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Le 5 octobre 2012, des avions d’Air Franceà l’aéroport de Roissy-en-France, au nord de Paris. ALEXANDER KLEIN / AFP Les compagnies de transport, aérien ou maritime, vont continuer de payer de lourdes amendes si elles refusent d’embarquer à leur bord des étrangers en situation irrégulière en vue de leur expulsion, a confirmé, vendredi 15octobre, le
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\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.
ZIMBABWE’S revenue collector said on Monday it was projecting to collect $172 billion this year following a third quarter forecast-busting show that was underpinned by the resumption of operations by businesses across sectors. BY MTHANDAZO NYONI Provisional forecasts had placed this year’s target at about half of that figure. The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) saw its revenue reached $57 billion during the third quarter, a staggering 27,16% rise above its $44,83 billion target. This is according to an update by the authority’s chairperson Josephine Matambo (pictured). The authority collected $6,42 billion during the same period last year. This represents a 788,16% rise in State revenue. The strong performance was boosted by a mix of strategies that included limiting tax incentives during the mid-term budget review and the release of drones to monitor remote border locations in order to limit revenue leakages. Following President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s lockdown order in March to minimise the spread of COVID-19, businesses began to reopen in a measured approach from June. Matambo said this gave Zimra the impetus to collect more revenue. She said the momentum started building up in the final months of the year as more firms returned to operations and cross-border trade began to flourish following the reopening of the key Beitbridge inland port. Previously, the Beitbridge Border Post had been opened only for commercial transport operators shipping goods up north from South African ports. “The growth is expected to come from increased productivity with the opening up of more business sectors in the economy,” Matambo said. “In addition, the government’s strategy to target low-hanging fruits in various sub-sectors of the manufacturing industry is expected to attract the much-needed investment for domestic production. South Africa has opened its borders and cross-border trade is, therefore, expected to increase, thereby feeding into higher collections in import duties. The weather forecasts are projecting good rains in the coming farming season; this boosts economic activity in all sectors as value chains can then be easily promoted. The monetary policy interventions that were done during this period inflated the amounts to be collected resulting in a corresponding positive impact to the revenue,” she said. All revenue heads registered positive growth in nominal terms, the Zimra boss said in the update. She said major contributors to net revenue collections were individuals, who brought in 15,26% of total revenue, followed by companies with 14,63% and excise duty at 14,17%. Value-added tax (VAT) on local sales contributed 13,24%, while VAT on imports added 13,08% to total revenue collected. Intermediated Money Transfer Tax lost its momentum, missing the target of $5,86 billion by 32,23% and contributing only 6,86% to total revenue for the quarter. “This was partly due to the monetary policy interventions introduced to harness the local currency depreciation that was threatening economic stability,” she said. Other taxes su
As British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan once said it, there’s a “wind of change' blowing through the African continent. “Whether we like it or not,” he said, “this growth of national consciousness is a political [...]
HBCUs are, for the first time, a front-and-center issue in the presidential campaign. President Donald Trump has spoken often of... View Article
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These Black artists are trailblazing new art and tech, giving us a glimpse of what the future holds.
Omar Muhammad, formerly known as Omar Saunders, is one of the now exonerated Roscetti Four. Omar and three others were convicted of rape, kidnapping, and murder of medical student, Lori Roscetti. Sentenced to life in prison, they were forced to confess to the crime. After it was determined DNA did not match any of the … Continued
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Associated Press WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A Black woman who was shot and wounded inside a vehicle by a police officer who also fatally shot her 19-year-old boyfriend on Satuday told about 200 people gathered at an emotional rally in suburban Chicago that she’s fighting “to be strong” for her son. The protest in Waukegan, […]
Organizers say the US labour movement must be ready to \"defend democracy\" and use their collective power to ensure that every vote is counted.
… the first person of either African-American or Hispanic descent to be …
The virtual summit will bring together mobility thought leaders from business and government to consolidate efforts and discuss the future of mobility solutions in South African and Africa.
Armed men on motorbikes have kidnapped an American citizen from his home in southern Niger, according to security sources.
The incident happened in the early hours of Tuesday, in the rural village of Massalata in the department of Birni Nkonni, which sits on the Nigerian border.
The American man --named by his father-- as Philip Walton had been living there with his wife and child for two years.
