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BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA Chitungwiza Resident Trust (Chitrest) yesterday moved in to block Chitungwiza Council from executing random demolition of houses through their lawyers who demanded a report on the regularisation of the stands which they claimed had been done by the affected individuals. This was after a leaked memorandum dated January 12, 2021 announced that there were plans to demolish over 11 000 illegal structures in the dormitory town, subject to a court order. Chitungwiza Municipality has over the years threatened to demolish thousands of houses built on spaces reserved for clinics, churches, schools, cemeteries, recreational activities, roads and under high-voltage electricity pylons. Chitrest, through its lawyers Tinashe Chinopfukutwa and Idirashe Chikomba yesterday wrote to council demanding a list of the stand numbers to be demolished instead of the demolitions being executed as a random exercise. The lawyers noted that council’s director of works acknowledged the need for council to obtain valid court orders authorising the demolitions. However, last year the council demolished houses without obtaining a court order. “In terms of section 74 of the Constitution, Chitungwiza Municipality is enjoined to obtain court orders authorising the demolition of all the houses specified in the Chitungwiza demolition report of 12 January 2020. “We note that the report which specifies areas to be demolished does not identify the individual stand numbers and properties targeted for demolitions. The demolition report merely makes globular identification of sites to be demolished without identifying the individual stand numbers or properties,” read the letter from Chitrest. “Our clients also advise us that several residents, whose houses are located in the various sites targeted for demolitions, were invited by the Chitungwiza Municipality to pay regularisation penalties and paid for the purchase of the properties.” The lawyers argued that the residents duly paid the regularisation penalties and the purchase prices in terms of the offer extended to them by council. “Should council proceed to demolish the houses in terms of a report of 12 January 2021, then residents, who paid regularisation penalties, risk their houses being unlawfully demolished as the identification of sites targeted for demolitions does not specify which individual property is being targeted for demolition,” they said. The lawyers added: “In any event, council cannot reprobate and approbate by requesting and receiving regularisation penalties and stand purchase price in one breadth and in another breadth move in to demolish the same properties in respect of which regularisation penalties were paid.” The lawyers said should the demolition report not be revised, they would institute legal proceedings for the same to be set aside. Follow Harriet on Twitter @harrietchikand1
The court enjoys global jurisdiction.
Investigators will now need the authorization of the court’s judges to open a probe. Bensouda appealed for support from Nigeria’s government.
She said the army has dismissed accusations against government troops after examining them.
Boko Haram strictly opposes formal education. In 2015, Nigeria enlisted the support of neighbors Chad, Cameroon and Niger to try and defeat the group.
While the joint operations made the group lose considerable territory, they have not been able to wipe it out.
The ICC has conducted investigations in several African countries. In Sudan, Libya and Ivory Coast, former leaders were indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after the investigations.
The Malian Government has declared a state of health emergency against growing coronavirus infections.
Don’t let the COVID-19 Grinch steal the Christmas joy of children in state care. That’s the plea made by Rosalee Gage-Grey, chief executive officer of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), who urged charities and individuals to...
By Haley Herfurth UAB News When Shauntice Allen, Ph.D., was a child, she saw first hand her family practice what she now recognizes as community service, if even on a small scale. When her family would gather for holidays at her grandmother’s house in the Birmingham area, there was always an extra face or two […]
… legacy of government experimentation on African-Americans and the disadvantaged as well …
AS of July 1, some visitors from the United States who plan to enter the island on and after July 10 will have to be pretested for COVID-19 for their applications for landing to be considered.
[Ghanaian Times] President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has proposed naming the University for Development Studies (UDS) after the late former President Jerry John Rawlings.
