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[Ghanaian Times] Boakye Agyarko, former Minister of Energy, has stated that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has demonstrated over the past five years it is capable of transforming the nation if it stays in government for a longer period.
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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The United Nations Human Rights Council opened a special, unscheduled debate on Wednesday to discuss the issue of racism and police brutality in the United States in the wake of the murder of black American George Floyd.
Black Lives Matter supporters march in France and across the world against police brutality
Protests against police violence and racism in US to go ahead in Paris despite Covid-19
African nations in the council have called for a international commission of inquiry that would report back in a year about US police brutality and systematic racism in the US and elsewhere, a call that those against the plan have cited as only to be used for more serious human rights violations.
Hours before the debate was about to start, Andrew Bremberg, US ambassador to the UN in Geneva, said that the US is not above scrutiny, but all the other countries where racism is a problem need to be noted as well.
Botswana submitted the draft resolution, and its ambassador to Switzerland, Athaliah Lesiba Molokomme, spoke during the debate, focusing on the uprising of people on the streets of the US and elsewhere, protesting against racism and brutality.
Philonise Floyd ended his comments on the state of racism in the US, saying that the slaying of his brother, George, was not unique.
They criticize the administration for sending \"unidentified federal agents to operate with impunity\" in cities where demonstrations against police brutality and racism continue.
[This Day] Bauchi State Government has ordered the immediate relocation of 298 'illegal' traders from the central market, which has modern lock-up shops, as part of the state security measures.
An Egyptian conglomerate worth billions of dollars has invested $120m to take control of the Right To Dream academy, which was founded in Ghana in 1999 by a former Manchester United scout. Right To Dream started out with a handful of youngsters being trained by Tom Vernon, once Manchester United's head scout in Africa, on basic dust-filled pitches in Accra. Focusing on both education and football, Right To Dream has grown to such extent that it bought Danish top-flight side FC Nordsjaelland in 2016. The Mansour Group, which reported revenues in excess of $7.5 billion in 2018, deals in a variety of interests, with automotive, energy, finance and food among them. The group has created an entity called ManSports to oversee its first foray into the world of sports. 'ManSports … will now focus on establishing a Right To Dream academy in Egypt, and furthering the activities of the Right To Dream academy in Ghana, the FC Nordsjaelland club and academy in Denmark,' a statement said. ManSports is also keen to explore 'UK opportunities at club and academy level', with BBC Sport Africa understanding that the group is eyeing a non-Premier League club in the London area. Right To Dream will now build an academy in Egypt, for boys and girls, with construction on the site in West Cairo set to begin this year ahead of an intended intake of students next year. The launch of a new professional women's football team in Egypt is expected to follow soon after. Mansour Group chairman Mohamed Mansour - whose grandfather Mostafa was a member of Egypt's 1934 World Cup squad - is the seventh richest man in Africa, and 590th in the world, according to Forbes magazine. His son Loutfy - based in the English capital London - will head up ManSports. While the Egyptian business giants have assumed majority control, with Mohamed Mansour becoming chairman, Vernon himself will remain as the 'other significant shareholder' in the company and operate as CEO. 'Our partnership with Right To Dream is taking a strong African-born organisation, with values that align to our own, and sharing more of it with the world to change more people's lives,' said Mohamed Mansour. 'Growing the next generation of Egyptian football talent with aspiring boys and girls, and supporting the growth of our women's team, is the most meaningful way for us to start investing in football.' 'Our expansion into Egypt and Europe is further evidence that Ghana can export its football values and culture, not just its players,' added Vernon. - BBC
Reginae took a moment to assert that she is Black and beautiful despite the colorist and anti-Black statements made during an exchange between her father, rapper Lil Wayne, and 50 Cent.
The National Institutes of Health has hiked spending on animal experiments carried out abroad by almost a quarter in the last two years, sending cash to foreign countries for such purposes as addicting fish to drugs and nicotine, and feeding human feces to rodents, an analysis by taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project has found.