“During the night six men, possibly Fulani, came on foot. They kidnapped my son Philip Walton. They were looking for money in the house but there was not enough. had only 20,000 CFA francs (30 euros). Following that, they left with him, \" said his father, Bruce Walton, who lives in Birni Nkonni and has lived in Niger for almost 30 years.
He said the kidnappers were possibly Fulani and spoke Hausa.
According to the prefect of the department of Birni Nkonni, Ibrahim Abba Lelé, the six men were armed with Kalashnikovs and left on three motorcycles towards Nigeria.
Niger, like much of the Sahel, is plagued by recurrent jihadist attacks that have killed hundreds, despite help from French and US forces there.
Mali and neighboring Burkina Faso, it is at the heart of a huge area scoured by jihadist groups claiming to be ISIS or its rival Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Niger is also facing attacks from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram on its south-eastern borders.
Westerners are also subject to frequent kidnappings by jihadist groups.
This month, French national Sophie Pétronin and two Italian hostages were released from being held hostage in Mali.
But several westerners are still being held hostage in the Sahel. Among them, the American humanitarian Jeffery Woodke was kidnapped in Niger in October 2016 in Abalak, about 200 km north of Birni Nkonni.
In August, six French aid workers and two Nigeriens were murdered 60 km west of Niamey in the Kouré nature reserve, an attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. State (IS) group.
Across the country, Black voters are turning out in huge numbers. The stakes this year are especially high, they say, and nothing less than their health and safety is on the ballot.
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Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond today said she renounced her US citizenship before she was sworn in as a M.P.
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THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) yesterday painted a gloomy picture of the country’s economic situation, claiming several attempts by the churches to engage Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to proffer solutions to the country’s challenges had been ignored. BY VENERANDA LANGA This came out during a faith leaders’ breakfast meeting with the Felix Mhona-led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance in Harare. ZCC revealed that its recent survey on the 2020 national budget performance exposed that people expected to see economic transformation during the transition from the late former President Robert Mugabe’s era to the new dispensation led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, but there was none. ZCC supervisor Ephraim Ngadziore said: “We churches have schools and hospitals that we run and we are surprised when we hear that the economy has achieved stability. “We are a failed leadership. There is no stability when children are not in class. Yesterday, they said Forms Three and Five should go back to school, but they did not, we know because we run schools. We cannot say the economy is stable when we do not know where we are heading to, yet after 1980, a lot of investment was put in education.” Ngadziore said school fees had gone up while some schools charged in foreign currency yet people earned Zimdollars, which exposed a serious mismatch. “Government must engage churches and union leaders so that we come up with a solution together. We wrote to Ncube twice and he responded by declining our invite. We are the major stakeholders in the education sector with 68% schools and there is need to ensure that children are learning,” he said. ZCC general-secretary Kenneth Mtata chided MPs, saying the electorate perceived them as gold diggers that were not interested in the welfare of people. “Many citizens are complaining that when MPs are in Parliament, they seek personal gain and not the interests of those that sent them to Parliament. We need to ensure that the 2021 national budget is responsive to the needs of the people,” Mtata said. ZCC economic justice and youth empowerment officer Admire Mutizwa said although their economic survey painted a gloomy picture which reflected macro-economic instability, there was a bit of stability achieved in the exchange rate which has steadied. “In 2020, citizens expected the budget to attend to the most pressing needs, particularly the deepening health crisis, inflation, exchange rate instability, extremely low salaries, poor service delivery, foreign currency shortages, and the fuel and electricity crisis,” he said. “Since 2018, we were agitated by austerity measures implemented in the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP). It seems we did not learn from the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) and we continue to have policies that have a huge social cost to society.” Mutizwa said the 2020 budget did not address developmental issues, adding: “We are saying that an economy should produce jobs, health delivery and service delivery for the dignity of citizens.
[Nairobi News] Nairobi County government can now recruit county staff after close to two years of inactivity due to lack of quorum in the county's public service board.
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By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Senior National Correspondent Her father survived Jim Crow and saw the evolution of the vote in America, so Lex Scott speaks from a unique perspective when she champions African Americans’ historical significance casting their ballots. “When my father voted, his life was at risk,” remarked Scott, the president of the […]
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Solomon, Patrick and Samuel were wounded on October 20 during a crackdown by Nigerian security forces on protesters in Lagos who had gathered despite a curfew order.
The three say they spent several days at the Lekki toll gate, the epicentre of demonstrations that erupted on October 8 over police violence and bad governance, as they themselves had been victims of police abuse in the past.
