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The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has confirmed that the National Coronavirus Command Council is lawful and constitutional.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
The eMendi Building, the new headquarters of the Transnet National Ports Authority in the Port of Ngqura in the Eastern Cape, is named after the First World War ship SS Mendi.
By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Neera Tanden, President-Elect Joe Biden’s pick to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), would be the first woman of color and first Indian-American woman to lead that office. But, her nomination is being dogged by politicians on the right and the Left because […]
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For now, National Council of Sports (NCS) - according to general secretary Dr. Bernard Patrick Ogwel - has constituted an eight-man committee chaired by NCS board member Dr George Galiwango, which started this week to \"formulate standard operating procedures that will determine whether sports will come back or not.\"
\"We agreed that there is no textbook formula to follow in developing SOPs so we had to discuss in collaboration with the ministries of sport and health, Paralympic Committee and medical assistants.
Zimbabwe do not know when they will resume but there is a general acceptability that those involved in physical and fitness exercises like sports are at low risk of suffering fatalities when they contract Covid-19.
Their federations, however, will only hold events in consultation with their sports ministry and their sports disciplines have been categorised as either low or high risk.
High risk groups like the elderly are also not allowed to attend sports events while athletes have to be dropped and picked up at a park before and after training.
After 31 years of preaching the gospel, Pastor Bartholomew Orr, senior pastor of Brown Baptist Church in Southaven, MS., has taken the advice from one of his former professors at Christian Brothers University to place his writings, sermons and thoughts into a book. On Sept. 19, he released his book entitled, “ORRdinary Lessons,” which offers […]
LaVar Ball Rants About "Hoes" Before His Son LaMelo's Big Draft Night
Just days before the crucial Georgia runoffs that will determine control of the US Senate, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger delivered a strong message to Donald Trump as the President persists in attacking the Peach State's electoral process and the Republican leaders in charge of administering the system. 'Respectfully, President Trump: What you're saying is not true. The truth […]
President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Phillips, has asserted that the leadership of the St James Municipal Corporation was seeking to undermine the minority caucus because of their efforts to expose corruption in local government.
Phillips, who was speaking at a PNP meeting held at The University of the West Indies on Sunday, said that there was a link between the happenings at the St Ann Municipal Corporation, which is now under investigation by the Integrity Commission, and the booting of two PNP councillors from the one in St James.
But Phillips felt that it was an abuse of power given the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is an abuse of power and dishonesty,” Phillips charged to cheers from close political organisers in the party.
It is a pattern which is also evidence from the reports received from the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), where the internal audit committee that was set up under the previous administration is being dismantled,” Phillips said.
Algiers — President of the Saharawi Red Crescent (CRS), Yahia Bouhabini said Monday that the prevention measures taken by the Saharawi authorities against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic \"have yielded positive results without recording any cases of contamination in the Saharawi refugee camps and liberated territories,\" welcoming the contribution of the Algerian Red Crescent (CRA), having allowed the delivery of international humanitarian aid to the Saharawi in this exceptional situation.
\"The Sahrawi authorities have taken strict precautionary measures against Covid-19, through the establishment, from the outset, of a committee, chaired by the Sahrawi Prime Minister, Bouchraya Hamoudi Beyoun, and the interruption of all contact between the five refugee camps, except in cases of force majeure, in addition to the closure of the borders and public institutions that provided the minimum service for basic benefits,\" Yahia Bouhabini told APS, stressing that these measures \"had yielded positive results and no cases of COVID-19 infection were recorded\".
The same official said that confinement centers had been set up for people outside the refugee camps, adding that \"the tests of three suspected cases had been negative\".
The Sahrawi authorities opted for prevention in refugee camps, \"which contributed to the rapid adherence of refugees to the measures taken against COVID-19,\" Bouhabini said.
On the economic and humanitarian fronts, Bouhabini noted that the pandemic, which affected more than 160 countries around the world, had had a negative impact, further weakening the situation in the camps, in particular because of delays in the delivery of aid at the beginning of this global health crisis.
[Nation] Governors have said they will have no choice but to lock down their counties should they start recording alarming cases of Covid-19 following the removal of travel restrictions from the Mombasa and Nairobi hotspots, the Council of Governors (CoG) has said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is one of the top infectious disease doctors in the United States. In his recent keynote address,... View Article
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Historic Trial For War Crimes in Liberia
Accused of having committed barbaric acts between 1993 and 1995 during the civil war in Liberia, the doubly historic trial of the former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah began on Thursday in Switzerland where he had been in exile for twenty years.