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Amelia Ashley Ward, publisher of San Francisco’s Sun Reporter newspaper, could hardly contain her emotions when Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) was announced as the running mate for Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden.
“I cried,” said Ward, who has remained close friends with Sen. Harris for more than two decades.
“I know that she is qualified, and she is for the people,” Ward proclaimed.
Continue reading Choice of Kamala Harris as Dem VP Candidate Praised by Many at The New Journal and Guide.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley is seeking to address the “school-to-confinement pipeline\" that has resulted in Black girls being jailed for simply wearing hair extensions to school.
A shipment of nearly four million coronavirus jabs arrives in Nigeria, making Africa's most populous nation the world's third country to receive vaccines under Covax, a global scheme to provide free inoculations.
BY CHRIS MEGARIAN LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS WASHINGTON — Americans can visit with others in small indoor gatherings, without masks or social distancing, once they’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. “You can visit your grandparents if you have been vaccinated and they have been too,” said Dr. […]
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One good measure of the change in Washington during the last 100 days is the number of false and misleading statements made by the new president.
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RUGBY LEAGUE Federation Ghana has launched a new marketing and recruitment campaign specifically aimed at...
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George Floyd had been dead only hours before the movement began. Driven by a terrifying video and word-of-mouth, people flooded the South Minneapolis intersection where he was killed shortly after Memorial Day, demanding an end to police violence against Black Americans. The moment of collective grief and anger swiftly gave way to a yearlong, nationwide deliberation on what it means to be Black in America. First came protests, in large cities and small towns across the nation, becoming the largest mass protest movement in U.S. history. Then, over the next several months, nearly 170 Confederate symbols were renamed or removed from public spaces. The Black Lives Matter slogan was claimed by a nation grappling with Floyd’s death. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Over the next 11 months, calls for racial justice would touch seemingly every aspect of American life on a scale that historians say had not happened since the civil rights movement of the 1960s. On Tuesday, Derek Chauvin, the white police officer who knelt on Floyd, was convicted of two counts of murder as well as manslaughter. The verdict brought some solace to activists for racial justice who had been riveted to the courtroom drama for the past several weeks. But for many Black Americans, real change feels elusive, particularly given how relentlessly the killing of Black men by the police has continued, including the recent shooting death of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb. There are also signs of backlash: Legislation that would reduce voting access, protect the police and effectively criminalize public protests has sprung up in Republican-controlled state legislatures. Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said to call what had transpired over the past year a racial reckoning was not right. “Reckoning suggests that we are truly struggling with how to re-imagine everything from criminal justice to food deserts to health disparities — we are not doing that,” he said. Tuesday’s guilty verdict, he said, “is addressing a symptom, but we have not yet dealt with the disease.” Moments before the verdict was announced, Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, called Floyd’s death “a Selma, Alabama, moment for America.” What happened in Selma in 1965 “with the world watching demonstrated the need for the passage of the 1965 Voting Right Act,” he said. “What we witnessed last year with the killing of George Floyd should be the catalyst for broad reform in policing in this nation.” The entire arc of the Floyd case — from his death and the protests through the trial and conviction of Chauvin — played out against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, which further focused attention on the nation’s racial inequities: People of color were among those hardest hit by the virus and by the economic dislocation that followed. And for many, Floyd’s death carried the weight of other episodes of police violence over the past decade, a list that includes the deaths of Eric Garner, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown and
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In summary Bills sent to the governor will lead to fewer senseless arrests and fewer people unnecessarily sitting in prison and jail, while saving the state money. By Anne Irwin, Special to CalMatters Anne Irwin is founder and director of Smart Justice California, anne@smartjusticeca.org. For some time, California has set the tone for how this […]
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June 17, 2021(KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese Sovereign Council tasked Lt-Gen Yasir Al-Atta with the formation of joint forces to restore order and (...)
Stellenbosch FC coach Steve Barker says Leletu Skelem must keep working hard to force his way back into the starting line-up.
