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The Democratic Socialist will become the first woman mayor of New York’s second largest city.
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
The race for the leadership of the Democratic Labour Party intensified Wednesday as presidential candidate Reverend Guy Hewitt declared he has widespread support among the party. He made the claim in an afternoon Zoom meeting hosted by the UK Bajan Hub. The meeting was held in response to the membership’s request to hear Hewitt’s views […]
The post Hewitt: I have the support for Dems’ presidency appeared first on Barbados Today.
The lawsuit filed by nine Georgia voters alleges that counterfeit ballots were counted and some ballots were counted multiple times in Fulton County, a Democratic bastion that includes most of Atlanta. As part of their suit, they want to inspect some 147,000 ballots to see whether any are illegitimate.
[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- The United Kingdom's Minister for Africa, Mr James Duddridge, started his official visit to Tanzania yesterday in renewed efforts to strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries.
Prime Minister Mottley marked three years since Labour's unprecedented landslide victory by touting the administration's 'progress amidst challenges' during a period of turmoil marked by widespread unemployment, economic depression, rising crime and a viral pandemic that's claimed nearly 50 lives. At a meeting Sunday to commemorate its 30-nil parliamentary shutout of the Democratic Labour […]
The post 'Progress despite challenges': PM toasts BLP victory amid recession, violent crime appeared first on Barbados Today.
Elected officials are hearing the voices of millions of people around the world pleading for police departments to be defunded after the recent deaths of black men and women killed by police officers.
In response to civil unrest caused by excessive force and the over-militarization of officers, San Francisco Mayor London Breed is working with District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton to defund the city’s police department.
Money pulled from the department will be used to invest in the city’s black communities.
In a statement released by the San Francisco’s Mayor’s Office, obtained by the Mercury News, Breed said, “Reforms to any single system, such as the criminal justice system or the police department, must go in hand-in-hand with closing the gaps and ending the disparities that we know exist.
Walton, who leads the city’s largest community of black people, added, “In these times of continued systemic and systematic oppression of black people, we have to be innovative and strong with our solutions.”
[Nation] ODM leader Raila Odinga is pleading with the Court of Appeal to intervene and halt the implementation of the High Court decision that stopped the push to amend the Constitution so that the effort so far expended does not go to waste.
The proposed electoral law known as 1+3 required a parliamentary candidate to be elected in four different constituencies.
The 1+3 system required a candidate whose primary constituency was from the central to have one secondary constituency from each of the other regions of the country.
\"The proposals were in many ways the most original political reform to be recommended in Uganda since independence and also represented some of the most innovative and brilliant ideas to emerge out of Africa,\" Prof Mazrui wrote in his book Cultural Engineering in Eastern Africa.
Why the new law
In coming up with the new law, which Obote called the 'single member-multiple districts' (constituencies), he wanted to broaden the MP's outlook on national issues.
A paper in the Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies by D. Cohen and J. Parson titled The Uganda People's Congress Branch and Constituency Elections of 1970, the authors say: \"... overlapping districts are needed to form electoral alliances.
The court heard that Rege, then being the MP for Karachuonyo improperly used his office for the fraudulent procurement of telemedicine equipment for the said hospital thereby conferring an improper benefit of Sh909, 398 on Alliance Logistics Centre Limited.
In the third count, Mr Ochieng, who was then the personal assistant to the MP, is accused of improperly using his office between 2011 and November 2013 to facilitate the fraudulent procurement of the said accessories therefore conferring improper benefit to the said company.
In the fourth count, Mr Ocholla was then the accounting officer at the office of the MP was accused of failure to comply with the applicable procedures and guidelines relating to procurement and tendering of contracts.
The court heard that on diverse dates, Mr Ocholla who was the fund account manager of Karachuonyo NG-CDF willfully failed to ensure the procurement of the said machines was done in compliance with the applicable procurement procedures.
