played in the Senegalese capital Dakar in March, with the other hosted in the Egyptian capital…