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Farnham Town v Fawley
Biblical rain two minutes before kick-off at Farnham Town FC.
And so it begins again. A new season. A fresh start. Everyone is equal, just for one day.
Right now, the league is separated by alphabetical order only. If you are Arsenal, Aldershot or Aalborg, you head your division due to the necessity of having a name, and the luck of that name beginning with the letter A. Hard cheese to Yeovil, York City and Zeljeznicar - there's always next week for you.
In the cups, everyone is still in - all 758 entrants in this season's FA Cup can still dream of a Wembley appearance, or at least a money-spinning run to the Second Qualifying Round and a chance to play in front of 500 fans at a National League South club.
It's 2017/18, and anything could happen.
"Seriously, we cannot start the game until you've brushed ALL THE WATER OFF THE PITCH!"
Farnham Town FC (0) 3 v 2 (1) Fawley AFC
The Emirates FA Cup Extra-Preliminary Round
Saturday 5th August 2017
Colours: Maroon / maroon / white v Sky blue / navy blue / navy blue
Still raining after kick-off.
And so I begin. Hopping Around Hampshire is back for another season - my seventh full season in all since 2011. I feel the need to explain what I do before I can truly begin again. A lot of you will know already, but others will be here for the first time.
This is a blog - one of those quaint leftovers from the early days of the internet, before social media began to dominate. Blogs were invented so that people could shout out to the world about themselves and their interests - their love of fast cars, flower arranging, bee-keeping, whatever. Everyone had one circa 2008. You had one, I had one, we all had one, but nobody read each other's because we were all too busy writing our own.
So we got fed up, stopped and forgot about blogging. Facebook came along and blogs almost died. I'm a dinosaur, an internet iguanadon, but people still read Hopping Around Hampshire, so I carry on. Most posts receive 200-500 hits in the first week of publication, so somebody likes what I do.
The view down the far side at Farnham Town.
I write about Hampshire football clubs, mostly from the Southern League downwards in the pyramid. I regularly travel outside of the county to watch and write about games, but the one rule I have is that every game I feature has to have at least one club from Hampshire involved.
I think people like this targeted approach because there's a fair chance that I'm going to feature your club at least once during the season, and if I don't, then I'll probably write about somewhere you know, or some players that you've watched, managed or played with. There are always lots of photos, both on here and on the blog's Facebook page.
So what are the plans for this season? What can you expect between now and April? Well, I'll be starting off with three matches from the very earliest rounds of the FA Cup, hence the visit to Farnham Town with Fawley.
There will be matches in the FA Vase, probably from places I've not previously featured, but just as likely revisits, especially if I haven't been to a ground for a few years. I'm also intending to write about at least half a dozen Hampshire Premier Football League clubs, probably from October onwards, so look out for them if you're involved at that level.
Most specifically, I'll be paying a visit to Baffins Milton Rovers at some point, as they are the only Wessex League club I've yet to feature as a home side.
Let's begin again.
The sun's come out!
And so we're at Farnham Town, a club which lies less than one and a half miles over the county boundary in Surrey. It's a prosperous town with expensive parking (it would have cost me £4.70 to park for four hours had I left my car in the town centre car park). However, the parking is free for spectators at the Memorial Ground, as the club have agreed a deal with a nearby business park to let fans park there on a matchday for nothing (the car park directly outside the ground is for residents of the neighbouring flats).
The Memorial Ground is pleasingly quirky. The clubhouse lies outside of the ground itself, but the usual food and drink options are available here for the hungry visitor, and at less than half of what you'd expect to pay at a Premier League ground. Maybe less than a third.
There's no turnstile at the entrance to the ground. Instead, a fellow collects your £7 entrance fee from a seat behind an uncovered plastic table. To the left as you enter are new changing rooms, and with no spectator access beyond this building, there is little option but to turn right. And the climb begins.
There's a short, steep ramp up to the first corner. I suspect the pitch had a magnificent slope on it at one point, but it has been flattened (probably when the pitch was lengthened in 1975 in order for the club to progress up the leagues).
Kieran Roche puts Fawley ahead just before half-time.
