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Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu has pardoned 5,001 prisoners from different correctional facilities across the East African country.
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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Eastern Cape Cogta MEC Xolile Nqatha said disciplinary action against corrupt individuals would only prove stressful while battling COVID-19.
BY WINSTONE ANTONIO YESTERDAY, women in Zimbabwe joined the world in celebrating the International Women’s Day, where they highlighted bottlenecks inhibiting them from entering various sectors of the economy. The day is commemorated annually on March 8 and this year’s celebrations are being held under the theme Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a COVID-19 World. The theme highlights the importance of challenging biases and misconceptions in the interest of creating a more inclusive and gender-equal world. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) administrator Achim Steiner said women should play a key role in decision-making at a global stage. The UNDP works to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities through ensuring sustainable development of nations. He said across the world, women were concentrated in the lowest paid jobs, many in extremely hazardous forms of employment. Steiner said women were nearly twice as likely as men to lose their jobs during the COVID-19 crisis as the pandemic would dramatically increase poverty rates and widen the gap between men and women who live in poverty. “Women must have the opportunity to play a role in shaping the pivotal decisions being made right now as countries respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic — choices that will affect the wellbeing of people and the planet for generations to come,” he said. “To do this, we must break down the deep-seated historic, cultural, and socio-economic barriers that prevent women from taking their seat at the decision-making table to make sure that resources and power are more equitably distributed,” Steiner said, adding that they were working with countries across the globe to address these inequalities. Females in the creative sector, who spoke to NewsDay Life & Style, yesterday called for a women-friendly showbiz environment and equal opportunities with their male counterparts. Dudu Manhenga The Afro-jazz musician said parents should nurture and foster their children’s talent regardless of their sex, adding that it was good for women in the arts to be celebrated. “On an occasion like this (Women’s Day), I would like to encourage parents who have children who are creative to foster and nurture that talent and gift in our children,” she said. “It is time to break away from the stereotype that the arts sector does not pay, because it is us who make it pay. Parents should allow their children to play a huge role in the arts sector, they should allow them go to school. Parents should facilitate or finance the education within the creative sector. If they do so, it means that we will have more and more creatives who would have been schooled for that such that the sector gets the credibility it deserves. It means we have a student who will fuse that education with the gift that they have. I think that will really improve the creative sector.” Sarah Mpofu-Sibanda Bulawayo’s former supermodel and actress said women should not be discouraged by adversity. “If anything, this is the time to be more assertive and crafty in
By Associated Press Undefined WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times local) 12:25 p.m. Melania Trump's return to the campaign trail will have to wait. Her chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, said Tuesday that Mrs. Trump continues to feel better every day following her recent recovery from COVID-19 but has a lingering cough. Grisham says the first lady has decided not to accompany President Donald Trump to a campaign rally Tuesday evening in Erie, Pennsylvania, out of an abundance of caution. Mrs. Trump's last public appearance was during the Sept. 29 presidential debate in Ohio. […]
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — On August 20, South Carolina tea party Republican leader Pressley Stutts died from complications of COVID. He was 64. Stutts opposed mask mandates but stated on social media that Covid-19 was a serious and deadly disease. Days before his death Stutts wrote on social media that he was choosing to go on a ventilator to take “a short rest.”
The post Several Conservative Anti-Vaxxers Die Of COVID As Delta Variant Spreads appeared first on Garland Journal.
Kamal Zerfi has long run a junkyard in a no-man's land on the far edge of the Sahara desert. Then government soldiers came and things took a turn for the worse.
Zerfi lives in a remote outpost of the Western Sahara region claimed by both Morocco and Polisario Front pro-independence rebels who recently revived their three-decade struggle.
His auto- and scrapyard is located at the desolate truck stop of Guerguerat in a UN-patrolled buffer zone along the Mauritanian border, where the deployment of Moroccan soldiers has now put paid to his lucrative business.
\"They've stripped me of my goods!\" protested the 42-year-old who said he had been doing good -- and, he insists, legal -- business selling cars on to Mauritania until Rabat sent in the troops on November 13.
Western Sahara has been disputed since the end of Spanish colonial rule. Morocco claims all of it as it own, while Polisario rebels, backed by Algeria, want independence.
Trouble flared again when Rabat recently accused the rebels of blockading the road which links the desert region with Mauritania and the rest of Africa at Guerguerat.
