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BY MOSES MATENGA FOREIGN Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo (60) has died. The former army general, who has been battling a kidney ailment requiring regular dialysis, died after a long illness with close government sources saying he succumbed to COVID-19 at a local private hospital. In a statement, President Mnangagwa said Moyo succumbed to Covid19 at a private hospital in Harare. Mnangagwa said further funeral arrangements will be announced in due course. “His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa regrets to announce the passing on early this morning of SB Moyo, our Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. The late Minister succumbed to COVID-19 at a local hospital,” Presidential spokesperson George Charamba said. Moyo became a household name after announcing the military takeover that led to the ouster of the late former President Robert Mugabe via a military coup in November 2017. The then army general, Moyo announced the military coup that toppled Zimbabwe's long time leader, Robert Mugabe in November 2017. Moyo was husband to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission chairperson, Loice Matanda-Moyo. Moyo is the latest top government official to succumb to COVID-19 after last week’s demise of Manicaland provincial affairs Minister Ellen Gwaradzimba.
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the decision was arrived at following an assessment of compliance levels by the restaurants for the COVID-19 protocols.
\"With this extension, the restaurants will be required to continue to adhere to the protocols set out,\" Kagwe said on Tuesday, when he released new statistics for COVID-19 status in the country.
The new cases, announced Tuesday, raises the infections tally in Kenya to 3,860 by June 16.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the new cases were detected from 3,255 samples tested since Monday when the last update was given by Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe.
The infection cases have been on a sharp increase in the country lately, despite tough containment measures, which include a night curfew that starts at 9pm to 4 am, and cessation of movement in Nairobi, Mombasa and Mandera Counties which have recorded high infections.
Stacey Abrams not only has revealed the ins and outs of voter suppression in the U.S., she is also credited with 800,000 new voter registrations. She is one of the people whose organization’s efforts contributed to the projected victory of former Vice President Joe Biden and running mate Sen. Kamala Harris in last week’s election. […]
The post Stacey Abrams Continues the ‘Fair Fight’ for Election first appeared on Post News Group.
Researchers are hoping to learn more about the Tulsa Race Massacre through an excavation of sites where mass graves are likely located.
Kaplan Police Officer Steven Aucoin was fired following an investigation for allegedly suggesting that it was “unfortunate” that the coronavirus pandemic had not killed off black people, officials said.
The Kaplan Police Department has released a written statement on its Facebook page:
“We are writing this to inform everyone that we were made aware of the situation with the comments on Facebook from Steven Aucoin.
In comments posted during a live stream of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ press conference on state’s COVID-19 response, the Louisiana cop stated that it was “unfortunate” that all black people weren’t killed by the virus.
Kaplan Police Chief Joshua Hardy tells KFLY that this kind of behavior from a police officer is not tolerated within the department and he fired Aucoin after they completed an investigation of the entire thread.
“There were some comments that were further up that was not suitable for a police officer to put up on Facebook,” Chief Hardy said.
The second papers for Physical Sciences and Mathematics will be re-written after being leaked
Stevie Wonder, too, had a dream, he told Coretta Scott King in 1979, about a song and a holiday honoring the life and legacy of her late husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I wish you luck,” Wonder recalled Scott King replied. “We're in a time where I don't […]
The post Stevie Wonder Not Only Crafted A Hit Song With His Dr. King Birthday Tribute, He Also Inspired A Movement appeared first on The New York Beacon.
Following the advice of public health experts, senior advocates, labor leaders, doctors, hospitals, and long-term care providers, Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday.
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Childhood pneumonia remains the second biggest killer of our children.
[This Day] The federal government has faulted the claim by the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, that it has failed to deliver on the timelines on the offers made to the union and that university teachers cannot return to classes on \"empty stomach.\"
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - The publishers of the daily Newsday newspaper yesterday said they are undertaking a 'major restructuring' of their operations in light of dwindling advertising and subscriptions.
The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) is collaborating with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to conduct an assessment of the effects of COVID-19 on Guyanese households.
The article COVID-19 effects on local households to be surveyed appeared first on Stabroek News.
[Observer] Reputation Poll International (PI), a leading global human reputation management firm, has named Liberia's Vice President, Jewel Howard Taylor, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Leymah Gbowee, as two of the hundred (100) most reputable persons on the continent of Africa.
[New Zimbabwe] The ruling party Zanu-PF has been angered by the failure of the United States of America's envoy to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols to denounce the recent violent protests at the Capitol Hill in Washington DC, which left six five people dead and scores injured.