There's a shelter upon the banking behind the goal containing five rows of plastic seats. This was erected in the mid '70s, so it's around forty years old now. The banking appears to be all grass in my photos, but I can assure you there are stinging nettles mixed in - I know this, because when I sat down on the bank to take the photo shown below, I put my hand on a nettle. It was worth it for the picture though. There is a garden bench seat on the other side of the shelter if anyone wishes to use it.
The hard standing at this end keeps rising until you reach the far corner, when it suddenly dips down again at an alarming rate as you descend towards the dugouts and a second shelter beyond them which has two steps of terrace beneath it. There's another twenty yards of hard standing beyond the shelter, then it rises up again, with steps this time, but there's a dead end here at the final corner, as the end behind this goal is a no-go area for spectators. The Memorial Ground is thus a two-and-a-half-sided ground.
The twenty or thirty people inside the ground at five to three were very grateful for the two sheltered areas, as a violent thunderstorm hit Farnham as the players were preparing to come out. Lightning forked across the sky, count to two, and then thunder roared (it's one second between lightning and thunder roll for every mile away from the lightning strike, isn't it?). Rain hammered down on the pitch, and there were puddles where there were none just five minutes earlier.
Kick-off was sensibly delayed by five minutes whilst the centre of the storm passed overhead. The ref then walked around the pitch, spotted an area which was waterlogged and asked a club volunteer to brush the water off the pitch before he would start the game. I'm sure some refs would have abandoned the game before it had even started, but this one was sensible - it was obvious the storm had passed and that it would be safe to carry on.
An elevated view of proceedings.
The players may have been damp, but there was to be no dampening of their spirit. After all, this was the FA Cup - you're playing your part in the oldest club competition in the world. In a few months, the likes of Chelsea and Manchester United Reserves would be strutting their stuff in the same competition, and you would be able to trace a direct route through to the Third Round Proper...."If we'd beaten X, then Y, then Z, then all these other teams and got to the third round, we would have been drawn...AWAY TO BARNSLEY!"
For Fawley, just one victory would have given them a piece of their own FA Cup history, as they had never won an FA Cup game in five previous attempts, having fallen at this stage against Hallen, Cowes Sports, AFC Portchester (twice) and Almondsbury UWE since 2012. Farnham Town's Cup history is a little more impressive, although they've never made it past the 2nd Qualifying Round.
The first half was even, with neither side having many clearcut chances. Kieran Roche had danced through Farnham's defence a couple of times before being denied, but his third attempt at beating them was successful, as he shrugged off a couple of defenders as he waltzed in from the right, poking the ball past Farnham's keeper from a narrow angle to put The Oilers a goal up just before half-time.
The crowd go wild as Farnham score their 94th minute winner.
Combined Counties Premier Division Farnham improved after the break and got their equaliser after 54 minutes, when Matt Glass smashed a volley in from six yards when the ball dropped to him when Fawley failed to clear their lines.
The task got harder for Fawley when Roche was sent off midway through the half for an off the ball incident. They would have been perfectly happy to stop the game there and then and take Farnham back the the Waterside for a replay. However, on 83 minutes, Dane Sayce fired in a thirty yard free-kick which was tipped over for a corner by Jamie Cunningham in Farnham's goal. Sayce then floated the corner over where his fellow centre-back, Aaron Lucas, stood five yards out. He connected with the outside of his right foot, hitting the ball up and over the defenders on the line. Pandemonium, as Fawley thought they'd done all the hard work with just six minutes remaining.
But this is a sad story, because there was to be no club history made for Fawley. Within a minute, Glass had equalised from the penalty spot, then in the 94th minute, the same player ran from the halfway line before slipping the ball past Connor Beattie in the away goal. Pandemonium again, but this time from the Farnham players. They were in front for less than a minute throughout the entire game, yet it will be they who travel to Godalming Town in the next round, whilst Fawley will pop up the road to local rivals Romsey Town in the league instead.
Farnham Town players celebrate their last-minute winner.
There is an excellent match report on Fawley's website here. It features a couple of my photos that I posted on Twitter, plus a GIF of Lucas's goal. There will be another 40 or so photos from the game on the HAH Facebook page shortly.
What a game! It got off to a slow start, but it built up into an exciting finale. It had everything I love about the early rounds of the FA Cup. I'll post a report from another game in the same competition in a fortnight. I haven't made up my mind where from yet, but it will involve at least one club from Hampshire. I stick to the rules.
