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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast but militant group al-Shabab has struck civilian and military targets before in a similar fashion
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.
African-American activists are escalating their efforts to persuade former Vice President Joe Biden not to name Sen. Amy Klobuchar as his running mate, arguing he needs to choose someone who would excite black voters.
Klobuchar – the Minnesota senator who didn't resonate with black voters during her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination – was already being criticized by activists as a choice that would not motivate black voters to support Biden in November’s general election.
\"That says something to me, and I think, you know, when we talk about politics, and we talk about Joe Biden's selection for a vice presidential pick, that is why the black community has said that Amy Klobuchar is a nonstarter for them, because in many respects from 1999 to 2007, she declined to prosecute over two dozen cases involving police killings of unarmed people.\"
THE LATEST FROM FOX NEWS ON THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
Earlier this month, seven black strategists wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post urging Biden to select a woman of color as his running mate and warned that Klobuchar – if named – would “only alienate black voters.”
Klobuchar’s many supporters point out that if she’s named as Biden’s running, she’ll boost Democratic efforts to recapture the white working class voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania who backed Donald Trump in 2016, helping the GOP nominee to narrowly flip the three Rust Belt states that had long voted for Democrats in presidential elections.
South Africa has recorded 85 more Covid-19-related deaths, bringing the death toll to 18 741.
A car has been caught in a sinkhole on a Sea Point road after large pipe burst, causing a sinkhole, the City of Cape Town says.
Nearly four times the size of Texas and the largest country on the continent, Algeria is bordered on the west by Morocco and Western Sahara and on the east by Tunisia and Libya. The Mediterranean Sea is to the north, and to the south are Mauritania, Mali, and Niger. The Saharan region, which is 85% of the country, is almost completely uninhabited. The highest point is Mount Tahat in the Sahara, which rises 9,850 ft (3,000 m).
Parliamentary republic.
Excavations in Algeria have indicated that Homo erectus resided there between 500,000 and 700,000 years ago. Phoenician traders settled on the Mediterranean coast in the 1st millennium B.C. As ancient Numidia, Algeria became a Roman colony, part of what was called Mauretania Caesariensis, at the close of the Punic Wars (145 B.C.). Conquered by the Vandals about A.D. 440, it fell from a high state of civilization to virtual barbarism, from which it partly recovered after an invasion by Arabs about 650. Christian during its Roman period, the indigenous Berbers were then converted to Islam. Falling under the control of the Ottoman Empire by 1536, Algiers served for three centuries as the headquarters of the Barbary pirates. Ostensibly to rid the region of the pirates, the French occupied Algeria in 1830 and made it a part of France in 1848.
Algerian independence movements led to the uprisings of 1954–1955, which developed into full-scale war. In 1962, French president Charles de Gaulle began the peace negotiations, and on July 5, 1962, Algeria was proclaimed independent. In Oct. 1963, Ahmed Ben Bella was elected president, and the country became Socialist. He began to nationalize foreign holdings and aroused opposition. He was overthrown in a military coup on June 19, 1965, by Col. Houari Boumédienne, who suspended the constitution and sought to restore economic stability. After his death, Boumédienne was succeeded by Col. Chadli Bendjedid in 1978. Berbers rioted in 1980 when Arabic was made the countrys only official language. Algeria entered a major recession after
Population: 9,035,536 (July 2009 estimate)
Capital: Port au Prince
Area: 10,714 square miles (27,750 sq km)
Bordering Country: The Dominican Republic
Coastline: 1,100 miles (1,771 km)
Highest Point: Chaine de la Selle at 8,792 feet (2,680 m)
The Republic of Haiti, is the second-oldest republic in the Western Hemisphere just after the United States. It is a small country located in the Caribbean Sea between Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
Haiti has years of political and economic instability however and it is one of the poorest nations in the world. Most recently Haiti was struck by a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake which damaged its infrastructure and killed thousands of its people.
History of Haiti
The first European habitation of Haiti was with the Spanish when they used the island of Hispaniola (of which Haiti is a part) during their exploration of the Western Hemisphere. French explorers were also present at this time and conflicts between the Spanish and French developed. In 1697, Spain gave France the western third of Hispaniola. Eventually, the French established the settlement of Saint Domingue which became one of the wealthiest colonies in the French Empire by the 18th century.
During the French Empire, slavery was common in Haiti as African slaves were brought to the colony to work on sugarcane and coffee plantations.
In 1791 though, the population of slaves revolved and took over control of the northern part of the colony, which resulted in a war against the French. By 1804 however, local forces beat the French, established their independence and named the area Haiti.
After its independence, Haiti broke into two separate political regimes but they were unified in 1820.
In 1822, Haiti took over Santo Domingo which was the eastern portion of Hispaniola but in 1844, Santo Domingo separated from Haiti and became the Dominican Republic. During this time and up until 1915, Haiti underwent 22 changes in its government and experienced political and economic chaos. In 1915, the United States
Guinea's main oppositon party published Friday a list of 46 people, aged between 3 and 70 years, killed during the repression of demonstrations after the October 18 election, officially won by the incumbent Alpha Condé.
Condé was declared re-elected on October 24 by the Electoral Commission for a controversial third term with 59.5% of the vote, but three of his opponents, including opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, are contesting the results before the Constitutional Court, whose decision is expected on Saturday.
Diallo's party, the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), denounced in a statement a \"wave of terror\" orchestrated by the government between October 19 and November 3.
\"The provisional toll of this repression is 46 dead, nearly 200 wounded by gunfire, about a hundred arrests and extensive material damage,\" according to the UFDG.
