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Algeria To Ban Unauthorised Protests In The Country

Zoe Maven
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Algeria To Ban Unauthorised Protests In The Country

Algeria’s Interior Ministry has announced it will bar any protests that do not have prior approval stating that all protests would need a permit that specified the names of organisers and a start and finishing time for the demonstrations.

Such restrictions, even if permits were given, would mean naming specific individuals as formally responsible for a hitherto leaderless protest movement.

The measures are in line with a clause in a new constitution approved by Algerian voters in November last year which requires organisers to give advance information before demonstrations.

The Interior Ministry said failure to comply with the procedures would result in violating the law and the constitution, which denies the legitimacy of the march.

Some protesters believe the restrictions are aimed at ending all street marches. “They are seeking reasons to justify any decision to ban marches,” said Ahmed Badili, a member of the leaderless protest movement known as Hirak.

The restrictions come ahead of early legislative elections on June 12 that President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, elected in December 2019 in a vote boycotted by the protest movement, vowed would be fair and transparent.

Afghan Foreign Minister Meets ICC Prosecutors

Zoe Maven
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Afghan Foreign Minister Meets ICC Prosecutors

The ICC has started an investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Afghanistan since 2003 by all sides in the conflict.

In a joint statement, Afghan foreign minister and prosecutors from the International Criminal Court said they have met in The Hague to discuss the ICC’s war crimes investigation.

Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar together with the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor say they have made encouraging progress in charting the way forward to ensure that no crime goes unpunished

Government forces, the Taliban, other armed groups, and US-led forces have all been accused of playing a role in the in the conflict

Shortly after the ICC announced its investigation in March 2020, the Afghan government said it is conducting its own probe into some of the same alleged crimes and asked the international court to defer its investigation.

Under ICC rules, the court only has the power to prosecute crimes committed on the territory of member states when they are unwilling or unable to do so themselves.

In the joint statement on Sunday, Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said she would continue to work with the government of Afghanistan on “how justice may best be served through joint collaborative efforts” while still fulfilling her own duties under the tribunal’s rules.

Afghanistan’s Attorney General Zabihullah Karimullah, who also attended, said that prosecutors had discussed information-sharing and cooperation.

Bensouda is still assessing Afghanistan’s deferral request. In September 2020, the United States imposed sanctions on Bensouda for investigating whether American forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan.

Tunde Kelani’s ‘Ayinla’ Biopic To Premiere In June

Koko Lawrence
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Tunde Kelani’s ‘Ayinla’ Biopic To Premiere In June

Tunde Kelani’s anticipated Ayinla Omowura biopic is finally set for theatrical release. The feature film has been confirmed to hit cinemas on June 18, 2021.

Confirming its release date, the ace filmmaker shared a teaser poster via Instagram with the caption: ‘Èdùmàrè sọ̀rọ̀ Mi dayọ̀ Mo wá nṣọpẹ́…A-A-A, (EP4) ÀYÌNLÁ the Movie finally in Cinemas from June 18, 2021.’

Shot in Abeokuta, the biopic will reportedly follow Ayinla’s rise to fame and his tragic end. Principal photography for the film began in December 2020 with actor, Adedimeji Lateef cast in the lead role.

‘Ayinla’ also stars Omawumi Dada, Bimbo Manuel, Kunle Afolayan, Debo Macaroni and Ade Laoye. The biopic is co-produced Jade Osiberu’s Greoh Studios.

Why swimming is the best exercise

Olasunbo Okoromi
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Why swimming is the best exercise

Swimming is one of the most popular sports in world. As well as being fun, swimming is a great way to keep fit, stay healthy and make friends. Swimming is a healthy activity that you can continue for a lifetime. It is a low-impact activity that has many physical and mental health benefits.

Swimming is a great work because you need to move your whole body against the resistance of the water. Swimming is a good all-round activity because it keeps your heart rate up but takes some of the impact stress off your body, builds endurance, muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness.

Swimming for recreation

Swimming is a great recreational activity for people of all ages. Recreational swimming can provide you with a low-impact workout and it’s also a good way to relax and feel good. Common swimming styles in recreational swimming are breaststroke, backstroke, side stroke and freestyle.

Competitive swimming

Some people who enjoy swimming want to take it to a competitive level. This can provide the health benefits of a vigorous workout as well as the fun and thrill of competition. The main strokes used in competitive swimming are breaststroke, freestyle, backstroke and butterfly. The distances swum in competition swimming can vary from 50 metres in a pool to much further distances in open water.