Incarcerated since 14 November 2014, the 45-year-old Alieu Kosiah appeared before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona accompanied by his court-appointed lawyer Dimitri Gianola.
Although the proceedings are not behind closed doors, the number of seats in the courtroom is extremely limited in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Questioned by the president of the court Jean-Luc Bacher, Kosiah — who is the first individual to be tried for war crimes by a civil court, stressed that he had been in prison \"for six years and a month\" and denied all the charges brought against him,
Justice for Liberia Overdue
Both former warlord and president Charles Taylor — who also played a significant role the aforementioned conflict, was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Liberia's neighbour Sierra Leone in 2012.
However, no Liberian is yet to be convicted in Liberia or abroad for crimes committed during the West African country's civil war — which saw 250,000 people lose their lives between 1989 and 2003.
Most of the commanders of the various armed groups fled the country after the war.
Kosiah, who had been living in Switzerland since 1999 according to HRW, was arrested following criminal complaints by victims.
Child Soldiers in Civil War
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the victims, who reside in Africa, will not be heard before 2021. This is deplored by the organisation Civitas Maxima, which represents some of them.
\"This is a case where Kosiah claims that they are all lying and that he did not commit any crime. We want this contradictory debate to take place,\" Romain Wavre, a lawyer at Civitas Maxima, told AFP.
The Swiss federal prosecutor's office accuses Alieu Kosiah of having committed, between 1993 and 1995, as a member of the armed faction ULIMO (United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy), a faction of armed groups hostile to the movement of Charles Taylor (the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, NPFL), several offences constituting \"war crimes\". Namely: recruitment and use of child soldiers, forced transportation, looting, cruel treatment of civilians, attempted murder, murder (directly or by order), desecration of a corpse and rape.
War Crime \"Impunity\"
In France, the anti-terrorist prosecutor's office recently requested a trial by jury against another former Liberian rebel commander, Kunti K., accused of acts of torture.
\"Alieu Kosiah and Kunti K. were two of the commanders of the same armed group - ULIMO - and were fighting at the same time in Lofa County in northern Liberia,\" said Wavre of Civitas Maxima.
More than fifteen years after the end of the conflict, many of the personalities directly involved in the civil war still hold important positions in the spheres of
ZINDZI MANDELA, the daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, has passed away at the age...
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[African Arguments] Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.
The Trinidad and Tobago government on Saturday announced a total ban on Christmas parties within the public sector and urged the private sector to do the same.
Still fighting for justice in Breonna's name, the nation continues to protest and bring awareness to the cause of police violence aimed at the Black community.
Kenya's deputy president William Ruto is being sidelined by his political allies in what analysts say is a concerted strategy to block the ambitious leader's promised elevation to the top job in 2022.
By Whitney Gresham and Trevor W. Coleman II at The Michigan Chronicle For more than 50 years, the McDonald’s Corporation took pride in branding itself as a socially conscious corporation particularly interested in doing business in abandoned and long-ignored Black communities while embracing racial diversity as a critical component of its corporate ethos. It is […]
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A setback that did not prevent Pierre Lescure, the president of the festival, and Thierry Frémaux, the artistic director, from announcing the creation of the Cannes 2020 label to encourage the directors of 56 films.
In this official selection, only two films are directed by professionals from the African continent: the documentary En route Pour le Milliard du Congolais by Dieudo Hamadi and Souad, the feature film by Egyptian director Ayten Amin.
Included in this selection are two feature films by British director Steve McQueen, which shed light on issues faced by the black community in England.
Frémaux told the press: “He’s (Steve McQueen) coming with two films produced by the BBC “Lover’s Rock” and “Mangrove”, two historical films.
Films that as one of the members of the selection committee said we’re really going to increase the rate of diversity since it’s the black community in London in the 70’s…
\t“… and obviously “Mangrove” is a film of trials of police officers who harass the black community, obviously it resonates very dramatically with what happened to George Floyd and Adama Traoré.”
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The CRA is a civil rights law designed to expand financial opportunity. The law requires banks to meet the credit needs of the communities in which they are chartered. The CRA was created to be a key driver in financial equity, helping to spur hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in underserved areas. Yet, the CRA requires strengthening to evolve with the changing banking landscape and to fully meet its statutory mission.
