[Rwanda Forum] INKOTANYI NTIZATSINZE INTAMBARA, NTIZINATEZE KUZAYITSINDA. ICYABAYE NI UKUGARAGAZA UBWAMBURE BWAZO

INKOTANYI NTIZATSINZE INTAMBARA, NTIZINATEZE KUZAYITSINDA. ICYABAYE NI UKUGARAGAZA UBWAMBURE BWAZO

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[Rwanda Forum] Course à l'arme hypersonique : la Corée du Nord veut redistribuer les cartes

Course à l'arme hypersonique : la Corée du Nord veut redistribuer les cartes

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[Rwanda Forum] Ottawa Police’s New Measures Against Protesting Truckers Are Those Used by ‘Oppressive Regimes,’ Says Organizers’ Lawyer



Ottawa Police's New Measures Against Protesting Truckers Are Those Used by 'Oppressive Regimes,' Says Organizers' Lawyer
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Ottawa Police's New Measures Against Protesting Truckers Are Those Used by 'Oppressive Regimes,' Says Organizers' Lawyer

The new measures announced by the chief of Ottawa police against truck convoy protesters are those used by oppressive regimes around the world, says a lawyer representing organizers of the Freedom Convoy protesting COVID-19 mandates in Ottawa.

"He effectively announced that he is going to be taking away Canadians' charter right of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression," Keith Wilson, a lawyer with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), said in a video on Feb. 4.

Peter Sloly, chief of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS), said in a Feb. 4 press conference that police will be implementing a "surge and contain strategy" to deal with the protesters camped in Ottawa.

The strategy includes sending 150 more police officers to the protest area in the downtown core of Ottawa, barricading the protest area with concrete and heavy-equipment barriers, as well as "increased efforts" by national, provincial, and local intelligence agencies to target those "who are funding/supporting/enabling unlawful and harmful activity" by protesters.

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"Our residents are frustrated and they are angry. They have every right to be. Their lives continue to be severely impacted by unlawful and unsafe events," Sloly said.

"Officers and our partners will be focused on illegal activity associated with the demonstrators. Surge will deliver a clear message to the demonstrators: Lawlessness must end."

Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly speaks at a news conference in Ottawa, on Feb. 4, 2022. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

Sloly added that the demonstrators in the core area "remain highly organized, well funded, extremely committed to resisting all attempts to end the demonstration safely."

Wilson called Sloly's announcements "disturbing" and said they should "trouble Canadians and those around the world who support this trucker protest for freedom."

"The police chief essentially announced an assault on the protesters. He announced that very specific measures that we normally only see instituted by oppressive regimes around the world, would be initiated," he said.

The Epoch Times reached out to the Ottawa Police Service for comment but didn't immediately hear back.

Preliminary data shows there has been a decline in police-reported street crime since the protest began in downtown Ottawa, according to Blacklock's Reporter.

In the week prior to the protest, there were 31 police calls for crimes such as robbery, assault, drug trafficking, public drunkenness, and other crimes in the Ottawa district the protest is set up, but there were only three reports of street crime since the protests began, Blacklock's Reporter said.

Tom Marazzo, who is helping the organizers as a police liaison, said in a press conference on Feb. 4 that "statements and actions" by Sloly have "deliberately set the conditions for potential violence against the peaceful protesters of Freedom 2022 Convoy."

"The OPS is fully aware many of their ongoing investigations are initiated as a result of the truckers reporting incidents that they have witnessed. This protest has been peaceful. We have been cooperating and will continue to cooperate with the OPS and PPS [Parliamentary Protective Service]," Marazzo said.

Marazzo said the Freedom Convoy doesn't condone aggressive behaviour or violence, and that anyone exhibiting such behaviour should be individually held accountable.

Trucks parked in downtown Ottawa as demonstrators continue to protest COVID-19 mandates and restrictions on Feb. 2, 2022. (Jonathan Ren/The Epoch Times)

He added that Ottawa taxpayers call the city their home, but all tax-paying Canadians call Ottawa their nation's capital. He noted that many Ottawa residents have invited the protesters to their homes for meals or to rest.

The JCCF said in a statement on Feb. 4 that it has learned that closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV) in downtown Ottawa where the protest is taking place have been off for the duration of the demonstrations, and asked city officials to make the cameras active.

"These cameras do not actually show what is happening on the ground in downtown Ottawa. For safety reasons we strongly urge you to remedy this situation and restore live feed from those CCTV cameras. It is imperative that law enforcement and the public have access to video footage, in order to know what is actually occurring in and around the protest," Eva Chipiuk, staff lawyer at the JCCF, said in a statement.

"Canadians have the legal right to protest peacefully in their capital city. The freedom of peaceful assembly is expressly protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Freedom Convoy has always been clear that it supports only peaceful assembly."

The Freedom Convoy movement initially began as a protest by truck drivers opposing the federal government's COVID-19 mandates for cross-border travel. But it has since attracted many followers from around Canada who want an end to all COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.

