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Zomba High Court judge Zione Ntaba has suspended the arrest and further detention of Minister of Lands Kezzie Msukwa who was nabbed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday. Ntaba has questioned the manner in which Msukwa was arrested, describing it as unreasonable and meant to just embarrass him. However, ACB Director General Martha Chizuma …
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A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
[African Arguments] The new president's first 100 days have seen a combination of promising steps and worrying tendencies.
[Leadership] The Senate has commenced amendment to the Electoral Act which may make or mar future elections in Nigeria, writes SUNDAY ISUWA.
[New Zimbabwe] TRADE promotion agency, Zimtrade has urged local farmers to tap into the US$1,7 million Bambara nuts (nyimo/indlubu) export market covering countries like the USA, UK and the Netherlands among others.
COVID-19 is not just a health and economic crisis, but also a corruption crisis… Countries with high levels of corruption also relied less on democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis, leading to democratic backsliding in many regions of the world.
The article The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index appeared first on Stabroek News.
COLOMBO - Inmates who rioted at Sri Lanka's Mahara prison last month acted violently because they had ingested psychiatric drugs stolen from the prison hospital, authorities allege. Riots broke out on Nov. 29 at the high-security prison as panicked inmates tried fleeing a day after the number of Covid-19 cases exceeded 1,000. Two inmates reportedly died from the virus. Eleven […]
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Ronald Ron Kirk is the U.S. Trade Representative for U.S. President Barack Obama. Kirk was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 18, 2009, and officially sworn in two days later. Kirk is the 16th trade representative and the first African American to hold the Cabinet-level post. As trade representative, he serves as the presidents principal trade advisor, negotiator, and spokesperson. He is also responsible for the development of U.S. trade policy and the oversight of existing trade treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Kirk was born in 1954 in Austin, Texas. He received a BA degree in political science and sociology from Austin College in 1976 and then went on to the University of Texas Law School where he received a J.D. three years later. While attending law school, he accepted an internship with the Texas Legislature. After graduating, Kirk worked for Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas as an aide and later was appointed Texas Secretary of State by Texas Governor Ann Richards, also a Democrat.
In 1995, Kirk, in his first bid for public office and with major support from the local business community, ran for mayor of Dallas, Texas. He won a landslide victory, securing 62% of the vote to become mayor. During his mayoral campaign, Kirk promoted racial harmony in a city that had experienced considerable racial tension.
As mayor, Kirk promoted the development of a $230 million sports arena and a $256 million urban renewal project to revitalize the Trinity Corridor on the edge of downtown Dallas. Both projects were criticized by skeptics who claimed he promoted downtown business interests at the expense of basic city services and neighborhood development. Kirk overcame the criticism to win an overwhelming victory in his 1999 re-election bid. He defeated his opponent by a 2 to 1 margin.
In 2002 he ran unsuccessfully for the seat of retiring U.S. Republican Senator Phil Gramm. During the next six years prior to his confirmation to the Obama administration, Kirk
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen slain in 2012 whose death helped spur the Black Lives Matter Movement, says she disagrees with the “defund the police” narrative that has emerged over the last two weeks of police brutality protests.
Fulton qualified last week to run for Miami-Dade county commissioner and she has said if anything, she wants to have better relations between residents and police so defunding them, to her, wouldn’t work best.
“I don’t agree with that,” Fulton told The Guardian.
“I see people of all colors that are there, and that are standing with African Americans,” Fulton said to The Guardian.
A lot of people thought that I should run for a seat that was higher, but I just want to start here and make change.”
Recent incidents suggest that Guyana has had to deal with incidents of both ‘importation’ of expired drugs and their use of such drugs in the public health system.
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BANGOR, MAINE, USA, January 18, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Maine Mesothelioma Victims Center says, "If a Navy Veteran or person with mesothelioma in Maine want the best possible financial compensation it is extremely important- they …
John Mercer Langston, considered the first African American to be elected to public office is elected clerk of Brownhelm, Ohio township
[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted local artistes the go ahead to resume live shows but with strict conditions not to entertain more than fifty people in the venues.
