This is Whyte House Report podcast. Here are the top stories you need to know about today (11.11.21).

Ethiopia declares state of emergency (WHR 11.11.21)

For more than a week Western press have reported that the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front are so close to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, that they’re likely to overrun the city any day. They have also reported that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called on civilians to fight. Several people on the ground in Ethiopia told me different stories.

Story on the Ground in Addis Ababa Unlike Western Press Reports

Assumpta Massoi anakuletea jarida hii leo ambapo kama livyo ada Jumatatu ni mada kwa kina, tunakupeleka Congo-Brazaville kumulika adha ya kukosa utaifa.

Pia utapata fursa ya kusikia habari kwa ufupi, miongoni mwa utakayosikia ni pamoja na Umoja wa Mataifa watoa fedha kwenye mfuko wake wa dharura kusaidia Ethiopia, WHO wasaidia kupunguzwa bei za vipimo vya haraka vya Kaswende na Virusi vya UKIMWI -VVU, na katika kipindi cha janga la COVID-19 zaidi ya watoto 45,000 waliokuwa wameshikiliwa wameachiliwa huru.

JARIDA LA UMOJA WA MATAIFA TAREHE 15 NOVEMBA 2021

This is the News in Brief from the United Nations, with the following top headlines on Monday, 15 November 2021: 

- COP26 made progress, but climate catastrophe not averted: UN chief
- $40 million in aid relief to Ethiopia for victims of conflict, drought
- ‘Under $1’ HIV/syphilis test kits approved to stop mother-baby transmission

Audio: Daniel Johnson, UN News - Geneva
Photo:  A man walks on a giant sea wall along the coast of Jakarta, Indonesia. Climate Visuals Countdown/Irene Barlian

News in Brief - 15 November 2021 - COP26 progress, aid relief to Ethiopia, HIV test

This is the News in Brief, from the United Nations, with the following top stories on Tuesday, 16 November 2021: 

- Ethiopia: mass arbitrary arrests target Tigrayans, says UN rights office 
- UNITAID deal seals COVID-19 antiviral boost for one in two people globally
- Tobacco use falling, but ‘unscrupulous’ companies luring new users

Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News - Geneva
Photo: Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death. Unsplash/Lex Guerra

News in Brief - 16 November 2021 - Ethiopia, COVID-19 antiviral boost, tobacco use

This is the News in Brief from the United Nations, with the following top stories on Wednesday, 17 November 2021: 

- Ethiopia: arrested UN staff must be released, says UN chief 
- One in two youngsters in Bosnia and Herzegovina want to quit the country
- Surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths over the last week: WHO

Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News - Geneva
Photo: Paris almost emptied of tourists during the COVID-19 pandemic. IMF Photo/Cyril Marcilhacy

News in Brief - 17 November 2021 - Ethiopia UN staff, youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina, COVID-19

*) India’s Modi withdraws controversial farm laws

​​After more than a year of Indian farmers displaying massive street power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repealed three highly controversial agricultural reform laws. 

Farmers were against the laws as they would no longer be assured of a minimum price for their crops. 

At the time, the government said the reforms were essential to modernise the nation but has now backed down ahead of elections in three heavily agrarian states. 

*) Sudan's police chief denies role in protester deaths

Sudan’s police chief has defended his security forces after at least 15 people were killed by live fire at Wednesday's protests against last month’s coup.

Lieutenant General Khalid Mahdi Ibrahim said security forces only used legal means to contain protests.

Wednesday’s deaths brought the overall death toll since the coup to at least 39. 

*) Belarus clears main refugee camps at EU border

Belarus has cleared the main camps where refugees were sheltering at the border with Poland.

Belarus state media said late on Thursday that the refugees sheltering in the forest had been taken to a warehouse away from the Polish border. 

The EU has accused Belarus of deliberately creating the crisis by flying in refugees and forcing them to attempt illegal border crossings into Poland and Lithuania. 

Minsk denies "orchestrating" the crisis and both sides have agreed to talks. 

