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The overthrow of President Alpha Conde in Guinea capped a steady slide from grace for the veteran opposition leader and human rights professor who critics say failed to live up to pledges to deliver democratic restoration and ethnic reconciliation. A dishevelled Conde appeared in a video circulating on social media as he was being held […]
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Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
KLFY says the Kaplan police officer Steven Aucoin made the comment in a live feed for the governor’s Friday press conference.
Chief of Police, Joshua Hardy, slammed Aucoin, saying this behavior is not tolerated within the department and Aucoin was fired after an investigation of the entire thread.
However, he argued that Aucoin’s comments could’ve been a misunderstanding because of how Facebook works.
Chief Hardy explained, “There were some comments that were further up that was not suitable for a police officer to put up on Facebook.”
According to screenshots taken by a Facebook user of the comments, Aucoin posted other comments like, “LOL you people have no clue you think your pathetic existence is meaningful.
April 12: Cases hit 5,127; gold-rich Obuasi new hotspot
\tGhana’s case statistics passed the 5,000 mark after 427 new cases were recorded according to head of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Aboagye.
Ghana has undertaken 160,501 tests since the outbreak, a figure the president touted as highest per million people than any other country in Africa.
May 10: 4,263 cases, Accra prison ‘infected’
\tGhana’s case statistics as of close of day May 9 stood at 3,263 according tallies released by the health service.
May 9: 900+ new cases, tally hits 4,012
\tGhana returned to most impacted West African country after authorities disclosed a record one-day increase of over 900 cases late Friday.
May 7: 3,091 cases, police rolls out mass tests
\tGhana’s case statistics stood at 3,091 in the latest tallies released early Thursday by the Ghana Health Service.
On Friday, a group of youth armed with placards and claiming to be family members of the deceased, Charles Isanga told journalists that they had forgiven the embattled RDC.
When this reporter visited the family in Rwanda Village, Jinja District, Isanga's uncle, Mr George Nabikamba disowned the group saying they had not apologized to the RDC.
\"There is a family claiming that is part of us, it seems Mr Sakwa paid them to confuse the ongoing investigations in the case at the Jinja High Court in Jinja,\" Ms Namukaya said.
She also asked police in Jinja to arrest the group claiming to be her family members.
However, when contacted, Mr Sakwa said he had not met the group and neither had he stage-managed the group claiming to be Isanga's family members.
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan says the passenger plane that crashed near Karachi had 91 passengers and seven crew members on board, revising earlier statements from airport officials.
The airport in Lahore, where the Pakistan International Airlines flight originated on Friday, initially said there were 107 people on board.
A spokesman for Pakistan’s civil aviation authority attributed the discrepancy to confusion in the tense aftermath of the crash.
A passenger plane with 107 people on board crashed in a crowded neighborhood on the edge of the international airport near Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Friday after what appeared to be an engine failure during landing.
The aircraft arriving from the eastern city of Lahore was carrying 99 passengers and eight crew members, said Abdul Sattar Kokhar, spokesman Pakistan’s civil aviation authority.
The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has been promoting a diversity challenge on social media in an effort to promote harmony.
This is a time we need to unite as a people, and we need to remember that there is strength in unity.
We need to avoid anything that would allow us to be divided around this political time and [uplift] each other during this pandemic.
What better time to do this when we have more time in our homes to reflect on harmony during this time and to call on persons to remember our motto, ‘One People, One Nation and One Destiny,’” Renne Chester, the head of the ERC Public Education and Awareness Unit, told Sunday Stabroek.
The initiative, which was launched on April 27th, takes inspiration from the #DontRush challenge that was recently viral on social media apps TikTok and Instagram.
One of the biggest positives of working for yourself is time freedom.
And one of the biggest drawbacks of working for yourself is that same time freedom.
And if you haven’t mastered a routine or don’t place productivity at the center of your workday, you can fritter away days, weeks and possibly months, resulting little in the way of revenue or tasks completed to show for it.
I learned how easily I could be distracted with social media, how I procrastinated on getting major tasks done with busy work and how I relied on take-out for lunch because I hadn’t planned for it.
This observation helped me realize that I would need to outsource some of my tasks and sign up for a co-working space where other entrepreneurs worked to give me a sense of structure and routine.
The slave narratives of Frederick Douglass, the “I Have a Dream” speech of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the “Black Lives Matter” meme of today’s protesters all testify to the power of words in the struggle for social justice in America.
