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In a press conference on Monday, Cellou Diallo said he was willing to work with the junta, a major endorsement from the political class for coup leader Mamady Doumbouya
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.
President Donald Trump led his remarks on the country’s first manned rocket launch in nearly a decade with some harsh words for civil rights protesters around the country demanding police accountability.
“My administration will stop mob violence, and we’ll stop it cold,” Trump said from Florida hours after ordering the Pentagon to put military police on alert for potential deployment to the demonstration sites.
Civil rights protests, most of them peaceful, have taken place all week in cities across the country following the death of George Floyd, a Black man, while in police custody; four police officers were later fired.
He tweeted threats to the protesters early Friday morning, writing, ”[W]hen the looting starts, the shooting starts,” a phrase used by a racist Miami police chief during the height of civil war protests in the 1960s.
“We support the overwhelming majority of police officers who are incredible in every way and devoted public servants,” Trump said.
The National Identification Authority (NIA) has asked the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to report the state agency to the police if the party has any evidence to back its election rigging allegations made against the Authority on Thursday, 14 May 2020.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), at a press conference, raised fears that the decision of the Electoral Commission to compile a new register of voters using passports and the NIA's Ghana card as proof of eligibility may give undue advantage to the governing New Patriotic Party and President Nana Akufo-Addo and also help the incumbent to rig the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in December 2020.
According to the biggest opposition party, over 10 million Ghanaians are unable to retrieve their Ghana cards from the NIA several months after they were registered, a situation which the Chairman of the party, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, said will make it impossible for them to be captured on the new electoral roll.
At a counter-press conference on Friday, 15 May 2020, the Executive Director of the NIA, Prof Ken Attafuah, said it was a \"disturbing allegation that the NIA, in consent with the Electoral Commission, embarked on an election-rigging agenda in order to benefit the New Patriotic Party, and most disturbingly, to disenfranchise a significant portion of the Ghanaian populace from their rights to exercise their franchise\".
\"I want to assure the good people of this country that the NIA is not involved in any such criminal design or enterprise with the EC, with the government of Ghana or any with any person or entity whatsoever described.
Sergeant Harold Preston was two weeks away from retiring.
There are also unconfirmed reports that the MPs in the deal will sooner or later receive another Shs60m each as a token for last week's resolution in which Parliament appreciated Mr Museveni for fighting Covid-19.
Many of the MPs had not followed Mr Museveni's directive, which the High Court reinforced, to refund the Shs20m each got in that appropriation until the Clerk to Parliament, Ms Jane Kibirige, gave them a deadline of May 27 to file accountability for the cash.
Addressing a press conference at Parliament on Friday, Lwemiyaga County MP Theodore Ssekikubo and Kumi Municipality MP Monica Amoding, said they had been informed by their friends that money was being dished out but that they had failed to access the venues where the distribution was taking place.
Some of the NRM party MPs from Busoga Sub-region about two weeks ago accused the President of fighting Ms Kadaga when he castigated Parliament over the Shs20m.
During the press conference, Mr Ssewungu said the President aims to destroy the institution of Parliament by fighting the Speaker and the MPs.
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What once stood as a symbol of the unrest in the city of Minneapolis now is a burning reminder that Black people are fed the f**k up.
A third night of protests broke out and once again and got violent as protesters continue to demand that four police officers involved in the fatal arrest of George Floyd be thrown in jail.
It was evident in previous nights that the 3rd precinct in Minneapolis was the focus of protesters as they gathered there, demanding justice for Floyd and his family.
Around 1:30 am, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey revealed during a press conference that he made the decision to evacuate the precinct after “it became clear that there were imminent threats to both officers and the public.”
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Memphis Police Department officers made moves to keep the groups apart, subsequently issuing dispersal orders in response to streets being blocked illegally, according to a police narrative.
Additionally, Sawyer called for a reprimand of officers and the guiding of MPD Director Mike Rallings to “make sure there is an empathetic response…when these protests spill into the streets.”
Akinmoladun said he and 30 to 40 other educators involved assembled to have a silent protest, noting that he wished there was more he could do for Floyd’s family.
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“The intention of the protests was for all races – whites, blacks, latinos – to come together, honor George Floyd, honor the black kings and queens that continue to die to police brutality….
Floyd’s family, the city’s mayor and others are calling for the arrest of Derek Chauvin, the 19-year veteran officer who kept his knee against Floyd’s neck until he lost consciousness.
Dr. Ada M. Fisher is a retired physician and a recurrent Republican candidate for office. Fisher was born on October 21, 1947 in Durham, North Carolina, the daughter of Rev. Miles Mark Fisher, a son of a former slave and his Seminole Indian wife. Rev. Fisher was also a Republican, as well as his grandfather who was freed by the 13th Amendment adopted in 1865. Little information is found about the wife of Rev. Miles Mark Fisher. Dr. Fisher is single, but adopted two children: Shevin Michael and Charles Malvern.
