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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.
As polls suggest the opposition alliance will win on 23 June, President Mutharika has been trying to forcibly remove the country's chief justice.
When Peter Mutharika was declared the official winner of Malawi's hard-fought presidential elections in May 2019, he would not have expected - or wanted - to be doing it all again just one year later.
Moreover, in his 5 June State of National Address, Mutharika asked parliament to reverse the court ruling that demanded Malawi switch from its first-past-the-post system to one that requires the victor to garner a 50+1 majority.
In the annulled 2019 elections, President Mutharika of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was declared the winner with 38.6% of the vote.
Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) garnered 35.4%; Saulos Chilima of UTM came third with 20.2%; and Atupele Muluzi of the United Democratic Front (UDF) received 4.7%.
With the People’s National Party (PNP) set to enter another round of leadership changes within three months, various groups in the 89-year-old party are already lining up behind two presumptive candidates although nominations have not yet been...
Today is the 231st day of 2020. There are 135 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1964: South Africa is banned from participating in the Olympic Games in Tokyo for refusing to renounce its apartheid policies.�OTHER EVENTS1527: French forces take Pavia and Genoa in Italy.1649: Turkey's Sultan Ibrahim is deposed, assassinated and succeeded by Mohammed IV.
The beleaguered country was dealt a catastrophic blow in January 2010 when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the countrys capital. It was regions worst earthquake in 200 years. The quake leveled many sections of the city, destroying government buildings, foreign aid offices, and countless slums. Assessing the scope of the devastation, Prime Minister Préval said, Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed. He called the death toll unimaginable. Fatalities were reported to be around 230,000 by early February.
Since then the numbers have been revised. According to a draft report commissioned for the United States Agency for International Development, the number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people. The United Nations mission in Haiti was destroyed, 16 members of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti were killed, and hundreds of UN employees were missing. International aid poured in, and the scope of the damage caused by the quake highlighted the urgent need to improve Haitis crumbling infrastructure and lift it out of endemic poverty—the country is the poorest in the Western Hemisphere.
Already a victim of regular hurricanes, this earthquake-devastated country quickly faced another challenge: cholera. In November, the Haitian government said that the death toll had reached 1,034, with 16,799 people treated for cholera or symptoms of the disease.
The country was thrust into further disarray following Novembers presidential election. There were widespread allegations of irregularities, such as ballot-box stuffing, people casting multiple votes, discarded ballots, vandalized polling stations, and voter intimidation. Opposition candidates called for a revote, but their requests were rebuffed. On December 7 2010, the countrys electoral commission announced that Mirlande Manigat, the top vote getter, and Jude Célestin, the hand-picked candidate of Pré val, would face off in the second round of voting.
Less than one-half of Jamaicans met at least one of the candidates for Parliament in their local area during the campaign for the September 3 General Election, veteran pollster Bill Johnson is reporting from his most recent survey.
By Yuras Karmanau Associated Press MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Authorities in Belarus have blocked more than 50 news media websites reporting on how the country has been shaken by two weeks of protests demanding that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko resign after 26 years in power. The Belarusian Association of Journalists reported the shutdowns Saturday, which including sites for the U.S.-funded Radio Liberty and Belsat, a Polish-funded satellite TV channel focusing on neighboring Belarus. On Friday, the state publishing house stopped printing two top independent newspapers, the Narodnaya Volya and Komsomolskaya Pravda, citing an equipment malfunction. Protests unprecedented in Belarus for […]
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At least one child died and two others missing in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo following a landslide.
The children, aged 10 to 15, were swept away by a landslide in a bid to recover the food.
So we came very early this morning to try again, but nothing progresses, so I’m waiting here” said Desire Musekura, a father of one of the victims told our Correspondent, Mpoyo Ngole Gael.
There are old people dying of hunger, orphans who have nothing, and because of that the children came to recover the spoiled food and they fell down!
“They make the population of North Kivu province unsafe because the product declared unfit for consumption is considered poison, and for us we can’t tolerate this behavior, that’s why we first put them at the disposal of justice and disciplinary actions are opened for those agents who couldn’t give good advice”, Kasivita said.
By Zeke Miller and Colleen Long Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, lagging in the polls and grappling with deepening economic and public health crises, on Thursday floated the startling idea of delaying the Nov. 3 presidential election. The notion drew immediate pushback from Democrats and Republicans alike in a nation that has held itself up as a beacon to the world for its history of peaceful transfer of power. Trump suggested the delay as he pushed unsubstantiated allegations that increased mail-in voting due to the coronavirus pandemic would result in fraud. But shifting Election Day is virtually […]
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The body of 15 year-old Saneeka Leachman, who went missing yesterday morning, following a deluge, which caused a wall to collapse on the board dwelling she and her father occupied, has been found.\tOur sister radio station, Radio...
