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NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – New Test captain Kaigg Brathwaite has warned his side that Sri Lanka will not be easy pushovers in the upcoming two-match series, despite their thrashing in the preceding white ball series.
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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.
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Ramkalawan, running for the presidency for the sixth time, won 54.9 percent of valid votes cast, poll body says.
[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.
[DW] Guinea's President Alpha Conde has won the Oct. 18 election with 59.5% of the vote, according to a tally from the election commission on Saturday. The victory gives 82-year-old Conde a third term in office.
ICYMI: Urban One went LIVE with Battle of the Beats on Saturday, October 24th. One of the things we’re missing most this year, is the energy of the tailgate and the amazing Homecoming band battles and performances. We can’t wait …
As the pandemic worsened, businesses shuttered, and unemployment reached record levels, the President announced the implementation of a new rule that would have required more food stamp recipients to work to receive benefits. Trump sought to limit the ability of states to renounce existing work mandates. The rule was scheduled to occur on April 1, but Congress suspended mandates requiring food stamp recipients to work as part of the CARES Act.
The post Judge Halts Trump’s Rule That Would Prevent 700K From Receiving Food Stamps appeared first on The Seattle Medium.
By The Florida Courier Staff via NNPA One of America’s leading Black conservative political action committees has instituted a national effort to help Black-owned businesses earn some of the billions of dollars spent during America’s political campaigns as the 2020 election year hits the home stretch. BlakPAC, a federally-registered “Super PAC” (political action committee), is […]
The post Black SuperPac Urges Candidates, Parties to Spend Millions with Black Businesses appeared first on Afro.
Paul Quinn College is a private, faith-based four-year historical liberal arts institution founded in 1872. It is the first of its kind west of the Mississippi River. The college seeks …
… more than 601,000 Black Americans had voted early in … cited low unemployment among African Americans, criminal justice reforms and … found that 87% of Black Americans disapproved of his job … Bader Ginsburg.
"For African Americans in this country, voting …
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A week before U.S. elections, expectations and attention are unusually low in a foreign country that may have more at stake than any other. Many Mexicans would be glad to see a more neighborly president who hasn't called Mexicans rapists or threatened to build a wall against them, but the relationship has survived a Donald Trump presidency, so there's a feeling it can handle any outcome. In the streets, few can name Democratic candidate Joe Biden, but there's a general sense that Mexicans are ready to take their chances with someone […]
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President Irfaan Ali yesterday recognised the achievements of Guyanese businessman Andrew Mendes, who was officially presented with the 2020 Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship.
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Caribbean American Democratic New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams has called on the city’s Board of Elections to establish more polling sites to accommodate the flood of voters, ahead of the November 3 election.
By ANITA SNOW and JOHN L. MONE Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — In car lines that can stretch half a mile, (0.8 kilometers), workers who lost jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic and other needy people receive staggering amounts of food distributed by the Houston Food Bank. On some days, the hundreds of sites supplied by the country's largest food bank collectively get 1 million pounds. Among the ranks of recipients is unemployed construction worker Herman Henton, whose wife is a home improvement store worker and now the sole breadwinner for their family of five. They tried to get food […]
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Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who will become the first Black US prelate to earn the coveted red hat.
In a surprise announcement from his studio window to faithful standing below in St …
[African Arguments] Candidate Cellou Diallo claims his party has 12,744 copies of results slips that show he won and calls on the electoral commission to show theirs.
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Kyrgyzstan on Saturday called an early presidential election for January after the nation's previous president was driven from power by protests triggered by a disputed vote. The Oct. 4 parliamentary election was swept by pro-government parties and triggered protests by the opposition, who rejected the official results as rigged. Demonstrators freed several opposition leaders, including Sadyr Zhaparov, who was quickly named the new prime minister. On Oct. 15, President Sooronbai Jeenbekov was forced to step down under pressure from demonstrators and Zhaparov became the acting head of state in Kyrgyzstan, […]
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Dr. Irving P. McPhail, who took over as president of St. Augustine's University this summer, died earlier this month just... View Article
The post Irving McPhail, new president of St. Augustine’s University, dies of COVID-19 appeared first on TheGrio.
[Africa In Fact] Tanzanians are heading to the polls on the 28th October. The ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party has governed Tanzania since independence in 1961, and is the second longest-ruling party in Africa.
With the exception of the period between 2011 and 2015, the political space in this country has always been occupied by the PNC and PPP alone, no matter what letters have been tacked on to their party abbreviations at one time or another.
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Early voting is on in the US ahead of the country's Nov. 3, presidential but campaigns are still ongoing.
US Vice President Mike Pence held one rally in Kinston, North Carolina, on Sunday night. The rally comes despite his chief of staff Marc Short, and reportedly several aides, testing positive for
\" The president just cast his vote yesterday. Karen and I just voted back in the Hoosier state, so men and women of North Carolina, you gotta get it done. If you need a little bit of help, I can tell you just go 10 minutes down the road tomorrow\" the vice president said.
\"Friends don't let friends vote alone. Bring a family member. Bring a neighbor. Bring a friend and vote for four more years of President Donald Trump in the White House. Get it done.\" he told the cheering crowds.
The decision by Pence, who heads the White House coronavirus task force, to ignore standing advice from health experts to quarantine himself has drawn fire from Democrats.
Earlier this month, Pence campaigned for Donald Trump whilst the US President was recovering from his own coronavirus infection.
Tens of millions of ballots have already been cast strongly suggesting highly enthusiastic voting amid a pandemic.
Overnight — that was as long as we had the 2021 GMC Yukon. But it was long enough to form an opinion. They put a lot of work into this sport utility and made it better, much better than the model it replaces.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s top police official on Saturday ordered the immediate mobilization of all officers to “reclaim the... View Article
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Have you ever heard the phrase, \"40 acres and a mule?\" If you have, depending on your age and wisdom, you may or may not know what that means. The saying is tied to \"reparations,\" which is what many African Americans feel is owed to them by the government for slavery, and rightfully so.
West Indies all-rounder Romario Shepherd could potentially stake a claim and fulfill his dream of playing Test cricket.
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While a number of people in Mike Pence's inner circle recently tested positive for COVID-19, the vice president reportedly has... View Article
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Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) President Jasford Gabriel is pushing for a revamp of the placement system for students matriculating to the high school level, arguing that the inequity now manifested has handicapped Jamaica socially and economically.