Romain Grosjean told AFP he 'saw death' after he left hospital on Wednesday following his dramatic escape from a fiery high-speed crash.
Following allegations of the stealing of funds meant to cushion the impact of the recent three days lockdown enforced by the government of Sierra Leone last month, May 2020, the Anti-Corruption Commission has published a statement saying it has concluded its investigation into those allegations and found no evidence of misappropriation by public officials.
This is what the ACC says:
“The public may recall that sometime in May 2020, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) commenced investigation into allegations relating to misappropriation of public funds by officials of the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) and a staff of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), which came about from a video footage screened by the Africa Young Voices (AYV) Television on 12th May, 2020, in which, supposed beneficiaries expressed their frustrations over the payment of funds provided by the Government of Sierra Leone, to vulnerable people in the Bombali community, to cushion the effect of the three days lockdown, at 10 Arabic College Road, Makeni.
“Moreover, our investigations revealed that a Mary Kamara, also a beneficiary, residing at the 10 Arabic College Road admitted that she machinated and participated in the scheme of calling neighbours and passers-by to stand in as proxies for four registered beneficiaries who were absent on the day of the payment.
Adequate measures were not put in place to forestall corrupt activities by staff of NaCSA, its partners and the beneficiaries because of the rush to implement the safety net Cash Transfer Payment by the Government, and the sudden announcement of the pending lockdown due to Covid-19 spread fears.
“Therefore, the Commission is recommending for a review of the policies surrounding such payments as the process around it appears to be mostly ad hoc; which leaves room for corruption and corrupt practices in the list generation, payment and fraudulent activities by some disingenuous beneficiaries – as it happened in this case.
Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC) has penned the Inspector General (IG) of the Malawi Police Service, Dr. George Kainja, demanding prosecution of police officers suspected to have solicited bribes. The local human rights watchdog has given Kainja 21 days to facilitate the prosecution of the law enforcers in question before citizens can utilize their right […]
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[Nation] The wealth of top State officials -- including the President and his deputy -- will be made public if MPs accept a fresh bid to change the law on lifestyle audits.
Oscar Stanton De Priest was the first African American elected to Congress in the post-Reconstruction era. Priest’s successful election campaign to represent a district in Chicago initiated the trend of black representation in northern cities, where the Great Migration sharply increased African-American populations. De Priest was born on March 9, 1871, in Florence, Ala., to […]
Former professional football player, businessman, and diplomat, Sidney Williams was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on March 24, 1942. Raised in Houston, Texas, he attended the city’s Phillis Wheatley High School and upon graduation in 1959 enrolled at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A standout on the university’s football team, he was drafted by the Cleveland (Ohio) Browns. In his rookie season as a defensive lineman in 1964 his team won the National Football League Championship with the help of legendary running back Jim Brown. Williams also played for the Washington (D.C.) Redskins, Baltimore (Maryland) Colts, and Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Steelers. On June 4, 1967, along with other prominent African American athletes, Williams participated in a historic press conference in Cleveland to express support for boxing great Muhammad Ali, who was to stand trial for refusing to submit to the military draft.
Leaving the gridiron in 1969, Williams worked for the Black Economic Union (BEC) which focused on assisting small businesses and hopeful entrepreneurs. Williams earned a master’s degree at Pepperdine University in 1973, and from 1974 to 1976 he worked as a legislative aid and later chief of staff for Los Angeles City Councilman David S. Cunningham. In the late 1970s he was also a project manager for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency. He married then California State Assemblywoman Maxine Waters, a divorcée with two children, in 1977. In 1979, Williams joined the sales force at a Los Angeles Mercedes-Benz dealership.
