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Last August 2 was the fourth anniversary of the declaration of the outcome of the March 2, 2020 elections.
The article Drama behind the 2020 elections results appeared first on Stabroek News.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum / El Obeid -- A protest demanding the closure of the Rapid Support Forces' (RSF) detention centres was held on Thursday, meanwhile Resistance Committees protested for the redirection of the course Sudan's revolution in the city of El Obeid, North Kordofan.
The processes, carried out in accordance with the Representation of the People Act Cap 1:03 , up to the point of the signing of the Statement of Poll, would have ensured the validity of each vote contained in the totals therein.
It is at this point that the Representation of the People Act Cap 1:03 mandates that a copy of the signed Statement of Poll is to be displayed in a prominent place outside the polling station.
From a logical point of view, nothing omitted from the box either intentionally or in error could therefore have had any bearing on the validity of votes contained in the totals on the signed Statement of Poll since the Representation of the People Act Cap 1:03 mandates that this would have had to have been prepared, signed and posted outside the polling station prior to the packing and sealing of the ballot box.
If the decision of the Court of Appeal is to be interpreted this way, then it renders the process of counting at the place of poll redundant and makes a mockery of the entire section of the Representation of the People Act Cap 1:03 that mandates this process.
This, in conjunction with the various checks and balances put in place on election day at each polling station in accordance with the Representation of the People Act Cap 1:03 , will ensure that only valid votes are counted at the place of poll.
Given the problems associated with the original declaration of the results for Region 4, and its outright rejection by all the local and international observers as well as the political parties contesting the elections (except APNU+AFC) as having lacked transparency and credibility, a recount was brokered by the Chair of CARICOM.
One recalls that as soon as the agreement with the Chair of CARICOM was reached for the recount and for the presence of a high-level CARICOM team to observe the exercise, one of the APNU+AFC’s candidates for the elections questioned the validity of the presence of the CARICOM team.
Concerns about the validity of the Returning Officers’ declarations
GECOM had stated that the declarations by the ten ROs, including that of the RO for Region 4, remain valid unless they are replaced by the results of the recount.
This appears to suggest that, should the recount exercise not reach a satisfactory conclusion as a basis for declaring the winner of the elections, GECOM will revert to the original declarations of the ROs to make the declaration of the winner of the elections.
Given the mounting evidence of the inflation of the tabulation results for Region 4 in favour of the APNU+AFC, as borne out so far during the recount exercise, one would therefore have to question GECOM’s decision to include the results for Region 4.
On his Monday evening show, the Fox News host said racist and sexist posts by one of his writers, Blake Neff, were “wrong,” while castigating his detractors as “ghouls.”
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(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has alleged the UNC is distributing truckloads of stoves, fridges and microwave ovens in the South and East and he told supporters to take them all and then vote for the PNM.
The article Trinidad: Rowley alleges UNC sharing out fridges, stoves for votes appeared first on Stabroek News.
Elderly voters have been urged to avoid the traditional morning crush of bodies at polling stations because they may be at increased risk for coronavirus infection as COVID-19 cases mount in Jamaica. Director of Elections Glasspole Brown sounded...
Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. is preparing to impose new restrictions as the territory battles rising COVID-19 cases, but a vaccine mandate is unlikely to be among them, Government House said Friday.
Massachusetts passed legislation to celebrate Juneteenth, once a forgotten celebration, as a federally recognized state holiday.
When David Granger was pressed further on an earlier declaration by Basil Williams and Roysdale Forde that the Recount is illegal, again, he stated, this time emphatically, “as President of Guyana and Leader of the Government, it is my policy that any declaration coming from the Chairman of GECOM will be accepted by the Government of Guyana”.
But David Granger’s party, Wednesday night (3rd June), in an e-mail, declared that APNU+AFC would not accept the result of the ballot Recount, a statement which we must presume has the approval of David Granger, even before the Chairman of the Elections Commission can deliver her Commission’s verdict on the ballot Recount.
If, as she should, the GECOM Chair-man declares the result of the ballot Recount to be that, which the world can already see, the PPP/C has won the Elections, David Granger’s party have now told her in advance that they will not accept any such decision.
Not once, but twice, prior even to the Recount beginning and based entirely on the fraudulent Lowenfield Report from the Mingo tabulation, David Granger told his party followers that APNU+AFC had won the Elections.
As for these so-called anomalies, every day being claimed at the Recount stations by APNU+AFC Party Agents, these amount to minor infractions having no bearing on the overwhelming result of an election process, which all of the International Observers found credible and which Granger himself originally gave his blessings,
It is time, as I have said before, for David Granger to do the honourable thing.
The race for the presidency of Zanzibar had by Friday attracted 11 candidates, two of them sons of former presidents.