Protesters demanding end to COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in Ottawa on Feb. 2, 2022. (Jonathan Ren/The Epoch Times)

The protesters converged in Ottawa on Jan. 29, and many say they intend to stay until COVID-19 mandates are lifted. Trucks and other vehicles are parked in the downtown core by Parliament, and sounds of horn honking by protesters can be heard throughout the day.

Marazzo said he has built a strong working relationship with local law enforcement and members of the OPS and the PPS, but not with the police service leadership.

"In my negotiations with them, they have chosen to take the posture of a hostage negotiation rather than working toward a safe, peaceful, and responsible relationship that may exist for months to come," he said.

Daniel Bulford, a former RCMP officer who quit the force because of its vaccine mandate and is now helping the protest organizers, said many media reports have been falsely associating crimes committed by others with the protesters.

He added that the protesting truckers in Ottawa have been victims of vandalism.

"Many trucks have been vandalized and spray-painted throughout the night," Bulford said at the Feb. 4 press conference.

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Omid Ghoreishi is an Epoch Times reporter based in Toronto.

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[Rwanda Forum] RWANDA: BYOSE BIRAJYA HANZE | NYAKWIGENDERA KAGAME NTAWAMUZURA.



RWANDA: BYOSE BIRAJYA HANZE |  NYAKWIGENDERA KAGAME  NTAWAMUZURA.

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[Rwanda Forum] Kagame, le grand absent au Sommet 2022 de l'UA.

Silence radio au Village Urugwiro!

Opening of the 35th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly | African Union.

https://au.int/en/pressreleases/20220205/opening-35th-ordinary-session-au-assembly

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On Feb 5, 2022, at 12:05 AM, Jerome Ndiho <jeronimo2408@yahoo.com> wrote:

With the most stupid political opposition in the world, PK is the luckiest president ever!

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Kagonyori ni akiri ho nta kuntu yabura muri uru ruhando kandi ejobundi yaranyarukiye muri Kenya for just 13 min...?!

🔴🛫Nk'uko vyari vyatangajwe n'ibiro bijejwe kumenyesha amakuru mubiro vy'umukuru w'igihugu, nyenicubahiro umukuru w'igihugu c'Uburundi🇧🇮 #EvaristeNDAYISHIMIYE arikumwe n'umutambukanyi wiwe ahejeje gufata rutemikirere yerekeza mugihugu ca #Ethiopie munama ya 35 izohuza abakuru b'ibihugu hamwe n'indongozi z'ishirahamwe ry'umuryango w'ubumwe bwa afrika kumagenekerezo ya 5 na 6 ruhuhuma 2022.

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On Feb 4, 2022, at 10:50 PM, 'Nzi Nink' via CRES <collectifcres@googlegroups.com> wrote:



https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220205-coups-and-covid-loom-large-at-african-union-summit

Coups and Covid loom large at African Union summit

05/02/2022 - 03:46

The African Union has 55 member states EDUARDO SOTERAS AFP/File

The summit also comes as the 55-member bloc faces pressure to push for a ceasefire in host country Ethiopia, where a 15-month war has killed thousands of people and, the UN says, driven hundreds of thousands to the brink of starvation.

Four member states have been suspended by the AU's Peace and Security Council since mid-2021 because of unconstitutional changes of government, most recently Burkina Faso, where soldiers ousted President Roch Marc Christian Kabore last month.

Addressing African foreign ministers this week, AU Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat denounced a "worrying resurgence of military coups".

But the AU has been accused of an inconsistent response to the putsches, notably by not suspending Chad after a military council took over following the death of longtime President Idriss Deby Itno on the battlefield last April.

The two-day summit should discuss how to be more proactive in addressing factors that give rise to coups, including terrorism-related instability and frustration over constitutional revisions that extend leaders' time in power, said Solomon Dersso, founder of the AU-focused Amani Africa think tank.

The African Union is hosting its 35th summit EDUARDO SOTERAS AFP/File

"It is only when crisis hits that we say, 'Gosh, how come this country is falling apart like this so quickly?'" Solomon said.

Disease and diplomacy

On Saturday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to provide an update on Africa's response to the pandemic, nearly two years after the continent's first Covid-19 case was detected in Egypt.

As of January 26, only 11 percent of Africa's more than one billion people had been fully vaccinated, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

A draft agenda seen by AFP also includes a discussion of Faki's decision last year to accept Israel's accreditation at the AU.

Faki's move drew quick, vocal protest from powerful members including South Africa and Algeria, which argued that it flew in the face of AU statements supporting the Palestinian Territories.

Analysts say a vote on the issue could yield an unprecedented split in the bloc.

Meanwhile, it is unclear whether and how leaders will address the war in Ethiopia, which pits Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government against fighters from the northern Tigray region.

The fact that Ethiopia hosts the AU makes any intervention by the bloc especially delicate, and Faki waited until last August -- nine months after fighting began -- to appoint Olusegun Obasanjo as a special envoy tasked with trying to broker a ceasefire.

