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Former commander of Zulu regiments, Mgiliji Nhleko, has died.
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Nigeria's tally of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country exceeded 6,000 on Monday as 216 newly infected people were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
As of the time of reporting, the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria rose to 6, 175 on Monday evening from 5, 959 reported on Sunday evening.
These are Lagos, Katsina, Oyo, Kano, Edo, Zamfara, Ogun, Gombe, Borno, Bauchi, Kwara, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kaduna, Enugu, and Rivers states.
The details of the 216 new cases are as follows: Lagos - 74, Katsina - 33, Oyo - 19, Kano - 17, Edo - 13, Zamfara - 10, Ogun - 8, Gombe - 8, Borno - 8, Bauchi - 7, Kwara - 7, FCT - 4, Kaduna - 3, Enugu - 3, and Rivers - 2.
A breakdown of the 6,175 confirmed cases shows that Lagos State has so far reported 2, 624 cases, followed by Kano - 824, FCT - 422, Katsina - 281, Bauchi - 222, Borno - 223, Jigawa - 201, Ogun - 153, Kaduna - 145, Oyo - 137, Gombe - 134, Sokoto - 113, Edo - 108, Zamfara - 84, Kwara - 65, Osun - 42, Rivers - 53, Plateau - 35, Yobe - 32, Kebbi - 32, Nasarawa - 31, Delta - 27, Niger - 22, Adamawa - 21, Ondo - 20, Ekiti - 19,Akwa Ibom - 18, Taraba - 17, Enugu - 15, Ebonyi - 9, Imo - 7, Bayelsa - 6, Benue - 5, Anambra - 5 and Abia - 5.
The number of new cases in the country has continued to increase erratically across all States which have reported at least a case of the virus.
Tunis/Tunisia — President Kais Saied went Monday evening, to El Fahs (Zaghouan) to visit the family of Tarek Dziri, martyr of the revolution.
On this occasion, the head of state took note of the family's social conditions, reaffirming the state's determination to honour all those who sacrificed themselves for the homeland.
Tarek Dziri was shot and wounded in the wake of the events of the 2011 revolution and died on January 18 after a long struggle against illness.
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is making a statement to Donald Trump after peaceful protests in the city over police violence against Black people.
Bowser’s “Black Lives Matter” street painting is clearly alluding to Trump’s actions.
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In addition to all this, Bowser has been accused of accelerating gentrification in D.C. by approving a lot of developments that could push Black and low-income people out of their communities.
Bowser has ended the state of emergency for D.C. since protests over police violence have started.
Bowser shared a letter addressed to Trump for Thursday, in which she called on him to withdraw “all extraordinary federal law enforcement and military presence from Washington, D.C.”
However, No New Jails wasn’t buying this either.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize offered hope that the country will soon move to Level 1 lockdown, but warned that citizens must remain cautious.
Fathers' Rights Movement Zimbabwe (FRMZ) believes Frank Buyanga's child custody case has demonstrated that fathers' rights are disregarded in Zimbabwe.
\"Frank Buyanga case has demonstrated that father's rights are disregarded in Zimbabwe.
Buyanga's child custody case has been raging on and the businessman has approached the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) complaining about the way his case has been handled.
Last month, Buyanga was ordered by Justice Jacob Manzunzu to return the child to his mother within 24 hours and the businessman immediately appealed.
At the hearing, Matanga claimed that police had already engaged Interpol to help locate the child and his father.
Source: Yusuf Abramjee, founder of Tax Justice South Africa (29 April 2020)
Verdict
Explainer: Excise tax revenues for tobacco sales in April 2020, the first full month of the Covid-19 lockdown, were down more than R36 million daily compared to April 2019.
Conclusion: Abramjee is mostly correct, although tobacco tax collection varies significantly
Yusuf Abramjee, founder of advocacy group Tax Justice South Africa, claimed that the country loses \"R35 million each and every day\" due to the ban of tobacco sales enforced during the Covid-19 lockdown.
The data Abramjee had access to when he made the claim shows that R34 million in tobacco excise tax was collected on average every day in the last financial year.
Data released after Abramjee made his claim showed that the daily amount of tobacco tax collected in the first full month of lockdown, April 2020, was down R36.2 million per day compared to April 2019 and R60.5 million per day compared to April 2018.