Williams was not at that time generally known to be interested in politics or public office. However, in early 1994, with the backing of his wife, now U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Williams was nominated by President Bill Clinton to become the first African American ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Although the nomination was controversial because of Williams’s lack of diplomatic or political experience, eventually he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Joe Biden is on the cusp of formally securing the Democratic presidential nomination after winning hundreds more delegates in primary contests that tested the nation’s ability to run elections while balancing a pandemic and sweeping social unrest.
On Tuesday, voters across America were forced to navigate curfews, health concerns and National Guard troops — waiting in line hours after polls closed in some cases — after election officials dramatically reduced the number of in-person voting sites to minimize the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
Voting rights watchdogs in multiple states on Tuesday expressed concerns about access to mail ballots, confusion about deadlines and a shortage of poll workers that led to long lines.
Two other states holding primary elections on Tuesday, Idaho and Iowa, chose their presidential nominee early in the year.
In a New Mexico race for an open House seat, ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame lost the Democratic primary to attorney Teresa Leger Fernandez, a professional advocate for Native American communities and voting rights issues.
NEW DELHI - Indian authorities are not investigating the 'grave human rights violations' allegedly committed by the police during February riots in New Delhi, human ...
Vivian Leona Caver is a civil rights activist in Seattle, Washington. She directed the Seattle Human Rights Commission between 1975 and 1981, and served briefly in the Washington State Legislature in 1994. Caver was born Vivian Leona Mead in 1928, in Jackson, Tennessee. Her mother Christine was a social worker for the YMCA, YWCA, and USO. Her father, Kenneth, who pursued a Ph.D. at the University of Washington, was a high school principal and a college dean.
Caver graduated from Garfield High School in 1946, and then attended Morgan State College in Baltimore, Maryland, and the University of Washington in Seattle. While she was a student at UW in the late 1940s, she worked for the Seattle Urban League as it sought to integrate the workforce of Seattle department stores. Through the League, she became the second black woman on the sales floor at Frederick and Nelsons. She finished her college degree in Germany, where she married Monroe Starkey Caver in 1954.
In the mid-1960s, Vivian Caver established race relations councils in white neighborhoods with a goal of opening housing to ethnic minorities. The groups petitioned the Seattle City Council to endow the City with the authority to investigate housing discrimination claims. The City Council passed an ordinance in 1968 to establish a Human Rights Commission, and Caver was hired that year. She was promoted in two years to assistant director, and, in 1975, to director. From 1981 to 1993, she served as administrator for the Girl Scouts of Western Washington.
In 1986 and 1990, Caver campaigned for Washington State Representative, for the 37th Legislative District, Position no. 1. She lost both times in the Democratic primaries. But in January 1994, she was appointed to Position no. 2 after it was vacated by Gary Locke, who had been elected King County Executive. Her appointment ended after she lost the Democratic primary in November 1994.
Today, Caver is the chair of Women in Unity, an organization of black women that evaluates candidates for public
The PPP today slammed a report submitted to GECOM by Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield on the March 2nd recount of votes as ultra vires and in excess of his authority.
An edited statement by the PPP follows:
The Chief Election Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Keith Lowenfield, has submitted Matrices for the recount of the 10 Electoral Districts and a Summary of the Observation Reports for each district, along with required attachments, pursuant to the gazette Order made by GECOM, under which the national recount of ballots were done.
The relevant portions of the Order reads:
“The matrices for the recount of the ten (10) Electoral Districts shall then be tabulated by the Chief Election Officer and be submitted in a report, together with a summary of the observation reports for each District, to the Commission on or before 13th day of June 2020.”
It is clear from the above that Lowenfield has no power or authority or any mandate to offer a view, opinion or judgement of any type, either in the Observation Report or the Matrices to be tabulated.
It is clear that GECOM is enjoined by the law and the Constitution to ignore every aspect of Lowenfield’s Report, other than the General Elections Recount Totals and the Regional Elections Recount Totals.
LIFE in Zimbabwe public office seems the most secure thing, no one makes anyone accountable, workers can embezzle and divert funds and be certain to walk away with it. Is it not time that President Emmerson Mnangagwa cracks the whip?