Dr. Fisher earned her first degree in biology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and her Master’s Degree in Public Health from the John Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. After receiving her degree, Dr. Fisher worked at the University of Rochester in family medicine and ran a health clinic in rural North Carolina. During her time in the medical field, Dr. Fisher was the medical director of Amoco Oil Company and Service Line Director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Occupational Health Services. She also worked as an independent medical examiner and community volunteer, particularly with students who have dropped out of high school.
After she retired as a practicing physician, Dr. Fisher got heavily involved in politics. She had already been a member of the Republican Party of North Carolina for over 50 years and was a member of the North Carolina Federation of Republican Women. Dr. Fisher was a candidate for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina in 2002, and a candidate for U.S. Congress in North Carolina’s 12th District in 2004 and 2006. She also ran for the North Carolina House of Representatives in District 77 in 2008.
Fisher became politically active in 1996 when she moved back to North Carolina because she felt the GOP had lost its primary mission to uphold the U.S. Constitution. This frustration led to her write Common Sense Conservative Prescriptions Solutions for What Ails
The Jacob Zuma Foundation says Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo should not allow his \"personal issues\" with former president Jacob Zuma to blind his judgment.
Despite supporting an embargo, Germany has exported €330 million in weapons to countries involved in the war in Libya.
Since hosting a Libya summit four months ago, the German government has approved arms exports worth €331 million ($358 million) to countries accused of supporting warring parties in the country, according a report from the German Economy Ministry seen by news agency DPA.
In January, Germany hosted a summit of world leaders whose countries have sent arms or soldiers to Libya.
In a closing declaration, 16 countries and international organisations agreed to a weapons embargo for Libya.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres later accused these four countries of breaching the embargo and continuing to provide arms for the conflict.
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The Minneapolis Police Department has fired four officers it says were involved in the death of an unarmed Black man accused of forgery.
While none of the officers were identified by the department, the Minneapolis Star Tribune revealed that the main officer who was seen kneeling on the neck of George Floyd as he explained he couldn’t breathe is named Derek Chauvin.
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The name of the police officer in Minneapolis who was seen on a viral video apparently kneeling on a Black man’s neck until he died has been identified.
A report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune revealed that the officer’s name is Derek Chauvin, according to “two sources familiar with the investigation.”
However, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announced during a press conference Tuesday morning that both of the officers involved in Floyd’s death were on “relieved of duty status,” which reportedly differs from the standard protocol of placing cops on administrative leave following the death of a suspect.
WELLINGTON, (Reuters) - New Zealand’s government has given the go ahead for the Pakistan and West Indies teams to tour the country later this year and in early 2021, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said yesterday.
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But while it is states’ governors and not President Donald Trump who have the final say in imposing and ending lockdowns and “shelter in place” orders in the U.S., in Indonesia, Widodo makes the call, which has the governors of the 34 provinces in the country up in arms.
Widodo’s administration later rescinded a partial lockdown order by Lukas Enembe, the governor of Indonesia’s easternmost province, Papua.
On April 13, Widodo declared the pandemic a national public health emergency and a national disaster, and later signed a presidential regulation allowing provinces to impose large-scale social restrictions including mandatory social distancing and the use of face masks, the closure of office buildings, shopping centers, schools, and public areas, shuttering houses of worship and banning large gatherings.
Widodo, Indonesia’s first president from outside the country’s traditional political elite, has also taken other steps to fight the coronavirus’ spread, including banning all foreign arrivals by air and sea, as well as domestic flights around the country.
“Since the government has made it clear that this is all about a health issue, and as the Widodo administration itself gives the initiative to impose restrictions to local governments, it sidesteps the ‘national lockdown’ issue,” said Yohanes Sulaiman, a political and military analyst.
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Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) chief Dr Carissa Etienne has warned countries in the Americas that the consequences could be untold if they open up their economies too fast without providing adequate health facilities.
Kaleemah Rozier, 22, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon following a heated confrontation with several NYPD officers, reported WABC.
The NYPD claims officers addressed Rozier because her face wasn’t covered.
Less than two weeks before Rozier’s arrest, Donni Wright, a Black man who was observing an arrest was violently arrested by NYPD officer Francisco Garcia.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea defended his department during a press conference, claiming officers are receiving death threats over 10-second videos.
Shea added, “In the last week, we have had death threats on police officers in New York City and their families 10-second videos where the police officers are dealing with individuals that quite frankly, fight, not with the police department, they fight with everyone, they fight with their significant others, they fight when they go to court, they have opened gun cases, they are gang members.”
The arrest of the most wanted genocide suspect of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Félicien Kabuga, 84, in a Paris apartment last week, highlights renewed French commitment to improve relations with Rwanda, long injured by allegations against each other on the genocide.