WESTERN BUREAU: After emerging as the member of parliament-elect in a nail-biting magisterial recount for Westmoreland Eastern, Daniel Lawrence vowed on Tuesday to rebuild public trust by addressing long-standing infrastructural blight. Lawrence...
St. Vincent, chief island of the chain, is 18 mi (29 km) long and 11 mi (18 km) wide and is located 100 mi (161 km) west of Barbados. The island is mountainous and well forested. St. Vincent is dominated by the volcano Mount Soufrière, which rises to 4,048 ft (1,234 m). The Grenadines, a chain of nearly 600 islets with a total area of only 17 sq mi (27 sq km), extend for 60 mi (96 km) between St. Vincent and Grenada. The main islands in the Grenadines are Bequia, Balliceau, Canouan, Mayreau, Mustique, Isle DQuatre, Petit Saint Vincent, and Union Island.
Parliamentary democracy.
The Carib Indians inhabited St. Vincent before the Europeans arrived, and the island still sports a sizable number of Carib artifacts. Explored by Columbus in 1498, and alternately claimed by Britain and France, St. Vincent became a British colony by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. In 1773, the island was divided between the Caribs and the British, but conflicts between the groups persisted. In 1776, the Caribs revolted and were subdued. Thereafter the British deported most of them to islands in the Gulf of Honduras. Sugarcane cultivation brought thousands of African slaves and, later, Portuguese and East Indian laborers.
The islands belonged to the West Indies Federation from 1958 until its dissolution in 1962, won home rule in 1969 as part of the West Indies Associated States, and achieved full independence Oct. 27, 1979. Prime Minister Milton Catos government quelled a brief rebellion on Dec. 8, 1979, attributed to economic problems following the eruption of Mount Soufrière in April 1979 (which had caused the evacuation of the northern two-thirds of the island). The eruption, followed by Hurricane Allen in 1980, seriously damaged the nations economy, particularly the important banana crop, in the 1980s. But by the 1990s the economy had begun to rebound. With the 1999 decision by the European Union to end its preferential treatment of bananas imported from former colonies, St. Vincent sought to diversify its economy, primarily through
Shooters Hill in east rural St Andrew is in sorrow, following the discovery, late this morning, of teenager, Saneeka Leachman's body, who had been missing since yesterday when a landslide destroyed her home. \tHer father...
In 2016 when not one, but two members of the Duncan family hopped on to the People’s National Party (PNP) ticket, there was heavy speculation about their chances of ending up in the House of Representatives, given their antecedent. They both lost...
The tax revolt started in California in 1978, but it never really ended. Four decades ago mad-as-hell voters banded together to pass Proposition 13, capping property taxes, slapping a constitutional muzzle on state government and wringing local budgets like a washcloth. The electorate's anti-tax fever may have broken in the years since, but the legacy […]
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By NICK PERRY Associated Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a second term in office Saturday in an election landslide of historic proportions. With most votes counted, Ardern's liberal Labour Party was winning 49% of the vote compared to 27% for its main challenger, the conservative National Party. Labour was on target to win an outright majority of the seats in Parliament, something that hasn't happened since New Zealand implemented a proportional voting system 24 years ago. Typically, parties must form alliances to govern, but this time Ardern and Labour can go it […]
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\"For the last four and a half years or so, we have been dragged through the wringer, and it is completely exhausting,\" the man behind Madea said.
… close observers of African-American political behavior. Keeping … process by which African-American communities internally police norms … that the erosion of African-Americans’ social isolation would … whose distance from the African-American church makes them …
The campaign for Democratic presidential and vice-presidential nominees Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released an agenda to support the African... View Article
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The landslide victims at Bunambutye resettlement site in Bulambuli District are protesting the decision by the district leaders to allocate them one acre of land for farming instead of the two that had been proposed by the government.
They are mistreating us and now they are proposing to give us one acre instead of two,\" Mr Nathan Wilson Wanasolo, the chairperson of the landslide victims, said.
Mr David Watasa, another victim and the secretary for education at the site, added that some of the leaders have threatened them with evictions should they reject the one acre of land.
One of the district leaders said they received money amounting to Shs400 million for ploughing the land from OPM this financial year but the contract was given to one of the leaders with limited manpower.
The Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Mr Andrew Chelangat, acknowledged in an interview with Daily Monitor that they received Shs400 million for ploughing the land for the victims.
Haiti, in the West Indies, occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. About the size of Maryland, Haiti is two-thirds mountainous, with the rest of the country marked by great valleys, extensive plateaus, and small plains.