Ali Karume, 70, son of Zanzibar's first president Abeid Amani Karume, will face off with Hussein Mwinyi, 53, whose father, Ali Hassan Mwinyi led Zanzibar from 1984 to 1985, before succeeding Julius Nyerere as Tanzanian president from 1985 to 1995.
Mr Karume, who is also the younger brother of former Isles president Amani Abeid Karume (2000-2010), has served as Zanzibar's ambassador to several European countries.
Zanzibar's president comes third in the hierarchy of power between Union and Isles’ government.
Other contenders are Makame Mbarawa, the current Minister of Water in the Union government; Zanzibar's current Minister of Information, Tourism and Heritage Mahmoud Thabit Kombo; and former Zanzibar chief minister Shamsi Vuai Nahodha.
U.S. Department of State Background Note
The rivers of Guinea and the islands of Cape Verde were among the first areas in Africa explored by the Portuguese in the 15th century. Portugal claimed Portuguese Guinea in 1446, but few trading posts were established before 1600. In 1630, a captaincy-general of Portuguese Guinea was established to administer the territory. With the cooperation of some local tribes, the Portuguese entered the slave trade and exported large numbers of Africans to the Western Hemisphere via the Cape Verde Islands. Cacheu became one of the major slave centers, and a small fort still stands in the town. The slave trade declined in the 19th century, and Bissau, originally founded as a military and slave-trading center in 1765, grew to become the major commercial center.
Portuguese conquest and consolidation of the interior did not begin until the latter half of the 19th century. Portugal lost part of Guinea to French West Africa, including the center of earlier Portuguese commercial interest, the Casamance River region. A dispute with Great Britain over the island of Bolama was settled in Portugals favor with the involvement of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.
Before World War I, Portuguese forces, with some assistance from the Muslim population, subdued animist tribes and eventually established the territorys borders. The interior of Portuguese Guinea was brought under control after more than 30 years of fighting; final subjugation of the Bijagos Islands did not occur until 1936. The administrative capital was moved from Bolama to Bissau in 1941, and in 1952, by constitutional amendment, the colony of Portuguese Guinea became an overseas province of Portugal.
In 1956, Amilcar Cabral and Raphael Barbosa organized the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) clandestinely. The PAIGC moved its headquarters to Conakry, Guinea, in 1960 and started an armed rebellion against the Portuguese in 1961. Despite the presence of Portuguese troops, which grew to more than
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has expressed concern over utterances made by Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe who insinuated that members of the forum were linked to the 'fake' abduction of three MDC Alliance members.
\"The Forum notes with dismay, shock and repugnance the mention of three of our members by Minister Kazembe Kazembe, in his press statement on 4 June 2020.
The statement insinuated that the abductions are fake, and mentioned our three members in a manner meant to create an association with the allegations of fake abductions\" read the statement
The Minister claimed that the Counselling Service Unit (CSU) a member of the Forum was an opposition-aligned Non-Governmental Organisation and interacted with the three MDC A members on the fateful day.
Further, CSU is not \"an appendage\" of any institution, and is a member of the Forum in its separate persona.
said the Forum
In light of the Minister's statements the forum says it is concerned with safety and welfare of its members.
The USA premier marketplace for skills launches its services
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The ultimate goal of Joulebook is to help shape local communities by supporting better livelihoods where people can contribute their unique skills to others and customers can expect high quality work to reach goals.”
Service providers can start selling their skills through transparency and convenience while having Joulebook take care of the vexing front office and back office tasks such as: sales, on-demand scheduling, booking, communications, billing, payments, reports, location management, two-way reviews, price comparison, performance metrics, etc.
Peaceful protesters gathered outside of an Aurora Municipal Center in Aurora, Colorado to honor the late Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old black man who died after being in police custody last year.
As they watched on, police shut down the peaceful protest and pepper-sprayed protesters, TMZ reported.
In videos on Twitter, police in riot gear are seen marching on to a grassy field and telling protesters to disperse.
At one point, the Aurora Police Department tweeted that some protesters had become rowdy.
When police arrived, CBS reported that protesters chanted “hands up, don’t shoot” with their hands up.
Fetty Wap (Credit: Fetty Wap)
Fetty Wap‘s estranged wife Leandra Gonzalez has made allegations that they’re getting divorced because he had a serious substance abuse problem, cheated on her, and beat her.
According to TMZ, in court documents filed by Gonzalez, she claims that Fetty — whose government name is Willie Maxwell — brutally beat her less than a month after they got married in Toronto last August.
Fetty Wap attends the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on August 26, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey.
Gonzalez also claims about a month before that trip, Fetty got the name of one of his mistresses tattooed on his wrist.”
READ MORE: Fetty Wap cuts deal to avoid jail time
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Parliament amended Cameroons constitution in April 2008 to allow President Biya to run for a third seven-year term in 2011. He won the 2011 election in a landslide, taking 78% of the vote. His opponents and international observers alleged the election was unfair.