*) World Food Programme drivers released after weeklong detention in Ethiopia

All of the World Food Programme drivers and UN workers arrested by the Ethiopian government in the north have been released.

Ethiopia arrested 72 drivers in Afar province, on the only functional road leading into the conflict-and-famine-hit region of Tigray.

The arrests follow an escalation of conflict between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and Tigray forces in early November – when the rebels threatened to besiege capital Addis Ababa.

*) Deforestation of Amazon surges to highest levels since 2006

The deforested area in Brazil's Amazon has reached a 15-year high, after a 22 percent jump from the previous year.

The Amazon lost 13,235 square kilometres of rainforest in the 12 months from August 2020 to July 2021, according to the National Institute for Space Research.

Brazil's Amazon had not recorded a single year with more than 10,000 square kilometres of deforestation in over a decade before Jair Bolsonaro’s term started.

November 19, 2021

The commander of the US military base in Djibouti told the BBC this week that US forces are prepared to respond to “crisis” in Ethiopia.

US shows off its military hardware in Djibouti while threatening Ethiopia

هل تعرفون آخر سلطنة إسلامية في أفريقيا؟ و ما علاقتها بأحداث إثيوبيا؟ فلنعرف
 معا

هل تعرفون آخر سلطنة إسلامية في أفريقيا؟

Phil interviews pan-African and anti-war organizer Netfa Freeman of "Voices with Vision," concerning US meddling in Ethiopia. Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Ethiopians and Eritreans have been demonstrating in scores of countries around the world.

Ethiopia is the only African country without AFRICOM, Nato's arm in Africa.

The US has been using the TPLF to destabilize the Ethiopian government starting one year ago.

Why does US want to intervene? Ethiopian self-rule undermines U.S. hegemony in the Horn of Africa.

Phil notes that Biden stated recently that China would not become the pre-eminent economy in the world on his watch. This statement was directed at countries such as Ethiopia and Eritrea, which have strong economic relations with China.

Netfa replies that Africans regard the US as mired in a deep crisis of legitimacy itself.

Phil reminds his listeners that there has been a developing unity between African countries and China since 1971, when African countries at the UN won a fight to recognize the PRC as the only and official sovereign representative of the Chinese people. This alliance is growing today, as China is helping African economies develop using a non-imperial model of development.

According to Western media, Ethiopia does not have the sovereign right to seek allies to defend itself from the new kind of hybrid war being waged by the USA against Ethiopia.

Taylor Report

No more interference in Ethiopia & the Horn of Africa

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No more interference in Ethiopia

*) Worries grow as South Africa detects new Covid variant with many mutations

Scientists have raised the alarm over a newly found Covid variant in Southern Africa with multiple mutations. 

Australia has launched an investigation into the new Covid variant while the United Kingdom has suspended flights from six African nations.

The scientists are calling the new variant 'the worst one yet'. It could be more easily transmissible, and possibly more resistant to current vaccines.

*) Solomon Islands leader blames foreign powers for fuelling crisis

In the Solomon Islands, rioters have torched buildings during the third day of protests against the government.

In the capital Honiara, police fired tear gas and warning shots to disperse the protesters. 

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has blamed the foreign powers for fueling the unrest in the country over his government's decision to switch alliances from Taiwan to China.

*) Dozens reportedly killed in Siberia coal mine accident

Arrests have been made in Russia, as the death toll from the Siberia coal mine accident surpassed 50 people. 

According to regional authorities, there was a methane explosion caused by a spark. The mine then filled with smoke with 285 people inside. 

Dozens have been hospitalised. One local news agency says three patients are in critical condition.

*) Ethiopia asks US to stop 'shameful fake news' on war with Tigray rebels

Ethiopia has accused the United States of spreading false information about security conditions in the war-hit country and warned such statements could harm ties.

It said the US government should refrain from disseminating what it called "shameful fake news and defamation regarding Ethiopia".

Washington once viewed Ethiopia as a vital security partner in the volatile Horn of Africa, but relations have soured over Ethiopia's year-long war against rebels.

