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Le Français Clément Champoussin, vainqueur de la 20e étape du Tour d’Espagne, samedi 4 septembre. MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP Clément Champoussin a trouvé un ultime souffle, un ultime surplus d’énergie pour s’envoler vers la victoire, samedi 4septembre, sur la 20e et avant-dernière étape du Tour d’Espagne. Il a attaqué à moins de deux kilomètres de
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\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
Having travelled through three countries on her way to Jamaica from China, where she was pursuing a degree in agriculture engineering, Akara Goldson was left shocked and disoriented at the news that she could not board her final flight. The 24-...
Right heres what that you must know: Teams gathered outdoors the White Home in help of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Saturday.Credit score…Anna Moneymaker for The New York Occasions…
By DEB RIECHMANN and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that Sudan will start to normalize ties with Israel, making it the third Arab state to do so as part of U.S.-brokered deals in the run-up to Election Day. The deal, which would deepen Sudan's engagement with the West, follows Trump's conditional agreement this week to remove the North African nation from the list of state sponsors of terrorism if it pays compensation to American victims of terror attacks. It also delivers a foreign policy achievement for Trump just days before the U.S. election […]
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Algerians approved a revised version of the North African country's constitution with two thirds of votes cast, the electoral commission said Monday, after record low turnout in the previous day's referendum.
The vote had widely been seen as a regime manoeuvre to neutralise the Hirak protest movement, which at its peak had swept long-time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power.
The Hirak had called for a boycott of the referendum.
The revised text passed with 66.8 percent of the vote, National Independent Elections Authority (ANIE) chief Mohamed Charfi told a news conference, noting that the exercise took place in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
Charfi had earlier announced turnout of just 23.7 percent, a historic low for a major vote.
The regime \"wanted to break the momentum of the Hirak by reducing its demands to a minimal revision of the constitution\", Algeria expert Hasni Abidi told the press.
\"The people massively rejected this and placed the regime at a dead end.\"
The plebiscite took place in the absence of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who is hospitalised overseas after reported cases of the Covid-19 illness among his staff.
Tebboune had been elected in December in a poll with a turnout of just under 40 percent, the lowest in a presidential election since independence from France in 1962.
Said Salhi, deputy president of the Algerian Human Rights League, said Sunday's low turnout was \"a victory for the Hirak\".
\"The regime must take note of its failure and reconsider its roadmap,\" he tweeted. \"The process of democratic transition is the solution.\"
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The Hirak, whose unprecedented mass rallies toppled Tebboune's predecessor Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April 2019, had pressed on with months of mass demonstrations to demand deep reforms to the ruling system. The coronavirus pandemic forced their suspension in March.
Tebboune has pitched the tweaked constitution as meeting the movement's demands, rhetoric echoed by Charfi on Monday.
\"The fact that the people were able to express themselves in total independence was another step in the construction of the new Algeria which began with the blessed Hirak,\" he said.
But despite the conciliatory words, the build-up to the vote saw a string of arrests and court rulings against pro-Hirak activists, social media users and journalists, with around 90 currently behind bars, according to the CNLD, a prisoners' support group.
State media heavily covered the \"yes\" campaign, while the \"no\" camp was banned from holding meetings.
The revised constitution itself was written by a committee of experts handpicked by the regime, and keeps key appointments in the hands of the president.
While it nominally enshrines a list of social and political rights, experts say it provides no guarantees.
The RCD, the main secular opposition party, warned that \"persisting on this path and promulgating a constitution rejected by 86.3 percent of voters amounts to opening the way to disorder which could carry all sorts of dangers.\"
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Dr. Rashae Kapree Barnes began her career as an English teacher but soon began to gravitate toward her passion for media and entertainment.
[Vanguard] A Trade Expert, Dr Sand Mba-Kalu, has said that the outcome of the US election will increase the chances of WTO DG hopeful, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and belives she would address critical pending issues and bring a comprehensive reform in the organisation.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Facing financial difficulties aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic, the southern African nation of Zambia appears headed... View Article
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Alabama voters reversed themselves from a few years ago and removed racist vestiges of segregation from the state constitution that courts long ago ruled unconstitutional. Rhode Island did a similar a U-turn to eradicate the word “plantations” from the state’s official name. In a year when discussions of racial justice have dominated U.S. society like […]
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domnicky/iStockBy RAHMA AHMED, ABC News (SALT LAKE CITY) - Two years to the day after the brutal murder of University of Utah athlete Lauren McCluskey, her parents, Jill and Matt…
FIFA SECRETARY General Fatma Samoura has been inducted into the International Women’s Forum (IWF) Hall...
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[DW] Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has declared war on the TPLF, a paramilitary force in the country's Tigray region. Abiy's allies accuse TPLF of soaring division, while Tigray leaders view Abiy as monopolizing power.
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green says that a comprehensive report on the current levels of rainfall and the effect on the sector will be brought to the House of Representatives next week.
[Vanguard] Barrister Emeka Emekesiri is the presumed founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. He is the spokesman and counsel of the Supreme Council of Elders of IPOB, which formed the customary government of IPOB. He speaks on the original philosophy of IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu's incursion. He also explains why Igbo presidency is not a solution to Biafra agitation and the Biafra case against Nigeria still pending in the court of appeal.
