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Eritrean in Toronto mourn during Nighisti Semret’s funeral service

It was an overwhelming outpouring of grief for a woman no one really knew. Hundreds of members of the Eritrean community crammed into St. Michael’s Eritrean Orthodox church, near Jane St. and St. Clair Ave. W., to pray for Nighisti … read more »

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Eritrean community in Toronto unites in grief over loss of Nighisti Semret

In the Cabbagetown alleyway once soaked with rain and stained with blood, mourners shed tears and whispered prayers in Tigrinya for the ghost they called Nicky. Few, if any, knew Nighisti Semret, the middle-aged Eritrean refugee so brutally, mysteriously, stabbed … read more »

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