The opposition has so far reported a death toll of at least 27, while for the government, the post-election violence resulted in 21 deaths, including members of the security forces.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Africa Officer Ida Sawyer on Twitter on October 24 accused Guinean security forces of killing \"at least 8 people, including 3 children.
Amnesty International for its part accused the same security forces of firing live ammunition at demonstrators, without giving a detailed account.
The Ministries of Security and Territorial Administration did not immediately respond to the multiple requests for a reaction from the AFP to the UFDG document.
This document includes a list of names, usually with age, profession, circumstances of death, contacts of a relative, and photos showing these people, dead or alive. In about fifteen cases, these are photos of bodies showing traces of violence.
Most of the presumed victims are young men and women between 15 and 30 years old: motorcycle cab drivers, mechanics, students...
The youngest are a boy and a girl of 3 years old, Mamadou Midiaou Diallo and Mariatou Bah, and the oldest Mamouna Camara, a housewife of 70 years old.
The UFDG also states that \"the overwhelming majority of the victims (...) belong to the same ethnic group as the opposition leader,\" in a country where community affiliations play an important role in elections.
Tunis/Tunisia — The general legislation committee at the House of People's Representatives (HPR) started on Thursday the examination of a bill on the repression of attacks against security forces, article by article.
This committee decided to resume the examination of this bill since February 21.
As such, it scheduled hearing sessions of law experts, representatives of security unions, the National Bar Association, the Association of Tunisian Judges, civil society associations, as well as the National Defence, Interior and Justice ministries.
Civil society components and human rights organisations are against this bill which, according to them, include \"several shortcomings and violates human rights principles.\"
However, security unions demanded speeding up the examination of the bill in the wake of terrorist operations, including the March 6 suicide attack against a security patrol in Les Berges du Lac in the vicinity of the U.S. Embassy in Tunis.
Zora Neale Hurston, the writer, folklorist, anthropologist and one of the most outstanding authors that emerged from the Harlem Renaissance, was born on Jan. 7, 1891. Her legacy lives on.
Hlengiwe Msimango was buried in KwaZulu-Natal after her spouse, Mosa Ntsibande, allegedly shot and killed her at her Norkem Park home on 3 August.
Your graphic depiction of the staggering loss of nearly 100,000 Americans to Covid-19 (so far) is moving beyond words.
But I fear that the common, if unconscious, tendency to focus on the death toll only in our country (when more than 340,000 people have died worldwide) suggests that we think the loss of an American life is more of a tragedy than the loss of a life elsewhere.
It has never been more important to rise above the constraints of nationalism and tribalism in order to affirm our common humanity.
Police have launched a manhunt for six people, who allegedly robbed a jewellery store in Bryanston, and then opened fire as they made their way out of the shopping centre.
Fatalities continue to rise in towns outside Chicago with large Black populations
Oak Lawn, Chicago Heights and Country Club Hills have the highest COVID-19 deaths among Blacks in cities outside Chicago, according to the latest data from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The youngest COVID-19 victim in Oak Lawn was 34 and the oldest was 100.
The COVID-19 death toll in Chicago Heights now stands at 21.
Homewood had the next highest COVID-19 death toll at 15.
Twelve towns with large Black populations had less than ten deaths including Dolton, Bellwood, Maywood, Oak Park, Blue Island and Thornton.
After scandals and allegations of insider trading, Sen. Kelly Loeffler has lost her attempt at winning her appointed seat in the U.S. Senate. According to the Cook Political Report and NBC News called Rev. Raphael Warnock the projected winner, defeating Loeffler after midnight on Wednesday morning. ...
[Shabelle] Two people died on Tuesday in Somalia's capital Mogadishu after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant near a police base, a police spokesman and a witness said, but it was unclear who was behind the attack.
The Third Time's the Charm?
President of the Independent Electoral Commission in Cote d'Ivoire, Ibrahime Coulibaly-Kuibiert, declared, \"President of the Republic Mr Alassane Ouattara is therefore elected.\"
As of Tuesday morning following results proclaimed by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on Monday night, Cote d’Ivoire has announced that current President Alassane Ouattara at 78 years of age has been re-elected for a controversial third term in office after garnering 94.27% of the vote in the first round at a participation rate of 53.90%. as the main opposition camps — who still perceive Ouattara’s candidacy as a constitutional coup d’etat, chose to boycott the election in civil disobedience.
Opponents Standing Strong
The opposition camps did not recognise the preliminary results of the election as they called on Monday for the formation of a civil transition to hold what they believe will be fair and transparent elections.
Mounting Political Tensions
The political atmosphere in the country has already been tense and volatile and over 30 people have already lost their lives in election-related campaign violence.
Following this presidential pronouncement, many Ivorians fear a repeat of the post-electoral crisis of 2010 which resulted in the deaths of around 3,000 people.
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Former Vice President Joe Biden has the most delegates going into this summer’s Democratic Convention and is the presumptive nominee for president.
Jones-DeWeever said she’s aware that Biden just released a brand new agenda around Black people.
Leo Alexander, a Mobile, Alabama businessman, said he thinks Biden is a poor choice for the Democratic nominee and doesn’t deserve to be vying for president because he has never had the interests of Black people during his entire political career.
When asked if Biden will win, Michele Watley, a strategic communications and political advocacy consultant, said, “You never know …”
“He’s spun a good narrative, taken coronavirus and framed it as war, has pinpointed a source and made it political,” she said of President Trump.
When asked about if Biden should pick a Black woman as vice president, Watley mulled the question.
