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In a press conference on Monday, Cellou Diallo said he was willing to work with the junta, a major endorsement from the political class for coup leader Mamady Doumbouya
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.
A grand jury convened in Breonna Taylor’s shooting death decided to press charges against former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison,... View Article
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The first batch of the 1,044 Jamaican ship workers who returned to the island on Tuesday afternoon has departed for government quarantine centres in St Ann after being processed at the Falmouth cruise ship pier in Trelawny.
The Jamaican workers were repatriated aboard Royal Caribbean's Adventures of the Seas cruise ship, which remains docked at the port.
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of National Security, Mathew Samuda, says the Jamaicans were allowed to disembark in trances of 40 and 20 and were subjected to health and safety screening including being tested for COVID-19.
Holness said ship workers who test positive will go into state quarantine while those who test negative will be allowed to quarantine at home for 14 days.
Persons in home quarantine will have their location tracked and must do a video check-in multiple times a day, Holness said.
Kaplan Police Officer Steven Aucoin was fired following an investigation for allegedly suggesting that it was “unfortunate” that the coronavirus pandemic had not killed off black people, officials said.
The Kaplan Police Department has released a written statement on its Facebook page:
“We are writing this to inform everyone that we were made aware of the situation with the comments on Facebook from Steven Aucoin.
In comments posted during a live stream of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ press conference on state’s COVID-19 response, the Louisiana cop stated that it was “unfortunate” that all black people weren’t killed by the virus.
Kaplan Police Chief Joshua Hardy tells KFLY that this kind of behavior from a police officer is not tolerated within the department and he fired Aucoin after they completed an investigation of the entire thread.
“There were some comments that were further up that was not suitable for a police officer to put up on Facebook,” Chief Hardy said.
However, that’s precisely the script that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis followed on Wednesday when he and Vice President Mike Pence boasted of the Sunshine State defeating the coronavirus.
As the state dealt with the controversial fallout from the high-profile firing of an official who was collecting crucial coronavirus data, DeSantis openly mocked health experts as being incorrect in their predictions that Florida would be one of the worst states hit by the virus in an almost “I told you so” kind of manner.
DeSantis made it a point to call out states like New York and brag that the coronavirus in Florida has been less severe because if his leadership.
“The reality is coronavirus is more than likely here to stay,” Dr. Jill Roberts of the University of South Florida Public Health told local news outlet WTSB while citing the Spanish Flu’s three waves, of which the second was the most deadly.
Pence’s visit with DeSantis in Florida came on the same day that the authors of a new study showing southern states that relax social distancing guidelines prematurely increased their risk of a second wave of the coronavirus.
The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus has sent a letter to Gov. Ralph Northam saying the move to reopen Virginia would be treating black and brown people like “guinea pigs for our economy.”
However, the black caucus believes the state doesn’t have the necessary testing capacity and infrastructure to safely reopen without putting minorities at an unfair risk.
Northam said his decision to open the state is based on positive trends in key metrics related to the virus’ spread, like testing capacity and hospital readiness.
After two weeks of debate by state lawmakers, Northam’s plan will reopen retail businesses with limited capacity.
However, Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax has asked Northam to create a task force to track racial disparities in coronavirus pandemic in the state.
The family of George Floyd is taking his autopsy into their own hands.
We’re going to take custody back of George Floyd’s body, and we’re bringing in Dr. Michael Baden to perform an independent autopsy because we saw in the Eric Garner case and so many other cases where they have these people who work with the city come up with things that are such an illusion.”
Dr. Michael Baden is a well-known medical examiner who also testified in the notorious O.J Simpson trial and also performed an autopsy Michael Brown, the Ferguson, MO teenager that was shot and killed by a police officer.
The preliminary findings from the medical examiner’s office states that “the combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.”
He was fired from the Minneapolis Police Department after Floyd’s death.
President, Centre for Quranic Recitation in Nigeria, Sheikh Hassan Musa, yesterday revealed that it was the vote of the Almajiris in the 19 Northern states of the country that returned President Muhammadu Buhari to office for a second term in 2019.
Hassan Musa said in Minna, the Niger State capital that the 16 million strong Almajiris in the Northern part of country were mobilised to cast their ballots for the then All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate to pay back for the alleged derogatory remarks made about the region by former First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan.
Speaking at the flag-off of the isolation of some Almajiris by the Niger State Government, Musa said the North did not take the alleged derogatory remarks well though Dame Patience Jonathan did not know the import of her remarks because \"she spoke in Hausa\".
The Secretary to the Niger State Government, Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim Matane who inaugurated the scheme at the hajj camp in Minna, said the children would be isolated for 14 days after which they would be tested for the disease and if found clean, would be reunited with their parents across the country.
The government scribe insisted on the implementation of the decision of the Northern States Governors' Forum that the Almajiris should return to their states of origin.
