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(The Center Square) – Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell announced a series of proposed ordinances, including protest buffer zones around public building and parking lots, in order to combat recent protests in the city. Protesters interrupted the council’s July meeting after reportedly “espousing various forms of hatred filmed, chanted, displayed offensive signage and clothing,” according to […]
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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.
BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is anticipating increased political tensions and contestations ahead of the 2023 harmonised election following the continued political instability in the country since the 2018 elections. In the ZRP Horizon 2025, a document which maps the organisation’s strategic plan for the next five years, the police asked government to avail funds for the acquisition of adequate equipment to manage public disorder and disaster situations. Police claim that media polarisation was fuelling political activism, resulting in security forces having to devote more time and resources to managing public disorder, thereby constraining the organisation’s crime reduction efforts. “The period 2021 to 2025 is anticipated to be punctuated by political (in)stability even though the 2018 harmonised elections left some sections of the society disgruntled,” part of the document read. “Consequently, polarisation and tension remain evident as they continue to dominate the social and mass media. Therefore, since the planning period ahead also has harmonised elections slated for 2023, an increase in tension and political contestation is expected.” Post-electoral violence plunged the country into chaos in August 2018, with army deployed to quell the unrest claiming six lives. MDC Alliance supporters took to the streets to protest delays in the announcement of presidential results in an election President Emmerson Mnangagwa was eventually pronounced winner. In 2008, the country experienced its worst electoral violence when the late former President Robert Mugabe unleashed party youths and war veterans, soldiers and the police on the opposition in a bid to overturn a first round poll defeat to the late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai was later forced to pull out of the race “to save lives” in a wave of violence that claimed over 300 of his supporters, injuring thousands while tens of thousands were displaced. Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe said government was aware that police required adequate funding to enhance policing. “Police officers need to have modern tools of the trade and resources at their disposal if they are to outmanoeuvre criminal propensity and sophistry,” Kazembe, whose Zanu PF party is often accused of the violence, said. “Similarly, concerted efforts will relentlessly be made by the government to avail the requisite resources which include modern policing technology gadgets and equipment in order to operationalise this strategy.” In the next five years, the organisation says it will also employ advanced technologies and resources to counter terrorism. “The organisation is also alive to the fact that political extremism manifesting in the form of terrorism has now found its way into some Sadc member states. This scourge has the potential to engulf the entire region,” the ZRP said. “To this end, enhanced information sharing, use of advanced technologies, training and resource mobilisation will go a long way in countering terrorism.” Police Commissioner-General Godwin
The coronavirus may have been around as early as August, a new study from the Harvard Medical School found.
By Daniel James Graeber Federal date from the U.S. Department of Energy suggested demand for crude oil and refined petroleum products dropped off substantially, though the market remains tight enough to drive oil prices higher. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, part of the Energy Department, publishes weekly data on storage levels of crude oil and […]
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent A jury in Missouri has found the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and several residential brokerages liable for conspiring to artificially inflate commissions for home sales, resulting in a staggering $1.78 billion in damages. The potential payout may escalate to $5 billion, factoring in the treble […]
CMC:- Guyana, in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19, has issued amendments to its COVID-19 guidelines, which dealt with vaccination requirements for government buildings, to now include all public buildings inclusive of privately-owned ones and institutions of learning. According to the amendment, issued less than a week after the guidelines were revealed, “any person who wishes to enter a public building shall be vaccinated”. It further explained that in the absence of being vaccinated against COVID-19, a person would have to make an appointment to visit that public building and present a negative PCR COVID-19 test result to gain
(The Center Square) – Gov. Tim Walz called in the Minnesota National Guard Thursday night before the third night of violent protests.
The protests are in response to the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in police custody on Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd’s neck for about seven minutes, rendering him unresponsive.
That is why I am answering our local leaders’ request for Minnesota National Guard assistance to protect peaceful demonstrators, neighbors, and small businesses in Minnesota.”
Some protesters were peaceful, while others looted and torched businesses, including the Third Precinct Police station that covered the address of Floyd’s arrest, which had been evacuated.
George Floyd’s death should lead to justice and systemic change, not more death and destruction,” Walz said in a statement Thursday.
