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Des membres des forces de sécurité irakiennes participent au vote anticipé pour les législatives, àBagdad, le 8 octobre 2021. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP Durant les quelques mois qu’aura duré la «révolution d’octobre» 2019, sur les sit-in de Bagdad et des villes du Sud chiite, des dizaines de milliers d’Irakiens ont réclamé la tenue d’élections législatives
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Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The 2nd edition of the competition \"Tunisian Smart Cities Hackathon\" for the year 2021 started on Thursday via the video-conference platform \"zoom\".
On June 15, 2014, as part of the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, Rita Bender returned to Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Longdale, Mississippi to give an address commemorating the church’s role in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. In January 1964 Bender and her husband Mickey Schwerner went to Mississippi as field staff for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) which along with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), worked under the umbrella of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), the organization which coordinated civil rights activities in Mississippi. Rita and Mickey were assigned to Meridian, where with local people, including James Chaney, a young black activist, they established a community center and did outreach to surrounding counties on voter registration. That activity drew the attention of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan. On June 16, 1964, after the Mt. Zion Church in Longdale, Mississippi had determined to host a Freedom School, church members were beaten by the Klan, and the church was burned. Mickey and James went to Philadelphia on June 21, 1964, along with Freedom Summer volunteer Andy Goodman, to lend their support to church members. The three were arrested by the sheriff’s deputy, held in the Philadelphia jail while the Klan members assembled. They were murdered on the night of June 24, 1964. The bodies were buried in an earthen dam and not discovered by the FBI until August 4. Rita Bender’s address to Mt. Zion appears below.
Thank you for your stalwart support, and for inviting me to speak. This is a most appropriate place to acknowledge all of the generations of people who have stood in pursuit of full and equal national citizenship. Fifty years ago, the people of the Longdale community, including parents and grandparents of
[Nation] Allegations of fraud have clouded the award of a Sh650 million tender by the National Treasury after MPs questioned if the company that won the bid meets the mandatory requirements.
Chinese investors have been wise to the opportunities presented by Port St Johns for the past few years, as the 'new coastal city' prepares for an overhaul.
[IPS] Boston and Kuala Lumpur -- Since the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) was launched in 2006, yields have barely risen, while rural poverty remains endemic, and would have increased more if not for out-migration.
Après plus de 24 heures à un rythme lent, les concurrents espéraient un vent plus vigoureux. Le Finistère de l'Angleterre, Land's End, et sa bouée cardinale Carn Base étaient encore loin lundi après-midi pour la flotte des 34 figaristes. La nonchalance du vent et le soleil d'aplomb jouant avec leurs ardeurs. Le début de leur
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As trucks stacked up for days, Rwanda and neighboring Tanzania worked out a deal that scrapped plans for relay drivers but mandated transferring cargo at the border, “except for trucks carrying perishable goods and petroleum products destined to Rwanda,” the Kigali government said in a news release Friday.
Kenya last week began mandatory COVID-19 testing for truckers, ordering that they undergo tests 48 hours before leaving the Port of Mombasa — a shipping hub in the country’s second-largest city — or before entering Kenya from elsewhere in East Africa.
But Wednesday, a day after Kenya announced the return of more than 180 foreigners to Tanzania because of positive COVID test results, a Tanzanian regional official accused the Nairobi government of faulty testing.
Zambia also had closed its border with Tanzania for several days last week after several truck drivers, immigration officers and sex workers tested positive for COVID, Reuters reported.
Several heads of state in the EAC bloc — including Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and Salva Kiir of South Sudan — last week agreed to double testing of truckers.
Marseille took a historic step in the music industry on Thursday after the news that the French Ligue 1 club had launched a rap label alongside music industry giant BMG.
In a statement, BMG said OM Records was “a new label for hip-hop, rap and R&B” and was to be based in the city in the south of France, which has long been a major hub. hip-hop country.
To celebrate the new label, a jet black double-decker bus with some of the city’s local rap stars and DJs played music in France’s second-largest city.
“It’s good that the club is doing that,” said rapper Hollis the Infame, a lifelong Marseille fan who wears the team’s white jersey in his videos.
