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With slightly over a year before they lose their jobs, the MPs are under pressure to show that they deserve a fresh mandate.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
Just weeks before the abrupt conclusion of Guyana’s prolonged election crisis, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) quietly ended its contract with the American lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs having spent over $63M against its main rival’s $10M.
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(StatePoint)—The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how business gets done. And when it comes to midsized and small businesses, the importance of investing in new technology, facilitating remote work and maintaining a tech-savvy workforce has never been so clear, according to a new survey. Conducted by The Harris Poll for CIT Group Inc., a leading … Continued
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A sacred tree in the heart of the Kenyan capital Nairobi has been spared by a presidential decree. On Thursday, President Uhuru Kenyatta spared the century road fig tree, locally called the 'Mugumo', as part of the nation’s national heritage.
The tree had been marked for cutting down to make way for a highway to ease congestion in the city, but environmentalists and tree lovers protested.
It was then due to be uprooted and later translocated to a safer environment, but the public outcry continued until the presidential decree to spare it was ordered on Thursday.
Elizabeth Wathuti is Head of Campaigns and Daima Consortium Coordinator at the Wangari Maathai Foundation.
\"This fig tree is very significant because, number one, it represents a culture, it represents our cultural heritage as a country. And the second thing is that it's symbolic of all our green spaces because this particular fig tree is valued in our communities right now because number one there are some superstitions around the fig tree that when the fig tree is cut, something bad is going to happen. So, as a country right now, we should be focusing on protecting and preserving our green spaces right now'', she said.
Kenya's largest tribe, the Kikuyu, believe the tree has sacred powers.
Wilson Ireri, a Nairobi resident and member of the Kikuyu tribe, said prayers at the base of the tree often provided rain during dry spells.
Kenyan environmental activists have welcomed President Kenyatta's decision as a \"beacon of Kenya's cultural and ecological heritage\"
… quilt panel. Her mother — an African-American woman named Luwana Daniels and … is the image of an African-American woman; it has an ethnic …
The Super Rugby Unlocked match between the Lions and Pumas scheduled for Ellis Park has been postponed in line with Covid-19 protocols.
George Elliott Clarke, OC ONS is a Canadian poet and playwright and is currently serving as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Born to William and Geraldine Clarke in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Clarke has spent much of his career writing about the black communities of Nova Scotia. Clarke worked as a parliamentary assistant to Howard McCurdy, […]
Ramaphosa announced several amendments to the disaster management act and level 1 lockdown during his address to the nation n Wednesday.
by J. Pharoah Doss For New Pittsburgh Courier On August 9, 2014 Michael Brown, a Black teenager, was fatally shot by a White police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and riots erupted for a week. On August 15 Michael Brown’s family expressed they didn’t want any violence, but the following day, due to looting the night … Continued
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The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression condemns Donald Trump’s continuing attempt to steal the 2020 election. We call on our allies and all like-minded freedom fighters to stay vigilant in the face of this steady creep toward fascist rule. President Trump’s attempts to retain power have set off an electoral crisis. In the week […]
The post The People Must Stand Up and Fight Back against Trump Stealing the Election! appeared first on Milwaukee Community Journal.
Joe Biden should recognize that the results of the election do not confer a mandate to veer too far from the political center.
[East African] East African Community member states have up to five years to join the UK-Kenya trade agreement due to be signed ahead of the Brexit transitional deadline, officials privy to the draft text say. They added that the new document has also shielded budgetary cuts that had been imposed on the trade policy group Trade Mark East Africa's work in Kenya, allowing continued regional trade facilitation by the organisation.
[African Arguments] A new report looks into the expenditure of political candidates and MPs. Here are six key findings.
BVN Staff In response to rising COVID-19 cases across the country, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Washington Governor Jay Inslee issued travel advisories on Friday, Nov. 13 urging visitors entering their states or returning home from travel outside these states to self-quarantine to slow the spread of the virus. The travel […]
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By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The sound of heavy weapons erupted across the Ethiopian border town, and immediately Filimon, a police officer, started to run. Now, shaken and scared, he pauses when asked about his wife and two small children, ages 5 and 2. 'I don't know where my family is now,' he said, unsure if they were left behind in the fighting or are somewhere in the growing crowd of thousands of new refugees just over the border in Sudan. In an interview with The Associated Press by phone on Thursday, the 30-year-old gave one […]
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BVN Staff The Riverside City College Newspaper, Viewpoints, won 12 awards during the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) fall conference held virtually Nov. 6-8. Student journalists competed against other Southern California Community Colleges by entering stories, photos, illustrations, multimedia projects, page designs and other content created in previous semesters and via on-the-spot contests. The […]
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The number of people hospitalized withCOVID-19surged past 60,000 on Tuesday. Health officials from around the country say hospitals are running out of intensive care unit beds. This newest surge breaks all previous records. It appears the virus isn't going to 'miraculously disappear,' after all. This is the third wave of virus infections in the US, […]
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The United States in the grips of yet another spike in coronavirus cases, but a member of President-elect Joe Biden's incoming coronavirus advisory board says a four-to-six-week shutdown would get things untracked.
By Amanda Becker
Washington Correspondent
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Heading into Election Day, forecasters predicted that Republican Donald Trump — whose ascent to the White House prompted women to organize the largest single-day protest in U.S. history — would be soundly defeated in part due to a double-digit gender gap like the country has never seen.
Instead, Democrat Joe Biden barely eked out a win, and the female electorate remained largely unchanged from 2016 and even 2012.
Continue reading Election 2020: White Women Had Doubts, But They Voted For Trump Anyway at The New Journal and Guide.
S.E. Williams | Executive Editor “The striking aspect of the Nation’s fire problem is the indifference with which Americans confront the subject. [The same can be said for racism]. Destructive fire takes a huge toll in lives, injuries, and property losses, yet there is no need to accept those losses with resignation. There are many […]
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For the Rev. Dr. Bartholomew Orr, senior pastor of Brown Baptist Missionary Baptist Church Southaven, simplicity yielded power on Veterans Day. The idea, simply, was to put on a roving demonstration of “Standing in Unity For Our Country” on Veterans Day. Specifically, Brown MBC teamed with leaders and members of several other participating churches to […]