The post A clean out urgently needed appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
Sharon Pratt Dixon was born on January 30, 1944 in Washington, D.C. to parents Carlisle Pratt and Mildred (Petticord) Pratt. Carlisle was a Washington, D.C. Superior Court Judge. Mildred Pratt died of breast cancer when Sharon was four years old. Pratt’s father played a major role in her life by instilling certain values and encouraging her commitment to public service. Sharon Pratt attended public schools in Washington, D.C. and graduated with honors from Roosevelt High School in 1961.
Although she initially wanting to pursue an acting career, her father persuaded Pratt to attend Howard University where in 1965 she received a B.A. degree in Political Science. She then enrolled in Howard University’s School of Law. While in law school, she married Arrington Dixon in 1966 who later became a Washington, D.C. city councilmember. In 1968 Dixon earned her law degree and gave birth to their first daughter, Aimee Arrington Dixon. A second daughter, Drew Arrington Dixon, was born in 1970.
After she completed law school Dixon initially worked in private practice from 1971- 1976 where she was an associate in her father’s law firm, Pratt and Queen. Dixon focused on the rights of children in custodial cases, provided legal representation for juveniles, and became a leader in the emerging area of family rights law. In 1972, Dixon was named a Professor of Law at the Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C., a post she held for four years.
In 1976, Dixon began working for Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO), the utility company for the Washington, D.C. area. Eventually becoming Vice President of Public Policy, Dixon was both the first woman and the first African American to hold this position. During her term, she created new programs to improve low-income D.C. residents and senior citizens. She also created new employment opportunities for Washington, D.C. residents by launching satellite branches of PEPCO.
Dixon was actively involved in the Democratic Party. In 1977 she was elected as the Democratic
NNPA Newswire — First came the testimony and closing arguments – Congress members laid out a four-year reign of terror that was Donald Trump’s presidency. Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia First came the testimony and closing arguments – Congress members laid out a four-year reign of terror that was Donald Trump’s […]
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[Nairobi News] Deputy President William Ruto has publicly called out opposition leader Raila Odinga whom he considers his main political opponent ahead of the 2022 general elections.
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 July 2021: Since the publication of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) reports into corruption and mismanagement of public assets by former APC government ministers and officials, and the ensuing Court hearings, questions have been asked about whether the government of president Bio is serious about ensuring [Read More]
Wing Chong Luke is a pioneer in Asian American politics. In 1962, at the age of 37, Luke, despite an active smear campaign, became the first person of Asian ancestry elected to public office in the Pacific Northwest and the first person of color elected to the Seattle City Council. Prior to his election, Luke served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Washington.
Throughout his career, Luke fought for Indian fishing rights, fair land and employment laws, historic and cultural preservation of the Pike Place Market, Pioneer Square, the schooner Wawona, and the Seattle waterfront. Most of all, Luke fought for civil rights to improve the quality of life for all people. He was particularly involved in the campaign to end racial discrimination in housing in the early 1960s, both as Assistant Attorney General and as a member of the Seattle City Council.
In 1963 as the only non-white member of the City Council, Luke introduced the citys first open housing legislation, and one of the first laws of its type in the nation, that allowed people of color to live in any part of the city they wanted to and could afford. Although this measure was repealed in a bitterly fought referendum the next year, it initiated a much wider civil rightrs and political campaign that would eventually make Seattle one of the most racially integrated cities in the nation by the 1980s.
During WWII, Luke served in the U.S. Army. Soon afterwards, while he was serving in the military, his family was forced out of their Roosevelt laundry business/home when the landlady tripled the rent. This incident deeply offended Luke and affirmed his commitment to work for social justice.
Luke was admired for his intelligence and wit. According to a 1965 Argus poll, in which he earned an 80 percent approval rating, Luke was the most popular local politician and was actively touted for mayor. Unfortunately, his promising career ended at age 40 in a plane crash in the Cascade Mountains. The Seattle Public School’s Wing Luke Elementary