\"The fund accounts manager whose functions entails ensuring that NG-CDF fulfils its obligations failed to ensure the procurement of telemedicine accessories for Kendu Adventist Hospital at Sh 1 million was carried out in compliance with the applicable procedures set out in the Public Procurement and Disposals act as required of him by the Public Procurement and Disposal Act,\" the court was told.
Former Tom Joyner Morning Show hosts Sybil Wilkes and Tom Joyner are teaming up for for a limited online series where the duo will talk to presidents of The Divine Nine about pressing issues impacting our community.
The special series will be happening live from June 1, 2020 through June 12, 2020 at 7:00 pm ET/6:00 pm CT on Sybil Wilkes’ YouTube and Facebook pages.
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Wilkes and Joyner are aiming to inform viewers on what the various greek organizations are doing to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the Census, and the general election.
Businessman and former People's National Party (PNP) treasurer, Norman Horne is rejecting claims that withdrawing his nomination as an opposition Senator is dependent on the party repaying him a $10M debt. Horne was one of eight...
Mayor Mike Duggan advances to the November general election with a resounding 50,853 votes over opponent Anthony Adams 7, 014 votes. Detroit's primary race featured fourteen individuals, and after Tuesday's election, the race for the city's next mayor has come down to the final two candidates. Duggan's victory is not shocking to some across … Continued
The post Mayor Mike Duggan Mounts Victory in Primary Election appeared first on The Michigan Chronicle.
These days it can often feel like we’re in a never-ending cycle of violence, trauma, and general fuckery, so it’s always great when you come across a piece of news that’s just a certifiable dub for the culture. India Walton, a Black woman who ran […]
The post Black Excellence: First-Time Candidate India Walton Set to Become Buffalo’s First Female Mayor After Upset appeared first on The New York Beacon.
[Nation] Tributes continued to pour in for Washington Jakoyo Midiwo, a man celebrated as a fearless politician who always spoke his mind.
www.bloomberg.com By Tony Czuczka President Donald Trump said his attorney Rudy Giuliani, who has been leading efforts to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 general election, has tested positive for the Covid-19 virus. Trump wished the 76-year-old former New York mayor well in a tweet on Sunday, saying “we will carry on!!!” It’s the […]
NBC anchor Kristen Welker was awarded with a mostly favorable response from the public after she moderated the third 2020 presidential debate on Thursday between President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden . Many viewers credited Welker for maintaining order in the debate, which was much more tame than the first presidential debate of the year last month. The general consensus concluded that the moderator was unbiased, pressing both candidates on key concerns about their campaign and making sure they stay on topic while answering questions. The former intern, who worked her way up the ranks to become the co-anchor of Weekend Today , became the second Black woman to moderate a presidential debate alone, BBC reported . #Reminder : Only two black women have ever hosted a general election presidential debate. Carol Simpson (1992) and Kristen Welker (2020). Wild to believe that there's a whole generation of voters (millennial and Gen-Z) who weren't alive during the 92'...
Prime Minister Allen Chastanet had been highlighting his administration's initiatives in education, asserting that the government sees education as providing the platform to enable all citizens of Saint Lucia to attain their full human potential. Writing on his official Facebook page on Monday, Chastanet said a few of the initiatives implemented include: -Increasing the school […]
This article Chastanet Highlights Government's Education Initiatives appeared first on St. Lucia Times News.
Black led organization launches Park & Praise, a fun faith based nonpartisan effort to register,educate and turn out Black voters across Florida Eatonville– Equal Ground Education Fund (c3) and Equal Ground Action Fund (c4) announce the launch of its new voter registration, education and turnout effort in Black communities across Florida. Florida is historically known for […]
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It is difficult to legally predicate the next General Election upon the successful conclusion of the BBI process.
When the Black Lives Matter movement grew in strength, voice and prominence several years ago, I remember seeing signs posted in yards that said, “blue lives matter” (meaning police officers) and I thought: “you totally do not get it!”
