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Nearly 80 000 households – equivalent to 400 000 people – evacuated the city of Goma on Thursday as the region is still unsafe following the devastating Mount Nyiragongo eruption at the weekend.
\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.
Seychelles has a new president. Opposition candidate Wavel Ramkalawan was declared winner of Saturday's vote, upsetting incumbent Danny Faure.
Ramkalawan polled nearly 54.9% according to the country's electoral commission.
Faure, in power since 2016, was widely expected to win as the opposition fielded two candidates.
A priest, Ramkalawan had sought the presidency six times before emerging victorious. His win ends the dominance of the United Seychelles Party, which has governed since 1977.
Ramkalawan of the Linyon Demokratik Seselwa party campaigned on the pledge to raise the Indian Ocean country's minimum wage.
Virus and economy
The main concern of voters is the economic situation in the country, which has suffered the loss of vital tourism -- its main earner -- because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Seychelles has recorded only 149 mostly imported cases, but the virus has been a key campaign issue, with the health minister banning election rallies which would have been a barometer of support for various candidates in a country without a polling institute.
The campaign mainly happened over social media, where the opposition and its supporters are the most active, and on television where the country held its first ever debates between the candidates, which proved extremely popular.
Since the start of the pandemic, the economy has slowed significantly, with some 700 Seychellois losing their jobs, according to government figures.
And while average income is among the highest in Africa, the national statistics agency says that about 40 percent of Seychellois live in poverty because of the high cost of living.
Another key theme of the campaign was corruption, a largely taboo topic in the tiny country where business and politics are often intertwined.
BY NIZBERT MOYO FORMER Tsholotsho South legislator Maxwell Dube (MDC) has drilled boreholes in the constituency which is facing serious water shortages where clean water is scarce. Dube told the Southern Eye that he was frustrated by the government’s failure to supply the community with potable water, adding that even if he was an opposition politician, there was need to assist people whenever they face challenges and to desist from politicising developmental issues. He said Zimbabwe faced serious water shortages at a time the government was failing to assist communities with clean water. Dube drilled boreholes in his residential area, which he then connected to his neighbour’s homesteads using pipes. Others who were not connected physically fetch water from his homestead and he provides free transport to ferry it. “Government is failing to provide water to communities,” Dube said. “As a result, I have already started to provide water to Embuthe and will also do so to other surrounding communities,” he said. The development comes at a time the government is struggling to complete the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project, an initiative which was mooted more than one hundred years ago in 1912. The former legislator said central government was not doing enough to provide water infrastructure for communities, resulting in people’s constitutional rights being infringed upon. He claimed that he was not doing the good deed to gain political mileage. In the long term, Dube said he would want to partner with other stakeholders to introduce an irrigation scheme to assist the community with income-generating projects.
Cameroonian asylum seekers facing deportation back to their country said they were forced by U.S. immigration to sign their deportation papers, amid complaints by Human rights advocates that deportations have increased in recent weeks. The men, eight in all, outlined their experiences in a complaint filed by immigrant advocate groups including the Southern Poverty Law...
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[Vanguard] A Diaspora group, Yoruba One Voice, YOV, on Friday, condemned the recent killing of peaceful protesters in Lekki area of Lagos State, describing the act as genocide.
By Norma Adams-WadeColumnist
A judicial panel in Nigeria's biggest city Lagos began an inquiry into the shooting of peaceful protesters last week.
[Observer] MPs have approved a supplementary budget worth Shs 3.729 trillion for the 2020/2021 financial year to cater for critical areas that are not covered for in the budget and the economic pressures necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
When Wavel Ramkalawan was elected president of the Republic of Seychelles on Sunday, October 25, the priest-politician became the first opposition candidate in 43 years to lead the East African island nation. 59-year-old Ramkalawan has been the leader of the country’s Seychelles National Party since 1994 when it was founded and the party’s candidate in...
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… for 400 years of African American History
NEW YORK CITY, … commemorate 400 years of African American History.