Labels: Farnham Town, Fawley
Location: 15 Mead Ln, Farnham GU9 7DY, UK
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Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, while presiding over the virtual meeting with the Captains of the Pharma Industry of the State from Shimla today, urged them to provide their wholehearted support to collectively fight the pandemic.
Chief Minister said that the State has emerged as 'Asia's Pharma Hub' and has been among the leading States in the country in helping the nation in fighting against Covid-19 pandemic since last more than one year. He said that during the first wave, India shipped 50 million tablets of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to the United States and Himachal Pradesh contributed by manufacturing HCQ in this global endeavour for safety of mankind.
He said that the role of Pharma Industry in fighting this pandemic was crucial and the Captains of Pharma Industry not only gave their wholehearted support to the State Government in fighting the Covid-19, but also provided assistance to the Government under the CSR. He thanked the Pharma companies for supporting the State Government in these difficult times by contributing funds for State's Health Infrastructure, which was the top priority of the Government. He also thanked the industry for providing oxygen cylinders to the State, due to which the State succeeded in increasing the storage capacity by about 25 MT. He also invited the Pharma Companies for setting up manufacturing units for medical equipments such as Oxygen Concentrators, Cylinders etc.
Jai Ram Thakur said that the second wave of the pandemic was more devastating and the State of Himachal Pradesh has emerged as the lifeline for the neighbouring States of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi for oxygen supplies. He said that not only this, Covid Kit, approved by the WHO and several lifesaving medicines were being manufactured in Himachal Pradesh. He urged the Pharma companies to ramp up their production levels wherever possible and assured them that the State Government would provide all the required assistance and cooperation.
Chief Minister said that being professionals in the field, the State Government seeks partnership of the Pharma industry in making Himachal Pradesh one of the leading Exporters in Pharma Sector. He said that the State Government was focused on enhancing ease of business and with the support of Industry, the State has secured 7th position in All India ranking in Ease of Doing Business. He said that the State Government would sympathetically consider the demands of the Pharma industry for providing vaccination to the workers of Pharma companies on priority, keeping in consideration the supply of the vaccine for the State. He also assured the Pharma industry that all their demands and issues would be redressed at the earliest.
Additional Chief Secretary Industries Ram Subhag Singh said that ESI Hospital Kala Amb would be taken in hand soon and would be started at the earliest. He said that work has been awarded for construction of 220 KV sub station at Kala Amb in Sirmour district.
Director cum Commissioner Industries Hansraj Sharma welcomed the Chief Minister and other officers present in the meeting. He said that the State Government has ensured that the production in the Pharma industry goes uninterrupted. He also proposed vote of thanks.
President Himachal Pradesh State Drug Manufacturers Association Dr. Rajesh Gupta thanked the Chief Minister for providing all possible help to the Pharma Industry to keep their production going even during the lockdown last year and Corona Curfew this year. He said that Himachal Pradesh not only provides good environment but also assure good governance, good law and order, good industrial relations, which were boon to the industrial growth. He assured the Chief Minister that the association would provide all possible assistance to the State Government under the CSR.
Sanjay Suri of Morepen, Ashok Goyal of Tirupati Group, Dr. A.H. Khan of Sun Pharma, Viral Shah of Acme licenses, Sanjay Mishra of Cipla, B.R. Sikri, Suresh Uniyal of Farmanta Bio-Tech, Narayan Reddy and Chetan of Dr Reddy Labs, Rakesh Chitkara of Abbott, Deepak of Zydus Cadilla, Satya Shiv Dasai of Glenmark and Sanjay Singla also expressed their views on the occasion. They also urged the Chief Minister to provide vaccination of workers of Pharma industry on priority basis.
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When you think 'AC circuit panels' you think of the panels themselves the control for turning the electricity on and off; but that's not all you can find here, you'll also find all the screws, plugs, jumpers, intricate or simple circuit panel controllers. These breakers include instructions for installation to make things easier, simpler, and get things up and going more quickly.


Join us on this weekend break which includes a visit to historic York and the ancient fishing port of Whitby.
We start with a local departure for our journey north to historic York. Here there will be time to have a look around – you may wish to visit the Railway Museum, the Minster or simply 'shop until you drop'. From here we make our way to our hotel where rooms have been booked for the night with private facilities. Dinner is included.
