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Ghana witnessed a sea of red on Tuesday as the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and civil society groups took to the streets in protest, demanding a forensic audit of the voters' register.
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
Newly appointed Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding sent a strong message to the Holness administration on Tuesday, warning that he would keep the Government in check and be fearless in reining in corruption and malfeasance. Golding, 55,...
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Congresswoman Alma Shealey Adams currently represents North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. She is the 100th woman elected to that legislative body and the second African American woman, after Eva Clayton, to represent North Carolina in the U.S. Congress.
Born Alma Shealey on May 27, 1946 in High Point, North Carolina, she is the daughter of Benjamin Shealey and Mattie Stokes. She graduated from West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey in 1964, but returned to North Carolina to attend North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina where she received her B.S. degree in 1968. In 1972 she earned a master’s degree from the same institution, and in 1981 she received a Ph.D. in Art and Multicultural Education from The Ohio State University. In 1974 she began what would become a forty-year career as a professor of art history at Bennett College in Greensboro.
Adams began her political career as the first African American on the Greensboro City School Board, where she served until 1986. The following year she was elected to the Greensboro City Council, where she remained until her appointment in 1994 to a vacant seat in the North Carolina General Assembly, the state legislature.
Adams was appointed to fill the seat in North Carolina House District 26 that was filled by Herman Gist, who died in office. She won the primary election against fellow Democrat O.C. Stafford, and in the general election she defeated Republican Roger C. Coffer. Adams easily defeated other opponents in every two-year election between 1996 and 2012.
During her time in the North Carolina General Assembly, Adams initiated or supported legislation that promoted the interest of children and families. She was responsible for pushing legislation that raised the state’s minimum wage, advocated affordable health care, and led affordable house initiatives. Adams also served as the chairperson of the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus and the North Carolina
WESTERN BUREAU: Tamika Davis, the newly installed member of parliament (MP) for Hanover Western, made her presence felt among her constituents on Sunday when she spearheaded a clean-up and beautification drive which spanned several communities in...
… make history as the first African-American to lead the country’s … Pentagon, and is the only African-American to have headed U.S … in the Army, especially among African-American officers and enlisted soldiers, as …
Lil Waynemade headlines after he endorsed PresidentDonald Trump last week. Shortly thereafter it was reported that his girlfriend Denise Bidotbroke... View Article
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With the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) ringing its own bell for its decision to select a record 19 women to contest the September 3 General Election, some critics have charged that the women, particularly the newcomers, are being used as tokens and being placed in seats the party does not expect to win.
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The 2020 election unfolded smoothly across the country and without any widespread irregularities, according to state officials and election experts, a stark contrast to the baseless claims of fraud being leveled by President Donald Trump following his defeat. Election experts said the large increase in advance voting — 107 million people voting early in person and by mail — helped take pressure off Election Day operations. There were also no incidents of violence at the polls or voter intimidation. 'The 2020 general election was one […]
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni took an early lead in the presidential election, according to preliminary results, but his main rival Bobi Wine said he had proof of election fraud and claimed his own victory.
Deeming it as acting in bad faith and contrary to the interest of democracy in Guyana, yesterday the Organization of American States (OAS) rejected the latest report of the country’s chief elections officer which gives the win in the disputed March...
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined a GOP lawsuit in Pennsylvania to challenge the mail-in ballots that arrived after... View Article
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U.S. Senator from South Carolina, Timothy Eugene Scott is the first black Republican elected to the Senate from the South since Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce served in that body representing Mississippi from 1876 to 1881. He is also the first Republican Senator elected since Edward Brooke represented Massachusetts in that body in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Before his appointment to the Senate post on December 17, 2012, Scott was a Congressman representing South Carolinas 1st Congressional District. Elected during the 2010 midterm elections, he was also the first black Republican elected to the House of Representatives from South Carolina since George Washington Murray, who served in Congress from 1896 to 1897.
