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By: Alyssa Wilson Authorities in Haiti have arrested more people in connection to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Taiwan's Embassy was raided after several suspects were believed to have sought refuge there. Two Haitian-Americans and several former Colombian soldiers were also arrested in connection, the Associated Press reported. PREVIOUS: Two Haitian Americans Detained In Connection to Assassination of Haitian President The new arrests bring the total number of suspects to 17, according to National Police Chief Léon Charles. 'We are going to bring them to justice,' he said Thursday. Colombia's government has offered full cooperation and revealed that some of the suspects detained […]
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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
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BY RICHARD MUPONDE HARARE, renamed from the colonial Salisbury, in the early days of independence, was widely referred to as the Sunshine City owing to its squeaky-clean streets and orderly, smart and clean residential suburbs. Harare’s cleanliness and orderliness echoed throughout Sadc, and undoubtedly contributed to “The Jewel of Africa” moniker accorded the country by statesmen like Tanzania’s former President, the late Julius Mwalimu Nyerere. Sadly, the city has over the decades deteriorated to some stinky hellhole that nobody can be proud to be associated with. Old timers get nolstalgic about the old Harare when today they come across huge mounds of garbage at street corners, minefields of potholes, total absence of street lighting and a literal invasion of pavements by poverty stricken vegetable and other vendors. In the past the city fathers used to collect garbage every week which was a well-planned and monitored programme of servicing the suburbs where refuse trucks had a timetable for collecting garbage. However, things have gone out of hand as garbage heaps grow at every street corner in the central business district. Litter bugs go scot-free with no one to enforce by-laws against littering resulting in a health time bomb. The influx of vendors in the central business district (CBD) has also exacerbated the problem as they dump garbage anywhere near their operating sites without care or worry. Meanwhile council does not collect its movable bins placed at strategic points in the city making Harare an eyesore. During the lockdown period council workers took advantage of the absence of people in the CBD and cleaned it up, but that has all come to naught as the situation has returned to original dirty settings. A resident of Kuwadzana, Admire Mutengiwa, said the city council was letting residents down by not collecting garbage when every month it billed them for a once a week refuse collection. “The way the council is operating is short-changing ratepayers. I think it is wise for them not to collect our money if they can’t collect the garbage. Heaps of garbage are piling on every open space in this suburb and around the whole city. Organisations such as Environment Management Agency (EMA) should fine the council heavily because it is the one driving residents to dump garbage everywhere,” he said. Mutengiwa’s sentiments were echoed by Kelvin Pamire, from the same suburb, who said litter bugs should be arrested and the city council fined for polluting the city with uncollected garbage. “Law enforcement should take its course and those littering the environment should be brought to book. Council shouldn’t be spared because it is the driving force behind all this mess,” Pamire said. Precious Shumba, director for Harare Residents Trust (HRT), said refuse collection was virtually non-existent in Harare. “Uncollected garbage continues to pile in open spaces, at shopping centres, street corners in other residential places and the Avenues area. Residents are charged for once a week refuse collection on their monthly bi
President Cyril Ramaphosa has made a lockdown address to the nation on Wednesday night - and he came equipped with a major announcement on alcohol.
By: Alyssa Wilson The President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated at his private home on Wednesday, according to the country's interim prime minister Premier Claude Joseph. The first lady Martine Moïse was also shot in the attack and she is in the hospital. RELATED: Haiti Opens Debate on Proposed Constitutional Changes Prior to the murder, Haiti was growing increasingly unstable under Moïse's leadership, the Associated Press reported. He ruled for more than two years after the country failed to hold elections. His opposers accused him of seeking to increase his power in ways that included approving a decree that limited the […]
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The Life for a Child (LFAC) programme is an International Diabetes Federation (IDF) programme which was launched in Jamaica in 2010 in collaboration with the Diabetes Association of Jamaica (an IDF member association) and the Ministry of Health....
Stacey Abrams is already bringing in the big bucks for two crucial Senate races in January.
THE island's public health system has been highlighted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) for best practices in COVID-19 contact tracing.Speaking at PAHO's weekly press briefing yesterday, Assistant Director Dr Jarbas Barbosa named Jamaica, along with Costa Rica and Argentina, for doing 'particularly well' with this aspect of the prevention and control machinery, against the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Clifton R. Wharton, one of the first African-Americans to hold a professional position in the U.S. State Department, was born in 1899 in Baltimore, Maryland. Described as a “scholastic marvel,” Wharton attended English High School in Boston, Massachusetts, skipped college and was accepted to Boston University Law School where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Law in 1920 and Master’s degree in Law in 1923. After practicing for two years in Boston he moved to Washington, D.C. in 1924 where he took a position as an examiner with the Veterans Bureau. He later worked as a law clerk in State Departments legal section. While there, he took an aptitude test for the position of foreign service officer, scoring in the top 15 percent.
Mr. Whartons 40-year career with the State Department spanned an era of profound change in U.S. foreign policy and in the bureaucracy which managed that policy. Initially, Whartons career opportunities were limited to relatively insignificant posts traditionally assigned to African-American diplomats. For 25 years, he worked in Liberia, the Canary Islands, Madagascar, and the Azores in a rotation of small tropical countries known as the “Negro Circuit.”
His first break from this pattern occurred in 1949 when he was assigned to a diplomatic post in Lisbon, Portugal. The following year, he was named consul general in Lisbon and three years later he was appointed consul general in Marseille, France. He remained there until 1957.
Whartons international activities were impacted by events in the United States. In the 1950s, U.S. diplomats were often faced with international condemnation for the nations treatment of African-American citizens. The incident in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, for example, where nine young black students entering school were confronted by a mob of bigots, was a major propaganda disaster for the United States.
In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Wharton as Minister to Romania, which was another major breakthrough. Wharton at that time was the
By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Men who have come forward with allegations of abuse by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick expressed disgust, frustration and outrage after an internal Vatican report outlined what was known about the clergyman's behavior — and what was ignored. 'It was very emotional to read. It was very emotional because there were so many opportunities to stop him. So many opportunities to stop him. And maybe my life would be different, maybe I wouldn't be a victim if someone had,' said John Bellocchio, a New Jersey man who has sued both McCarrick and […]
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There appears to be consistent evidence that exposures to natural environments have a positive effect on pain, stress, anxiety, blood pressure and heart rate.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa will answer questions in the National Assembly on the steps government has taken in the fight against state capture.
The U.S. State Department on Thursday released a list of 53 “Corrupt and Undemocratic Actors” for Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
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