In Equatorial Guinea … founders of the Irish African-American Society of North America. … Mooney became the first African American to row across any …
BY SILAS NKALA INNSCOR Africa’s former Southern Region sales and marketing manager Paul Chimboya will tomorrow appear before Bulawayo’s Labour Court for quantification of his benefits after the company refused to pay him the US$91 000 he was seeking. This was after the Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that Chimboya should be reinstated to his position with all benefits. It also said that if reinstatement was not possible, the company should pay him damages in lieu of reinstatement. Chimboya then quantified his damages which amounted to US$91 000. However, on October 19, the Labour Court subpoenaed Chimboya and Innscor to appear before Bulawayo Labour Court Judge President Fatima Maxwell on October 27 for a hearing on the quantification of Chimboya’s damages and other benefits. This was after Chimboya applied for quantification of his pay out at the Labour Court. “I’m sure it will be a presentation of my claims by my legal counsel and feasibility of payment by the respondent’s legal counsel until there is a finalised figure by the judge which should be what the company is compelled to pay if we agree,” Chimboya said. The subpoena to Chimboya read: “You are hereby notified that the application/appeal concerning Chimboya versus Innscor Africa Limited and Innscor Africa Bread Company Zimbabwe (Pvt) Limited and to which you are part to which you have been joined as shall be heard before the Labour Court at Tredgold Building Bulawayo by Justice Maxwell on October 27.” The court also said if Chimboya failed to appear for the hearing at the time and place notified, the hearing could proceed without him to his detriment. Chimboya was fired on December 27, 2017 on allegations of sabotaging the company, following the circulation of a letter which was deemed offensive to the firm. He was charged with sabotage and was dismissed after a hearing. He appealed against the dismissal at the Labour Court and lost, but he filed an appeal at the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court led by Justice Rita Makarau ruled that the company should reinstate him without loss of salary and benefits. Makarau said in the case of reinstatement being impossible, the company should pay Chimboya damages in lieu of reinstatement.
The name Alvin 'Dickie' Butler might not be the most recognisable in local tourism circles, but certainly the same thing cannot be said about his internationally acclaimed eatery, known by many as Portland's 'Best Kept Secret'.
[DW] William Kentridge is South Africa's best-known artist. But what makes his work so alluring? An exhibition in Hamburg finds out by tracing each stroke of his brush.
The Boss is back! The album recorded in just five days also includes three renditions of previously unreleased tracks from the 1970s
Kemba Smith Pradia knows firsthand what it's like to be denied the right to vote. The social justice advocate was... View Article
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[spotlight] Tuberculosis (TB) treatment can be shortened from six to four months in 80% of children. This is according to findings from the SHINE study that were presented at a leading TB conference on Saturday.
[WHO] Kampala, 30 October 2020: - Lawrence Ahumuza (26), his pregnant wife Magdalene Kembabazi 24 (not real names) and their five-year-old son Prosper are a typical young Ugandan rural family.
By the American Heart Association News via Black Health Matters Dontrez Johnson Jr. is a success story in the making. A first-generation college student, he earned a biology degree from Tennessee State University and is on a fellowship helping improve health in Marion, Ala. His next stop: medical school and becoming a cardiologist. He’s inspired […]
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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2020: Ghana has recorded total investments of US$869.47 million, with total Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) value amounting to US$785.62 million between January to June 2020 as FDI inflow showed rare strength in the final moments of the second quarter of the year, undeterred by the Covid-19 pandemic. The total FDI…
Pele was so powerful and admired by many people in his heydays that he was able to achieve what political leaders and the international community couldn’t – stop a devastating civil war in Nigeria on his own. The Biafran War ended in 1970 after the Nigerians captured the entire territory but in 1969, the Brazilian...
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Transnet has been in the midst of an overhaul over the past year, following revelations of corruption and mismanagement under its previous executives including Brian Molefe, Anoj Singh and Siyabonga Gama, among others.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AFP) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has faced a jihadist insurgency and economic recession, but youth protests that have spiralled into widespread unrest appear to be his biggest challenge yet. The 77-year-old former military ruler has drawn fierce criticism for his slow response as the shooting of demonstrators unleashed chaos in Africa's largest city, Lagos.
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Days after President Donald Trump accused Ethiopia of breaking a deal he had negotiated over Egypt's rights to water from the Nile, the African Union is kick-starting renewed trilateral talks on the issue between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan.