1. It’s Primary Votin’ Day in the states of Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington What You Need To Know: Primary elections are taking place in five states today: Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington. 2. New Changes at U.S. Postal Service Could Affect Mail-In Voting What You Need To Know: The battle over mail-in […]
The media has a habit - a bad one, some argue - of 'both-sidesing' issues to appear unbiased and neutral. But that doesn't work in President Donald Trump's America, Yale professor Jason Stanley says. On 'Reliable Sources' Sunday, Stanley told CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter that Trump uses propaganda and messaging similar to fascist leaders in other countries and […]
Monday, Nov. 30, was a big day for African Americans and national politics. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced members of its initial senior leadership team who will lead their Presidential Inaugural Committee. The committee is tasked with organizing activities surrounding the swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20, 2021. Two of the members … Continued
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By: Norman Dotson/ BNC Digital Editor Beyonce and the NAACP partner up to give small business grants to Black owned businesses impacted by COVID-19. The NAACP made the announcement about their partnership with BeyGood organization this week with allocated grants numbered at roughly $10,000 and will be distributed to small businesses in Houston, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis. “Over the last couple of months, the pandemic and outpours for justice throughout the Black community and across the country has been felt in every imaginable area of our lives, including in how our local businesses continue to operate. The […]
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Regional insurer Jubilee Holdings Limited (JHL) has acquired an additional 9.44 percent stake in Bujagali Energy Ltd (BEL), increasing its shareholding in the Ugandan-based firm to 18.24 percent from 8.8 percent.
BEL is the special purpose company that owns the 250MW Bujagali Hydropower Project (“Bujagali”) which was built at an estimated cost of $900 million through a combination of debt and equity financing.
In a statement Tuesday, the insurance firm’s Chairman Nizar Juma said the increased investment in Bujagali is part of the insurer’s strategy to hold a diversified and conservative portfolio of investments totalling Ksh111.2 billion ($1.11 billion).
The Bujagali Hydropower Project is widely considered the most successful public-private partnership in the power sector in sub-Saharan Africa and has been used as a model for subsequent projects in the region.
Bujagali was commissioned in August 2012, putting an end to years of constrained economic growth caused by an insufficient and unreliable power supply in Uganda.
Banks have requested specialist debt collectors to assist lead the restoration of tens of billions of kilos of government-backed small enterprise loans, as they put together for an anticipated wave…
There is no doubt that Michael Jordan is one of the greatest athletes of all time, let alone the best to ever grace the NBA hardwood. But, Jordan does believe that his historical professional career wouldn't be what it is today if he was hooping during the social media era.
\"Suddenly when we come back and were preparing to sleep, suddenly we hear the gunshot and everybody - every student was running,\" said Umar Ahmed, a student who managed to escape a kidnapping claimed by Boko Haram,
Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris has promised the Biden-Harris administration would make college free for low-income students.
As the two-time Grammy Award-winning choral ensemble, The Washington Chorus [TWC], prepares to observe its 60th anniversary this fall, the 2020-2021 season brings further reason for music lovers to celebrate.
