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Kiril Petkov, candidat du parti centriste, a remporté 26% des voix, devançant le parti conservateur, à Sofia, le 14novembre 2021. NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV / AFP Une confirmation et une surprise. Si le président bulgare sortant, Roumen Radev, a largement remporté, comme attendu, le premier tour du scrutin présidentiel organisé dimanche 14novembre dans ce pays des Balkans,
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\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.
In December 2010, a college graduate who worked as a street vendor set himself on fire in the city of Sidi Bouzid to protest unemployment, corruption and the continued police state. A spate of other protests followed and spread throughout the country. As many as 10,000 people took to the streets of Tunis, the capital. President Ben Ali attempted to quell the protests with a promise of new elections—but not until 2014—and the creation of 300,000 jobs, but the demonstrations continued and the police retaliated with live gunfire, batons, and tear gas. As many as 80 protesters died in the violence.
After 23 years in power, Ben Ali stepped down and left the country on January 14, 2011. His resignation only complicated the political unrest in Tunisia. Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi said he would assume power, but the following day backed down from that plan and set up a unity government with Fouad Mebazaa, speaker of Parliament, as interim president. The opposition rejected the government and continued their protests, saying high-level posts were given to members of Ben Alis party, while low-ranking ministries were reserved for the opposition. On Feb. 27, Prime Minister Ghannouchi resigned amid ongoing protests and continued criticism that he was too closely linked to the Ben Ali regime. He was replaced by Beji Caid-Essebsi, a former government minister. He responded to demands of the opposition and lifted the 20-year ban on the main Islamist party and froze the assets of Ben Ali. He did not, however, dissolve Parliament or suspend the constitution.
In June, Ben Ali and his wife, Leila Trabelsi, were found guilty in absentia of corruption and sentenced to 35 years in prison and fined $66 million.
Une troisième enquête fédérale sur les «modèles et pratiques» de la police d’une grande ville américaine vient d’être lancée par le ministre de la justice Merrick Garland. Il a annoncé, jeudi 5août, l’ouverture d’une enquête sur la police municipale de Phoenix, accusée d’un usage excessif de la force sur les plus vulnérables de cette grande
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SOURCE: St Lucia Times - Prime Minister Allen Chastanet Monday night announced that Saint Lucians will go to the polls on Monday July, 26, 2021. Nomination day will be on July 16, the Prime Minister said in an address to the nation. He said in keeping with the requirements of the constitution, he on Monday […]
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Avant, ils étaient démembrés vifs et hurlants. Aujourd’hui, ils disparaissent sans bruit, si ne n’est un avertissement à leurs proches de ne pas les chercher. Mais, dans le port de Buenaventura, en Colombie, beaucoup croient savoir où sont leurs morts. Le long du pont Nayero, dans les masures sur pilotis du quartier de La Playita,
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For the color, see Purple.
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.[1] [a] It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence.[2] [3] In 2003 the book was listed on the BBCs The Big Read poll of the UKs best-loved novels.[4]
Celie is a poor, uneducated, 14-year-old girl living in the American South in the 1930s. She writes letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats her harshly and rapes her continuously. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once, a pregnancy that resulted in the birth of a boy she called Adam. Alphonso takes the baby away shortly after his birth. Celie has a second child, a girl she called Olivia whom Alphonso also abducts. Celies ailing mother dies after cursing Celie on her deathbed.
Celie and her younger sister, 12-year-old Nettie, learn that a man identified only as Mister wants to marry Nettie. Alphonso refuses to let Nettie marry, instead arranging for Mister to marry Celie. Mister, needing someone to care for his children and keep his house, eventually accepts the offer. Mister and his children, whose mother was murdered by a jealous lover, all treat Celie badly. However, she eventually gets Misters squalid living conditions and incorrigible children under control.
Shortly thereafter, Nettie runs away from Alphonso and takes refuge at Celies house, where Mister makes sexual advances toward her. Celie
“Colombia must admit that there are racial problems in the country and throughout Latin America”, Barack Obama said at a business conference in Colombia's capital, Bogota, in May 2017. Some years prior to the conference, Obama had been elected as the first Black president of the U.S. While the U.S. celebrated this feat and its...