New numbers released by revenue service
Two days after Abramjee made his claim it was reported that SARS had estimated under-recovery of roughly R400 million in \"cigarette\" excise taxes during the first 29 days of April.
A number of R350 grant applicants have raised issues with their 'bank verification' status. SASSA issued a brief response to the matter on Monday.
met with Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and paid a visit to the site where the mayor had “Black Lives Matter” painted on a road that leads to the White House.
“It was very moving to see hundreds of thousands of people from all over America and around the world take to the streets to speak up, to speak out, to get into what I call ‘good trouble,’ or to get in the way,” Lewis said of the recent protests this week.
Earlier this weekend, the words “Black Lives Matter” were painted in yellow on 16th Street NW on Friday.
The same day, Bowser also announced on Twitter that a section of the street, which she added was “in front of the White House,” had also been officially named “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”
Since its unveiling Friday, the two-block span has been the site of several demonstrations over the weekend as protesters continue to take to the streets against police brutality in racism following the police killing of George Floyd.
Weeks after St Ann’s Bay Mayor Michael Belnavis became embroiled in controversy over his stewardship of municipal funds, climaxing last Thursday with a demolition related to building breaches, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has reserved comment until he has been fully briefed.
Anti-corruption lobby National Integrity Action (NIA) has called for Belnavis to immediately resign following revelations of his role in a private company that captured government land and constructed a building in violation of the law.
The disclosure was made in a Sunday Gleaner report that showed how City Mall Management sought permission from the St Ann Municipal Corporation, which Belnavis leads, at least a month after works started.
In a statement on Monday, NIA said that if the mayor refuses to walk, the other 15 councillors in the parish should “put public interest above party” and expel the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for misconduct.
“Good practice demands that Mayor Belnavis do the right thing and separate himself from the high office of mayor,” said Professor Trevor Munroe, the head of NIA, a chapter of Transparency International, the global anti-corruption watchdog.
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“Black Lives Matter” painted in bright yellow down the middle of a D.C. street.
The street, where peaceful protesters were forced out of the way on Monday just before President Donald Trump walked through on his way to the now infamous Bible photo op, has been renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza—new street signs and all.
Mayor Bowser wanted to make it abundantly clear that this is DC’s street and to honor demonstrators who [were] peacefully protesting on Monday evening.”
Is it “performative,” as the D.C. chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement tweeted?
And it’s a message that needed to be sent—and not only to the occupant of the White House—that who you vote for in local elections, much like black lives, matters.
Inside the palatial walls of Belgium’s Africa Museum stand statues of Leopold II – each one a monument to the king whose rule killed as many as 10 million Africans.
There are at least 13 statues to Leopold II in Belgium, according to one crowd-sourced map, and numerous parks, squares and street names.
On Friday the younger brother of Belgium’s King Philippe, Prince Laurent, defended his ancestor saying Leopold II was not responsible for atrocities in the colony “because he never went to Congo”.
But in the chaos of the early 20th Century when World War One threatened to destroy Belgium, Leopold II’s nephew King Albert I erected statues to remember the successes of years gone by.
Statues of Leopold II should now be housed in museums to teach Belgian history, suggests Mireille-Tsheusi Robert, director of anti-racism NGO Bamko Cran.
It’s not easy having a green light. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” is now in the public domain ― and some people are clamoring for a Muppets version. Creative…
White Woman Who Called Police On Black Bird-Watcher In Central Park Has Been Fired
A black man says he asked a white woman in Central Park to put her dog on a leash.
The man who shot the video of the encounter, Christian Cooper, told NPR Tuesday evening, what the woman did was \"pretty crappy without a doubt.\"
According to Christian Cooper, he started recording after asking the woman to leash her dog.
That is where the video that runs roughly 70 seconds ends, with Amy Cooper putting the leash on her dog and Christian Cooper saying \"Thank You.\"
Amy Cooper's dog has been \"voluntarily surrendered,\" according to statement posted on Facebook by the Abandoned Angels Cocker Spaniel Rescue Inc.
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Parliament adopted a recommendation to spare retirees aged 65 and above and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) from paying taxes.