“I think I was a fan of Marseille even before I was born, it’s in our genes. ”
Emilie Hauck, head of A&R, told AFP that OM Records is a “50-50 joint venture” between the club and BMG and “the first time that a major in the record industry and a club like OM came together to create a label ”.
Marseille President Jacques-Henri Eyraud declared: “Marseille has been a cradle of French rap and hip-hop since the IAM collective and the links between OM and local artists have been strong for years”.
IAM has been one of the most important French rap groups since the late 1980s and has long collaborated with the iconic American group Wu-Tang Clan.
“The launch of OM Records strengthens this bond and symbolizes the club’s desire to promote the unique energy that emanates from Marseille and its inhabitants all over the world,” added Eyraud.
The new label will provide opportunities for artists and groups from “Marseille, southern France and Africa,” said Sylvain Gazaignes, BMG Managing Director for France.
The first album to be released on OM Records will be a compilation titled “Friday 13th” and will be produced by the four people behind the B18 label created in the tough neighborhoods of northern Marseille a year ago.
A year to the General Election, several politicians eyeing the presidency have been making frequent tours in Murang'a to woo voters.
Une troisième enquête fédérale sur les «modèles et pratiques» de la police d’une grande ville américaine vient d’être lancée par le ministre de la justice Merrick Garland. Il a annoncé, jeudi 5août, l’ouverture d’une enquête sur la police municipale de Phoenix, accusée d’un usage excessif de la force sur les plus vulnérables de cette grande
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The 21st Century Summer Program is free and will include academic enrichment, creative hands-on projects, character and social development, and weekly field trips. PINELLAS COUNTY - The 21st Century Summer Program is being offered at 12 Pinellas County Schools. The program hours are from 12:30-6 p.m., Monday-Thursday, June 21-July 15, and will provide summer enrichment […]
In line with the Paris Agreement of reducing carbon emissions and also supporting the global efforts to raise ambitions through the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), are developing countries ready for the realisation of the Net-Zero transition? For the majority of developing countries, realising the Net-Zero carbon budget is going to be a tough process and not just an event. Although setting targets has never been a point of success globally, many countries have to be seen either talking about the targets or actually doing it anyhow, some with the aim of accessing international green funding. In this regard, everybody wants to be seen to be relevant and seemingly conforming. Being able to control greenhouse gas emissions and live low carbon lives would mean some countries will have to forgo certain necessities and make tough choices. Many countries would falter in this regard, as they have not been known for making tough decisions for the good of their people and economies, but only for making tough decisions for oppressing their people. Indeed, it would be significant for developing countries to be seen engaging their communities on anti-emission pathways in setting out carbon budgets, which would include evidence-based initiatives for accountability purposes, bottom-up approaches that are sufficiently engaging, tolerant and accommodating, or whole economy approaches, among others, would be most appropriate. All these are ingredient pathways towards the realisation of low-carbon economies or rather Net-Zero energy transitions. Deep public engagement is required for companies, businesses and communities to work strongly towards these resilient and mitigation efforts. Multi-stakeholder and sectoral approaches would be required to foreground the activities of the energy-power sector, buildings, industries, transport, agriculture and waste management, among others. These sectors are well known for accelerating carbon emissions and greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. In order to manage these sectors, and make them sufficiently compliant, issues like economic impacts of the country, energy poverty and health issues like COVID-19 would have to be addressed for a smooth transition to take place. Many developing nations are of the view that they cannot realise the Net-Zero energy transition without funding from the International Climate Finance/Green Climate Fund. This notion would always incapacitate them as not being able to participate in climate action strategies with any foreign interventions. Obviously this takes out the overall steam and intrinsic motivation which locals might have in attempts to fight the impact of climate change. Of course, technical assistance to developing countries is required due to their lack of capacities to fight the impact of climate change, but that doesn’t stop them from making their own local arrangements or home-grown solutions towards addressing climate change. This is important in reducing the entrenched begging syndrome which has mostly left local communities
