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The late minister Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu's memorial service was postpone to Monday, 25 January 2021 as per his family's wishes.
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.
After releasing a song for her "light skin baddies," DaniLeigh had Twitter users confused about why she was referring to herself as "yellow bone." Some even think the song was an attempt at throwing shade toward her boyfriend DaBaby's ex, MeMe, who is a Black woman of a darker complexion.
By CANDICE CHOI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) _ COVID-19 vaccines have begun shipping in the U.S. after getting emergency authorization, setting off the nation's biggest ever vaccination push. But supplies are expected to be limited for some time. The first wave of shipments is going to health care workers and nursing home residents. Officials […]
The post EXPLAINER: How much COVID-19 vaccine will be shipped in US appeared first on Voice and Viewpoint.
Requiring witness signatures on mail-in ballots. Needing government-issued photo identification to vote. Limiting mailed ballot drop-off locations to one per county.
The post Efforts to Block the Vote Concern CSUN Poly Sci Professor appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
[allAfrica] As of November 08, the confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries have reached 1,870,224. Reported deaths in Africa have reached 44,845 and 1,577,213 recoveries.
By Miriam Levine Helbok “I’m bored already,” I heard the woman sitting next to me say under her breath, after writing four letters during a Vote Forward get-out-the vote letter-writing klatch ...
The Transport Authority is giving persons more time to submit a police record as part of the application process for the 80 taxi routes that were re-opened recently.\tThe deadline to submit an application for a route is November 20, 2020,...
Major leaguesocceris growing within the United States. This week, the D.C. United team announcedit will appoint Danita Johnson as their new President of Operations. This move would make Johnson the first Black woman to become president of a major league soccer team in the country. […]
The post Meet The First Black Woman To Become President of a Major League Soccer Team appeared first on The New York Beacon.
By Burster Iyere - Nigeria is tethering on the verge of a total break-down of law and order occasioned by a cocktail of combustible mix of a brutal insurgency, banditry in the Northeast and Northwest, communal killings in Southern part of Kaduna State, kidnappings on industrial scale, incessant armed robbery, bloody Fulani herdsmen and farmers clashes […]
The post TEARS, SORROW, BLOOD AND DEATHS IN NIGERIA: THE NEW NORMAL appeared first on African Voice Newspaper.
As states, municipalities and agencies continue grappling with the economic impacts of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, the West Valley Water District Board of Directors has taken what most consider a prudent and responsible approach to the agency’s 2020-2021 budget by approving $416,000 in cost savings and no water rate increases.
Board President Channing Hawkins who stewarded the budget’s approval, gave credit to the agency’s management team for working together and making the hard choices required while also prioritizing investments in the agency’s infrastructure.
“In the face of a pandemic and economic crisis,” Hawkins continued, “this budget delivers on our promise to increase fiscal responsibility and accountability.”
Speaking to the agency’s proactive approach to budget management WVWD Board Vice President Kyle Crowther shared, “I am pleased that we were able to identify funding for critical projects to enhance services across our Water District.
I am proud of the work our management team has done to ensure that we have a budget that keeps water flowing.”
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[ANGOP] Luanda -- Cooperation between Angola and Turkey may contribute to reversing the import scenario and boost national production, the participants at the Business Forum between the two countries said Monday in Luanda.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -- Commonwealth secretary-general Patricia Scotland says domestic violence is costing countries more than they realise
Faced with mounting cases of the coronavrirus, Tunisia on Monday sought to reinforce restrictions to control the spread of the disease, while avoiding a fresh lockdown.
Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi said that security agencies had been given orders to enforce the wearing of masks and other measures.
\"The measures we are taking have the objective of avoiding a situation of lockdown and also to preserve the health of the citizens\", Mechichi said.
Travelers are also required to present negative Covid-19 tests on arrival in the country. Tunisia is careful not to disrupt its tourism sector again, which is already reeling from heavy losses.
The strict measures adopted through Spring deepened the economic crisis, with unemployment soaring above 18 percent.
After easing restrictions in June, the north African country has seen an increase in virus cases, recording up to 20 fatalities per day, according to the ministry of health.
As South Africans prepare for the finale of 2020, News24 took to the streets of Johannesburg to find out what lessons Joburgers had learnt this year.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Hollywood celebrities, musicians and politicians gathered in front of the golden casket of George Floyd at a fiery memorial Thursday for the man whose death at the hands of police sparked global protests, with a civil rights leader declaring it is time for black people to demand, “Get your knee off our necks!”
The service — the first in a series of memorials set for three cities over six days — unfolded at a sanctuary at North Central University as a judge a few blocks away set bail at $750,000 each for the three fired Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting murder in Floyd’s death.
Floyd, a 46-year-old out-of-work bouncer, died May 25 after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, put his knee on Floyd’s neck for several minutes as he lay handcuffed on the pavement, gasping that he couldn’t breathe.
After the Minneapolis event, his body will go to Raeford, North Carolina, where he was born, for a public viewing and private family service on Saturday.
In the U.S., where protests had been marked by bouts of lawlessness earlier in the week, relative quiet continued for a second straight night Wednesday following a decision by prosecutors to charge the three other Minneapolis officers at the scene and file a new, more serious count of murder against Chauvin.
