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Pro-China WHO boss Tedros is key figure in Tigray Peoples Liberation Front. “Scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra, a town in the South West Zone of Ethiopia’s Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,” Amnesty International is confirming. The human rights organization verified “photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers.” Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s director for east and southern Africa, “confirmed the massacre of a very large number of civilians, who appear to have been day laborers in no way involved in the...

Bogus traditional healer held21/03/2006 16:52  - (SA)    Harare - A bogus traditional healer, who persuaded a businesswoman to hire "mermaids" and accommodate them in a hotel to help find a stolen car was convicted of theft by false pretenses, said court officials on Tuesday. Harare magistrate Sandra Nhau found Edina Chizema guilty of swindling a businesswoman of her savings with promises that mermaids would help recover the luxury car in 2004 and solved the businesswoman's unspecified "personal problems". In Zimbabwe, where tribal superstition was deeply entrenched, prosecutors said Chizema persuaded Margaret Mapfumo to pay 200 million Zimbabwe dollars (about $30 000) to...