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Legal expert Freddy Masarirevu told NewsDay that extending the deadline was illegal and unconstitutional. He said it was unfortunate that government continues to breach the Constitution.
The post Mandatory vaccination remains illegal: Experts appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
It appears avid chef Tito Mboweni has turned his attention to fashion after trashing EFF member Mbuyiseni Ndlozi's shoes.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has officially announced his re-election campaign for four more years in the 2021 Mayor’s race. During a virtual announcement, Duggan, 62, spoke after a video played featuring residents and leaders [including Governor Gretchen Whitmer] showing their support for him. “It’s been quite a journey we’ve been on the last eight years,” … Continued
The post ‘We Can Rebuild This City:’ Mayor Mike Duggan Announces Re-Election Campaign appeared first on The Michigan Chronicle.
[Monitor] Finance minister Matia Kasaija was last night on the defensive following accusations that he irregularly dangled a top government job to secure the exit of his opponent in a parliamentary contest.
Since the D.C. Council approved legislation allowing the vaccination of children under the age of 11 without parental consent, parents in the District and beyond have pivoted their attention to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), who must sign Bill 23-0171 before it enters the congressional review process.
Rapper and mogul Rick Ross has teamed up with the telehealth company Jetdoc to spread awareness about the importance of affordable healthcare.
The Los Angeles Sparks recently hosted a conversation about pay equity. All-Star forward and WNBPA president Nneka Ogwumike, was featured in the panel along with National Farmworkers Association co-founder Dolores Huerta, LA84 Foundation President and CEO Renata Simril, and former California State Assemblymember Betsy Butler.
The post Sparks Star Nneka Ogwumike Featured in Pay Equity Panel appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
(Trinidad Express) The autopsy done on the body of murdered 18-year-old Ashanti Riley has found a cause of death, and it was brutal.
The article Trinidad: Autopsy result on Ashanti reveals brutal end appeared first on Stabroek News.
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Senator Dr Floyd Morris, who was recently elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, wants Jamaica’s church community to ensure that it supports the passage of the Disabilities Act...
Mr. Biden said, while on the campaign trail, his administration will use $400 billion under his control as president to purchase goods and services from businesses and corporations in the United States.
Commentary: A vaccine approaches as COVID-19 numbers increase
The post Commentary: A vaccine approaches as COVID-19 numbers increase appeared first on WS Chronicle.
[Council on Foreign Relations] Boris Johnson's government is deploying three hundred British troops to the UN peacekeeping force MINUSMA in Mali. They will join some fourteen thousand other troops from fifty-six countries. The British troops will be deployed to Gao, in eastern Mali. According to their commander, General Nick Borton, they will be involved with reconnaissance in a radius of about ten miles around Gao.
[Monitor] By Patience Ahimbisibwe
by Damon Carr For New Pittsburgh Courier Can you believe it’s the month of December already? It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Retailers are open extended hours seeking to claim the money in your wallet. Every charitable organization known to man is soliciting you for money. Friends and family are dropping hints about … Continued
The post The Carr Report: How to avoid debt while Christmas shopping this year appeared first on New Pittsburgh Courier.
[This Day] The federal government yesterday expressed its readiness to open talks with the United States for the delisting of Nigeria from the religious freedom blacklist.
A public health professor at Georgia Southern University has facilitated a Photovoice project to identify social, cultural, and physical barriers that discourage breastfeeding by African American mothers in Chatham County and to identify opportunities to remove those obstacles. Nandi A. Marshall, DrPH, MPH, CHES, an associate professor and Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the Jiann Ping Hsu College … Continue reading \"Photovoice Project Aims to Help Make Breastfeeding Easier in Chatham County\"
President Donald Trump and his allies say their lawsuits aimed at subverting the 2020 election and reversing his loss to Joe Biden would be substantiated, if only judges were allowed to hear the cases. There is a central flaw in the argument. Judges have heard the cases and have been among the harshest critics of the legal arguments put forth […]
The Justice Department joins the ongoing investigation into the fatal shooting of Casey Goodson Jr., who was holding a sandwich, not a gun, when he was killed in Columbus, Ohio on Dec. 4.
Jamaican Professor Kevin Fenton has been named on the Powerlist 2021 as the second most influential black person in Britain for his role in the fight against the novel coronavirus. The annual Powerlist honours the most powerful people of African,...
