The Ethiopian government has declared a state of emergency effective immediately following a week of anti-government violence that resulted in deaths and property damage across the country, especially in the restive Oromia region. In a televised address on Sunday morning, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said the state of emergency was declared because there has been “enormous” damage to property. “We put our citizens’ safety first. Besides, we want to put an end to the damage that is being carried out against infrastructure projects, education institutions, health centers, administration and justice buildings,” said Desalegn on the state Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation. “The recent developments in Ethiopia have put the integrity of the nation at risk,” he said. (AP http://yhoo.it/2e0yXFD)
Donation of the day: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Sunday that he would donate his $925,000 in Nobel Peace Prize money to victims of the conflict that has roiled his country for half a century. (AFP http://yhoo.it/2d7Dyzz)
Veto of the day: Russia on Saturday vetoed a draft U.N. Security Council resolution seeking to end the deadly bombing of Aleppo, Syria. It was the fifth time in five years that Moscow has used its veto to block U.N. action aimed at stopping the bloodshed. (VOA http://bit.ly/2d7CdZG)
Stat of the day: Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said on Sunday, as cholera spread in the devastated southwest and the death toll from the storm rose to 1,000 people. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/2dOZdyS)
Africa
A Tuareg militant leader in the volatile north Malian city of Kidal was killed on Saturday when his car exploded barely 300 meters from a U.N. base where he had been talking with French and U.N. troops, a Reuters witness and officials said. (Reuters http://bit.ly/2e0mbS3)
A Gabonese doctor who compiled a “damning report” on the post-electoral violence that rocked the oil-rich central African nation has been arrested, a civil society group said on Sunday. (AFP http://yhoo.it/2ek27OX)
Nigeria’s security agency has seized $800,000 in cash found during raids targeting senior judges in corruption investigations, the Department of State Services said on Saturday. (Reuters http://bit.ly/2e0mJHE)
The presidential candidate for Ghana’s opposition All People’s Congress is promising an all-inclusive government, which, he says, is the only way to solve the myriad of problems Ghanaians face. (VOA http://bit.ly/2dOZnGB)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday left for Mali, the first stop on a three-day Africa tour focused on security and stemming the migrant influx to Europe. (AFP http://yhoo.it/2dOVVLV)
MENA
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called Sunday for a swift, independent probe into the air raid that killed more than 140 people at a funeral in Yemen, demanding the perpetrators face justice. (AFP http://yhoo.it/2dOXaL6)
Yazidi women and girls who survived being held as sex slaves by Islamic State urgently need better care and support to recover from the horrific abuse they suffered in captivity, which has led some to attempt suicide, Amnesty International said on Monday. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/2dOYMES)
Officials in Bahrain say a man has been detained for writing a post on Twitter that may have contained “defamatory statements” against one of the country’s main Muslim sects. (AP http://yhoo.it/2dP0TIF)
Asia
An Afghan army helicopter crashed in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing all seven people on board, the defense ministry said, citing technical failure. (AFP http://yhoo.it/2e0o5lS)
Thousands of young Afghan men in Serbia and elsewhere in the region are determined to reach wealthy EU nations, despite closed borders and an agreement between their government and the EU that will more easily send home Afghan citizens who have been rejected for asylum. (AP http://yhoo.it/2dOWwgP)
Myanmar said at least nine police officers were killed and four were wounded Sunday in multiple assaults on border guard posts along the Southeast Asian nation’s troubled frontier with Bangladesh. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/2ek24CF)
The Americas
Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, officials said on Saturday, as government teams fanned out across the hard-hit southwestern tip of the country to repair treatment centers and reach the epicenter of one outbreak. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/2e0zmrF)
The havoc wreaked by Hurricane Matthew has strengthened the resolve of thousands of Haitians stuck on the U.S.-Mexico border to make it to the United States even though new rules mean they will likely be deported to their shattered homeland. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/2d7CBXP)
…and the rest
The closure of Hungary’s main opposition newspaper is a “huge blow” to the country’s media diversity and press freedoms, a European advocate for media said Sunday. (AP http://yhoo.it/2dP0S7z)
London police are asking for help finding two men who pulled off the headscarf of a Muslim woman in what is being called a racially-motivated attack. (AP http://yhoo.it/2dP03fd)
Opinion/Blogs
Can agroecology feed the world and save the planet? (Guardian http://bit.ly/2dfmxGU)
Give Us the Courage to Change the Things We Can (CGD http://bit.ly/2e3UmJZ)
The dark side of economic globalisation: politics, organised crime and corruption in the Pacific (DevPolicy http://buff.ly/2d7EV1d)
Healthcare innovations won’t cure global health inequality – political action will (Guardian http://bit.ly/2dfnsr2)
14 reasons to fall head over heels for the new UN Secretary General (WhyDev http://buff.ly/2dE7YNT)
One year in, how the SDGs are taking shape (Devex http://buff.ly/2ek9q9m)