In an e-mail interview with The EastAfrican, Phil Clark, a professor of International Politics and scholar of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi at the London-based School of Oriental and African Studies said;
\"The discovery of Kabuga in Paris raises major questions about how long he has lived in France and about how much the French authorities knew.
His decision was unpopular in French political circles but applauded by Rwandan authorities, who had for long called on France to come clean over its role in the genocide.
In January 2016, Gen Jean-Claude Lafourcade, who led France's UN-mandated unit in Rwanda in 1994, angered Rwandan officials when he said during an inquiry that \"no ammunition, not even a bullet\" was provided by the French government to the interahamwe militia that carried out the genocide.
There should be no impediment to this trial taking place in Rwanda - and it would bolster the ICTR's legacy to have assisted the Rwandan judicial system to the extent that it can try such a high profile genocide suspect as Kabuga,\" Prof Clark said.
You’ve turned over the keys to the private sector for low-earth orbit, which frees up Nasa to do other things
“We haven’t had two humans shoot up into space on a commercial spacecraft ever.
Regaining crew launch capability and having two American crew launch providers is vital to achieving our country’s goals in space
“This is a real breakthrough for space development,” said Lori Garver, a former Nasa deputy administrator and current CEO of the Earthrise Alliance.
Regaining crew launch capability and having two American crew launch providers is vital to achieving our country’s goals in space,” said Starliner astronaut Chris Ferguson, a Starliner astronaut and former Nasa astronaut who commanded the final space shuttle mission.
The extensive testing that contributed to the Boeing and SpaceX delays is a contrast to the space shuttle, which flew humans without any practice runs for its orbital vehicle or rockets, said Hale, the retired Nasa official.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off in this file photo
The 27 May launch, known as Demo-2, will serve as a final test of SpaceX’s entire system for transporting people to orbit, the last step to winning Nasa’s approval for regular crewed flights to the space station.
This November’s general election is set to be historic, not just because of the presidential race at a time when the American electorate is unusually polarized. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous changes have been made to the voting process. Mail-in ballots are available for all California voters for the first time in history, and […]
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The National Congress had not said anything about the Teich resignation, but the former minister of education during the Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva government and left-wing candidate for president of Brazil in 2018, Fernando Haddad, published a tweet saying: “Who will be the next Health Minister?
After Mandetta’s firing and the announcement Teich would take over, Davi Alcolumbre, president of the Federal Senate and the National Congress of Brazil, along with Rodrigo Maia, president of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, shared a joint note criticizing the decision on Twitter: “It, to the whole country, at this moment, is certainly not a positive thing and it will be felt by all of us.”
It is a neoliberalism politic that trust that the market solves the problems; without public politics they have broken the public health system… In Brazil, we must fight against COVID-19 on one side, and on the other side mismanagement that has no respect for the people.”
“Bolsonaro seeks to imitate Trump with similarity in regards to the market and to money, but with a difference that Trump defends the interests of the United States and Bolsonaro also defends the United States but not Brazil, by dismantling Brazil with the privatization of the electric sector and the Petrobrás company, by dismantling social politics and by threatening the democratic rule of law,” he said.
Mandetta had been doing an amazing job and we were in agreement with his orders to maintain social isolation and quarantine,” said Caio Regatieri, an ophthalmologist and professor at Universidade Federal de São Paulo who tends to patients at Hospital Sao Paulo, which is in the public healthcare system, known in Brazil as the Unique Health System.
Four more Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers are facing questioning in relation to Tuesday’s major ganja bust and shootout in St Elizabeth. Two JDF corporals were detained by the police and are facing criminal charges. READ: Busted soldiers...
As states around the country continue to relax social distancing guidelines involving in-person meetings, a chorus of governors have announced their openness to live sports events in the immediate future, with some offering their states as test sites for teams and leagues looking to restart competition during the coronavirus pandemic.
On Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said he has pitched sports teams on broadcasting games without spectators from facilities in his state.
The governors that expressed openness to restarting live sports Monday are enduring different stages of the coronavirus crisis, highlighting the absence of a clear directive from federal health officials about when it is safe for athletic competition to restart.
Even as state officials plan to welcome athletics back, major American sports leagues themselves ― that is, players, team executives and staff ― are all in deliberation among themselves about how or if it may be possible to return safely, and the perspectives are varied.
In the NBA, for example, a number of star players, including LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry, recently joined a conference call to express their desire to resume the 2019-2020 season when states permit live sports again.
The battle for control of Harvest House, the MDC main headquarters, rages on with MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora adamant he will grab the keys of the iconic home of opposition politics from MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.
While former party vice president Thokozani Khupe was first to raise the red flag over claims of being elbowed out of the race to succeed Tsvangirai, the real protagonists in the battle for the most influential opposition job has emerged between Chamisa and Mwonzora.