Now discharged from hospital, the three men -- whose full names we are not disclosing for their own safety-- are desperate for their stories to be heard.
It was the Nigerian army who fired, all three said.
The government denies any responsibility and labeled reports that soldiers killed 12 people as \"fake news\". The police on Friday said 22 officers had been killed in protest-linked unrest this month.
\"How can they say it's not true?,\" asked Patrick.
\"We saw them. Two guys died instantly in my presence, and one is still in the coma -- my friend Nicholas,\" said the 25-year-old demonstrator, unemployed since a lockdown in March imposed to contain the coronavirus.
Shot in the arm -- he was brandishing a flag when he came under fire -- Patrick was evacuated, put on a canoe that crisscrossed the Lagos lagoon and took him to a hospital.
\"The soldiers were blocking the roads, the ambulances could not access the scene. Some were using bikes, others wheelbarrows to take the injured,\" he said.
Samuel, 30, was helping to ensure safety at the protest ground with a group of volunteers when he heard the first gunshots.
\"We saw armed, military men, so we came back to the stage and started waving our flags and singing the national anthem.\"
\"I was not expecting them to shoot at us,\" said the young man, who works in agriculture in the outskirts of the sprawling city.
\"I was expecting them to address us in a normal manner. But they didn't talk to anybody, they just started shooting.\"
\"All of a sudden I started feeling something hit my left thigh,\" he remembered. The screen of his phone might have saved him -- the bullet would have otherwise penetrated even deeper.
In pain, he managed to walk 500 metres to find someone who could take him to hospital.
\"I saw like three people dying, but I was also injured, so I couldn't help them. I had to help myself first.\"
It was a close call for Solomon as well. A bullet pierced his shoulder, and another grazed his neck, leaving a burn scar.
The 38-year-old construction worker is still in shock.
\"The country doesn't realise what happened, but for me this is not the end, this is just the beginning of the protests,\" he told AFP.
\"I need a better Nigeria. This wound made me even more ready to fight, I have nothing to lose anymore.\"
Harriet Elizabeth Byrd was an American politician from Wyoming, and was the first African American elected to the Wyoming Legislature. Byrd was born on April 20, 1926, to Robert C. “Buck” and Sudie Rhone. Her grandfather, Charles Rhone, arrived to the Wyoming Territory as a child in 1876, later working for the railroad and becoming […]
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Football’s world governing body, FIFA, yesterday hailed the Trinidad and Tobago Court of Appeal decision to squash a recent High Court ruling against them, in the controversial case brought by the embattled country Football Association.
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Colonel Ruth Alice Lucas was the first African American woman in the Air Force to be promoted to the rank of colonel. At the time of her retirement, she was the highest-ranking African American woman in the Air Force. Lucas was born in Stamford, Connecticut, on November 28, 1920. After high school, she attended Tuskegee […]
[Daily Maverick] African-Latin American partnerships in water and sanitation can help lead the world to a better, greener, more sustainable future.
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On Friday October 9, the faces of eight seemingly relatively young men and women (the gender balance in the ‘picks’ was also noticeable) adorned the front page of the Stabroek News.
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Her father survived Jim Crow and saw the evolution of the vote in America, so Lex Scott speaks from a unique perspective when she champions African Americans’ historical significance casting their ballots.
Felicien Kabuga, who is suspected of financing the 1994 Rwandan genocide and evaded arrest for over 22 years is one step closer to facing justice.
On Monday, he was moved from France to the Hague to stand trial.
\"His initial appearance will be held in due course before a judge of the trial chamber assigned to his case,\" the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals said in a statement.
The court recalled the charges of \"genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, attempt to commit genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, and extermination and persecution as crimes against humanity.\"
Once one of Rwanda's richest men, Kabuga is accused of having helped create the Interahamwe Hutu militia group and the Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines, whose broadcasts incited people to murder, and of helping to buy machetes in 1993 that were distributed to genocidal groups.
More than two decades after he was first indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in November 1997, Kabuga was arrested near Paris on May 16.
His lawyers initially asked that he be put on trial in France, but late last month the country's top court ruled that he could be transferred to the UN tribunal.
On Monday, the tribunal's statement identified three judges charged with carrying out the trial: Iain Bonomy, Graciela Susana Gatti Santana, and Elizabeth Ibanda-Nahamya.