The Federal Government says the \"alarm and doom\" predictions by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on the country's debt profile is anchored on a false premise.
In the statement, the minister stressed that the scenarios on the country's debt profile as painted by Mr Atiku in a release he issued on Tuesday had no basis.
The minister said the figure of Nigeria's debt to revenue ratio of 99 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, quoted by Mr Atiku was not in the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper, where he claimed he got it from.
The minister said Nigeria had not experienced alarming and unprecedented increase in the ratios of debt to GDP and debt service to revenue as posited by Mr Atiku.
Mr Mohammed added that the government is making concerted efforts to increase revenue so as to bring down the ratio of debt service to revenue.
COVID-19 is filling the Houston hospitals to capacity, driving the crime rate up and hitting the Black community in unprecedented ways. In an effort to raise the awareness of the coronavirus in the community, AJ McQueen has joined forces with the Houston Defender and shared his spoken word talents to advocate taking this virus seriously. […]
The post Houston spoken word artist AJ McQueen uses voice for Defender COVID-19 campaign appeared first on DefenderNetwork.com.
WASHINGTON, DC
Gen. Colin Powell speaking recently on CNN’s “State of the Union” set off a Trump tweet when said he would be voting for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
“I certainly cannot in any way support President Trump this year,” said the former secretary of State under former President George W. Bush.
Powell, a Republican, said he did not vote for Trump in 2016 and said the situation has “gotten worse.”
Powell joins other high-profile current and former military officers who are critical of the way Trump is handling the nationwide protests over police brutality that broke out after the killing of George Floyd.
And the president has drifted away from it,” Powell said.
THE undignified manner in which Mary Mubaiwa was treated by her former husband, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga last Friday as well as the police siege on suspended High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere on Saturday have brought to the fore the abuse of women by powerful political leaders that should not go unchallenged. On Friday, Chiwenga assigned soldiers to dump his estranged wife’s property taken from the couple’s Borrowdale Brooke mansion at her Eastlea offices in Harare. The property, which included plates, clothes, blankets and kitchen utensils, was left strewn at Mubaiwa’s offices. Mubaiwa was not at the offices when the property was dumped. The two’s divorce is still pending before the courts, which should determine how they aught to share the property. One wonders why the VP rushed to dump Mary’s household goods at her offices before conclusion of their divorce case in court. To make matters worse, this came at a time Mary was hospitalised. Chiwenga was supposed to treat his estranged wife with respect. He is the Vice-President of the nation and should lead by example. President Emmerson Mnangagwa also failed women by withdrawing suspended judge Justice Ndewere’s VVIP security at a time her alleged misconduct case is yet to be concluded. Surely both Mnangagwa and Chiwenga should show respect for women if they want the nation to take them seriously when they talk of women’s rights, gender equality and equity. Zimbabwe is not only a signatory to the Beijing Declaration of 1995, the Protocol to the African Charter on Women’s Rights of 2003 and the Sadc Protocol on Gender and Development of 2008, but it is also signatory to the international human rights frameworks for women’s rights. The country has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) of 1991. CEDAW is regarded as the women’s Bill of Rights, compelling States to review their legal systems to end discrimination against women. The law also compels States to establish institutions to protect women. We cannot be a nation which is signatory to such key international conventions that seek to enforce respect for women and talk about gender parity, but have vindictive leaders who have a poor judgment of issues and use emotions and State security arms to trample on women's rights. Mnangagwa and Chiwenga as national leaders are naturally expected to lead by example in the way they perceive women in general. The other time we had Vice-President Kembo Mohadi reportedly wielding an axe against his estranged wife, Tambudzani, as they fought for property during divorce proceedings. Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi is currently embroiled in a messy divorce with his estranged wife, Florence, where he is alleged to be using his alleged lover from the sheriff’s office, to falsify information on returns of service. It would appear our leaders have a negative perception on women and that could probably explain why Mnangagwa has appointed few women into his Cabinet.
BY Tim Dutton, UNITE Pinellas Carl R. Lavender, Jr., Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg ST. PETERSBURG The rates of COVID-19 infection in Pinellas County are very different if you are black than if you are white, and the gap is widening quickly. It is a crisis, and WHAT is being done about []
A Latinx neighborhood in a wealthy California county hard-hit by COVID-19 reflects on the complex challenges and policy failures affecting vulnerable communities across the U.S. during the pandemic.