Ethiopia has also held a seat on the Peace and Security Council, though it failed in a bid to stay on the 15-member body this week, diplomats said.

Only 11 percent of Africa's more than one billion people have been fully vaccinated as of late January, according to the Africa CDC Simon MAINA AFP/File

"AU member states should not ignore the serious crimes committed by all warring parties, including federal government forces, in Ethiopia's conflict," Carine Kaneza Nantulya, Africa advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement Friday.

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[Rwanda Forum] UKO ABAHUTU BATURA NYAMWASA, NIKO WE ABATUZA IKUZIMU

UKO ABAHUTU BATURA NYAMWASA, NIKO WE ABATUZA IKUZIMU

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[Rwanda Forum] Even Mild Covid May Lead to Lifelong Antibody Protection



Even Mild Covid May Lead to Lifelong Antibody Protection.
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Even Mild Covid May Lead to Lifelong Antibody Protection

Months after recovering from mild cases of COVID-19, people still have immune cells in their body pumping out antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a new study.

Those cells could persist for a lifetime, churning out antibodies all the while.

The findings in Nature, suggest that mild cases of COVID-19 leave those infected with lasting antibody protection and that repeated bouts of illness are likely to be uncommon.

"Last fall, there were reports that antibodies wane quickly after infection with the virus that causes COVID-19, and mainstream media interpreted that to mean that immunity was not long-lived," says senior author Ali Ellebedy, associate professor of pathology and immunology, of medicine, and of molecular microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis.

"But that's a misinterpretation of the data. It's normal for antibody levels to go down after acute infection, but they don't go down to zero; they plateau. Here, we found antibody-producing cells in people 11 months after first symptoms. These cells will live and produce antibodies for the rest of people's lives. That's strong evidence for long-lasting immunity."

Bone Marrow Clues

During a viral infection, antibody-producing immune cells rapidly multiply and circulate in the blood, driving antibody levels sky-high. Once the infection resolves, most such cells die off, and blood antibody levels drop. A small population of antibody-producing cells, called long-lived plasma cells, migrate to the bone marrow and settle in, where they continually secrete low levels of antibodies into the bloodstream to help guard against another encounter with the virus.

The key to figuring out whether COVID-19 leads to long-lasting antibody protection, Ellebedy realized, lies in the bone marrow. To find out whether those who have recovered from mild cases of COVID-19 harbor long-lived plasma cells that produce antibodies specifically targeted to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, Ellebedy teamed up with coauthor Iskra Pusic, associate professor of medicine.

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Ellebedy already was working with coauthors Rachel Presti, associate professor of medicine, and Jane O'Halloran, assistant professor of medicine, on a project to track antibody levels in blood samples from COVID-19 survivors.

The team already had enrolled 77 participants who were giving blood samples at three-month intervals starting about a month after initial infection. Most participants had had mild cases of COVID-19; only six had been hospitalized.

With Pusic's help, Ellebedy and colleagues obtained bone marrow from 18 of the participants seven or eight months after their initial infections. Five of them came back four months later and provided a second bone marrow sample. For comparison, the scientists also obtained bone marrow from 11 people who had never had COVID-19.

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What About Antibodies in Severe COVID-19 Patients?

As expected, antibody levels in the blood of the COVID-19 participants dropped quickly in the first few months after infection and then mostly leveled off, with some antibodies detectable even 11 months after infection.

Further, 15 of the 19 bone marrow samples from people who had had COVID-19 contained antibody-producing cells specifically targeting the virus that causes COVID-19. Such cells could still be found four months later in the five people who came back to provide a second bone-marrow sample. None of the 11 people who had never had COVID-19 had such antibody-producing cells in their bone marrow.

"People with mild cases of COVID-19 clear the virus from their bodies two to three weeks after infection, so there would be no virus driving an active immune response seven or 11 months after infection," Ellebedy says. "These cells are not dividing. They are quiescent, just sitting in the bone marrow and secreting antibodies. They have been doing that ever since the infection resolved, and they will continue doing that indefinitely."

People who were infected and never had symptoms also may be left with long-lasting immunity, the researchers speculate. But it's yet to be investigated whether those who endured more severe infection would be protected against a future bout of disease, they say.

"It could go either way," says first author Jackson Turner, an instructor in pathology and immunology. "Inflammation plays a major role in severe COVID-19, and too much inflammation can lead to defective immune responses.

"But on the other hand, the reason why people get really sick is often because they have a lot of virus in their bodies, and having a lot of virus around can lead to a good immune response. So it's not clear. We need to replicate the study in people with moderate to severe infections to understand whether they are likely to be protected from reinfection."

Ellebedy and colleagues are now studying whether vaccination also induces long-lived antibody-producing cells.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, the Norwegian Research Council, and the University of Oslo's National Graduate School in Infection Biology and Antimicrobials funded the work. The study used samples obtained from the Washington University School of Medicine's COVID-19 biorepository supported by the NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.

This article was originally published by Washington University in St. Louis. Republished via Futurity.org under Creative Commons License 4.0.

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