Certainly, the majority of police officers value all human life, but it is painfully clear that there are too many officers who swore an oath to protect and serve all citizens, DON’T value the lives of Brown and Black people who reside in the communities they serve in.
Why is it that an UNARMED Black Man who is handcuffed and shown not resisting (per a new video that’s now surfaced), UNJUSTLY dies at the knee of a White police officer; YET, a White man whom police believe murdered at least two people and was on the run (with loaded weapons in his possession); is captured and taken into custody with NO SHOTS fired or physical injury subjected to his person by the police?
I agree with LeBron James’ expression of anger over the senseless murder of Mr. George Floyd when James posted a photo on Instagram of the officer kneeling on Mr. Floyd’s neck as he is handcuffed next to a photo of Colin Kaepernick quietly kneeling in protest of police brutality.
Sadly, I’m not sure that the police officers who committed this crime will see justice for this murder; there is too much recent history that shows it doesn’t happen, but the call for social and fair justice for murders of unarmed Blacks and other minorities must be proclaimed and pursued.
Political parties and candidates contesting in the 2022 General Election are required to open campaign financing accounts, at least two months before
[Nation] United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party leaders held a meeting with hundreds of aspirants in Nairobi yesterday in preparation for the 2022 General Election.
Crusader Staff Report North Township Trustee Frank J. Mrvan cruised to victory in the General Election on Tuesday, November 3. He now succeeds longtime Congressman Pete Visclosky in the First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, which includes Gary. In the latest election results, Mrvan received 99,697 votes, taking 60.90 percent of the […]
Orengo claimed some ODM leaders were riding on the party successes without knowing how they came about.
Brian Kemp often tells supporters to “keep choppin’ wood,” the way the self-described “country guy” urges a steady, deliberate approach. Yet the Georgia governor also says he’ll be “running scared” as he seeks a second term. Because precious little about Georgia politics is calm heading into 2022. A swath of Republicans’ right flank joins Donald Trump in blaming Kemp for […]
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron may not be known to many outside of the Breonna Taylor case, but a look into Cameron’s past shows significant GOP ties. Cameron, a Black…
During the late afternoon of the 25th of July 1946 four African-Americans were shot dead by a lynch mob at Moores Ford, Walton county, Georgia, about eight miles from the town of Monroe. The grotesquely sprawled bodies of the victims--the Coroner said at least sixty bullets were pumped into them--were found in a clump of bushes beside a little used side road...The uper parts of the bodies were scarcely recognizable from the mass of bullet holes. The victims were Roger Malcom, aged 24, Dorothy Malcom, aged 20, George Dorsey, a World War II hero, aged 28, and Mae Murray Dorsey, aged 23. Four factors contributed greatly to the Moores Ford lynching. The first and most important of these was a wide-spread, accepted ideology that members of the white race were better than African-Americans; indeed, that African-Americans were subhuman. The second factor was the threat of competition. In 1846, for the first time, African-Americans could vote in the formerly all-white, Georgia Democratic primary. The third factor was the white racist Eugene Talmadge. His rabid 1946 campaign for governor undoubtedly set the stage for the lynching at Moores Ford. The fourth factor was the triggering event; namely, Roger Malcoms fight with a white man named Barney Hester. And, of course, there were other pernicious forces at work in this case, forces of a more personal nature. Dorothy Malcoms unborn child was also lynched at Moores Ford.
St Vincent PM warns overseas campaigners for opposition party KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has issued a warning to the persons who he says are behind the main opposition New Democratic Party’s (NDP) campaign, telling them...
Vincentian opposition decides against election court challenge KINGSTOWN (CMC): The main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) in St Vincent and the Grenadines says it will not pursue legal action in relation to the outcome of the November 5...
[Nation] City billionaire Jimi Wanjigi wants to snatch the leadership of Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) from Mr Raila Odinga in a move that is the latest twist in the Uhuru Kenyatta succession politics.
