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BY MOSES MATENGA FOREIGN Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo (60) has died. The former army general, who has been battling a kidney ailment requiring regular dialysis, died after a long illness with close government sources saying he succumbed to COVID-19 at a local private hospital. In a statement, President Mnangagwa said Moyo succumbed to Covid19 at a private hospital in Harare. Mnangagwa said further funeral arrangements will be announced in due course. “His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa regrets to announce the passing on early this morning of SB Moyo, our Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. The late Minister succumbed to COVID-19 at a local hospital,” Presidential spokesperson George Charamba said. Moyo became a household name after announcing the military takeover that led to the ouster of the late former President Robert Mugabe via a military coup in November 2017. The then army general, Moyo announced the military coup that toppled Zimbabwe's long time leader, Robert Mugabe in November 2017. Moyo was husband to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission chairperson, Loice Matanda-Moyo. Moyo is the latest top government official to succumb to COVID-19 after last week’s demise of Manicaland provincial affairs Minister Ellen Gwaradzimba.
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
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Jaden Smith's clothing brand MSFTSrep announced today it is launching its new "Trippy Summer" capsule collection. The collection is inspired by the company's founder, Jaden Smith's appreciation for and desire to bring back "a movement of peace, love, and self-expression that mirrors the hippie movement of the 1960s."
Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., President and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)…
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By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jed Leiber was an adult before he learned that his family was once part-owner of a collection of centuries-old religious artworks now said to be worth at least $250 million. Over a steak dinner at a New York City restaurant in the 1990s he had asked his mother about his grandfather, a prominent art dealer who fled Germany after Adolf Hitler came to power. 'What was grandpa most proud of in his business?' he asked. 'He was very, very proud to have acquired the Guelph Treasure, and then was forced to sell […]
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Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett, Principal of the Institute for Colored Youth, Philadelphia, named minister to Haiti and became the first major Black diplomat and the first American Black to receive a major appointment from the United Stated Government.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 02: Individuals stroll by the New York Inventory Alternate (NYSE) in decrease … [+] Manhattan on October 02, 2020 in New York Metropolis. Shares…
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil's north-east, a harsh place of arid land, cyclical drought, and crushing poverty, is emerging as the next crisis zone in the novel coronavirus pandemic.
As the virus surges in Brazil — which now has the second-highest number of cases in the world after the United States — the country's poorest region has been hit hard, both by the disease and the painful measures taken to contain it.
The nine states of the north-east have the second-highest number of cases and deaths in Brazil, after the wealthy south-east, where the outbreak began.
The north-east is sometimes called the “Cradle of Brazil,” because it is where the Portuguese founded their first colonial capital, Salvador.
When the virus arrived in Brazil and Bolsonaro downplayed it as a “little flu”, the north-east took matters into its own hands.
[Observer] Reputation Poll International (PI), a leading global human reputation management firm, has named Liberia's Vice President, Jewel Howard Taylor, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Leymah Gbowee, as two of the hundred (100) most reputable persons on the continent of Africa.
by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his and the Republican Party’s dangerous actions and rhetoric are now causing damage that might not easily be undone. Led by the Proud Boys, whom Trump infamously asked to “stand back and stand … Continued
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A Latinx neighborhood in a wealthy California county hard-hit by COVID-19 reflects on the complex challenges and policy failures affecting vulnerable communities across the U.S. during the pandemic.
And now, Apple has decided to close its stores once again as coronavirus cases begin to rise across the United States after it peaked in many cities back in April.
“Due to current Covid-19 conditions in some of the communities we serve, we are temporarily closing stores in these areas,” an Apple spokesman shared Friday in a statement.
The stores to be closed are in Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina, four states that are seeing the highest seven-day average of new coronavirus infections since the pandemic took root in the U.S.
Initially, Apple closed all of its stores in China, and when the outbreak began to hit the States, it followed suit as one of the first retailers to make such a radical decision.
Florida
– Waterside Shops
– Coconut Point
North Carolina
– Southpark
– Northlake Mall
South Carolina
– Haywood Mall
Arizona
– Chandler Fashion Center
– Scottsdale Fashion Square
– Arrowhead
– SanTan Village
– Scottsdale Quarter
– La Encantada
The niece of President Donald Trump wrote a tell-all book about the president and his family that reveals that Trump paid someone to take the SATs for him. Titled Too
Luanda — The novel coronavirus has travelled beyond the limits of the capital, Luanda, after three positive cases of covid-19 were reported in northern Cuanza Norte province, out of six reported in the country since the last update of Monday.
The information was released Tuesday evening in Luanda by the secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mudinda, who said the six new cases bring the total number of infections in the country to 148.
He added that the two Luanda cases are residents of Hoji Ya Henda neighbourhood, while the Cuanza Norte ones are West African nationals who skipped the sanitary cordon.
Updating the new coronavirus statistics, Mufinda said Angola has six deaths, 78 active patients and 64 recoveries, with 69 imported cases and 83 locally transmitted infections.
By virtue of the covid-19 pandemic and the consequent state of public calamity in force in the country, Angola's capital , Luanda , that until Tuesday remained the only region of the country reporting positive cases of the deadly virus, was isolated from the rest of the national territory, with the authorities considering an offence any unauthorised trips in and out.
MANDEVILLE, Manchester -The use of three donated digital laryngoscopes valued at $1.2 million over the last two months has greatly assisted medical staff at the Mandeville Regional Hospital, according to Alwyn Miller, chief executive officer at the hospital.
Still in Position
Akinwumi Adesina - a 60-year-old former Nigerian agriculture minister, was unanimously re-elected to serve as the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) for a second term of five years.
The winning and only candidate, over an exceptional annual meeting held via a video conference call, thanked his peers, \"We also made history by re-electing me by 100% vote, via a vote I became the first president of the bank in its history to be re-elected by a 100% vote of all its shareholders and I am most grateful and appreciative.\"
Alleged Corruption
Grateful indeed, as events over recent months saw this same re-elected president of the AfDB facing accusations of corruption and favouritism - of which, he has since been exonerated following an internal inquiry by the bank's ethics committee Amadou Hott, the Senegalese finance minister and AfDB board of governors member, shared some words, \"In this regard, and in the spirit of unity and collaboration, we authorize the creation of an ad hoc committee of the Board of Governors to oversee the review of the Bank's governance framework for ethics and complaints handling.\"
In spite of the affair, the bank - although its reputation did take a hit, managed to maintain its triple-A evaluation from the rating agencies.
The son of a farming family, in 2015 he became the first Nigerian to head the bank, one of the world's five biggest multilateral lenders and an important but often unseen player in economic development.
He gained continent-wide recognition last October when the AfDB secured $115 billion (105 billion euros) in funding pledges, a move that doubled its capital and cemented its triple-A credit rating.
Post-Pandemic Anticipated Recession
The 56-year-old institution estimates that Africa could lose at least $173 billion (147 billion euros) in GDP in 2020 and $236 billion in 2021 as a result of the economic fallout from the Covid-19 crisis. The bank set up a coronavirus funding mechanism up to $10 billion in April. Adesina has five years to revive the continent's economies, which are feeling the weight of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Pelosi re-elected House speaker amid extraordinary political turmoil in Washington and the states