On day 2 we take you to the ancient fishing port of Whitby – with its connections with Bram Stoker. There will be time to look around before we take a journey along the scenic coast to the resort of Scarborough. From here we make our way home arriving back later on.
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Graphik, designed by Christian Schwartz, was inspired by expressive graphic design done with very plain type. It was a reinterpretation of the lesser known mid century typefaces without the baggage of the more familiar ones like Univers, Helvetica or futura. From Thin to Super, the nine Latin weights span a range of uses from display to text.
Graphik has now been expanded by Lebanese type designers Waël Morcos and Khajag Apelian to support Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. In adding Graphik Arabic, the objective was to achieve two main goals. First, to balance the visual quality and texture of the Latin; second, to operate in both contexts: display and running text. This meant basing the design on a fluid construction and adopting a stroke contrast where the baseline is thicker than the verticals—a characteristic considered to be the standard for Arabic running text.
Other design decisions echoed the detailing of the Latin typeface and shaped the design of the Arabic. The start and ending of the stroke is geometric and unadorned drawn with closed apertures and open endings. Letters with looping counters have a vertical axis allowing the typeface to stand straight. The baseline mixes straight lines and curves that become thinner at connection points—a contrast increase necessary to resolve multiple stroke overlaps. The diacritic dots remained circular to match this distinctive feature of the Latin face.
To complete the glyph set, the designers added the ligatures, or fused letterforms, necessary to respect the grammar of the script but omitted cascading letter combinations that proved to be incompatible with the simplicity of a plain grotesk.
When Graphik Arabic was complete, Schwartz reworked the Latin character set to better harmonize with the Arabic, reducing the difference in weight between uppercase and lowercase and reducing the size of the numerals to make them fit more seamlessly into Arabic text.
In the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets, Graphik neatly straddles the line between the round bowls of a geometric sans, and the structures and proportions of a European grotesk. Similarly, Graphik Arabic combines the simplified strokes of a grotesque with the structure and proportion of a fluid script. The Arabic aims to be a meaningful departure from calligraphic detailing and presents a utilitarian workhorse with a plain style.


Emirates has extended its sponsorship of Durham County Cricket Club for another seven years taking it through to the end of the 2022 season. The new deal sees Emirates continue as the main sponsor of the club and the famous Chester-le-Street based stadium will now be known as Emirates Riverside.
This commitment and investment from Emirates will help the club continue its work in developing locally sourced, home grown cricketing talent.


The study reported in this paper examines students' perception of the use of weblogs as learning tools; it also explores evidence of learning within blog postings. Two Ryerson University courses in Information Technology Management that require students to use weblogs are taken as examples. Twenty-two students from these two courses participated in an online survey concerning their blogging experience. A content analysis was also performed on 25 blogs. Overall, the study shows that the use of blogs as learning tool in university classrooms is promising. Providing students with clear goals, objectives and expectations could help them to build and maintain their blogs in a way that could be more beneficial to their learning experience.
Gagne, C. & Fels, D. (2007). Learning through Weblogs. In T. Bastiaens & S. Carliner (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2007--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 2518-2526). Quebec City, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved April 22, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/26733/.
Williams, J.B., & Jacobs, J. (2004). Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the higher education sector. Australiasian Journal of Educational Technology, 20(2), 232-247.


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FLATS Conversion Approved For Historic Glasgow Building That Was Under Threat Of Demolition
PLANNERS have agreed that a B-listed Glasgow City Centre building — once assessed by structural engineers as "incapable of repair" — can be converted into flats.
Four years ago plans were lodged to knock down the former commercial premises on Argyle Street at Miller Street and build student accommodation; it was only after the building was used as a giant advertising space that it was realised it could be saved.
A report commissioned in 2015 concluded — after intrusive investigation — that the building had "come to the end of its useful life", was "incapable of repair short of complete dismantle/reconstruction" and should "therefore be demolished".
That application was later withdrawn, the building changed owners, and a new proposal to convert the upper floors into 21 flats was drawn up.
Council officials have now approved the change-of-use and listed building applications. Retail space will continue in the ground floor and basement with three flats on each of the remaining levels.
