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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.
Romain Grosjean told AFP he 'saw death' after he left hospital on Wednesday following his dramatic escape from a fiery high-speed crash.
Sherry D. Harris was the first out black lesbian elected to public office in 1991 in the United States. This also gave her the distinction of being the first African American woman on the Seattle City Council in Washington State.
Harris was born on February 27, 1957 in Newark, New Jersey to a single mom, Dorothy Harris. An only child, she grew up in this community’s ghetto. She recalled witnessing the 1967 riots there. Dorothy Harris became her daughter’s role model with her emphasis on contributing to society and active community involvement.
Harris received a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Factors Engineering (Ergonomic Engineering) from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1978. She moved to Seattle shortly thereafter. As an engineer, she worked for Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company and Boeing. She engaged extensively in neighborhood activism through such organizations as Maple Leaf Community Club, Northwest Women’s Law Center, Association of Lesbian Professionals of Seattle, and Greater Seattle Business Association. She was appointed to five city boards and commissions in the 1980s.
In 1991, Harris ran for political office in Seattle. She became the first candidate endorsed by the then newly-founded Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, a national organization supporting LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Queer) persons in politics. By a 70% majority, Harris defeated the 24-year incumbent, Sam Smith, who had been the first African American elected to the Seattle City Council. She served as an at-large City Council member from 1992 to 1995.
Harris chaired the Council’s Housing, Health, Human Services and Education Committee and served on the Transportation and Utilities Committees. She sponsored or co-sponsored several gay-positive initiatives. She also helped to raise over $1 million to fight anti-gay ordinances in the state. Growing up in Newark with its poverty and lack of investment spurred her to promote downtown Seattle projects like the expansion of the Washington State Convention and
Over a period of less than two months, public pronouncements by heads of key regional development support organizations including Head of the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr.
The article Pushing back against official corruption appeared first on Stabroek News.
The authorities are trying to reduce tension at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre where prisoners have gone on a hunger strike in protest of the death of an inmate during an altercation with correctional officers last Saturday. The...
The Managing Director of Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company, Marilyn Amobi, has continued to run and direct her private company in the United Kingdom, in what is clearly a contravention of Nigeria's code of conduct for public officers, PREMIUM TIMES can report.
A whistle-blower first alerted PREMIUM TIMES to Ms Amobi's continued running of the UK-based company as well as a version of it in Nigeria.
Against the law
Nigeria's constitution prescribes code of conduct for public officers, including those in publicly-controlled companies, such as NBET.
Ms Amobi was appointed NBET boss in 2016 and re-appointed this May by President Muhammadu Buhari
Nigerian records of ESL seen by PREMIUM TIMES indicate that Ms Amobi remains a director of the company in Nigeria, which she registered alongside a family member, Ifeoma Amobi, in 2012.
'Company inactive'
A representative, whom Ms Amobi asked to speak with PREMIUM TIMES following our text to her, said the \"company has not been working,\" but did not deny NBET's boss active management.
The Bertram Collins College of Public Service which was shut down recently is set to be used as a secretariat for the government’s scholarship programmes.
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Poet Marumbo Sichinga is part of the 30 country representatives set to battle it out in the Africa Cup of Slam Poetry that takes place every two years. The first edition was in N’Djamena, Chad, in 2018 with 20 countries competing and Senegal emerging as the winner. The second edition was supposed to take place …
The post Poet Marumbo Sichinga in Africa Cup Slam Poetry contest appeared first on The Times Group Malawi.
Cora Mae Brown was part of a generation of African American women who translated their community work into political struggle during the first half of the twentieth century. Born in 1914 in Bessemer, Alabama, Brown’s family migrated to Detroit, Michigan when she was eight years old. There she was nurtured by a lively community of female activists who encouraged her to attend Fisk University after her graduation from Cass Technical High School. At Fisk she studied with the renowned sociologist, E. Franklin Frazier, and graduated with a degree in sociology.
Upon her return to Detroit Brown obtained one of the few white-collar jobs available to black women in Detroit’s public sector, as a social worker in the Women’s Division of the Police Department. Working closely with the community during the Great Depression and into the war years, Brown aided and encouraged young African American women during a tumultuous time. In the early 1940s Brown began attending Wayne State University Law School. Upon her graduation in 1948 Brown began to explore the possibility of running for public office. The 1940s had seen an increasingly powerful political coalition between organized labor and civil rights advocates in Detroit. Brown hoped to take advantage of this alliance.
Brown’s first two runs for office, the Michigan Senate in 1950 and 1951, were unsuccessful. In 1952, however, she became the first African American women to serve in the Michigan State Senate where she supported legislation for fair housing and equal employment. Brown served two terms in the Senate as a pioneer in civil rights. She then attempted to reach the halls of Congress by running for the House of Representatives in 1956. After losing her race, Brown was appointed as the special associate general counsel of the U.S. Post Office in 1957, where she served the remainder of her working life.
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Eight men who are suspected to be part of a syndicate that hijacks trucks in Gauteng were arrested on Tuesday.
Did Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi agree to indemnify British Queen's Counsel Vincent Nelson from civil and criminal prosecution in return for a notarised statement, and for Nelson to provide his personal bank records? According to a signed document, Al-Rawi purportedly did so on behalf of the Government. There were also certain promises made which included not making any disclosure of the information to any criminal investigator, prosecuting authority, tax enforcement authority, or disciplinary authority outside TT. It was agreed that […]
Former public enterprises minister Lynne Brown has told the State Capture Commission when she took over the portfolio, Eskom was R180 billion in the red
www.okcfox.com By Cassidy Mudd An Oklahoma Democrat will go down in history, not only as the first Muslim to serve in the Oklahoma Legislature but as the first non-binary legislator in the United States. Criminal justice reform activist and community organizer, Mauree Turner, takes House District 88 in the 2020 election. House District 88 is […]
[South Africa] Fellow South Africans,
Government has faced two legal challenges to its ban on the sale of alcohol – one by SAB and the second by wine sector body Vinpro.
After being held for two days in police custody, former Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) Trevor Benn was charged on Friday with misconduct in public office over the lease of land at Ogle.
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By Readawne Henery
Clairmont Mingo, GECOM’s District Four Returning Officer and two other elections workers were yesterday granted bail at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on indictable charges of fraud surrounding the controversial March 2nd general elections.
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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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The Bonteheuwel parents, arrested in November for the murder of their eight-month-old son, made a brief appearance in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