Health benefits of swimming

Swimming is a great workout because you need to move your whole body against the resistance of the water.
Swimming is a good all-round activity because it keeps your heart rate up but takes some of the impact stress off your body

Swimming builds endurance, muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness

It helps maintain a healthy weight, healthy heart and lungs

It tones muscles and builds strength

It provides an all-over body workout, as nearly all of your muscles are used during swimming.

The benefits of Swimming are quite numerous as it a relaxing and peaceful form of exercise, other benefits include:

It also helps in alleviating stress

Its improves coordination, balance and posture

It improves flexibility

It provides good low-impact therapy for some injuries and conditions

It provides a pleasant way to cool down on a hot day

It is available in many places – you can swim in swimming pools, beaches, lakes, dams and rivers. Make sure that the environment you choose to swim in is safe.

Getting started with swimming

Swimming is a sport for all age groups, skill and fitness levels. Before you get started, you will need to purchase a pair of swimmers and some goggles.
There are public pools that are open to everyone. Entry to public pools usually costs a little and many aquatic centres offer swimming lessons for people of all ages, as well as training and exercise groups.

Some general tips for swimming

Make sure you know how to swim.

Choose a safe environment.

Warm up and stretch your muscles and joints before entering the water.

Have plenty of fluids on hand and drink regularly.

Don’t overdo it if you’re just starting out.

See your doctor if you haven’t exercised for a long time.

Things to remember

As well as being fun, swimming is a great way to keep fit and well and make friends.

Swimming is a healthy activity that you can continue for a lifetime.

Swimming is a low-impact activity that has many physical and mental health benefits.

Make sure you know how to swim and do so in a safe environment.

After Virtual Berlin Film Festival, Movies To Be Shown Outdoors

Koko Lawrence
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After Virtual Berlin Film Festival, Movies To Be Shown Outdoors

The Berlin Film Festival, which took place online earlier this year, will show most of the movies that were part of the competition at outdoor cinemas across the German capital next month.

The summer special offered by the festival, also known as the Berlinale, will take place from June 9 to 20 at 16 venues including a specially created open-air cinema at Museum Island in the heart of the city, organisers said on Monday.

“Audiences will be getting a very special, collective festival experience – something we’ve all been missing for such a long time,” directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian said in a joint statement.

They said they were looking forward to welcoming filmmakers and jury members from across the world who could hopefully make the journey to Berlin next month despite ongoing travel restrictions.

The programme will be available online from May 20 and tickets will go on sale from May 27.

Dow Rises Above 35,000 Points For 1st Time, Extending Rally

Elizabeth Williams
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Dow Rises Above 35,000 Points For 1st Time, Extending Rally

The Dow Jones surged above 35,000 for the first time Monday, extending a run of records as investors pumped funds into industrial companies expected to benefit from the US economic recovery.

Near 1525 GMT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.9 percent at 35,083.10. The blue-chip index has closed at records the last three sessions.

The broad-based S&P 500 was flat at 4,232.36, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index fell 1.6 percent to 13,547.88.

Major gainers included Caterpillar, Honeywell International and Procter & Gamble, which are benefiting from an investor rotation out of technology shares.

Both the Dow and S&P 500 closed at records Friday following a disappointing April jobs report that bolstered expectations the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates low for a long period of time to support the economic recovery.

“Concerns about the Fed reining in its highly-accommodative monetary policy has roiled the markets recently, but Friday’s surprisingly severe miss in April job growth seemed to ease some of the uneasiness,” Charles Schwab investment bank said in a note.

In addition to data on consumer prices and retail sales, this week’s calendar also includes a report on producer prices. Numerous consumer and manufacturing companies highlighted rising prices as a challenge in their recent batch of earnings reports.

30 dead after boat capsizes in Nigeria

Henry Williams
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30 dead after boat capsizes in Nigeria

Thirty people drowned when an overloaded boat capsized in central Nigeria’s Niger state, an emergency official told AFP Monday.

The boat, carrying 100 local traders, split in two after smashing into a stump during high winds on its return from a market on Saturday, said Ibrahim Audu Hussein, spokesman for the state’s emergency agency.

The accident occurred at Tijana village in Munya district.

“So far 30 bodies have been recovered and five are still missing,” Hussein said.

“Sixty-five passengers were rescued with the help of local divers.”

Heavy rains were hampering the search but divers were “braving the odds,” Hussein said.

Local media said some of the victims were people displaced by recent violence in the state.

President Muhammadu Buhari commended the emergency services and the divers for their response and urged Nigeria’s transportation authorities to beef up policing of safety regulations on the waterways.

Boat capsizes are common in Nigeria, mainly because of overcrowding and lack of maintenance, particularly in the annual rainy season.

Loss of life is typically high when these accidents occur as many boats do not carry sufficient lifejackets and few know how to swim.