A document submitted to Glasgow City Council by ZM Architecture explaining the new development stated: "In 2015, the previous owners proposed to demolish the building and the justification for this was based on detailed findings and a structural /economic assessment of the repair works needed to deal with a corroded structural frame.
"The scaffold that has been erected around the building for advertising…has allowed our conservation team with engineers David Narro Associates, to make a detailed independent assessment of the issues highlighted and the conclusion we are reaching is more favourable and that the building can be saved.
"Scaffold access has allowed tests to be carried out, a full stone fabric condition survey and structural frame opening up. This work is ongoing and a detailed stone enabling contract is to be organised so that full refurbishment of the façade can be undertaken with known risks and methods for stone replacement and treatment for frame conversion."
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The application documents continued: "The applicant, Wilton Argyle Ltd, based in Italian Centre, Glasgow are the owner of the property. They are committed to repairing and preserving the building through pragmatic and careful conservation-based intervention. Wilton Argyle Ltd have a track record of delivering successful projects to meet market opportunity and demand."
Remodelling of the roof profile is proposed under the new scheme. This involves a raised single storey element being added at the eighth floor for equipment space, and an extended upper level to create a 'penthouse residential unit'. The front section of roof would become a private terrace "framed by a new formal elevation giving the building a new terminating storey."
A new element in a contemporary style would replace the existing brick rear section which is in poor structural condition.
The building was originally designed for use as an office and warehousing and dates from 1905. It is described as being of American derivation and has been on the Buildings at Risk register for some time.
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OPINION: The worst shock is yet to come
November 07, 2007 by Anthony Hilton
Stan O'Neal is forced to resign from Merrill Lynch after leading the group deep into the quagmire of sub-prime loans from which it will be lucky to emerge with losses of under $10bn.
Then Chuck Prince is ousted from the chief executive's slot at Citigroup for similar reasons and with a similar outcome in terms of multi-billion dollar losses, which are going to leave the banking group badly damaged financially and with its reputation in tatters.
No amount of distortion of the English language could depict the stewardship of either of these men as anything short of disastrous. Yet both are leaving with buckets of money, the scale of which beggars belief – O'Neal something over $70m and Prince about half that amount.
The financial industry will come to regret this. The coming political challenge of our time is how society copes with the continuing impact of globalisation. So far we have had the relatively easy part – enjoying the flood of cheap manufactures and clothes from China and the enhanced purchasing power that has brought.
From now on though, it gets more difficult. Thus the strains are beginning to show as we struggle to cope with losing employment in outsourced jobs to India and adjusting to cope with the influx of immigrants that result from the new and unprecedented mobility of labour.
However, the real pressure will come as people have to come to terms with the third shock, which is financial. In part this will be the mass purchase of Western assets by the newly rich Asian nations, which will no doubt provoke widespread calls for protection; the other and potentially more damaging part will be the outrage at the financial unfairness and inequality that globalisation brings. The first industrial revolution of Victorian times created a huge gulf between capital and labour, which required the growth of a new political movement to be corrected.
Today's industrial revolution, based in China and global in its impact, is recreating those inequalities as a hugely disproportionate share of the rewards are grabbed by those who deal in capital and work in finance. The gulf in incomes is creating a gulf in society, but an increasingly arrogant financial sector seems blissfully unaware of the problems it is storing up for itself.
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Press Release -- September 25th, 2012
Source: Telecity Group
TelecityGroup's energy management innovations recognised by Green Business Awards
Data centre provider named as finalist in 'Energy' category for setting accountable efficiency targets, implementing innovative design and demonstrating clear results.
TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, has been named as a finalist in the 'Energy' category at the 2012 Green Business Awards, recognising its innovative energy management programme and ongoing commitment to minimise the environmental impact of its operations.
The Green Business awards, now in their sixth year, celebrate UK-based companies that demonstrate excellence in green practice, strategy and products. The 'Energy' category recognises organisations that are leading the way in developing cleaner energy or significantly reducing energy consumption.
TelecityGroup has been recognised for setting clear, accountable carbon targets; implementing design innovation – including the installation of an Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage system in its new Amsterdam data centre; and demonstrating clear results, such as becoming the first data centre provider to achieve recertification to the Carbon Trust Standard in the UK.
