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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.
Two members of the Soroptimist Club have been selected to represent Jamaica to Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI), a global volunteer movement which operates in some 124 countries to educate, empower and enable...
[New Times] The Covid-19 pandemic has slowed down efforts to fight malnutrition whereby some people do not have access to healthy foods, or lack any foods for their sustenance, actors in the agriculture sector and humanitarian agencies have said.
Guinean President Alpha Condé makes his first public appearance since the election of October 18, 2020 by visiting gendarmes and police officers injured in the clashes that followed the election. According to provisional results announced on 24 October by the electoral commission (Céni), the head of state, 82 years old, was reappointed for a third controversial term by obtaining 59.5% of the votes cast.
Guinean opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo said Wednesday that a blockade of his home, imposed by the security forces following tumultuous presidential elections on October 18, had been lifted.
\"We discovered on the stroke of noon that we could go in and out. They packed up without warning, in the same way that they had come,\" Diallo told the press.
Police barricaded the politician in his home in the capital Conakry after he declared victory a day after the vote -- a claim denied by the government and which led to lethal clashes.
On Tuesday, mediators from the UN, African Union and regional bloc ECOWAS called on the \"security measures\" around Diallo's home to be lifted \"in the spirit of inclusive dialogue.\"
Diallo said that barricades around the headquarters of his party, the UFDG, and around his offices, remained in place.
The security presence in reputedly pro-opposition districts of Conakry was also notably lighter on Wednesday.
\"We were surprised this morning to see that the troops deployed in our area had packed up and gone,\" said Souleymane Bangoura, an inhabitant of the district of Sonfonia.
President Alpha Conde, 82, won the hotly-contested election according to official results announced Saturday, setting the stage for a controversial third term.
Conde was a former opposition leader during years of hardline rule who in 2010 became the first democratically-elected president of one of Africa's poorest and most volatile states.
But he has been accused by critics of authoritarian drift during his second term in office, which he won in 2015.
He pushed through a new constitution in March which he argued would modernise the country.
But it also allowed him to bypass a two-term limit for presidents, arguing that the counter had been reset to zero.
Opposition to that outcome had provoked mass protests from October 2019, in which security forces killed dozens of people.
Conde, who had not been seen in public since election day, visited the military hospital in the capital on Wednesday under the close guard of the \"red berets\", an elite military unit.
Accompanied by Defence Minister Mohamed Diane and his personal adviser Tibou Camara, Conde spoke with police and gendarmes who had been injured in post-election violence.
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Diallo was formerly a prime minister under authoritarian leader Lansana Conte, and has unsuccessfully challenged Conde in each election the president has contested.
On October 19, without waiting for official results, Diallo maintained that data his activists had gathered at individual polling stations showed that he had won.
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[Moroccan American Center] Dear Mr. President,
I’m going to do something that you’re not supposed to do in British politics. I’m going to talk about faith. This is seen as risky. Remember when Tony Blair tried to talk about faith? His advisor interrupted with the most famous sentence ever said about religion in British politics: ‘We don’t do God.’ Look, we […]
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[New Times] Members of the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) on Wednesday urged government to put major focus on digital technologies and new areas that will drive the economy and transformation.
[Monitor] Uganda rugby experienced a downhill trip between 2012 and 2014. The two year gap saw the Rugby Cranes relegated from tier 1A to potentially 1C had the format not been revised for the 2015 edition.
[FAO] Accra/Harare/Rome -- FAO Regional Conference for Africa focuses on country-led, country-owned actions
A LANDMARK fund set up between the UK and Germany in collaboration with the government...
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[WHO] The World Polio Day was commemorated in Zambia on 23 October 2020 under the theme \"Stories of progress past and present\". Following the Certification of the WHO African Region as free of wild poliovirus on 25 August, the occasion served as an opportunity to celebrate this historical and monumental milestone.
[New Times] A new number plate scam has emerged in recent weeks costing the tax authorities revenue as a section of car importers use foreign number plates to avoid paying taxes eligible for car imports.
Lynda Edwards and George Graham, two Jamaica-born writers a generation apart, interview interesting Jamaicans living abroad. George was born in 1934 in Black River. Lynda was born in 1967 in Mandeville. Both live in Florida. This week, they...
The Sierra Leonean government organizes a National Primary School Examination every year and this year, the country recorded the largest number of candidates in the country’s history. Even more fascinating is the fact that, out of almost 150,000 candidates, Gisele Akibo-Betts came in first, 25 years after her mother also came in first writing the same...
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