Eighteen people including 15 young girls were killed in November last year when their canoe capsized in a river in northeast Nigeria.

Ethiopia says fighters, not civilians killed in Tigray massacre

Henry Williams
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Ethiopia says fighters, not civilians killed in Tigray massacre

Ethiopia said Monday the “great majority” of those killed in a massacre in the war-hit Tigray region were fighters and not civilians, contradicting multiple independent accounts.

Findings presented by law enforcement officials provided the most detailed official version so far of a mass killing in late November that both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said left hundreds dead — making it one of the most lethal known incidents of the six-month-old war in Tigray.

In their reports on what happened in the city of Axum, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty blamed Eritrean troops fighting in Tigray and said the dead were mostly civilians.

Amnesty said the Eritreans “went on a rampage and systematically killed hundreds of civilians in cold blood.”

But at a press conference Monday, deputy attorney general Fikadu Tsega said the Eritreans killed 93 people during “heavy fighting” against forces loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the once dominant ruling party that Ethiopia recently designated a terrorist organisation.

“It is established that the great majority of those killed in the said incident, though they were not in uniform, they were members of the fighting force of TPLF who engaged the Eritrean forces” and Ethiopia’s military, Fikadu said.

Some 1,500 young residents of Axum received firearms training in the days leading up to the incident, Fikadu said.

The fighting began after TPLF forces “opened attack on the Eritrean soldiers who were settled on the mountainous area of the city,” he said.

Fikadu’s claim that most of the dead were combatants also appears to contradict a March report from Ethiopia’s national human rights body, which said Eritreans killed more than 100 residents of Axum and cited witness testimony that Eritrean troops executed unarmed civilians, often in front of their families.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, sent troops into Tigray in early November to topple the TPLF after blaming the party for attacks on army camps.

He promised the war would end quickly, but more than six months later fighting continues in much of the region and world leaders are warning of a pending humanitarian catastrophe.

Eritrean troops, who teamed up with the Ethiopian military, have been implicated in massacres as well as widespread rape — allegations Asmara denies.

Fikadu told Monday’s press conference that Ethiopia would be able to investigate and prosecute any crimes committed by Eritreans on Ethiopian soil.

Taiwan Pledges To Boost European Semiconductor Supply

Elizabeth Williams
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Taiwan’s president offered on Monday to work with the European Union to boost its supply of semiconductors in the face of a global shortage of chips, of which the island is a major producer.

President Tsai Ing-wen said in a video message broadcast at a democracy conference in Copenhagen, “Taiwan will continue to engage with the EU and other democratic partners to establish a more resilient supply of critical goods such as semiconductors and medical supplies,”

The Taiwanese president also renewed her call to negotiate a bilateral investment agreement between the European Union and Taiwan.

Taiwan’s high-tech chip manufacturing plants are among the largest and most advanced in the world, with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) leading the market.

Last week, Washington announced that it was putting pressure on manufacturers to allocate part of their supply to American car manufacturers, in the face of a shortage which has affected multiple sectors and which industry sources expect to last for several more months.

Tsai spoke at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit, organised by the Alliance of Democracies, an organisation which was targeted by Beijing sanctions in March and was founded by former Nato boss Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Taiwan, which has a population of 23 million, is seen by China as a rebel province that will one day be returned to its fold, by force if necessary.

Cyber Attack: Oil Climbs On Pipeline Shutdown, Metals Hit Historic Peaks

Elizabeth Williams
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Cyber Attack: Oil Climbs On Pipeline Shutdown, Metals Hit Historic Peaks

Oil prices climbed Monday after a vital US pipeline was put out of action by a cyber attack, while iron ore and copper hit historic peaks on demand optimism as economies reopen.

Oil rose after the weekend attack hit the Colonial Pipeline Company, the largest in the United States and which ships gasoline and jet fuel from Texas to the East Coast, serving 50 million consumers.

The US government declared a regional emergency Sunday, while the company was unable to say when operations would return to normal.

In reaction, New York’s WTI crude and London Brent oil both gained about 0.8 percent in value on Monday.

“Energy markets were unnerved by a cyber attack on a major US pipeline operator,” said Interactive Investor analyst Richard Hunter.

“As a result, the oil price added to the gains which were already being seen on higher anticipated demand.”

The attack comes as prices were pushing higher in response to an expected jump in demand as the world economy gets back on track as a result of the easing Covid health crisis.

Both Brent and WTI crude have gained more than 30 percent in value since the start of the year on burgeoning optimism over a post-Covid demand recovery.

Commodities also charged higher Monday in part owing to dollar weakness, which makes raw materials priced in the currency cheaper for buyers using rival units.

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