Republic with an elected government.
Explored by Columbus on Dec. 6, 1492, Haitis native Arawaks fell victim to Spanish rule. In 1697, Haiti became the French colony of Saint-Dominique, which became a leading sugarcane producer dependent on slaves. In 1791, an insurrection erupted among the slave population of 480,000, resulting in a declaration of independence by Pierre-Dominique Toussaint lOuverture in 1801. Napoléon Bonaparte suppressed the independence movement, but it eventually triumphed in 1804 under Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who gave the new nation the Arawak name Haiti. It was the worlds first independent black republic.
The revolution wrecked Haitis economy. Years of strife between the light-skinned mulattos who dominated the economy and the majority black population, plus disputes with neighboring Santo Domingo, continued to hurt the nations development. After a succession of dictatorships, a bankrupt Haiti accepted a U.S. customs receivership from 1905 to 1941. Occupation by U.S. Marines from 1915 to 1934 brought stability. Haitis high population growth made it the most densely populated nation in the Western Hemisphere.
In 1949, after four years of democratic rule by President Dumarsais Estimé, dictatorship returned under Gen. Paul Magloire, who was succeeded by François Duvalier, nicknamed “Papa Doc,” in 1957. Duvaliers secret police, the “Tontons Macoutes,” ensured political stability with brutal efficiency. Upon Duvaliers death in 1971, his son, Jean-Claude, or “Baby Doc,” succeeded as ruler of the poorest nation in the hemisphere. In the early 1980s, Haiti became one of the first countries to face an AIDS epidemic. Fear of the disease caused tourists to stay away, and the tourist industry collapsed, causing
… were white, 10 percent were African American, and just 2 percent were … white and minority voters – including African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans – rose …
As Election Day draws closer, commentators are issuing apocalyptic warnings about potential coups, street violence and President Trump not conceding if he loses. But there's another frightening election scenario I dread as a Black man - and that few people seem to be talking about. It's what happens if an armed Black person clashes with an armed White person at […]
What happened Tuesday in the House Republican conference meeting is not one of those times.
Here's CNN reporting of what went down:
\"Several House Republicans attacked House GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming during a conference meeting Tuesday morning for supporting Dr. Anthony Fauci and splitting with President Donald Trump on a variety of issues over the past few months, three sources who were in the room told CNN.
\"Members including Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Chip Roy of Texas, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Ralph Norman of South Carolina all chimed in to air grievances against Cheney.\"
A gang-up on a member of GOP leadership doesn't just happen. Particularly not when the group of members who went after Cheney include some of the most high-profile members of the House Freedom Caucus, which also doubles as a bloc of President Donald Trump's most loyal allies. Make no mistake: This was a concerted act to force Cheney back into line with Trump or, at the very least, to know he (and they) were watching her very, very closely.
You still might be wondering: So what? Trump doesn't like when Republicans disagree with him. His congressional minions make sure the apostate is aware of the danger in which she is putting herself. In another administration, maybe that's a big story. In the Trump administration? That's just Tuesday.
Here's why it matters: What played out behind closed doors on Tuesday among Republicans is one of a series of small stirrings in the coming fight for what the Republican Party after Trump might look like.
\"Griping at leadership is basically the defining characteristic of a House GOP Conference meeting,\" tweeted Brendan Buck, who worked for two Republican speakers -- John Boehner and Paul Ryan. \"But an ambush like this against one member is actually quite rare. Hard not to look at it as the opening volley in the fight over a potential post-Trump GOP.\"
That is exactly right. And like Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's stepped-up criticism of Trump and Republicans who have enabled him, Cheney is playing the long game -- and making a big bet: That the post-Trump party will have a lane of not-insignificant size for traditional conservatives who balk at some of Trump's governmental and Constitutional largesses.
What Cheney is doing here is trying to preserve a version of the Republican Party that resembles the banner under which George W. Bush and her father, Dick Cheney, won two national elections last decade. Lower taxes and conservative judges, yes. But also a belief in moral rightness, in conservative values, in respect for the Constitution and the rule of law.
It's not dissimilar to what then-Speaker Ryan attempted to do in the run-up to the 2016 election -- distancing himself (and his House candidates) from Trump in the wake of the \"Access Hollywood\" scandal. Ryan eventually gave up on that fight, however, and endorsed Trump -- albeit without much joy. Sick
Donald Keith Duncan, one of the legendary generals of the People’s National Party (PNP) who steered it during the tumultuous upheaval of the 1970s, is dead, forced to retreat from the political battlegrounds where the coronavirus was an invisible...