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Bo Tefu | California Black Media The California legislature approved Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $267 billion state budget for fiscal year 2021-22. It is packed with support for programs and policy initiatives intended to drive California’s economy out of the downturn caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Cash that will be pumped into the general fund […]
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Manifestation à la mémoire de Steve Maia Caniço, le 3 août 2019, à Paris. MARTIN BUREAU / AFP Le téléphone de Steve Maia Caniço, animateur périscolaire de 24ans ayant péri dans la Loire durant la nuit de la Fête de la musique 2019 à Nantes, a «parlé». Les expertises diligentées en octobre2020 par le juge
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Analysis - Liberia: The nation's attention has once again been captured by controversy over the budget formulation and implementation after an interview conducted by President Weah in Kakata, Margibi County on August 16, 2021. During the interview, a journalist asked the President about the Liberia National Fire Service complaining about the agency's low budgetary allotment. The President responded by saying " "I am from the Executive; I don't create a budget."
[New Zimbabwe] There are growing fears that earnings from tobacco, which remains touted as the country's second single largest foreign currency earner after gold's net export proceeds, might be far less in foreign receipts compared to other commodities because most of the contract schemes are sponsored using offshore funds.
Farmlands and homes in the Pomeroon River (Region Two) remain inundated after persistent rainfall and farmers are now worried they will not be able to profit from the current crop.
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Farmers in the Clarendon South constituency can now benefit from the solar-powered irrigation system at the Ebony Park pump. The system, which was officially commissioned into service yesterday via a virtual ceremony, is now the second on the list...
MERLE Baggoo has resigned as president of the Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Association (TTTTA).
Baggoo held the position for five months.
A TTTTA media release on Saturday, said, “Please be advised that Ms Merle Baggoo resigned as TTTTA president on September 23, 2021. The management committee continues to conduct the affairs of the association led by Mr Kevin Lewis who will act as president until the position is filled in accordance with the constitution. The table tennis membership will continue to be updated of all developments in a timely manner.”
Baggoo was the first woman to be elected president of the TTTTA.
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Current government officials
Languages: English 7% (official), Afrikaans is common language of most of the population and of about 60% of the white population, German 32%; indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama: 1%
Ethnicity/race: black 87.5%, white 6%, mixed 6.5%. Note: about 50% of the population belong to the Ovambo tribe and 9% to the Kavangos tribe; other ethnic groups are Herero 7%, Damara 7%, Nama 5%, Caprivian 4%, Bushmen 3%, Baster 2%, Tswana 0.5%
Religions: Christian 80%–90% (Lutheran at least 50%), indigenous beliefs 10%–20%
National Holiday: Independence Day, March 21
Literacy rate: 88.8% (2010 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2012 est.): $16.84 billion; per capita $7,800. Real growth rate: 4%. Inflation: 5.8%. Unemployment: 51.2%. Arable land: .99%. Agriculture: millet, sorghum, peanuts, grapes; livestock; fish. Labor force: 818,600; agriculture 16.3%, industry 22.4%, services 61.3% (2008 est.). Industries: meatpacking, fish processing, dairy products; mining (diamonds, lead, zinc, tin, silver, tungsten, uranium, copper). Natural resources: diamonds, copper, uranium, gold, lead, tin, lithium, cadmium, zinc, salt, vanadium, natural gas, hydropower, fish; note: suspected deposits of oil, coal, and iron ore. Exports: $4.657 billion (2012 est.): diamonds, copper, gold, zinc, lead, uranium; cattle, processed fish, karakul skins. Imports: $5.762 billion (2012 est.): foodstuffs; petroleum products and fuel, machinery and equipment, chemicals. Major trading partners: South Africa, U.S. (2006).
Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 140,000 (2011); mobile cellular: 2.24 million (2011). Broadcast media: 1 private and 1 state-run TV station; satellite and cable TV service is available; state-run radio service broadcasts in multiple languages; about a dozen private radio stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available (2007). Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 78,280 (2012). Internet users: 127,500,600 (2009).
Transportation: Railways: total: 2,626 km (2008).
