South africa is holding an extraordinary session of its parliament on how to tackle gender based violence president s are around opposer has admitted theres a crisis after growing protests over rape and murder figures show sexual offenses in general murder rates have been rising significantly in south africa over the last decade in 2018 police recorded an average of 58 murders every day while sexual offenses including rape have risen almost 5 percent this year and according to w. H. O. Estimates the famine side rate in south africa is almost 5 times the global average one woman is murdered every 3 hours. For me the middle joins us now live from cape town understand that session is still ongoing in parliament hows it shaping up for me for. The semi president began the session by addressing parliament in acknowledging what he says is a serious crisis of violence and intolerance in south africa used his address to give South Africans an idea of just how bad the situation is with regard to
Its been around for a long time and computers didnt cause it. But when people die because of a tweet, there has to be a tech solution. Expanding the marketplace of ideas is all well and good to welcome you to brookings this morning. I see lots of old friends in the audience and its a pleasure to invite you to the event with randall schriver. Weve been fortunate to engage him over the past decade. While hes been serving in the Administration Since 2017, and, randy, thank you for your service to our country and the Important Role you play in this administration. Randall schriver was appointed as assistant secretary of defense on january 8, 2018. Previously having served as Deputy Assistant secretary for east asian and Pacific Affairs under which portfolio he covered, china, taiwan, hong kong, and australia, all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of chief of staff to the deputy secretary of state and also served as an active duty Naval Intelligence officer. Beyond his government car
A Public Servant working for us c. C. He was in new york for the United Nations General Assembly denies corruption allegations describing them as allies sisi banned. Protests after he led the military coup which deposed president Mohammed Morsy 6 years ago tens of thousands of egyptians were arrested and jailed in the government crackdown which follow suit Human Rights Watch is calling on the Egyptian Government not to repeat past mistakes. To protect the right to peaceful protest in upholding egypts obligations under International Human rights law should immediately release all those arrested for soli exercising their rights. Analysts say its too early to say whether the armys relatively hanzal response suggest some commanders often pathetic to the protest movement by the way they say sisi should be. Victoria gate and be aljazeera. Aljazeera correspondent jamal sheil covered the 2011 uprising in egypt and the coup and 2013 and he joins me now jamal you were there in 2011 and weve been
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