The pro-independence movement, which says the road was built in violation of a 1991 UN-sponsored ceasefire deal, declared the truce null and void and insisted it had no choice but \"to intensify the fight for national liberation\".
- 'Apaches in Kandahar' -
Zerfi said the rebels, whom he calls \"Apaches\", would often block the road link, harming business in the region locals dub \"Kandahar\" after the city in southern Afghanistan.
No UN forces could be seen by a visiting AFP team in the region, known as a hotspot for smuggling of all kinds.
Zerfi, from Marrakesh in southern Morocco, insists his trade is entirely legitimate due to the special status of the demilitarised zone, even if the Moroccan customs service may disagree.
License plates buried in the sand identify the origins of cars that have passed through the junkyard: France, Italy, Spain -- and Germany, the most sought after among Mauritanian buyers, the dealer said.
Now that Moroccan troops have asserted control, tow trucks have taken away the cars that were in decent condition. Spare parts and loads of rubbish, meanwhile, have been set on fire, with acrid black smoke swirling into the sky.
- 'State of war' -
Some businesses in the border outpost \"have lost everything\", said Zerfi, since Moroccan forces arrived to secure the road.
The Polisario has since declared a \"state of war\" that put an end to its 30-year-old ceasefire with Rabat in the disputed territory.
Rabat has also built a sand wall to secure the road to the border post where Moroccan flags are now displayed.
The \"parking lots\" in Guerguerat have long served as a depot for various goods from Mauritania, providing significant income for locals.
Since the troop deployment, \"those who had deposited goods have recovered them -- but those who left them here have been left with nothing\", said Zerfi.
Under the ceasefire deal, Morocco controls around three-quarters of the Western Sahar
[New Times] Sub-Saharan Africa government's debt burden is rising at a fast pace and to levels higher than other emerging markets, heightening the risk of downgrades and defaults, the latest Fitch Ratings report has warned.
[Leadership] African superstars, Wizkid and Burnaboy have bagged nominations in the Best International Act category of BET 2021 Awards. Diamond Platinumz from Tanzania makes the third African nomination. Wizkid and Burnaboy from Nigeria stands a better chance to win the award having done so before.
Spain has ordered 160,000 citizens in the northeastern Catalonia region back into lockdown for 15 days, after the High Court overturned a lower court ban on tough new restrictions on movement because of a new [...]
Overpowering Democratic opposition, Senate Republicans are set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, approving President Donald Trump’s nominee a week before Election Day and securing likely conservative court dominance for years to come. Trump’s choice to fill the vacancy of the late liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg potentially opens a new era of rulings on abortion, the Affordable Care […]
In a resurgence of the federal death penalty at the end of President Donald Trump’s tenure, his administration carried out two executions this week for men convicted in separate Texas murders on military property. Brandon Bernard, 40, was executed in the federal death chamber in Indiana on Thursday night, delayed hours by appeals […]
Allen Iverson Changes His Mind About the LeBron James VS. Michael Jordan GOAT Debate
Henry Darby, principal at North Charleston High School in South Carolina, works by day as a beloved educator and by... View Article
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[East African] People living within the Lake Victoria catchment area have to wait a little longer before enjoying a better environment in the face of increasing rainfall variability and rising temperatures.
It is expected that President Cyril Ramaphosa will move the country back to Level 2, resulting in the easing of some lockdown restrictions.
As the country spends its first Saturday in Level 2 of the lockdown, 144 new Covid-19 related deaths and 3 707 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.
As Latin America and the Caribbean continue to peer tentatively into the coronavirus dark tunnel of uncertainty, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has hit the region with more gloomy news regarding its projected economic performance in the period ahead.
The article ECLAC COVID-19 report brings gloomy tidings for Caribbean appeared first on Stabroek News.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) - Brazil had 42,159 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 1,056 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said yesterday.
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An Unfortunate Passing of a Senegalese Boy
Three men were each sentenced to two years in prison — of which 23 months are suspended, by a court in Senegal on Tuesday in a high-profile case that saw three fathers facing charges of \"placing the lives of others in danger,\" after the trio urged their sons to embark upon a risky migration trip to Europe by sea which left one of the boys pronounced dead. The men were acquitted of the charge of abetting migrant trafficking at the insistence of their defence attorney.