And finally…

*)  Protesters in Europe, Latin America seek end to violence against women

Thousands have marched through Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, London, and also in Guatemala and Honduras to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

This year's slogan was “Enough” as hundreds marched through central Madrid on Thursday with some banners calling to put an end to gender-based violence.

Nearly one in three women worldwide has experienced physical or sexual violence, mostly by someone they know, according to United Nations Women.

November 26, 2021

karibu kusikiliza jarida ambapo leo tunabisha hodi Dubai kwenye maenesho ya kimataifa Expo2020 katika banda la Kenya kusikia kinachojiri huko na umuhimu wa Kenya kushiriki maonesho hayo.

Pia utapata fursa ya kusikia habari kwa ufupi zinazogusia mapigano huo Ethiopia na Sudan pamoja na upimaji binafsi wa VVU.

JARIDA LA UMOJA WA MATAIFA TAREHE 26 NOVEMBA 2021 NA FLORA NDUCHA

This is the News in Brief from the United Nations, with the following top stories on Friday, 26 November 2021: 

- Ethiopia’s humanitarian crisis leaves 9.4 million in need 
- HIV self-testing needs vastly lacking in Asia, Latin America: Unitaid 
- WHO urges caution over travel bans linked to new COVID-19 variant

Audio Credit: Katy Dartford, UN News - Geneva
Photo: : Food is distributed to people in the Afar region of Ethiopia. © WFP/Claire Nevill

News in Brief - 26 November 2021 - Ethiopia, HIV self-testing, WHO urges caution over travel bans

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Spotlight: ETHIOPIA  This Real Fiction episode focuses on the under-reported story of the Ethiopian-American mobilization in the nationally watched Virginia Governor's Race in November 2021. Traditionally, Democratic voters, Ethiopian-American voters turned out in large numbers for Governor-elect (Republican) Glenn Youngkin. Mesfin Tegenu, Chair of the American Ethiopian Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), explains how the protest vote against the Biden Administration's foreign policy during the Ethiopian crisis marks the beginning of long-term electoral strategy.

Ethiopian-American Voters and the Virginia Governor's Race

For most of the past month, Western press have widely reported that TPLF forces are advancing on Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and that the city is about to fall. Many Ethiopians, Ethiopian government officials, and Ethiopians in diaspora have said that this is a lie manufactured to harm Ethiopia and frighten people into fleeing the city.

Western press try to terrify Ethiopians and everyone else in Addis

The Tigray War in Ethiopia, which began in November of last year, has killed thousands, displaced millions, and has fueled a devastating humanitarian crisis in the region. This week, co-hosts Elisa and Yvette are joined by Cameron Hudson of the Atlantic Council to discuss the latest developments in this ongoing civil war. How does Ethiopia’s political history contribute to today’s conflict? How are China, Iran and other nations involved? And why is Ethiopia’s instability on the Horn of Africa so crucial to U.S. national security?

Cameron Hudson is a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/cameron-hudson/

The Ethiopia-Tigray Crisis with Cameron Hudson (Part 1)

Karibu kusikiliza jarida hii leo tukikuletea mada kwa kina kutokea nchini Tanzania kuhusu mapokeo ya uamuzi wa serikali kuwarejesha shuleni watoto waliokatiza masomo kwa sababu mbalimbali ikiwemo  ujauzito.

Pia utasikia habari kwa ufupi zikiangazia siku ya Kimataifa ya watu wenye ulemavu ambayo ni leo na ujumbe wa Katibu Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa kwa siku hii pamoja na habari kutoka Afghanistan na Ethiopia.

JARIDA LA UMOJA WA MATAIFA TAREHE 03 DESEMBA 2021 NA FLORA NDUCHA

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He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology from Bethany Divinity College, a Bachelor’s degree in Religion from Texas Wesleyan University, a Master’s degree in Religion and a Master of Divinity degree from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. He has been married to the former Meriqua Althea Dixon, of Christiana, Jamaica for twenty-five years. God has blessed their union with seven children.

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