Final climate warning; Tigray leader joins govt; Kenya's protests -
Every Saturday, our round up of the articles you have enjoyed the mostWe started the week with a final warning – that rising greenhouse gas emissions were driving the earth towards irreversible damage unless we take immediate and radical action.
It took less than a day for the IPCC report to be relayed across newspaper headlines and the 24/7 international news channels on Monday and then swiftly sidelined by the latest artillery barrage in Ukraine, east-west geopolitical ructions and threats of banking crises. On one hand there is the damage that extreme weather is causing to Africa’s cities and its vast tracts of farmland, and on the other is the continent’s energy crisis that still deprives over 600 million people of reliable electricity and puts a brake on economic growth.
Abiy is said to have rejected the appointment of his long-time adversary Debretsion Gebremichael to the post. Some commentators in Nairobi started to predict the return of the dominant party state à la Daniel arap Moi and the Kenya African National Union. After his barnstorming campaign speeches on the topic and a pledge to appoint a special prosecutor, independent of the presidency and partisan influence, Akufo-Addo has presided over a mountain of corruption claims against members of the ruling party and top civil servants.
. And before that, the DA leader will have to face a tough leadership challenge next month from Mpho Phalatse, a former mayor of Johannesburg.In the parallel universes that contemporary international relations have become, US President Joe Biden welcomed the International Criminal Court’s indictment of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin for war crimes.
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Ethiopia Establishes New Tigray Interim GovtEthiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has appointed the spokesperson of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) Getachew Reda, as head of an interim administration in the Tigray region, Addis Standard reports. Reda's appointment is the latest sign of progress in the peace accord signed on November 2, 2022 - ending the two-year war between the government and the TPLF. The Twitter message from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office on March 23, 2023 also announced that the interim regional administration will be in place until elections are held for the region. The conflict between Ethiopia and Tigray region escalated into a full-scale war in November 2020. Millions of people were displaced and fled to neighbouring countries such as Sudan. Attempts at an AU-led peaceful resolution were made, with peace talks held in South Africa in October 2022, which ended in a peace deal on November 3, 2022, AllAfrica reports. The fallout from the war includes a probe by the United Nations, of human rights abuses on the part of the Eritrean army on Tigrayan civilians. Ethiopia and Eritrea on March 22, 2023, slammed the U.S. State Department's report on the war as "defamatory and inflammatory". Calls have also been made for the unblocking of media curbs by the Ethiopian government as the probe commences. The Ethiopian government has also removed from Tigray from its terrorist list.
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