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Interview - Mr. Hannibal Uwaifo is the President of, Africa Bar Association, AfBA. In this interview, he speaks on the precarious security situation in the country and what government must do to avoid anarchy.
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
By Troy Thomas
Troy Thomas is former president and a current member of Transparency Institute Guyana Inc.
The article What was gained from reduction of ExxonMobil’s environmental permits to five years? appeared first on Stabroek News.
On October 24, my cousin Ebonee, a proud Atlantan, became one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have lost their lives to the novel coronavirus. Ebonee was a thirty-five-year-old mother of three. She had just celebrated her thirteenth wedding anniversary and was so proud of her Air Force veteran husband. Ebonee was an entrepreneur and writer who worked […]
With simply days till the election, some Black voters should be grappling with whether or not to solid their vote for former Vice President Joe Biden or President Donald Trump.…
By Jill Lawless and Bob Thomas The Associated Press Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as the suave secret agent James Bond and then abandoned the role to carve out an Oscar-winning career in other rugged roles, has died. He was 90. Connery's wife and two sons said he 'died […]
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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 November 2020: World Bank Country Manager in Sierra Leone - Gayle Martin, last Friday spoke at the government’s launching of its dialogue with civil society organisations as a drive to promote good governance, transparency, and accountability. Addressing the assembled dignitaries, including the president, ministers, the international community, the press, and civil…
My family's story, like those of so many other American families, begins with immigration. My mother fled Uganda as a refugee in 1984. She was drawn to America because she saw a nation where she could expand her potential - and as a single mother to my three younger siblings and me, she taught all of us that here we, […]
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Racism is caused by race labelling; it is a global problem that is used as the main tool by politicians to secure power and power bases in populations that are weighted down by demographic labels, regardless of the economic and social systems practiced.
Capitalism, Communism or Socialism are all undermined by this unhealthy social construct that feeds off of recognizing another human being as different, in an inferior way.
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[allAfrica] In the months since coronavirus first emerged, scientists around the world swiftly pivoted to the pandemic response with many focused on developing a vaccine and mitigating the worst impact on the most vulnerable populations.
Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will become the first African American Cardinal from the United States following an announcement by Pope Francis on Sunday, Oct. 25. (File photo) When Pope Francis named 13 new cardinals on Sunday, Oct. 25, local Black Catholic leaders were excited to see Washington, D.C., Archbishop Wilton Gregory become the first Black
A veil of secrecy clouds the criteria used by the National Workers’ Union (NWU) to confer voting rights on dozens of persons to elect the next president of the opposition People’s National Party (PNP). Approximately 3,400 delegates, drawn from the...
The results of the DA leadership election have sparked some pretty tasty clashes online, after Natasha Mazzone and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi traded insults.
You don’t get a prize for predicting rain, you get a prize for building an ARK...
Why is voting important? If the people do not vote, the country will be reduced to a government neither for the people nor by the people.
Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, reproductive rights, climate change. All are issues that have been brought to the forefront recently and consume the news from all different angles. As the world continues changing at a rapid pace, we’ve seen how governments on all different scales have responded to these matters in real time, making it more...
John Steenhuisen earned 80 per cent of the vote in the DA leadership contest, defeating Mbali Ntuli to be elected the federal leader of South Africa's official opposition party.
Suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels freed more than 1,300 prisoners in an assault on a jail in Beni, eastern Democratic Republic Congo.
Only about 100 prisoners after the attack on Kagbayi prison on Tuesday morning.
The ADF are a Ugandan rebel group with bases in eastern Congo.
\"We had a count before the escape of 1,456 (prisoners), 110 (of them) stayed and I thank them for that. Some 20 (escapees) have already returned and I know that others are on their way back. We'll do a tally, and work out how many have come back\", said Modeste Bakwanamaha, the mayor of Beni.
Kagbayi prison is used to hold errant army soldiers and militiamen captured in fighting, including some from the ADF.
Jail breaks are common in Congo where conditions in detention facilities are said to be very bad.
… had done as much for African-Americans as himself. At which point … put in the way of African-Americans exercising their right to vote …
As a public figure, the presidential candidate you align yourself with could have you on your fan's good side, or leave fans giving you the side-eye.
I think we can all agree that 2020 has felt like a poorly written disaster film that should have never been green-lit. And yet, curiously, most people seem to believe its finale will be a Marvel-esque triumph over adversity that will usher in a more prosperous and promising 2021. But if 2020 is a movie, … Continued
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Guinea's electoral body has called opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo's self-proclaimed victory in the first round of a presidential election \"void\".
“Despite the serious anomalies that marred the smooth running of the … election and in view of the results that came out of the ballot boxes, I am victorious in this election in the first round,” Diallo told supporters on Monday, a day after the vote was held.
Diallo's supporters chanted \"Cellou, president\". But elsewhere in the city, joyous celebrations by supporters devolved into clashes with security forces.
Diallo, 68, is the main challenger to Guinea’s 82-year-old incumbent President Alpha Conde, who is seeking a controversial third term after he pushed through constitutional reforms in March.
The move sparked mass protests and subsequent crackdowns, which killed dozens of people.
But Mamadi Kaba, a spokesman of Guinea electoral commission said on Monday: \"I would therefore like to reassure the people of Guinea who voted yesterday in peace, without violence, that no provisional results have been proclaimed for the time being.
\"The Independent National Electoral Commission is the only institution empowered to proclaim provisional results.\"
Although Sunday, the day of the vote, was mostly calm, Diallo's self-proclaimed election victory has set the stage for a showdown with Conde.
The government insists the vote was fair and that the official electoral authority must declare the results.
Conde's RPG party said in a statement Monday that it condemned \"with the utmost firmness the irresponsible and dangerous declaration\" by Diallo.
It called for its activists to remain calm.
The American Government is providing approximately $2.45 million in grant funding towards the Oracabessa Marine Trust's reef restoration and protection efforts.The funding is awarded by the US Department of State's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental Scientific Affairs, the US Embassy in Kingston has stated.
International Man: The hysteria surrounding COVID-19 and the government lockdown has completely changed in-person interactions. How do you think this will impact the way that Americans cast their vote in the presidential election? Doug Casey: It’s a very bad thing from Trump’s point of view. For one thing, it’s severely limiting the number and size of his rallies, which he relies on to keep enthusiasm up. More people are staying at home and watching television than ever before. And unless they glue their dial to Fox, they’ll gravitate towards the mainstream media, which is stridently anti-Trump. People who are on … Continue reading →
It will be \"National Candy Day.\" In many respects, it will be another weekday
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[allAfrica] As of October 20, the confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries have reached 1,655,980. Reported deaths in Africa have reached 39,931, and recoveries 1,359,742.
Nigerians are recently confronted with a barrage of new bills even as the pandemic hits hard at the economy. The government seems to be more involved with people’s daily and personal lives with its oft-needless regulations. The Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), for instance, is made to increasingly regulate not only profit-making corporate organizations...
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COMPILED BY FLORIDA COURIER STAFF Gospel legend Bishop Rance Allen has died at age 71. Allen died around 3 a.m. Oct. 31 while recovering from a medical procedure at Heartland ProMedica in Sylvania, Ohio, according to a joint statement from his wife, Ellen, and manager Toby Jackson. Allen is known for leading the Rance Allen […]
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