Chamisa is currently in control of the building and last Thursday, his faction held what it called a \"2014 National Council structures meeting\" where they ordered Mwonzora, acting MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe, chairperson Morgen Komichi not to interfere with the operations of the \"former MDC party\".
However, armed with a recent Supreme Court judgment that ruled Chamisa as illegitimate ruler of the entire MDC empire Mwonzora, has on several occasions failed to drive out Chamisa out of the building.
Mwonzora also accused Chamisa and his party of stripping office furniture at the party building.
Thousands of protesters march down Hiawatha Ave in Minneapolis to protest the police killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police on May 26, 2020.
The Minneapolis Police Department fired four police officers who arrested Floyd.
George Floyd died Monday after his arrest outside Cup Foods, a Minneapolis restaurant that reported a customer who paid for a meal with a counterfeit $20 bill.
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo fired Officer Derek Chauvin and three other officers who were present.
“Friends, Please wear your masks and join us if you can in demanding justice for the Black man who was unjustly killed by Minneapolis Police yesterday in broad daylight,” she wrote.
Leading by example, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and his son, Attorney Yusef Jackson, who is Secretary of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Board, will lead by example 12 noon, Tuesday, May 26th, by taking a COVID-19 test at Kennedy King College, 6301 S. Halsted St.
Testing, Rev. Jackson said, is critical in “ending this nightmare.
Rev. Jackson is urging everyone to take the COVID-19 test so they will know their status to prevent additional infections
Yusef Jackson recently joined Mayor Lori Lightfoot at a press conference to announce the expanded COVID-19 test sites.
He praised her “outstanding leadership and clear communication during this crisis and for allowing” him to share the history behind the city’s partnering with Academy award-winning actor Sean Penn’s nationally acclaimed Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE) nonprofit organization that is expanding testing sites throughout the nation.
“Getting these sites up and running efficiently is truly a community effort among the city, the CORE management team and the brave and dedicated Chicagoans who are working every day,” Yusef Jackson said.
The test is administered free to you—so get your test now,” Yusef Jackson Below is a list of the city-sponsored COVID-19 testing sites.
Sometime in October, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, approved a Pilot Special Public Works Programme in the Rural Areas.
Consequently and arising from the need and desire of the Federal Government to create massive jobs at the lowest rung of the economy as well as to maintain critical public and social infrastructure at the rural base of the economy, Mr. President has approved that we also adopt and integrate this type of programme into the Nigerian economy.
The pilot programme earlier approved by Mr. President was designed to mitigate lack of job opportunities in the rural areas through a short-term engagement of One thousand (1,000) unemployed persons per Local Government Area for a period of three (3) months.
EXTENDED SPECIAL PUBLIC WORKS ACROSS THE 774 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF THE FEDERATION
You will recall that on Monday 6th of April, 2020, the Honourable Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning in a Press conference, announced the approval of Mr President for the extension of this programme to all 36 states and the FCT from October- December 2020 as a means of mitigating the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy.
Consequently, in line with Section 16(1) of the N.D.E Act, I have decided to constitute special committees in each State of the Federation for the purpose of deliberating, selecting and recommending to my office the names of the 1,000 persons from each of the Local Government Areas in the States to be engaged for this programme.
ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Wednesday the state will ease its coronavirus-related restrictions for restaurants to provide outdoor dining and permit youth sports to begin, citing a decrease in hospitalizations and increase in testing.
In terms of outdoor dining for restaurants, patrons at tables must be six feet apart and no more than six people may be seated at a table.
Hours before Wednesday's press conference, Hogan announced that two more coronavirus testing sites will open this week in Prince George's County, a majority-Black jurisdiction which has the most confirmed cases in the state.
Prince George's and Montgomery counties, located in the D.C. suburbs, are the only remaining jurisdictions in the state still issuing stay-at-home orders.
Meanwhile, Alsobrooks expressed frustration that state officials failed to inform the county that a state-run testing site in Hyattsville would be closed Wednesday.
Isack Hamatwi, education director in the Ohangwena region told The Namibian yesterday the situation is worrisome as some of these pupils are in their final school years and commute between Angola and Namibia every day to attend school.
Hamatwi said the Covid-19 outbreak has negatively affected these pupils' schoolwork and that of the education directorate in the region.
Hamatwi said if the situation persists, the directorate would be forced to print handouts and deliver them to the border so that the affected pupils could keep up with their schoolwork.
\"Some of these pupils are Namibians who are residing at villages along the border, but they will not be allowed to commute from Angola to Namibia every day, because if they enter the country they will be subjected to 14 days of quarantine.
Deputy minister of education, arts and culture Faustina Caley on Friday at a press conference said the ministry is sending pupils back to school from tomorrow in phases to observe the situation as it unfolds.
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