Tunisia: Saied Says Fighting Corruption Not Slogan but Prosecuting Corrupt Regardless of Positions

Uganda: Inside Candidates Plan to Put Money in Your Pocket

[Monitor] Nearly three quarters of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) manifesto is about socio-economic interaction and how a combination of the two sectors can deliver what the ruling party presidential candidate, Mr Yoweri Museveni, refers to as the real economy.

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Race to vaccinate millions in US off to slow, messy start - Black News Channel

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Terry Beth Hadler was so eager to get a lifesaving COVID-19 vaccination that the 69-year-old piano teacher stood in line overnight in a parking lot with hundreds of other senior citizens. She wouldn't do it

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Trump To Consider Pardoning Lil Wayne, Kodak Black Before Leaving Office

Before Donald Trump officially leaves office, the disgraced 45th President of the United States is reportedly thinking of pardoning himself, as well as family members, senior White House officials -- as well as Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.

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Govt must recommit to supporting health sector

THE story of the Zimbabwean health professionals is a heart-breaking one. Doctors and nurses have intermittently downed tools for close to a year. One can imagine the effect the strikes have had on an almost comatose health sector, where the country’s bourgeoisie leaders have little or no regard

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Trump suggests Georgia Senate runoffs voting is 'illegal and invalid'

It's a new year, but President Donald Trump has not backed off on his claims that the Nov. 3 election... View Article The post Trump suggests Georgia Senate runoffs voting is 'illegal and invalid' appeared first on TheGrio.

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Sen. Perdue quarantines for virus exposure before Georgia runoff | The Atlanta Voice

Republican Sen. David Perdue was forced into quarantine Thursday in the home stretch of Georgia’s high-stakes Senate runoffs, disclosing just five days before the election that he had been exposed to a campaign worker infected with the coronavirus. Perdue’s campaign did not say how long he plans to

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Trump has not been alone in undermining American democracy

… organising campaign that particularly targeted African Americans, a reliable Democratic constituency with … against blatant efforts to repress African American votes, in many cases forcing …

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Rewind: 2020’s Top Black Film And TV Moments

Even as hard as 2020 has been, we just can’t stop, won’t stop. If TV and film have truly been our saviors this year, then Black women have most certainly […] The post Rewind: 2020’s Top Black Film And TV Moments appeared first on Essence.

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The mob in our Capitol - African American News Today - EIN Presswire

… reflecting the participation of enfranchised African Americans, and one set created by … former Confederate rebels who disenfranchised African Americans. Mr. Graham told us … illegitimacy of votes from majority African American areas, including the Atlanta, …

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Auld lang syne: New year brings final UK-EU Brexit split

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) - Like a separated couple still living together, Britain and the European Union (EU)spent 2020 wrangling and wondering whether they can remain friends.On Thursday, the UK finally moved out. At 11:00 pm London time - midnight at EU headquarters in Brussels - Britain

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Tunisia: Covid-19 - Médenine Sees Surge in Deaths, Infections

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Six more COVID-19 patients died over the last 24 hours in Médenine, pushing the death count to 193 since the pandemic began.

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Algeria: President Tebboune Returns to Country

[Algerie Presse Service] President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Tuesday returned to the country after he received treatment for Covid-19 in Germany.

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Egypt: Foreign Ministry Follows Up Developments in 17 Egyptian Fishermen Held in Tunisia

[Egypt Online] Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs Amr Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that the Foreign Ministry closely follows up the conditions of 17 Egyptian fishermen detained by Tunisian authorities.

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Shutdown, impeachment, virus: Chaotic Congress winds down - Black News Channel

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is ending a chaotic session, a two-year political firestorm that started with the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, was riven by impeachment and a pandemic, and now closes with a rare rebuff by Republicans

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Algeria: Saïd Bouteflika, 3 others acquitted by military court | Africanews

A military court in Algeria on Saturday acquitted Saïd Bouteflika, the brother and former advisor to deposed President Abdelaziz Boutfekila for conspiracy against the army and the state. Bouteflika and his three co-defendants had been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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Level 3: Funeral parlour vehicle found transporting R5 000 worth of alcohol

The vehicle that was carrying alcohol illegally under Level 3 lockdown was eventually traced and found in Harrismith, Free State.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Gov. Lee acknowledges Biden as president-elect - TSDMemphis.com

by Jonathan Mattise - NASHVILLE — Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Friday said his administration has begun working with Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, making his first public acknowledgement that Biden will be the next president. Lee told reporters he spoke with

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How will history view the Capitol insurrection and its racial hypocrisy?

President-Elect Joe Biden said ”it is a good thing” Donald Trump will not be coming to his inauguration.He is, however,... View Article The post How will history view the Capitol insurrection and its racial hypocrisy? appeared first on TheGrio.

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Nigeria: New Year Message - What Buhari Told Nigerians About Security, Others (Full Text)

[Premium Times] President Buhari address Nigerians in a broadcast on Friday morning.

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Warnock and Ossoff Wins Georgia Senate

The racial awakening in the United States last year after the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd may have propelled a sweep for Democrats in the January 5, 2021 Georgia Senate runoffs, paving the way for President-elect Joe Biden to push his legislative agenda without fear of

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WATCH | Historic first: Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital trauma unit empty on New Year's Eve | News24

The Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital's trauma rescue area was empty on New Year's Eve for the first time in its history.

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RNS reporters on the big stories they expect to cover in 2021 - African American News Today - EIN Presswire

(RNS) — How will America’s religious landscape recover from 2020 and who will lead faith issues in new directions in the new year?

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Liberia: AFL Faces Accommodation Problem Chief of Staff Discloses

[NEWS] The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) Major General Prince C.Y. Johnson has disclosed that accommodation of soldiers is a major challenge hindering the recruitment of more personnel.

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Breakfast Table With Jewish Newsletters | The Nation

… day since George Floyd, an African-American father of five, had been … my “race,” just as an African-American in the United States today …

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Zimbabwe: President Orders Harare Audit

[The Herald] President Mnangagwa has ordered a forensic audit on Harare City Council to get to the bottom of deep-rooted corruption that has seen two mayors, many councillors and senior officials being arrested.

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Algerian president signs new Constitution into law

ALGIERS, Algeria - Algeria's president on Friday signed the country's new constitution into law, his office said, after the document was approved in a November referendum on record low turnout as its leader received treatment abroad for Covid-19. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who returned to

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Alarm in France after 2,500 mass for illegal rave

LIEURON, France (AFP) - Some 2,500 partygoers attended an illegal new year rave in north-western France, violently clashing with police who failed to stop it and sparking concern the underground event could spread the coronavirus, authorities said Friday.

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'No alcohol in your teapots, we know your tricks!' - South Africa bans alcohol sale amid COVID spike - Face2Face Africa

South Africa's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic has been marked by one rather unique recurrence: the banning of the sale of alcohol out of fear that inebriation would lead to loss of inhibitions and then trigger the spread of the virus. Alcohol sales are also very popular at most pubs and

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U.S. Records 20 Million COVID-19 Cases As New Year Dawns

A somber new milestone marked the new year in the U.S. ― as of Friday, the country recorded more than 20 million COVID-19 cases since the coronavirus pandemic began early…

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Mali charges former prime minister, five others with 'attempted coup' | Africanews

A group of lawyers defending the six said the individuals, who include Boubou Cisse, the last prime minister under Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, had been charged with an "attempted coup."

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