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Uganda: Why FDC Is Delaying Party Polls
Mr Nathan Nandala Mafabi, who had challenged Gen Muntu for the party presidency, had insisted that though Article 32 of the party constitution provides that the "term of office for all party officials shall be five years renewable only once", Gen Muntu serves out only what had remained of Dr
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Africa: Compendium of New Research Celebrates African Solutions to National and Global Problems
A new major publication - the Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics - contains many important chapters that make the same point on a wide variety of
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12 charged in St Thomas for breaching public gathering ban
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N’Djamena, Chad (1900- )
N’Djamena is the capital and largest city of Chad. It was founded in 1900 following the French Army’s defeat of Rabih Al-Zubayr, a slave trader, in the Battle of Kousseri. Following the military victory, the French named the settlement Fort Lamy after Amédée-François Lamy, a French army
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All honest and fair-minded Guyanese must take a stand on this nightmare - Stabroek News
Dear Editor, What the caretaker President and party are playing out cannot be taken lightly. The article All honest and fair-minded Guyanese must take a stand on this nightmare appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Nigeria: Edo 2020 - INEC Approves Direct Primary for APC, Indirect for PDP
The electoral commission, INEC, has approved direct primary for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to select its candidate for the September 19 governorship election in Edo
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Definition of Gerrymander
To gerrymander is to draw the boundaries of electoral districts in an irregular way so as to create an unfair advantage for a particular political party or
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PPP/C declared winner on Guyana elections | New York Carib News
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Protests in DRC over Bill to reform justice
The Bill proposes to have the office of the prosecution answer to the Ministry of Justice, a situation opposed by political parties and the national union of
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Georgetown Chamber urges all parties to support timely completion of recount
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry which is an accredited observer at the National Recount of votes today urged all parties to support the rapid conclusion of the recount
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NYPD officer in 'chokehold' video had prior brutality case
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer removed from duty after he was recorded putting a man in what the police commissioner said was a banned chokehold once faced criminal charges alleging he pistol-whipped a teenage suspect and broke two of his
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LeBron James And Other Stars Form A Voting Rights Group | The Oklahoma Eagle
Invoking the names of an earlier generation of athletes who called for social justice, Mr. James, a forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, said he wanted to be a model for future
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Congress weighs choice: 'Go big' on virus aid or hit 'pause'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is at a crossroads in the coronavirus crisis, wrestling over whether to “go big,” as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants for the next relief bill, or hit “pause,” as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
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GOD SQUAD - Party full of pastors to challenge JLP, PNP
ALMOST 80 per cent of the candidates who have formed Jamaica’s newest political party are pastors, and the man behind the movement is confident that they will win the next general
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Western envoys: `Important for all stakeholders to uphold integrity of recount process and peacefully accept wishes of Guyanese'
Western envoys: `Important for all stakeholders to uphold integrity of recount process and peacefully accept wishes of
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Liberia: Civil Society Organizations At Odds Over Changing Mid-Term Elections Date to December
The Election Coordinating Committee of Mr. Oscar Bloh and the Liberia Election Observation Network (LEON) represented by Mr. Augustine Tamba and Mr. Amose Williams were in
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Our dad was shot right in front of us – family of Umlazi councillor speaks out
Ward 84 councillor Bhekithemba Phungula, who was also an ANC branch chairperson, died in a hail of bullets as unknown assailants opened fire on him at his home in eNgonyameni, south of Durban, on Tuesday
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NYPD officer in ‘chokehold’ video had prior brutality case
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Body of St Thomas fisherman pulled from sea
A search by the Marine Police in St Thomas for a fisherman suspected to have drowned in the Roselle area has ended in tragedy. The body of 20-year-old Renaldo Rennie of White Horses in the parish was fished from the sea in the community this...
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Black America’s Conflicted History with the Insurrection Act
Cotton appeared on Fox News where he offered, “[I]f necessary, the president should use the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military forces to these cities to support our local law enforcement and ensure that this violence ends tonight . . .not one more
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Lawyers in Guyana condemn attacks on CCJ ahead of todays ruling | New York Carib News
The Bar Council of the Association of Guyana (BAR) has called on all political parties and other stakeholders to respect the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), which is due to deliver its ruling that could have an effect on the official results of the disputed March 2 regional and
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Uganda
The National Resistance Army (NRA), an anti-Obote group led by Yoweri Museveni, kept fighting after it had been excluded from the new regime. It seized Kampala on Jan. 29, 1986, and Museveni was declared president. Museveni has transformed the ruins of Idi Amin and Milton Obotes Uganda into an
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Trump Defends White Teen Who Killed Black Lives Matter Protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin
President Donald Trump wasted no time defending the Kenosha teenager who is charged with shooting three protesters, killing two and injuring a third.
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GECOM needs to clear the air as often as necessary on the recount
Having observed the varying perspectives put forward by the political parties as to what the National Recount exercise entails the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has the responsibility to ensure the society is knowledgeable of events as they
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Malawi holds presidential re-run
Malawians return to the polls on Tuesday for the second time in just over a year to vote for a new president after Peter Mutharika's re-election was annulled over
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Ex-Lesotho PM paid killers R400 000 to murder estranged wife: police
Lesotho's former prime minister Thomas Thabane and his wife paid assassins a down payment of $24 000 (about R400 000) to kill his estranged wife Lipolelo three years ago, according to a police affidavit seen on
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Protests Shift to Memorializing Floyd Amid Push for Change | Afro
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Man awarded $3m after cops seize, sell car
Michael Thompson tried on several occasions to prove that he was the legitimate owner of a 2006 Toyota Allion motor car that was involved in an accident in 2016 and was in the custody of the Constant Spring
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Nothing Will Change Until We Do
I am angry because I am tired of seeing Black people in America continually be subject to the same behaviors by those in “positions of
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‘It nuh fair !’ - Residents of Golden Grove Meadows bemoan exorbitant light bills from JPS
As if their struggle with a sewage issue in their neighbourhood isn’t enough of a burden, the recently relocated ex-sugar workers and their families at Golden Grove Meadows in St Thomas are bemoaning exorbitant light bills, which they say have resulted in numerous disconnections over the past few
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