APPROXIMATELY 450,000 Jamaicans are to be immunised against the novel coronavirus next year, when the first batch of vaccines are expected to be shipped to the island, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has reported.The disclosure was made in the Lower House yesterday, where members were told that the vaccine will be administered to 16 per cent of the population, with health officials and seniors being identified as priority.
Cardi B posted a heartfelt message on Monday, Dec. 7, to a special fan she discovered is battling brain cancer. The rapper took to her Instagram to share
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British regulators warned Wednesday that people who have a history of serious allergic reactions shouldn't receive the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as they investigate two adverse reactions that occurred on the first day of the country's mass vaccination program. The U.K.'s Medical and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency is looking into whether the reactions were linked to the vaccine. The two people affected were staff members with the National Health Service who had a history of allergies, and both are recovering. Authorities have not specified what their reactions were. In the meantime, the regulator […]
The post UK probing if allergic reactions linked to Pfizer vaccine appeared first on Black News Channel.
National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) commissioner Geoffrey Chada says the commission would look into the issue of the Gukurahundi genocide next year during public hearings. Evans Mathanda Chada said this on Tuesday during an NPRC capacity-building workshop in Harare which discussed the commission's activities to be rolled out next year, including the public hearings. He, however, said the commission was facing challenges in that there was lack of dialogue between the NPRC and citizens, adding that people also did not understand its role. Chada said lack of knowledge on the terms of reference of the NPRC, had hindered progress because people were not presenting complaints to the commission. “Issues like Gukurahundi are actually things that we expect to be raised during our public hearings, however, Gukurahundi is not the only crisis that the commission is going to be dealing with next year,” Chada said. “There are a lot of crisis situations in the country like the issue of resettling of the people in Chiyadzwa and other areas like Chimanimani that have been affected by natural disasters. All these issues of need to be well addressed in order to foster national healing”, he said. Chada said the NPRC was in the process of identifying issues of paramount importance that affected people, including those of electoral violence. “People are also allowed to come before the NPRC and ask whether the reports on the 2018 electoral violence were properly implemented so that they put forward their complaints before the commission. “There is nothing that we will leave behind in dealing with the issues. “We are not going to be challenged by anyone, we will work in accordance with the NPRC Act which empowers us to deal with issues of peace and reconciliation,” he said. Chada said there were a lot of sensitive things that would be exposed next year when the NPRC public hearings began, adding that some of the issues would be new to the media and the people of Zimbabwe.
LOCAL Government Minister Desmond McKenzie warned yesterday that the authorities will be targeting illegal events that have been advertised for the festive season, in clear breach of the Disaster Risk Management Order.He told the House of Representatives that among the events is one dubbed 'Shut Yu Mouth Wid Yu likkle Bit a Money', set for Club Eutopia in Bull Bay, St Andrew, today. He said the police have been alerted about the event.
Edmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter Attorney-at-law Jalil Dabdoub says if the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Norman Horne holds United States citizenship, the governor general and leader of the Opposition should act by withdrawing his...
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia's situation is 'spiraling out of control with appalling impact on civilians' and urgently needs outside monitoring, the United Nations human rights chief warned Wednesday, but Ethiopia is rejecting calls for independent investigations into the deadly fighting in its Tigray region, saying it 'doesn't need a baby-sitter.' The government's declaration came amid international calls for more transparency into the month-long fighting between Ethiopian forces and those of the fugitive Tigray regional government that is thought to have killed thousands, including civilians. At least one large-scale massacre has been documented by human […]
The post UN: Ethiopia's conflict has 'appalling impact on civilians' appeared first on Black News Channel.
Compiled by Erica Wright We asked Birmingham-area residents, Would you take a coronavirus vaccine? LISA WILSON: “No, not immediately. I would have to see how it works out and give it some time to develop because I don’t trust anything right now… I feel like this first dose of the vaccine is more of a […]
[DW] Political newcomers have it tough in a country where long-established families dominate the polls. The top presidential candidates in the December 7 election are all offspring of Ghana's independence-era \"Big Six.\"
France’s Muslims Could Learn “An indigenous form of Islam developed within the West – rather than influenced by leaders from abroad – is the path to integration and peaceful coexistence.” BY TALIB SHAREEF, YAYA J. FANUSIE, MUHAMMAD FRASER-RAHIM (THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN “FOREIGN POLICY,” PUBLISHED BY ANDREW SOLLINGER, NOV. 9, 2020, REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION.) The despicablebeheadingof […]