Dred Scott was a slave who lived during the early 19th century and was the first slave who sued his master for freedom in a court of law. He was born into slavery in Virginia and was the property of the Peter Blow family. His birth name was Sam, but he changed it to Dred after his dead brother. The Blow family were farmers in Alabama who later moved to St. Louis, Missouri. Before moving, they sold their slaves to an army doctor named John Emerson. In 1836, Scott fell in love with a slave girl named Harriett Robinson, who belonged to another army doctor named Major Lawrence Taliaferro. Taliaferro sold Harriett to Emerson so that Scott and Harriett could be married.
Two years later, Dr. Emerson married a lady named Eliza Irene Sanford, and the family, along with their slaves, moved to Missouri shortly after. Emerson then left the army and died in 1843. Upon his master’s death, Scott tried to purchase his freedom from Emerson’s widow but she refused. Dred Scott decided to take the matter to the courts and in 1846, he filed a law suit in St Louis Circuit Court. The trial was held in 1847, and Scott lost. A retrial was called for, and this time, a jury in Missouri ruled that since Scott and Harriett had lived with Emerson in the free states of Illinois and Wisconsin (that is, slavery was illegal there), they should be granted their freedom since they were being illegally held as slaves there to begin with. Scott was successful in winning his freedom in this historic ruling in 1850.
Emerson’s widow appealed this decision to the Missouri Supreme Court and the subsequent ruling was made in her favor. The court ruled that the idea of “once free, always free” was no longer applicable, a rule that had been upheld for 28 years previously. Only one judge supported this decision, but the majority ruling was against them, and Scott and his wife were returned to Mrs. Emerson. After Dr. Emerson’s death, the estate legally came under Mrs. Emerson’s brother, John F. A. Sanford, who was a citizen of New York. Scott and his wife
An "alarming" 80 per cent increase in sexual violence in Somalia, as documented in two recent reports by the Secretary-General, has been described as "appalling" by two UN Special Representatives.
[AIM] Maputo -- The Association of United Health Professionals of Mozambique (APSUM) - which claims to represent nurses, laboratory technicians, drivers and other health sector professionals - guaranteed on Monday that its members will not go back on strike in the next 15 days.
A map submitted by Buccini/Pollin Group and others on the Penguins' development team showing the course of a proposed pedestrian-only Wylie Avenue, presented to the City Planning Commission on April 20, 2021. by Rich Lord The future of Wylie Avenue emerged as the biggest speed bump in the Penguins’ drive to begin Lower Hill District … Continued
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[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad Othman Jerandi, on Monday, met with French Ambassador to Tunisia, André Parant, who reiterated France's readiness to stand by Tunisia to help meet the economic and health challenges it is facing.
Zambia deployed the military to curb escalating political violence ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections on Aug. 12, President Edgar Lungu said on Sunday. Two supporters of the ruling Patriotic Front party were hacked to death with machetes on Friday by attackers suspected to be members of the main opposition party, police said. Four people […]
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LOTTO Results edit post Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 28 February 2021 2021-02-28 edit post Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 27 February 2021
Dallas residents without home broadband will now have 2,000 more ways to access the internet thanks to Dallas Public Library’s expanded hotspot lending program. As of December 15, every Dallas …
[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has blasted MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa over the recent attacks on the latter during his \"Meet The People Tours\" claiming that the opposition leader was staging the assassination attempts on his own life.
[Capital FM] Embattled Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza will have to face the Senate plenary after Kenya Kwanza Senators shot down a motion seeking to establish an 11-member panel to probe her impeachment.
The acting Inspector General (IG) of Police Duncan Mwapasa has summoned police officers assigned to the Vice President Saulos Chilima after they used live bullets to shoot in Machinga on Friday when political violence reared its ugly head again ahead of fresh presidential elections.
Chilima was forced to call off his scheduled whistle-stop tours in Machinga after the road at Nselema was blocked against him One of the gun shot survivors One of the shooting victim One of the shooting victim
Chilima, who is UTM Party president and Tonse Alliance running mate, travelled to Nselema in Machinga to conduct a rally there but things turned ugly on his way to the venue as suspected United Democratic Front (UDF) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) functionaries blocked Bakili Muluzi Highway around Nselema.
Speaking in an audio that is circulating on WhatsApp, an eyewitness reports that people prevented Chilima from proceeding to the venue of the rally in revenge that Chilima has been insulting Malawi's former president Bakili Muluzi.
Chilima's press secretary Pilirani Phiri took to Twitter: \"Political violence rears its ugly face again in Machinga.
UDF leader Atupele Muluzi comes from the area where the fracas occurred and is running mate to President Mutharika took to Facebook to condemn political violence.