So it’s no surprise that many past winners of the annual Freedom Award of the National Civil Rights Museum have been gifted speakers, orators, politicians, writers and even vocal performers: Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Bono of U2 and so on.
But images — Emmett Till’s mangled face, Rosa Parks under arrest, Memphis sanitation workers wearing “I Am a Man” signs — have had just as much impact as words in inspiring human rights recognition. So it’s appropriate that this year’s group of Freedom Award recipients includes a woman known as an image-maker: Ava DuVernay, director of “Selma,” the 2014 civil rights drama that was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
“The images that we consume really nourish what we think about each other and feed what we feel about each other,” said DuVernay, 42, who is making her first visit to Memphis for Thursday’s Freedom Awards ceremony at Downtown’s Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. “So much of what we think about each other comes through the images we see in the stories that we are told.”
DuVernay is one of three honorees for this year’s Freedom Awards. The others include Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, who as a student activist participated in Freedom Rides, lunch-counter sit-ins and other key 1960s events, and Ruby Bridges-Hall, whose lifetime of activism began in 1960, when she was the 6-year-old student who integrated the New Orleans public school system.
“This year we have an all-women slate of award-winners, and I really think they epitomize the roles that women have played in civil rights, up to and including today,” said Terri Lee Freeman, president of the National Civil Rights Museum.
Freeman said honoring DuVernay was particularly timely because 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the famous voting rights marches
The gunman in a deadly rampage late last year at a military base in Florida communicated with al-Qaida operatives about the attacks in the months leading up to it, U.S. officials said Monday as they laid out new details of a shooting that killed three American sailors.
The FBI learned of the contacts between Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani and operatives of al-Qaida after breaking the encryption on cellphones that had previously been locked and that the shooter, a Saudi Air Force officer, had tried to destroy before being killed by law enforcement.
“We now have a clearer understanding of Alshamrani’s associations in the years, months and days leading up to his attack,” Attorney General William Barr said at a news conference in which he sharply chastised Apple for not providing help in unlocking the phones.
Once unlocked by the FBI, the phones revealed contact between Alshamrani and “dangerous” operatives from al-Qaida in the Arabian Pensinsula, or AQAP, and also showed how he had been radicalized overseas for at least the last five years, officials said.
Law enforcement officials left no doubt that Alshamrani was motivated by jihadist ideology, saying he visited a New York City memorial to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and posted anti-American and anti-Israeli messages on social media just two hours before the shooting.
NEW YORK (AP) — A tribute to Andre Harrell, the influential music executive who discovered Sean “Diddy” Combs and died earlier this month, will air Sunday.
Harrell, who died at age 59, founded Uptown Records and shaped the sound of hip-hop and RB in the late 1980s and ’90s with acts such as Mary J. Blige, Heavy D the Boyz, Al B. Sure!
In the early ’90s, Diddy began interning for Uptown and quickly rose up the ranks after finding success with just-signed acts including RB group Jodeci and Blige, who was dubbed the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul with the release of her 1992 debut, “What’s the 411?”
Diddy often credits Harrell with giving him the tools to find success in music and life, even saying Harrell was like a father figure to him.
Diddy posted multiple tributes to Harrell on social media following his death.
Chama Cha Mashinani (CCM) party leader Isaac Ruto has refuted claims that he was picked by a helicopter on Wednesday morning and dropped at State House, even with speculations rife that he was set for appointment to a top State job.
The former Bomet Governor clarified that he had indeed travelled from his rural home at Tumoi village, Chepalungu Constituency on Wednesday to Nairobi with his wife and landed at Wilson Airport, but added that the trip had no connection to State House.
“It is true, I flew to Nairobi from Bomet this morning with my wife who is in the essential service sector and who was required for an official engagement by her employer in Nairobi,” said Mr Ruto via telephone from Wilson Airport.
The rumour had generated a lot of political anxiety as President Uhuru Kenyatta is said to be crafting a team of professionals and politicians to be appointed to various positions in an impending cabinet reshuffle.
However, Mr Ruto dismissed claims of any political involvement, adding that it is not unusual for him to use helicopters to various destinations.
I first met Ruth many years ago as I was recruited to be part of North Dallas Gazette‘s team, where she was the Editor.
During our many conversations, I learned of Ruth’s many passions and hobbies; like her love for books, traveling and food.
In Ruth’s association, we had the luxury of sampling food from many new restaurants, organizations and caterers.
In writing about Ruth at this moment triggers many memories.
Ruth, I know you will be dearly missed as you have greatly impacted many people.