BY BLESSED MHLANGA ZANU PF has told Western countries, especially Britain and United States, “to shut up” and stop pontificating about democracy and human rights, adding that Britain and the US’s hands were historically dirty. Party acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa said Western countries could not lecture Zimbabwe on democracy when they were responsible for denying the people of Zimbabwe their freedom. “Zanu PF takes strong exception to being lectured on issues of human rights by citizens of countries which perpetrated the brutalities accompanying the Atlantic African Slave Trade and colonial conquest of Africa, and who refuse to render apologies or pay reparations,” Chinamasa said. Zimbabwe is under international spotlight over human rights violations, closing of the democratic space and clamping down on opposition political parties, resulting in the imposition of sanctions against top government figures. Chinamasa said this was a form of slavery and bullying by the Western powers, which were also yet to come clean on their role on slavery. “As a consequence of seeking to redress the brutalities that occurred in the colonisation of Zimbabwe, accompanied by dispossession of our land and brutal confiscation of livestock by colonialists, the country has suffered 20 years of naked bullying, economic isolation and severe sanctions regime by the former colonial powers now acting in concert as economic and political powers in support of what they allege are rights of 4 500 white former farmers,” he said. The British have since dismissed the letter brandished by Chinamasa at his Press conference as fake photoshop replete with errors, but Zanu PF insists it was genuine. Zanu PF also demanded that all Western countries which were involved in colonialism and slavery should pay compensation and offer apologies to those that they wronged. Chinamasa said instead the British found it worthwhile to compensate the slave owners instead of the slaves. “That at the time of abolition of the Atlantic African slave trade the British through the British Parliament approved and paid 20 million pounds to slave owners already rich through the labour of the slaves,” he said. Despite Chinamasa’s utterances, the Zanu PF-led government is pursuing re-engagement with the West after being left in the cold over alleged human rights violation. Chinamasa said sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe were unjustified and should be removed because there were an extension of slavery and colonialism.
Leading by example, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and his son, Attorney Yusef Jackson, who is Secretary of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Board, will lead by example 12 noon, Tuesday, May 26th, by taking a COVID-19 test at Kennedy King College, 6301 S. Halsted St.
Testing, Rev. Jackson said, is critical in “ending this nightmare.
Rev. Jackson is urging everyone to take the COVID-19 test so they will know their status to prevent additional infections
Yusef Jackson recently joined Mayor Lori Lightfoot at a press conference to announce the expanded COVID-19 test sites.
He praised her “outstanding leadership and clear communication during this crisis and for allowing” him to share the history behind the city’s partnering with Academy award-winning actor Sean Penn’s nationally acclaimed Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE) nonprofit organization that is expanding testing sites throughout the nation.
“Getting these sites up and running efficiently is truly a community effort among the city, the CORE management team and the brave and dedicated Chicagoans who are working every day,” Yusef Jackson said.
The test is administered free to you—so get your test now,” Yusef Jackson Below is a list of the city-sponsored COVID-19 testing sites.
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost subregion of Africa. West Africa has been defined as including 18 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, the island nation of Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, the island of Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, São Tomé and Príncipe and Togo.[7] The population of West Africa is estimated at about 362 million[2] people as of 2016. Islam is the predominant religion of 70% of the population, with smaller amounts practicing Christianity and Traditional African religions.
Main article: History of West Africa
The history of West Africa can be divided into five major periods: first, its prehistory, in which the first human settlers arrived, developed agriculture, and made contact with peoples to the north; the second, the Iron Age empires that consolidated both intra-Africa, and extra-Africa trade, and developed centralized states; third, major polities flourished, which would undergo an extensive history of contact with non-Africans; fourth, the colonial period, in which Great Britain and France controlled nearly the entire region; and fifth, the post-independence era, in which the current nations were formed.
Prehistory [ edit ]
Early human settlers from northern Holocene societies arrived in West Africa around 12,000 B.C.[dubious – discuss] Sedentary farming began in, or around the fifth millennium B.C, as well as the domestication of cattle. By 1500 B.C, ironworking technology allowed an expansion of agricultural productivity, and the first city-states later formed. Northern tribes developed walled settlements and non-walled settlements that numbered at 400. In the forest region, Iron Age cultures began to flourish, and an inter-region trade began to appear. The desertification of the Sahara and the climatic change of the coast cause trade with upper Mediterranean peoples to be seen.
The domestication of the camel allowed the development of a trans-Saharan trade
In the A-block of Wednesday’s The ReidOut, MSNBC host and racist Joy Reid claimed Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) supports the indiscriminate killing of fellow black people in their homes because, according to Joy, Cameron thinks Breonna Taylor’s “death was akin to a drowning or accident or being hit by a bus.”
The block party advertised on social media drew a crowd of 3,000 mostly Black people on Saturday as the state reopened businesses and public spaces.
In at least 35 states, public health officials are sharing the addresses of people who have the virus with first responders.