Michael Tobin, CEO, TelecityGroup comments: "At TelecityGroup we've taken a leadership role in ensuring energy efficiency is woven into the fabric of the company, as well as demonstrating the data centre industry's critical role in mitigating carbon use elsewhere. We're delighted that our approach and industry-leadership have been recognised by these prestigious awards and we're really looking forward to the ceremony."
The Green Business Awards are run in association with Management Today magazine and Environmental Data Services (ENDS). The winners will be announced at the awards reception on 12th November 2012 at Lord's Cricket Ground in London. For further information please visit: www.greenbusinessawards.com.
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Whether you're catching up on your favorite Arabic gameshow, getting up to speed on the latest Korean mobile gadgetry, or researching the local perspective for a dream trip to Machu Picchu, we're all constantly reminded that the internet is an amazingly multilingual place. The Google Chrome team is excited to introduce a new beta feature to help our users navigate the multilingual web: instant machine translation of webpages, without the need for any browser extensions or plug-ins.
How does it work? When the language of the webpage you're viewing is different from your preferred language setting, Chrome will display a prompt asking if you'd like the page to be translated for you using Google Translate.
For more on how automatic translation in Chrome works, read on in our Help Center article. We hope that the development of online translation tools like this one will help make all the world's information universally accessible in an easy, frictionless way – imagine reading a diversity of foreign language news sources in your mother tongue, or easily conducting online commerce across borders and languages.
You can read more about these features, or watch videos explaining how your privacy is handled in Chrome's various features including search and suggestions, browser cookies, Safe Browsing technology, and automatic security updates.
Try out all these new features for yourself in today's beta release. For those of you already on the beta channel, you'll soon be updated automatically. And for those of you on the stable channel, we'll be making Chrome's new translation and privacy features available to you in the coming weeks. Till our next update, auf Wiedersehen!


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Inaction by International Institutions Emboldening Atrocities in Tigray
Image: Gebremariam Anenia
Post Author:Nerea Berhan
Post Category:Analysis
By Saba Mah'derom and Nerea Berhan
More than 200 days into the ongoing war on Tigray the international community has made little meaningful progress to fulfill the communal obligation to protect civilians from what have incontrovertibly been demonstrated to be crimes against humanity and violations of international humanitarian and human right laws. The seeming indifference or inability to take meaningful action by international bodies like the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) which have the mandate to step in where individual governments fail to execute the responsibility to protect has particularly been notable. Sadly, both these bodies have catastrophically failed the millions of Tigrayans that require urgent protection. and Tigrayans – in and out of Tigray – are acutely aware of this.
Different insights, taking into account the set-up and management of these bodies, have been raised to address these costly shortcomings but regardless of the why, what is certain is that the inability of these organizations to act as they are meant to, coupled with the general reluctance of the international community to act has emboldened the perpetrator states to continue violating international humanitarian and human rights laws with total impunity.
As things in Tigray continue to go from bad to worse in every aspect, we want to highlight some of the more egregious examples in which specific international actors have failed to fully carry out their responsibilities with the hope that they can take urgent corrective measures to live up to their mandates.
The mission statement of the UN declares it works to "maintain international peace and security, give humanitarian assistance to those in need, protect human rights and uphold international law". To this end, the UN has a range of programs and specialized bodies, such as UN Women, UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), UN Development Programme(UNDP), World Food Program (WFP), UN Peacekeeping etc. The sad reality, as it relates to Tigray, however, is that many of these organizations have not only had little to zero engagement but in some instances have actively engaged in decidedly detrimental actions. Let us look a bit more closely at some examples.
UN Women: One of the more horrific aspects of the war on Tigray has been the deployment of sexual violence as a weapon of war on estimated thousands of women. It has been said that, if every genocide or mass atrocity has an identifying characteristic, in Tigray rape that characteristic is most definitely rape. In spite of this credibly established reality, however, UN Women is yet to make the most rudimentary commitment to help tackle this terrible reality either by using its very important platform to raise awareness and to call for accountability or by any other meaningful direct assistance To the contrary, UN Women was inexplicably not a signatory of the joint statement on gender-based violence in Tigray by UN officials. Moreover, the agency's Ethiopia branch has not only remained firmly disengaged itself from this issue, but its social media platforms have also been unresponsive to requests to reflect the lived reality of all Ethiopian women – including Tigrayan women. In addition, despite the repeated calls from humanitarian actors in the region about resource needs, UN Women only engaged in "delivery of clothing essentials" near the end of April, more than 5 months after the war began.
