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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said armed groups from the Amhara region were responsible for a recent surge in horrific abuses in the long-contested western part of Tigray.

Rights groups sound alarm over new wave of violence in Ethiopia
NAIROBI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Raychelle Omamo speak at a press conference after their bilateral meeting at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi yesterday. – AFP n

Blinken warns on democracy at start of Africa tour
NAIROBI: People shop in Nairobi. Kenyaís economy shrank for the first time in three decades last year as the country was battered by the coronavirus pandemic.

Kenya suffers huge job losses as COVID pummels economy
KISUMU: People stand next to a burnt out petrol tanker that burst into flames when it overturned in western Kenya, while a crowd thronged to collect the spilling fuel, on the busy highway between Kisumu and the border with Uganda, yesterday. - AFPn

13 dead as petrol tanker explodes in Kenya
NEW DELHI: A COVID-19 coronavirus patient reacts while sitting on a bed inside a banquet hall temporarily converted into a COVID care center in New Delhi yesterday.—AFPn

India's COVID battle stokes vaccine worries in Africa
MEKELE: A general view, through a broken glass, of a bus station in Wukro, north of Mekele. Every phase of the four-month-old conflict in Tigray has brought suffering to Wukro, a fast-growing transport hub once best-known for its religious and archaeological sites. - AFPn

Over 100 killed in Tigray massacre: Rights body
Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron, population 350, is none too thrilled to have been picked as a ground station for Elon Musk's Starlink project for broadband from space.nn

Despite risks, Nairobi gives cycling a spin in pandemic bike push
A damaged tank stands abandoned on a road as a truck of the Amhara Special Forces passes by near Humera, Ethiopia, on November 22, 2020. - Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, announced military operations in Tigray on November 4, 2020, saying they came in response to attacks on federal army camps by the party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). nHundreds have died in nearly three weeks of hostilities that analysts worry could draw in the broader Horn of Africa region, though Abiy has kept a lid on the details, cutting phone and internet connections in Tigray and restricting reporting. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)

Ethiopia says Axum airport smashed, Tigrayans face surrender deadline
A picture shows an eclipse see from Yunlin county, center Taiwan on June 21, 2020. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)

‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse thrills gazers
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Indian ambassador Dr Adarsh Swaika poses for group photo. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
India hails trade relations with Kuwait, eyes more investments
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GAZA: A Palestinian doctor tends to the baby of Sabreen Al-Sakani, who reached the emergency unit of the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip in critical condition after she was gravely wounded in the head and abdomen in a Zionist air strike, on April 20, 2024. - AFP
‘Miracle’ baby delivered from dying mother’s womb in Gaza
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KUWAIT: Aid officials pose before a plane carrying relief supplies for Sudan on April 23, 2024. - KUNA
Kuwait sends first relief aid plane to Sudan
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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is welcomed and honored by Jordanian King Abdullah II during a state visit on April 23, 2024. – KUNA photos
Jordan honors Amir on state visit