STATES
Rebekah Jones, former manager of the Geographic Information System team at Florida’s Department of Health, says she’s been fired for refusing to manipulate data in reference to COVID-19 cases.
Public health officials in states such as Virginia, Texas, Vermont, Florida and Georgia are accused of manipulation coronavirus infection statistics to deliberately make things look better than they are.
Judge Biery ruled that the “disability” provision in the state’s vote-by-mail election code applies to all registered voters who “lack immunity from Covid-19 and fear infection at polling places.”
During a protest over the police killing of George Floyd, protesters gather in the back of the precinct where some of the protesters picked up rocks and medal objects to smash the windows of a squad car in the back on May 26, 2020.
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A protester throws a gas canister back at police during a protest over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020.
Thousands of protesters march down Hiawatha Ave in Minneapolis to protest the police killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police on May 26, 2020.
Protesters set up shopping carts from Target to defend against rubber bullets and other projectiles during a protest over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020.
(Edited by Allison Gualtieri, Video Edited by Ford Fischer)
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One day after Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan lifted a stay-at-home order and allowed some businesses to reopen amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, leaders in Prince George's and Montgomery counties announced Thursday their respective jurisdictions aren't ready to join the rest of the state.
County executives and health officers from both jurisdictions laid out the benchmarks that would need to be met before attempting to reopen, including a two-week decline in coronavirus cases and deaths, adequate daily testing of residents, and an increase in testing kits, personal protective equipment and other materials.
Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said the stay-at-home order in the majority-Black jurisdiction will remain in effect through June 1.
Before she announced the order, Alsobrooks offered condolences to the family of an employee in the county health department who died this week after contracting COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman announced late Thursday afternoon that the county will follow Hogan’s order and allow some businesses to reopen at 5 p.m. Friday.
An Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officer who uttered a tasteless “joke” over the body of Dreasjon “Sean” Reed, after he was fatally shot by authorities during a May 6 car chase, was recently hit with disciplinary action.
Reed, 21, streamed the last moments of his life during a Facebook live session, where the cop can be heard saying, “Looks like it’s going to be a closed casket, homie,” moments after officers fired the fatal shots.
Reed’s death was particularly striking as it came about the same week the viral footage of Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting death in Brunswick, Georgia was revealed.
Reed was reportedly involved in a high-speed chase with officers, which ended in a foot chase.
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According to the Associated Press, Juneteenth has officially become a state holiday in Virginia after lawmakers unanimously approved legislation during the Virginia General Assembly special session…
Nicholas Chavez was shot 21 times by officers.
Namibia's President Hage Geingob on Thursday admitted to breaching coronavirus regulations last month by hosting a celebration to mark his party's 60th anniversary and subsequently fining all the guests who attended.
ADMITTED GUILT
\"We had a very important occasion of the 60th anniversary of SWAPO,\" Geingob said on Thursday during a press conference on the country's Covid-19 response.
We had to admit guilt and we were punished, we paid,\" President Geingob was quoted by The Telegraph.
SWEARING IN
The president said that less than 10 people attended the event, including the Vice President, the Prime Minister and party's Secretary General.
In March President Geingob courted controversy by inviting several African presidents to his swearing-in ceremony, prompting them to breach their own travel bans.
Protesters gathered at the precinct to protest the police killing of George Floyd on May 26, 2020.
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Most times, the Venezuelan left-centre parties have been ambivalent about the Essequibo.
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A series of block parties last weekend in DeLand, a city in Volusia County, drew large crowds resulted in clashes between law enforcement and spectators.
Officers, led by the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, and the DeLand Police Department, say the crowds were too large and no one had obtained an event permit.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood says race wasn’t an issue and it’s all about public safety and following the law.
The Minority Elected Officials of Volusia County, Daytona Beach/Volusia County NAACP, West Volusia NAACP, Daytona Beach Black Clergy Alliance and Concerned Clergy Coalition all have expressed concerns about the block party being held during the coronavirus pandemic.
For so long, we’ve had these block parties in Spring Hill and other communities without following the law.
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ABC officials have accused Mr Moleleki of influencing Mr Thabane to illegally prorogue parliament from 20 March to 19 June 2020- a move which was nullified last month by the Constitutional Court after a petition by the ABC, DC and other parties.
But in his Monday press conference at the AD offices in Maseru, Mr Moleleki said the ABC should look within and stop blaming him and his party for the collapse of the government.
He also pleaded for Mr Thabane to be allowed to remain in office up to July 2020 when he would retire with \"grace, dignity and security\" as per the various stakeholders' agreement during talks with South African special envoy, Jeff Radebe, last month.
When it was put to him that his real reasons for pushing for Mr Thabane to remain in office until July were probably to ensure that the government only collapsed when he would be eligible for his terminal benefits, Mr Moleleki denied having such selfish motives.
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