At a time when women in Tigray need empowerment and solidarity – even the bare minimum of acknowledgment of their – testimonies on weaponized rape, UN Women has chosen to be silent about the matter.
UN Human Rights Commission: To its credit and very importantly the UNHRC took an early lead to raise the alarm on the alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Tigray. The statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in March was probably the most significant step, to date, toward addressing the many calls by all concerned bodies for independent, international, and credible investigations. At the time the UNHRC made the call to investigate there was high hope that this signaled the possibility that there would indeed be justice for the many atrocities committed against the Tigrayan people.
Unfortunately, however, the UNHRC seemed to bow to political pressure almost immediately in terms of deciding how to fulfill its mission to investigate these crimes. This was evidenced in the decision to undertake a joint investigation together with the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC). This announcement was met with alarm and objective criticisms that highlighted the state-run commission's partiality and lack of independence from the very government implicated in the crimes. Key amongst the concerns raised against this decision by the UNHRC is that the EHRC has a track record of not fulfilling the international standards (Paris Principles) as it has continuously minimized and dismissed violations of human rights across Ethiopia. In many instances, the organization has proven to be an ally to the Ethiopian government showing concerns only when it suits to support its political agenda.
These concerns and criticisms are yet to be addressed by the UNHRC and still need urgent response especially considering they are mainly coming from the community victimized by the crimes to be investigated.
UN Development Programme: One of the most inexplicable and deeply alarming actions taken by an international body as it relates to Tigray has been the infamous memo disseminated by the UNDP – and leaked to the media in early March. This memo not only directly echoes Ethiopian government propaganda, but it "goes so far as to justify grave crimes against humanity" and forceful annexation of Western Tigray through systematic ethnic cleansing.
In addition, the institution claimed that it is redirecting funding to Tigray despite being notified by other UN agencies that recovery can't start when the crisis is still ongoing. Neither of these actions have been explained or addressed so far.
World Food Programme: Another UN agency that has, unfortunately, also overstepped its mandate in a counterproductive manner has been the WFP. Tasked with ensuring the delivery of urgent food aid to millions needing immediate relief the WFP has proven susceptible to politically motivated framing that skewed the reality on the ground in favor of Ethiopian government propaganda. Findings from a study done by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) CORE indicated that the "senior figures [of the WFP] have been too ready to accept Ethiopian government narratives that obstacles to access have been resolved." It also highlighted actions taken by WFP's Executive Director, David Beasley which have been misleading.
Additionally, WFP failed to report the aid blockade by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and in an astonishingly telling statement, WFP spokesperson Peter Smerdon, refused to disclose the number of deaths from starvation stating it is "politically sensitive." This raises obvious concerns over the agency's lack of transparency on the ground.
UN Peacekeeping: Following the declaration of war on Tigray, the fate of Tigrayans in Ethiopia's security sector, including those in peacekeeping missions, came under threat. Almost all ethnic Tigrayans in the security sector were rounded up and incarcerated, including those that were disarmed and forced to return back to Ethiopia from peacekeeping missions in Somalia and elsewhere. In November 2020, a report indicated that "an internal UN document showed concerns that those [Tigrayan] soldiers could face torture or execution."
These Tigrayan soldiers have contributed to various peacekeeping missions across Africa and some were serving under active UN contracts. A senior official stated at the time that the "Human Rights Division is working to follow up on their situation" but five months later there has not been any meaningful follow-up or actions taken by this division. A report in April 2021 indicates that the ethnic Tigrayans remain detained without proper due process and in severe condition. This shows that nothing has been done since then. Moreover, neither UN Peacekeeping nor UNHRC has made a public statement condemning this violation of international law.
Perhaps the most counterproductive of all the international bodies, when it comes to the ongoing war in Tigray, is the African Union (AU). Even as the United States, European countries, and African leaders like Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, expressed their deep alarm regarding the human rights abuses in Tigray, the AU as an institution has done nothing to condemn and call for independent investigation and accountability of the atrocities that continue to affect millions.
In addition, between November 2020 and March 2021, the AU held 19 meetings in different African nations and Tigray was not one of the main topics of discussion even in one of those meetings. This inaction by the AU has enabled Russia and China to threaten veto contributing to the UNSC's inability to intervene effectively.