An Untimely Death Borne of Desperation
Their sons were with other migrants who boarded a canoe to make the crossing from Senegal to Spain's Canary Islands, the first step in a plan to reach continental Europe. But one of them, a boy aged about 15 nicknamed Doudou, fell ill and died after having problems eating\" during the trip — as per a source close to the investigation.
Further details are unclear, as according to local media his body was tipped overboard after he died.
The children of the two other fathers survived the attempted crossing and have since returned home.
The fathers of the three — who are fishermen in the coastal town of Mbour, were arrested a couple of weeks afterwards.
The father of the deceased child had paid 80 euros to a smuggler, who was to take the boy to Spain. His ultimate destination was Italy where he hoped to sign up for a football training academy in the hopes of launching a lucrative professional career to help his family.
The Economic State of Affairs in Senegal
Doudou's untimely and unfortunate passing triggered an uproar in Senegal - prompting anguished debates about poverty, parental pressure and the allure of life in societies abroad that are perceived to have a better standard of living. The pressure to migrate is especially strong among fishing communities as coastal villages in Senegal have been badly hit by dwindling catches that many allege are due to the disruptive presence of foreign factory ships - in addition to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Canary Islands lie more than 100 kilometres from the coast of Africa at their closest point, and many boats —big canoes also called pirogues, are overcrowded, underpowered and in poor shape for such migration trips.
Over 500 people have died this year, mostly in October and November, according to the United Nations’ International Office for Migration (IOM), compared to 210 fatalities for the whole of last year.
[New Times] The inaugural Rwandan Epic mountain bike race, first of its kind in the country, will be held in Musanze District from November 21 to 23.
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to meet Monday with a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed spending about one-third of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking in coronavirus aid, though congressional Democrats are poised to move ahead without Republican support. An invitation to the White House came hours after the lawmakers sent Biden a letter Sunday urging him to negotiate rather than try to ram through his relief package solely on Democratic votes. The House and Senate are on track to vote as soon as this week on a budget […]
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With their original recall campaign falling short, organizers of an effort to oust Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon announced today they have formed a new political committee and will start again from scratch.
The post With Recall Effort Faltering, Gascon Recall Effort Being Restarted appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
Coronavirus cases in Gambia, mainland Africa's smallest country, have surged over 60% in the last seven days to nearly 800 cases, health ministry data has shown.
Harvey Wasserman is a resident of Florida and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He voted for Republican Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections but watched in horror as hundreds of supporters of the former president stormed the Capitol Building January 6.
“My stomach was in knots,” he told VOA. “The sheer ignorance of those so-called Trump supporters was doing nothing more than showing the world the dark side of the Republican Party.
All systems were a go as lawmakers met to contract a relief bill, before a deadline of December 18th. On that date a spending bill needed to be approved, to keep the government from shutting down and as part of it, a Covid relief bill was expected. Just as the two sides seem to […]
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Fascinating and engaging will best describe the theme of the Africa Alive Talk Series organised by African Voice Newspapers UK which will hold on Saturday 27th March 2021 via Zoom. The Black Asian Minority Ethnic communities have been disproportionately afffect by the Coronavirus and since the outbreak of the pandemic social inequality has increased in Britain. You are […]
The post BAME and the Vision of Equality post COVID-19 Recovery appeared first on African Voice Newspaper.
THE African agricultural sector has shown much resilience over the years, surviving droughts, diseases and sanitation issues. Despite the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and successive lockdowns, the agricultural sector has been a star performer. The sector is likely to increase agricultural exports further this year, on the back of another larger maize harvest. Additionally, favourable seasonal production conditions have boosted the prospects for exportable fruit commodities. However, the lack of certainty around constant power supply has had and continues to have a massive impact on the agricultural sector. Power outages have a negative impact on businesses with warehouses, processing plants, canning factories, cold storages and those reliant on irrigation. Farming operations and seasonal planning have been disrupted by repeated outages. While farmers can do everything in their power to produce good quality, marketable products and the ability to store products at the optimal temperature ultimately determine the quality when it reaches the market. Generators that run for hours to maintain temperature levels translate into an unsustainable additional cost. In addition to load-shedding issues, the cost of electricity supply remains high. The current power supply challenges coupled with ongoing tariff increases present a compelling case for farmers to consider investing in renewable energy alternatives to ensure the sustainability of the sector. Customised solutions are available for the agriculture sector. Farmers Review
