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U.S Removes Sudan from its ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’ List
The United States has formally removed Sudan’s designation as a “state sponsor of terrorism”, after nearly 27 years of putting the country on its blacklist.
The announcement was made by the US embassy in Khartoum on Sunday and comes into effect on Monday.
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Recall that the US government added Sudan to its list of state sponsors of terrorism in 1993 over allegations that al-Bashir’s government was allegedly supporting “terrorist” groups.
US President Donald Trump had said in October that the U.S was going to remove Sudan from the list after Khartoum paid a $335m settlement to American victims of an attack by armed groups on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
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Netflix must answer a defamation case over its hit series The Queen’s Gambit, a US judge has ruled. The streaming giant is accused of misrepresenting “one of the most significant career achievements” of chess master Nona Gaprindashvili.
Lawyers said the error had “tarnished (her) personal and professional reputation” around the world. The Queen’s Gambit, starring Anya Taylor-Joy is the fictional story of the female chess prodigy, Beth Harmon. However, it features references to real life competitors including Gaprindashvili.
In the final episode, a commentator compares Harmon’s achievements to Gaprindashvili’s, but says the latter “never faced men” in competition.
Netflix said that “no reasonable viewer would have understood the line to convey a statement of fact”, according to legal documents seen by PA, as it was an “entirely fictional work”.
It added the show’s millions of viewers would require “knowledge of competitive Soviet chess in the 1960s” to understand the alleged defamation.
Author: Eunice Johnson, Abuja
The United States’ government has pledged to support Nigeria in its efforts to combat modern-day slavery and all forms of human trafficking and smuggling.
Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Kathleen FlitzGibbon, said this Thursday, at an event organised to commemorate the 2022 National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
The event, with the theme “Improving awareness on Human Trafficking and increasing Reportage of Cases’, held in collaboration with the DEVATOP Center for African Development.
According to FlitzGibbon, human trafficking has taken various forms and is also known as modern-day slavery which requires collaborative efforts to effectively tackle.
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Rwanda said Friday it will reopen its land border with Uganda at the end of the month after a three-year closure, a major breakthrough in efforts to repair ties between the neighbors.
The move follows a visit to Kigali last weekend by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s son Muhoozi Kainerugaba, during which he and Rwandan President Paul Kagame pledged to restore relations.
The border between the two East African nations was closed in February 2019 as political tensions between Kigali and Kampala rose, devastating two-way trade.
Rwanda’s foreign ministry said in a statement that the main Gatuna border post, known as Katuna in Uganda, would reopen on January 31.
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