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The results were announced on Wednesday evening after all the 184 polling centres reported their respective outcomes.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
Biden has already had an advantage with Black voters in the primary elections, especially over his former opponent Bernie Sanders.
Biden swept the Black vote in states like South Carolina, while Sanders lost them by a large margin.
Biden is still liable to run into this same issue now that he’s going against Donald Trump in the general elections.
Although Black votes were generally low for Trump during the 2016 elections, Black voter turnout rates dipped for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, according to the United States Census Bureau.
Black women came out in strong support for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 elections against Trump, according to exit polls.
The World Bank has approved $300 million budget to aid Uganda in fighting the coronavirus Covid-19.
It said Uganda’s efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus had battered the country’s economy and was likely to send an extra 3.15 million citizens into poverty.
This budget support operation will enable the Government to provide vital services, social safety nets and a more robust shock-responsive system for the long term; and the economy to recover faster,” said Tony Thompson, World Bank Country Manager for Uganda.
The Covid-19 pandemic, flooding and the locust invasion have hurt the economy, dimming Uganda’s projected overall economic growth to a low 3-4 percent in the financial year 2020/2021 from an earlier projected 6.3 per cent.
He said Uganda would also expand support to the vulnerable senior citizens grant for empowerment (SAGE) programme to cover an extra 71 districts.
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By Cash Michaels and Peter Grear, Greater Diversity News If preliminary data estimates on the recent 2020 primaries in North Carolina are accurate, student voters on HBCU campuses must raise their turnout game come the general election this November. So says Dr. William Busa, founder of EQV Analytics, a ‘North Carolina-focused campaign consulting firm serving
She added further that Caricom “is concerned at reports that the chief elections officer has submitted a report to the Guyana Elections Commission [GECOM] which is contrary to the directions given by the commission, and which does not reflect the results of the recount process as certified by the very staff of the Guyana Elections Commission and witnessed by representatives of the political parties.
Mottley said that the Caricom observer team “was of the unshakeable belief that the people of Guyana expressed their will at the ballot box on March 2 and that the results of the recount, certified as valid by the staff of GECOM, led to an orderly conclusion on which the declaration of the results of the election would be made.
“I assure you that the Community remains committed to the people of Guyana and remains resolute that the report of its observer mission was very clear in its conclusions as to the will of the Guyanese people as reflected in the recount, which they monitored,” Mottley said in her statement.
In a joint statement ambassador of the United States, Sarah-Ann Lynch, British High Commissioner Greg Quinn, Canadian High Commissioner Lilian Chatterjee, and ambassador of the European Union Fernando Ponz-Canto said they “are concerned that 114 days after the 2 March elections the people of Guyana continue to await the declaration of an election result”.
“That respect includes an election declaration of results that mirrors the order and integrity displayed by the people of Guyana, GECOM and party officials, as witnessed by domestic and international observers during the 2 March general and regional elections.