President Trumps establishes the 1776 Commission to counteract media attempts to showcase America's history of systemic racism by promoting \"patriotic\" education.
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It is unfortunate that even after being the Chairman for the G77 + China and hearing the UN Secretary General’s six-point climate action plan for a sustainable recovery, that Guyana did not take advantage of the opportunity to start a successful discussion on how to leverage its oil and gas assets without negatively impacting the climate.
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The election in Ivory Coast on Saturday was \"not fair\" due to the opposition's boycott and the violence around the vote, the Carter Center has said as a growing number of victims were reported in clashes around the country.
At least five people died on Saturday in the southern regions and four more were reported dead in Toumodi on Monday as their house was set on fire amid post-election violence.
The country is awaiting the result of the presidential election which should be announced soon. It's expected that president Alassane Ouattara will win a controversial third term.
The opposition has boycotted the vote and called for civil unrest.
According to the Carter Center, the political and sanitary context did not allow for a competitive and fair presidential election.
Ouattara's opponents say his bid is unconstitutional because according to Ivorian law, presidents can only serve two terms.
Ouattara, who is 78, announced his bid after his chosen successor died unexpectedly in July and claims the new constitution, approved in 2016, allows him to run again.
Colombo - An unprecedented surge in air pollution in Sri Lanka over the past week is being blamed on winds from India's peninsular region blowing in high levels of bad air. The recent high pollution [...]
EVERY so often, a pandemic emerges that dramatically alters human society. The Black Death (1347-1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there’s COVID-19. GUEST COLUMN: SHADRECK CHIRIKURE Archaeologists have long studied diseases in past populations. To do so, they consider a wide array of evidence: settlement layout, burials, funerary remains, and human skeletons. For example, because of archaeologists we know that the damaging impact of epidemics prompted the abandonment of settlements at Akrokrowa in Ghana during the early 14th century. About 76 infant burial sites at an abandoned settlement that now forms part of the Mapungubwe World Heritage site in the Limpopo Valley of South Africa suggest a pandemic hit the people living there after 1000 AD. Archaeological and historical insights also expose some of the strategies that societies adopted to deal with pandemics. These included burning settlements as a disinfectant and shifting settlements to new locations. Social distancing was practised by dispersing settlements. Archaeologists’ findings at Mwenezi in southern Zimbabwe also show that it was a taboo to touch or interfere with remains of the dead, lest diseases be transmitted in this way. In the late 1960s, some members of an archaeological dig excavating 13th century house floors in Phalaborwa, South Africa, refused to keep working after encountering burials they believed were sacred. They also worried that the burials were related to a disease outbreak. Social distancing and isolation have become watchwords during the COVID-19 pandemic. From archaeology, we know that the same practices formed a critical part of managing pandemics in historical African societies. In what is Zimbabwe today, the Shona people in the 17th and 18th centuries isolated those suffering from infectious diseases — such as leprosy — in temporary residential structures. This meant that very few people could come into contact with the sick. In some cases, corpses were burnt to avoid spreading the contagion. Humans have a propensity to relax and shift priorities once calamities are over. Data collected by archaeologists, that show how indigenous knowledge systems helped ancient societies in Africa deal with the shock of illness and pandemics, can help remind policymakers of different ways to prepare modern societies for the same issues. Social distancing and isolation Research at the early urban settlement of K2, part of the Mapungubwe World Heritage site, has thrown significant light on ancient pandemics. The inhabitants of K2 (which dates back to between 1 000AD and 1 200AD) thrived on crop agriculture, cattle raising, metallurgy, hunting and collecting food from the forest. They had well-developed local and regional economies that fed into international networks of exchange with the Indian Ocean rim. Swahili towns of East Africa acted as conduits. Archaeological work at K2 uncovered an unusually high number of burials (94), 76 of which belonged to infants in the 0-4 age category. This translated into a mortality rate of 5%
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, constitution faculties in Connecticut accepted loans from the Small Enterprise Administration Cost Safety Program (PPP). The paycheck protection program is a federal program, carried out in…
I have read the very erudite letter by Councillor Patricia Chase-Green `City Council motion disregarded authority of Local Gov’t Commission and was therefore illegal’ in SN of October 28th and I believe she is acting in good faith.
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[Nation] Pokot warriors have put down their guns and embraced farming as an alternative source of their livelihood.
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The House of Federation has anonymously approved a proposed resolution presented to it by the federal government to interfere and establish transitional administration in Tigrai Regional state.
Lynda Edwards and George Graham, two Jamaica-born writers a generation apart, interview interesting Jamaicans living abroad. George was born in 1934 in Black River. Lynda was born in 1967 in Mandeville. Both live in Florida. This week, they...
[Monitor] Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine Saturday pledged to prioritize teachers' welfare and reward health workers \"what's equivalent to their services.\"
[Nairobi News] Nairobi County government can now recruit county staff after close to two years of inactivity due to lack of quorum in the county's public service board.
THE FA has partnered with Refresh Productions and Facebook to launch a new multi-part content...
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