Eric Garner’s mother Gwendolyn Carr says, for Black Men, selling a single cigarette, known as “loosey,” can lead to an arrest, a prison sentence or even death. Six years ago, a police officer put her son in a chokehold and strangled him to death for allegedly selling illegal cigarettes on Staten Island, a borough of […]
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By Oscar H. Blayton Black folks’ struggle to exist in America is no game. It is deadly serious. The bloody opposition to our survival in this white dominated society is a daunting challenge for all people of color. Since arriving in the Americas as captive and enslaved human chattel, Black folk have suffered every conceivable […]
Here's a quick glance at what the weather forecast holds in store across all the South African provinces. Stay warm or keep cool.
This year has undoubtedly been one of change, with the impact of one microscopically small thing causing changes in who we can see, what we can do and where we can go, not to mention how and where we can work. With all this upheaval, it’s not surprising many have been left grasping for any kind of stability.
The rock musicians from Oklahoma City are literally blowing up in 2020, using inflatable human-sized bubbles to defend themselves and fans against Covid-19 while finding a way to play live.
Performing at The Criterion in their hometown on Monday evening, The Flaming Lips placed themselves -- and all attending fans -- inside individual plastic spheres. The concert -- which was part live show, part music video shoot -- was born out of a sketch doodled by Wayne Coyne during the pandemic's early days, the frontman told CNN.
\"I did a little drawing... where I drew a picture of The Flaming Lips doing a show in 2019. And I'm the only person in the space bubble, and everybody else is just normal,\" Coyne told CNN during a phone interview on Friday. \"Then (I did another drawing with) The Flaming Lips playing a show in 2020. The exact same scenario, but I'm in a bubble, and so is everybody else.\"
At the time, Coyne says, the idea was more or less a social commentary on the state of virus, with the thinking that Covid-19 would never linger long enough to see the bubble experiment fully inflate.
\"I don't think anybody would have thought ... in the middle of March that this is still going to be going, you know, eight months later. I think we all thought this is a month, this is maybe two months, but we're going to get a handle on this,\" he said.
Coyne and the band first unveiled the concept during a May visit to \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.\"
That inspired them to keep going.
\"We do a couple of songs with about 30 people in the bubbles. And we start to think, 'Well, you know, just from doing that, we start to get an idea that we could actually do it, you know, and it could actually happen,'\" Coyne revealed.
The \"space bubbles\" have long been a part of The Flaming Lips stage shows, so Coyne and company were familiar with a series of inflatable orbs. After setting the specs, the band ordered 100 bubbles from China, and this unique music event - one first drawn up on Coyne's sketchpad -- was ready to pop.
\"Since May, the desire to see the live music has just gotten, you know, more, more amplified,\" he told CNN, noting that fans interested in test-driving the experience were asked to arrive at The Criterion between 6:30 and 7 p.m. ET.
\"Right at a little after six, we already had enough people.\"
With a couple hundred fans floating about, The Flaming Lips performed a dance remix of \"Assassins of Youth\" and \"Brother Eye,\" a pair of tracks from their latest LP, \"American Head.\"
Coyne captioned an Instagram post from the show with the word \"Yessss!!!\" -- a nod to the feat they had collectively pulled off.
\"I like the way this looks, because you can get as excited as you want, you can scream as much as you want, you just can't infect the person next to you, no matter what you forget about, how excited you get,\" he said. \"That barrier is still there, they're protected, and you're protected... that part of it is what we really felt like was the success,\" he said.
So are bouncing bubbles, with fans and bands equally encased, the f
[Dalsan Radio] Somalia has reiterated its commitment to strengthening to boost bilateral relations with the United Kingdom.
'Growing up, I didn’t see any Black contractors,' says David Moody, who is the President and Chief Executive Officer of C.D. Moody Construction Company, Inc., a Black Enterprise BE 100s listed company for several consecutive years. From his bedroom, he started his construction firm in the 1980s when he was in debt and was financially...
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Acting Chief Justice Roxane George yesterday found that Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond was not lawfully appointed due to her dual citizenship and Attorney General Anil Nandlall said the government has already moved to correct what he called an “error of law,” including her secret reappointment as minister.
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