By DEB RIECHMANN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden has had his first look as president-elect at the President's Daily Brief, a top secret summary of U.S. intelligence and world events — a document former first lady Michelle Obama has called 'The Death, Destruction, and Horrible Things Book.' Biden has already had eyes on different iterations of the so-called PDB, which is tailored to the way each president likes to absorb information. More than a decade ago, Biden read President George W. Bush's PDB during Biden's transition into the vice presidency. After that, he read […]
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Joe Biden sought to defend his Washington record on a wide range of issues in an interview Friday with New York radio host Charlamagne tha God before joking at the end: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.”
Patrick Gaspard, who was an aide to former President Barack Obama and U.S. ambassador to South Africa, said on MSNBC that Biden was in “no position to determine who was Black enough or not.”
“The comments made at the end of the Breakfast Club interview were in jest,” Sanders tweeted, “but let’s be clear about what the VP was saying: he was making the distinction that he would put his record with the African American community up against Trump’s any day.
She continued: “Vice President Biden spent his career fighting alongside and for the African American community.
Trump, who has a long and notorious history of racism, won just 8% of the Black vote four years ago and remains deeply all HuffPost superfans!
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Nicol�s Maduro's political alliance claimed a sweeping victory yesterday in congressional elections boycotted by the most influential opposition politicians and widely criticized internationally as being fraudulent.
By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper Vice President Biden did the right thing both for himself and for the country in selecting Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Although she was not this paper’s first choice, the choice was not one based on a question of qualifications. […]
Women scientists have a vital part to play in scientific leadership and in contributing to Africa's development and transformation.
Gender disparities persist in the scientific workforce, largely leaving women scientists in junior positions with little responsibility and power to make decisions, as well as limited leadership opportunities.
To track and monitor women's representation, the African Development Bank's gender equality index captures progress on the appointment of women to posts of responsibility.
The African Union Kwame Nkrumah Awards for Scientific Excellence Programme honours two outstanding African women scientists from each of Africa's five geographical regions.
This programme promotes scientific development, encourages perseverance in research or academic careers, nurtures ambition, and raises the profile of science and technology innovation so that it contributes to Africa's development.
In Ukraine, public auctions have a wild side - offering lions and bears - in the country's first case of confiscating wild animals. The animals are being 'auctioned' for free because there is no way [...]
Dear Editor,
I had, in a previous letter, posited the view that the APNU+AFC is doing a great disservice to its members and supporters by promoting a narrative that it has won the March 2, 2020 elections when the entire democratic world know otherwise.
The article President Granger should gracefully accept the will of the electorate appeared first on Stabroek News.
BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA Energy deputy minister Magna Mudyiwa said Zimbabwe has adopted a Sustainable Development Goal which will see more people have accessed to cheap solar electricity by 2030.Addressing delegates during a renewable energy webinar yesterday, Mudyiwa said solar energy will provide the cheapest source of electricity for many of the 600 million people across Africa who cannot access electricity today. She said to date, Africa, a continent with the richest solar resources in the world, has installed only around five gigawatts (GW) of solar energy. “The rate at which we as a continent are able to harness and unlock this transformative renewable resource remains a big challenge which each one of you should reflect on throughout the discourse of this conference and every other conference of this nature,” Mudyiwa said. “Globally, the issue of energy access is topical. The United Nations Sustainable Energy for All Programme which has now been adopted as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG7) has targets of universal access for all by 2030. This target has been embraced by most of the Sadc countries, Zimbabwe included,” she said. Mudyiwa said Zimbabwe currently has a national electrification rate of 42%. While electricity has reached 83% of urban households, rural electrification rate is still around 13% as per National Energy Policy of 2012, however, these figures might have gone up. She urged policymakers to address the persistent lack of access to electricity and clean cooking, and the unreliability of electricity supply, which have acted as brakes on the continent’s development and meeting the energy needs of Africa’s population in full. “Policymakers alone cannot shoulder the immense investment requirements necessary to ensure that the security of energy supply is guaranteed,” Mudyiwa said. “We need to come together as bureaucrats, technocrats, investors and private players to realise this goal of universal access to clean energy for all.” She added: “I believe the continent also require investors in installing renewable energy-based power plants as well as upgrading and construction of power transmission and distribution lines to make sure the produced electricity reaches the consumers more efficiently. “Apart from renewable energy resources, we have large deposits of lithium in the country, a key component in battery manufacturing. It is time we should explore the quantities and set up manufacturing plants for batteries in order to complete the renewable energy transition.” She said another energy storage technique is to use solar plants to supply power during the day and only switch to large hydropower at night when the other intermittent technologies would have dropped.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will answer questions in the National Assembly on the steps government has taken in the fight against state capture.
Presidents from five West African countries are stepping up efforts to end a crisis in Mali which threatens to topple the President of that troubled country. The five regional leaders, Malian government officials and members [...]
[Nation] The impeachment of Nairobi governor Mike Sonko will be considered by an 11-member special committee of the Senate.
England have taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in their three-match T20I series against the Proteas.