By Victor Omondi An Arkansas state senator who is vying for U.S. congressional seat in November was the second Black student to attend her local public high school. Her older sister was the first. In case she’s elected in November, Joyce Elliott will be the first Black lawmaker in Congress from Arkansas. During her campaign […]
BY JAIROS SAUNYAMA SEVENTEEN people perished in a head-on collision involving an Isuzu double cab vehicle and a BMW in Mutoko on Sunday night. The horrific accident occurred near Mazarura Farm, at the 130km peg along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway. “The ZRP confirms the death of 17 people in a fatal road traffic accident which occurred at the 130 kilometre peg along Harare-Nyamapanda Road on December 27, 2020 at around 1740 hours,” police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said in a statement yesterday. “A white Isuzu KB double cab which was travelling towards Murewa had a head-on collision with a white BMW vehicle going in the opposite direction. Fourteen people died on the spot while three died on admission at Mutoko Hospital. “The driver of the Isuzu vehicle died on the spot. The bodies of the victims were taken to Mutoko District Hospital for post-mortem and those injured were also admitted at the same institution.” Nyathi said eight of the victims had been identified by their next of kin as follows: Sandra Kanobata, a female adult, aged 19, of number 14 Rufaro Street, Chinzanga Mutoko; Abigail Chitimba, a female adult, aged 30, of number 14 Rufaro Street, Chinzanga Mutoko; Major Mushumbi, a male minor, aged seven, of number 14 Rufaro Street, Chinzanga Mutoko; Nyasha Chikuza, a female minor, aged seven, of Chitsaka village, Chief Mutoko, in Mutoko; Masimba Rutsito, a male adult, aged 39, of Chingamuka Village, Chief Mutoko, in Mutoko who was the Isuzu driver; Kupakwashe Rutsito, a male juvenile aged 13 of Chingamuka village, Chief Mutoko, in Mutoko, and Samuel Mapuranga, a male minor, aged two years of Estalia village D, Kadoma. Witnesses said the Isuzu was travelling towards Murewa with an unknown number of passengers on board, while the BMW was heading in the opposite direction with an unknown number of passengers. It is reported that upon approaching the 130km peg along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway, Rutsito, who was driving the Isuzu, encroached onto the opposite lane resulting in a head on collision with the BMW. Nine bodies are yet to be identified. The injured were ferried by well-wishers to Mutoko District Hospital. The Mutoko accident followed another one that claimed the lives of five people near Juru Growth Point on Unity Day (December 22).
Tanzania opposition politician Tundu Lissu jetted back to the country Monday with hundreds of supporters showing up at the airport to welcome him home.
Tundu returns home from Belgium where he spent three years seeking medical attention following an aggressive attack that saw him shot six time.
He was stripped of his parliamentary seat while seeking medical attention with some critics claiming this was as a result of him being an ardent critic to president John Pombe Magufuli.
Opposition parties “have gone through hell” under President John Magufuli, according to Tundu, elaborating on his hopes to run in upcoming presidential elections.
“The biggest thing has been the untold suffering. Killings of political leaders, attacks on political leaders, abductions, disappearances, torture, illegal prosecution of opposition leaders and activists in courts of law, with trumped-up charges. We have gone through hell,” said Tundu Lissu, Tanzanian opposition politician
Opposition leaders in Tanzania have raise queries in the upcoming general election with some citing fears of intimidation
“Whether we are going to have free and fair elections, that is not the question, we don’t expect that. The issue is, are we going to be alive, are we going to have our lives by the end of the electoral process? Because this government is so violent, has acted with so much violence that that is the biggest fear. Will we have elections?” Tundu asked.
Tanzania’s election commission has set October 28 as the date for the country’s highly anticipated presidential election.
President John Magufuli will be seeking re-election after being chosen earlier this month as the candidate of the governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party.
The country's oil production fell to 1.67 million barrels a day in the third quarter of 2020, the lowest since 2016.
Kenyan police have confirmed a police officer is to face charges over the killing of a 13-year-old boy during enforcement of a coronavirus curfew.
Yassin Moyo was shot in late March while standing on his family’s apartment balcony in Nairobi – a tragedy that a police spokesman described as an accident.
But activists have long accused Kenyan police of brutality and unlawful killings, with little to show in the way of action.
Kenya’s Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) says five other police are facing charges over other deaths, injuries, and assaults that pre-date the COVID-19 curfew.
Since its 2012 launch, Kenya’s IPOA has overseen the conviction of just seven officers for unlawful deaths, despite dozens of killings linked to police.
[African Arguments] With medical disruptions due to COVID-19 likely to kill more people in Africa than the disease itself, two countries provide interesting lessons.