Senator Scott was born on September 19, 1965 in North Charleston and grew up in this impoverished neighborhood. His parents divorced when he was seven. In order to make ends meet, his mother, Frances, worked sixteen hour days as a nurse’s assistant, a profession which she still holds. Scott’s older brother is a U.S. Army officer, stationed in Germany.
Tim Scott graduated from Charleston Southern University with a B.S. degree in Political Science in 1988. He began his professional life selling insurance door-to-door. Over the years, the business, Tim Scott Allstate Insurance, developed into a highly successful company. Scott is also a partner in the Pathway Real Estate Group.
In 1995, Scott was elected to the Charleston County Council, becoming the first black Republican to hold a countywide elected office since Reconstruction. He served on the Council for thirteen years, rising to the position of Council Chair in 2008.
In 2010 Scott won the vacated seat of Republican Congressman Henry Brown, Jr. When Scott decided to enter the race for Congress, he raised $725,000, far more than the $20,000 of his closest challenger. He subsequently won a resounding victory in the nine-candidate Republican primary. Among his opponents was Carroll Campbell III, the son of the late governor. In the
Jamaica’s 17th contested general election since adult suffrage in 1944, and the 12th since Independence, is to be held on September 3. The 16th took place on February 26, 2016. At that time, over half of those eligible to vote didn’t cast their...
Controversial attorney-at-law and leader of the Jam Abolitionist Movement, Don Foote, says he's seeking to win the Westmoreland Central parliamentary seat come election day September 3. \tShowing up with his ten nominees,...
[Monitor] The Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation in Uganda, Ambassador Atillio Pacifici, has said they are impressed with the level of organisation and peaceful conduct exhibited during the presidential and parliamentary polls held on Thursday.
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Name at birth: Shirley Anita St. Hill
Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress. She served seven terms as a representative from New Yorks 12th district, from 1969 until her retirement in 1982. Chisholm grew up in Barbados and also in New York City, where she earned a graduate degree from Columbia University in 1952. She taught school before entering the New York state assembly in 1964 and then easily winning election to Congress in 1968. She ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1972, becoming the first African-American woman to run for the office. An opponent of the Vietnam War and a proponent of education and child welfare, she received about 5% of the vote at the partys national convention. (She lost the nomination to George McGovern, who was defeated by Republican incumbent Richard Nixon in the general election.) Chisholm wrote the memoirs Unbossed and Unbought (1970) and The Good Fight (1973).
Chisholm earned a B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1946, and a master’s degree in elementary education from Columbia University in 1952… Chisholm was married twice: to Conrad O. Chisholm, from 1949 until their divorce in 1977, and to Buffalo businessman Arthur Hardwick from 1977 until his death in 1986… Chisholm had no children.
The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has opened a more than 40 percentage-point lead over the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) as the party that respondents in the latest Bill Johnson poll believe would do a better job of governing the country at this time.Commissioned by the Jamaica Observer, the poll was conducted July 9-12, 2020 among 1,200 voting-age Jamaicans across the island. It has a sampling error of plus or minus 2.5 per cent.
The Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP), one of the four political parties given the go-ahead to contest the general election, is taking issue with being excluded from planned talks between the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the opposition...
The citizens of the Turks and Caicos Islands will be heading to the polls in a general election on February 19.
In September 2011, Prime Minister Bruce Golding resigned. Goldings political standing never recovered after his handling of the Christopher Coke case. For nine months, Golding resisted a request from the United States to hand over Coke. His resignation was seen as an effort to help the Jamaica Labour Party, his party, in the upcoming general election.
Golding was replaced by Andrew Holness. However, Holness was only Prime Minister for ten weeks. Holness called for the 2012 general election to be held on December 29, 2011. He lost the election to Portia Simpson Miller. Having already served one term as Prime Minister, Simpson Miller won in a landslide victory. Her party, the Peoples National Party, took 42 out of 63 seats. Simpson Millers previous term was from March 2006 to September 2007.
See also Encyclopedia: Jamaica .
U.S. State Dept. Country Notes: Jamaica
Statistical Institute of Jamaica www.statinja.com/ .