Businesses under Cassava Smartech have joined hands to launch a new agribusiness product which the group says will improve agricultural production in the country. Steward Bank is partnering with EcoCash, EcoSure, Vaya, Moovah and EcoFarmer to offer AgroFuture which would offer tailor made solutions to specific needs of the agriculture value chain. “Agriculture and food security are at the core of basic survival for the general populace across the country, hence support of agribusiness activities will certainly have a great economic and social impact,” Steward Bank chief executive, Courage Mashavave said in announcing the product. “Our product will offer solutions focused on enhancing agricultural production by providing access to finance and key innovations to farmers, rural agro-dealers, aggregators and manufacturing companies,” he said The agricultural sector in Zimbabwe employs and provides income for close to 70 percent of the country’s population. It also supplies about 60 percent of the raw materials required by the manufacturing industry. However, production in the sector has declined over the past few years due to poor farming methods, lack of information and research, changing weather patterns and inadequate financing, among other things. This has seen the country spending hundreds of millions of dollars in food and agriculture-related imports annually. Mashavave said Steward Bank had made external, strategic partnerships with the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the United States Development Finance Corporation and the International Finance Corporation to provide comprehensive and holistic solutions that leverage technology to deliver value in agriculture for the country. “AgroFuture reaffirms Steward Bank’s position as the everyday bank for everyday people, as the package has solutions for all stages of the farming process, from preparations, production to selling of the product,” he said, adding that some of the solutions Steward Bank clients should look out for include Agric Mobile, an instant account-opening service that comes with instant mobile credit, as well as Smart Insure – guaranteeing insurance cover against any loss or damage to crops, livestock and equipment. He said AgroFuture would also offer Smart Tooling Support, consisting of short-term loans to support financing of smart tools such as agriculture-focused drones, soil testing kits, drip irrigation control systems and GPS technology. It will also offer Agric Advisory Services, such as corporate finance solutions for the agriculture sector, capital-raising, mergers and acquisitions, valuations and due diligence services. In addition, AgroFuture would offer financing of the Re-Imagine Rural initiative which seeks to address the financial needs of rural and marginalised agri-based communities across the country.
[New Times] The Ministry of Environment is revising the Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy (GGCRS) that was developed ten years ago.
The deal through Microsoft’s 4Afrika initiative will support Agra’s digital transformation targeting households across 11 countries by 2021 though their grantees.
HAVANA, Cuba (CMC) — The Government of Cuba has thanked the Organization of Petroleum Exporting countries (OPEC) for supporting the economy of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean island, even as the United States continues to tighten its restrictions against the island.
Cuba's ambassador to Austria, Loipa Sanchez, during a meeting with the director general of the OPEC Fund for International Development, Dr Abdulhamid Alkhalifa, director general of the OPEC Fund for International Development, reiterated the importance that cooperation with OPEC in key sectors of the national economy such as agriculture and water resources has had for Cuba.
Since 2002, when the first agreement was signed between Cuba and the OPEC Fund for International Development, the organisation has granted 15 government concessional loans for the implementation of projects in different provinces, aimed at upgrading irrigation systems, rehabilitating electrical networks and water and sewerage systems, seven of which are currently underway.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was founded in September 1960 in Baghdad, Iraq, and is made up of 13 countries in Africa, Asia and South America, which hold 43 per cent of the world's oil production and 81 per cent of the world's reserves.
Une boutique T-Mobile à Washington, le 26 juillet 2019. ALASTAIR PIKE / AFP Après avoir lancé une enquête sur un potentiel piratage massif d’informations personnelles par un groupe de hackers, T-Mobile a confirmé, lundi 16 avril, qu’il y avait bien eu une intrusion dans son système informatique. « Un accès non autorisé à des données
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Remember these names: Ketanji Brown Jackson, Tiffany Cunningham, and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi. These are President Joseph Biden’s first three nominations for the federal Court of Appeals.
What goes around comes around even if it takes 27 years. Michelle Charles’ victory over Dr Fenton Ferguson of the People’s National Party (PNP) in St Thomas Eastern may have shocked political pundits, but the Charles family always knew they had...