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels said they struck a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jiddah on Monday with a new cruise missile, just hours after the kingdom finished hosting its virtual Group of 20 leaders summit. An unnamed official at the kingdom's Ministry of Energy acknowledged the attack in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency late Monday. It came after videos of a small explosion at a Saudi Arabian Oil Co. facility in Jiddah circulated on social media all day. A projectile struck a fuel […]
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By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America / BNC Contributor DENVER (AP) — The lawyer for the family of Black man who died after being stopped by suburban Denver police last year because he was being suspicious, said Friday she and Elijah McClains relatives have been conducting their own investigation after an official inquiry cleared three white police officers Mari Newman told The Associated Press she is suspicious of government investigations of cases of alleged police misconduct. It comes a day after Democratic Gov. Jared Polis appointed Attorney General Phil Weiser to re-investigate and possibly prosecute the officers. After over []
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\"We treated each other as adversaries,\" former United States diplomat Henry Kissinger said last year, on the fortieth anniversary of the normalization of relations with China. \"We had no normal way of contacting the Chinese government at all except there was an embassy in Warsaw in which both sides could communicate messages to each other and in which the ambassadors met occasionally. There were 152 meetings of the Warsaw Ambassadors who never reached an agreement on anything.\"
While today China and the United States have embassies and regular contact, agreement seems to be becoming just as rare.
On Thursday, another Republican secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, appeared to refute Kissinger and Nixon's legacy on China, blasting the \"old paradigm of blind engagement,\" and asking \"what do the American people have to show now 50 years on?\"
Pompeo was speaking after Washington ordered the closure of China's consulate in Houston, amid allegations it was linked to espionage and intellectual property theft. Beijing responded Friday, ordering the closure of the US' consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu.
The developments come at a time \"many had believed US-China tensions could not possibly get any worse,\" said Natasha Kassam, an expert on China and former Australian diplomat at the Lowy Institute.
Losing its consulate in Chengdu, she said, \"would limit Washington's avenues for communications with Beijing, as well as outsiders ability to monitor and report on what is happening inside China.\"
Kassam compared it to the recent crackdown on Chinese state media in the US, which led to tit-for-tat expulsions of American journalists working in China, decimating the Beijing press corp and hampering reporting on the world's second largest economy in the midst of a global pandemic.
Many analysts who spoke to CNN in the wake of the consulate closures warned of spiraling tensions, as the removal of diplomats and avenues for talks makes it harder for both countries to understand the other's moves and creates a barrier to future deescalation.
\"The US and China have spent the past three years ripping out the software of the relationship,\" said Jeff Moon, a former US diplomat in China. \"Now we are literally ripping out the hardware.\"
Picking sides
Guy Saint-Jacques, former Canadian ambassador to Beijing, said the Trump administration's apparent push for economic \"decoupling\" from China could have \"long-term geopolitical consequences.\"
Since the push for economic engagement ramped up with China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the two economies have grown ever closer. In 2018, before Trump launched a series of tariffs against Beijing in the first salvo of his trade war, China was the largest US trading partner, with a total trade worth $660 billion, the largest source of US imports, and the third-largest US export market.
Many major US businesses, everything from manufacturing and technology to Hollywood and the NBA, all depend on China as
Joe Biden says he “should not have been so cavalier” after he told a prominent black radio host that African Americans who back President Donald Trump “ain’t black.”
The rebukes included allies of Trump’s reelection campaign — anxious to go on the offense after weeks of defending the Republican president’s response to the coronavirus pandemic — and some activists who warned that Biden must still court black voters, even if African Americans overwhelmingly oppose the president.
The host told Biden that black voters “saved your political life in the primaries” and “have things they want from you.”
He also blasted four Democratic congresswomen of color, saying they hate America and should “go back” to where they come from, even though all are U.S. citizens and three were born in the U.S.
Black voters helped resurrect Biden’s campaign in this year’s primaries with a second-place finish in the Nevada caucuses and a resounding win in the South Carolina primary after he’d started with embarrassing finishes in overwhelmingly white Iowa and New Hampshire.
Adrianne Shropshire, executive director of BlackPAC, a national organization that works to mobilize black voters, said many black Americans are loyal Biden supporters.
