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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.
The growing disdain for Biden among young Democratic voters has been predicted to dwindle with the promise of a Black woman as vice president, but for many, this is not the case.
This sentiment is shared amongst many young Black voters who are weary of the Democratic Party’s unfulfilled promises as a whole.
Still, other young Black voters aren’t impressed with the pool of choices, and the disdain for Biden is so much that they would risk another four years of Trump.
“I hate to say it, but between Biden and Trump, I’d still vote Trump,” says one young Black woman.
There seems to be no guarantee that the Democratic party will achieve its intended end if Biden chooses a Black woman to run alongside him.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Indiana has some incredibly restrictive voter laws, and currently we only have one early voting site in all of Indianapolis,” stated Robert Shegog, CEO at the Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper and Indiana Minority Business Magazine. “A few more will open Oct. 24, but significantly more are needed given the size of the city. However, it is very refreshing to see so many people voting early. This has been a trend in Indianapolis for over ten years now, and the numbers keep increasing,” Shegog noted.
The German government is aiding Kenya’s capacity expansion to test more Covid-19 cases as the country battles the virus.
Under the arrangement, the German government announced it is supporting the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) to utilise its laboratories and staff to offer more testing for Covid-19 in Kenya, expanding the number of institutions capable of confirming the infections.
The acting director general for Health Dr Patrick Amoth and ILRI's Director General Jimmy Smith sealed the deal on Monday, facilitated by the German Federal Government, in Nairobi., which was represented by Annett Gunther, the German Ambassador to Kenya.
\"We are pleased to be part of this partnership to expand testing for Covid-19 and we welcome ILRI and Germany's support in this area,\" said Dr Amoth
Having a long-standing relationship with the Government of Kenya, we are committed to supporting its efforts during this pandemic and through one health Center to contribute to mitigating future risks,\" said Mr Smith.
I salute the innovative approach of ILRI to expand Covid-19 testing capacities,\" said Annett Gunther, German Ambassador to Kenya.
Family planning supplies and contraceptives are sold out or inaccessible as the Zimbabwean government continues to battle COVID-19.
“The lockdown has meant that community health workers like myself who have often had to distribute contraceptives like family planning pills and at times condoms, have had to stop operating and this means disaster in homes,” said Miriam Chandapiwa, a community healthcare worker based in the rural Mwenezi district in southern Zimbabwe.
“Men and women in their homes now can’t step out to purchase contraceptives, be they family planning pills or condoms, and this means a reversal of gains made in controlling population growth in the country and worse still reversal of yet more other gains made in fighting HIV and AIDS,” said Catherine Mukwapati, a Zimbabwean women’s rights defender.
Mukwapati, who is also director of the Youth Dialogue Action Network, a Zimbabwean civil society organization, said “the only alternative in terms of sourcing contraceptives during the lockdown is via the black market, which still many can’t reach because COVID-19 has kept people confined indoors.”
“COVID-19 has presented one of the biggest headaches to people living with HIV who, without access to condoms, have to face more risks with the disease,” said HIV-AIDS activist Mevion Sigauke, a member of the Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV.
The United States on Monday surpassed 90,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus and 1.5 million confirmed cases, according to a running tally from Johns Hopkins University.
The US has the world's highest number of deaths and infections but several countries -- including Belgium, Spain, Britain, Italy and Sweden -- have recorded more fatal cases per capita, according to the statistical website Worldometer.
New York state accounts for nearly a third of US deaths, with more than 28,300 linked to Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins.
By June 6, the US could reach around 112,000 deaths, according to an average of 20 epidemiological models analyzed by the University of Massachusetts.
Nearly 11.5 million tests have been carried out in the US, according to Johns Hopkins -- fewer per capita than dozens of countries -- and about 272,000 people declared recovered.
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Masvingo — A total of 14 Malawians under quarantine at Masvingo Teachers' College have gone on hunger strike, arguing the Zimbabwean government had no authority to detain them there.
The foreigners are part of 406 people quarantined in Masvingo province after coming from neighbouring countries.
However, insiders at the quarantine centre said the Malawians have been in the country for the past 10 days and are refusing to eat arguing that Zimbabwe had no authority to detain them and are demanding their immediate release.
Masvingo Information Ministry provincial information officer, Rogers Irimayi confirmed the tension with the Malawians and said senior government officials were handling the matter.
Meanwhile, Irimayi confirmed that Masvingo provincial quarantine centres will soon be faced with a shortage of blankets for the returning citizens as the winter season was fast approaching.
By allegedly soliciting the services of a prostitute to initiate some sexual awakening, Boosie took away his son’s agency over his body.
While Boosie may have thought that he was giving his son (and nephews) a crash course on what it means to be a man, he failed miserably.
Boosie’s son and nephews now, unfortunately and most likely, have such a sordid to sexual exploration, stained by their father and uncle’s obsession with ensuring that they fit his mold of masculinity.
The most disturbing part of all of this is that he stated his son and nephews were children at the time, which is statutory rape.
Since the onset of COVID-19 and the lockdown of The Netherlands until at least June 1, however, the country’s flower bulb farming sector has been severely affected.
One of the world’s largest flower gardens, Keukenhof in Lisse, is closed this year.
But with no tourists this year, the industry—and the country as a whole—have suffered severely.
Tourists typically spend some 80 billion euros, approximately $86.8 billion, per year, about 9% of The Netherlands’ gross national product.
Until this year, tourists typically arrive for the popular flower season from mid-April to the end of May, with the majority coming from China, Japan, India, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and Russia, as well as from all of southern Europe.
Fear gripped Bakers Inn employees and management last week after 22 cases of suspected Covid-19 cases were observed when workers went through the now mandatory Covid-19 screening.
\"All employees tested through the rapid testing process and all were negative.
Dzimiri praised Bakers Inn for providing employees with adequate personal protective equipment and maintaining hygiene at all work stations including its outlets.
\"Regular fumigation is done, and a social WhatsApp platform has been created and it is functional in order to facilitate communication between Bakers Inn employees and management regarding Covid-19 related issues,\" he said.
Employees are provided with transport to and from work wherein mandatory safe distance is maintained on sitting arrangement.\"
With Republican-led voter suppression efforts ramped up, one could make a legal argument of gross negligence about our election system. But can anyone prove it?
He’s won championships on the court, he’s started and grown businesses to hundreds of millions of dollars off the court and now he’s continuing to give back to our community in a big way.
Today, on Good Morning America, Johnson, who is also the owner of EquiTrust, the nation’s largest minority-owned insurance company, will partner with MBE Capital Partners, a Latino-owned company, to provide supply chain finance solutions for women and minority-owned businesses and their suppliers.
“They couldn’t get loans so we have to make sure they stay in business and keep their employees.
We don’t want any minority business closing because of this virus and because they couldn’t get a loan.”
According to Forbes, Johnson was motivated after hearing reports of minority- and women-owned businesses being shut out of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