Des affiches électorales pour les élections régionales en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, à Lyon (Rhône), le 18 juin 2021. BRUNO AMSELLEM / DIVERGENCE POUR «LE MONDE» Dimanche, on vote. Et plutôt deux fois qu’une. Dimanche 20juin, quelque 47,7millions d’électeurs inscrits sur les listes électorales sont appelés à voter au premier tour des élections régionales ou territoriales et des
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Le président de l'OGCN, Jean-Pierre Rivère, a pointé du doigt la responsabilité des Marseillais après l'arrêt définitif du match. Le discours est étonnant. En plein décalage avec la réalité. Après les tristes événements qui ont conduit à l'arrêt définitif du match entre Nice et l'OM, le président du club azuréen, lors de la conférence de
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William H. Lewis, an All-American football star at Harvard, is credited with inventing the 'roving center' defense strategy. He went on to a distinguished legal and political career in Boston.
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Langston Frazier was born hearing impaired in both ears, which nullified any chance of participating in sports like basketball or football. But, in an inspiring story originating from PGA.com, Frazier found golf in the fourth grade in Bowie, Maryland, through an initiative called “First Tee.” The program enables […]
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The NAACP San Diego would like to express its firm and resolute opposition to the nomination of current San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten, to the post of deputy secretary in the federal Department of Education. Waking up to this news as we celebrate the achievements, values, life and sacrifice of Dr. Martin […]
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La Copa América au Brésil hors-jeu ? À cinq jours du coup d'envoi, la Cour suprême a décidé qu'elle statuerait en urgence jeudi sur son éventuelle annulation en raison de la crise sanitaire dans ce pays touché de plein fouet par la pandémie de Covid-19. «Le président de la Cour suprême Luiz Fux a convoqué
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[Nation] Even before his impeachment, Mike Sonko was already a governor without portfolio, having seen his powers considerably reduced with the signing of the Deed of Transfer of Functions in February.
MEILLE, Haiti (AP) - Ten years after a cholera epidemic swept through Haiti and killed nearly 10,000 people, families of victims still struggle financially and await compensation from the United Nations as many continue to drink from and bathe in a river that became ground zero for the waterborne disease.
Prosperity came in 1960 after the start of exploitation of bauxite deposits. Touré was reelected to a seven-year term in 1974 and again in 1981. He died after 26 years as president in March 1984. A week later, a military regime headed by Col. Lansana Conté took power.
In 1989, President Conté announced that Guinea would move to a multiparty democracy, and in 1991, voters approved a new constitution. In Dec. 1993 elections, the presidents Unity and Progress Party took almost 51% of the vote. In 2001, a government referendum was passed that eliminated presidential term limits, thus allowing Conté to run for a third term in 2003. Despite the trappings of multiparty rule, Conté has ruled the country with an iron fist.
By Ryan J. Foley Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of households in Iowa and Illinois remained without electricity Wednesday, two days after a rare wind storm that hit the Midwest devastated parts of the power grid, flattened valuable corn fields and killed two people. Much of Iowa and parts of several other states suffered outages Monday as straight-line winds toppled trees, snapped poles and downed power lines. The storm known as a derecho had winds of up to 112 mph near Cedar Rapids, as powerful as a hurricane, as it tore from eastern Nebraska across […]
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Militants of the Tigray People's Liberation Front are nowhere near giving up the fight, as firefights continue in rural areas.
Hikers needing assistance or rescue often find themselves without cellphone reception, but those in Israel can now look for red signs indicating an emergency hotspot along trails. The unique new network has already saved lives, [...]
La cérémonie de lancement de la mise en application de l'Accord politique pour une gouvernance apaisée et efficace de la période intérimaire, qui devait avoir lieu ce vendredi 24 septembre, à l'hôtel Ritz Kinam, a été annulée.
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The leaders of four left-leaning parties have urged the president to return the country to political normality
Le réalisateur Maurice Pialat lors du tournage d’«A nos amours» (1983). WILLIAM KAREL / SYGMA CORBIS Vous venez de (re)voir, à 20h50, Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972), cette vivisection d’un amour impossible, et vous enchaînez avec Sous le soleil de Pialat, le documentaire de William Karel. Vous le saviez peut-être déjà, sinon vous le
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