The only time the AU made a public statement was regarding investigating the human rights abuses in Tigray was when PM Abiy requested an investigation by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), in early March 2021. This request comes shortly after Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the AU publicly legitimized PM Abiy's military offensive into Tigray making PM Abiy's call for an investigation a quest for validation more than a search for truth and accountability.
Moreover, given that Eritrean troops are implicated in the most gruesome violations of human rights in Tigray, the AU showed no urgency to accept evidence regarding the role of Eritrea and the violation of international laws. In fact, the first urgent call regarding the urgency of the crisis came from Secretary of State Antony Blinken who urged the AU to exert pressure on the matter. Had the AU showed any commitment to do so, the "internal affair" narrative would not hold much power and the UNSC could have reached a different outcome in its resolution to intervene.
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In conclusion, even though the crimes committed by Ethiopian and Eritrean troops along with Amhara forces account for much of the suffering and human misery in Tigray, inaction, negligence and politically oriented activity by international actors has also been detrimental. Tigrayans are largely still relying on their community to stop the ongoing war as the lack of commitment from international actors to their mission continues to allow perpetrators to act without fear of accountability. If institutions like the UN do not amend their approach to this crisis, the suffering of millions will continue and likely increase in the coming months.
Saba Mah'derom is a Tigrayan who has been advocating and closely following what has been going on.
Tags: African Union, Tigray genocide, UN Human Rights Commission, UN peacekeeping, UN Women, UNDP, UNHCR, United Nations Security Council, WFP
Nerea Berhan
Nerea is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin and currently doing his share of online activism through campaigns to help stop the war on Tigray.
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Davey McCrackett 8 Aug 2021 Reply
Great report on failures of IC. I geuinely thought that recognition of Eritrea's direct involvement would be a gamechanger, but it was not. The IC bears responsibility for the continuation of the deteriorating situation in Ethiopia. I counselled Tigrayans in January not to expect any help from IC and was sadly right. It continues to be up to Tigrayans to save themselves. Thank God they are principled and we do not hear of the same atrocities in areas TDF has taken as we heard from within Tigray by the ENDF, Eritrean forces and Amhara regional forces. Big kudos to them for their restraint. Not sure I could if in their shoes.


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Navy urges media practitioners to be objective, professional
By Tribune Online On Jun 24, 2019
The Central Naval Command, (CNC) of the Nigerian Navy, Yenagoa, on Monday urged media practitioners in Bayelsa to be objective and professional in their reportage of events in the interest of national security.
Rear Admiral Saidu Garba, the Flag Officer Commanding Central Naval Command, said this in Yenagoa when executive members of the Federated Correspondents' Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) visited him in his office.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the naval command was established in 2012 with Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, and Kogi state, among others within its area of responsibility.
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Garba said that the media had a very important role to play in nation building.
He urged them to do investigative journalism and not to report activities of security agencies in the country in such a way that the people would lose confidence in their capacity to maintain law and order.
"Do not report crime in such a way that criminals would seem to be glorified.
"We all know that the area, Niger-Delta is witnessing a lot of criminal activities ranging from pipeline vandalism, crude oil theft, illegal refineries, and sea piracy," he said.
Garba explained that the command had been sensitising communities and stakeholders to the need to preserve the environment.
"When you destroy the environment there will be nothing for our great-grandchildren to inherit.
"We started the sensitisation programme from Delta state; here in Bayelsa, we have been able to meet with some traditional rulers and their subjects," he said.
He, however, said that the Nigerian Navy was committed to securing the country's critical infrastructure and oil facilities to boost the national economy, especially that of the Niger Delta region.
Earlier, the Chairman, Federated Correspondents' Chapel, Mr Julius Osahon, had said that the visit was to facilitate more collaboration with the security organisation in promoting peace for the people.
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Presentation of LEED Certification plaque to first family in Rodeo's LEED Platinum certified housing development by Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and Deputy Premier George Smitherman and Newmarket Mayor Tony Van Bynen.
Rodeo Fine Homes is building 34 LEED platinum rated homes in partnership with the Town of Newmarket, the homes feature rainwater harvesting to flush toilets, solar panels, superior insulation and indoor air quality.