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Les heurts meurtriers se poursuivent dans le nord de la Cisjordanie occupée. Jeudi 15 septembre au matin, un adolescent palestinien a été tué d’un « tir à la tête » par les forces israéliennes dans le village de Kfar Dan, a annoncé le ministère de la santé palestinien. L’armée israélienne a fait savoir qu’elle était déployée
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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 Victor Omondi According to Evangelical Bishop, Edir Macedo, daughters shouldn’t go to college so that they’re not smarter than their husbands. During a recent sermon, Macedo explained that he wouldn’t let his daughters attend college because he believes that an educated woman can’t have a happy marriage. The Bishop of the Universal Church of […]
Brenda Walker, interim associate dean of the College of Education on USF’s St. Petersburg campus ST. PETERSBURG - Multiple studies have shown that African American students are disciplined at a disproportionate rate compared to their peers, which can significantly impact their ultimate ability to succeed. Now a team of researchers from the University of South […]
Solomon, Patrick and Samuel were wounded on October 20 during a crackdown by Nigerian security forces on protesters in Lagos who had gathered despite a curfew order.
The three say they spent several days at the Lekki toll gate, the epicentre of demonstrations that erupted on October 8 over police violence and bad governance, as they themselves had been victims of police abuse in the past.
Now discharged from hospital, the three men -- whose full names we are not disclosing for their own safety-- are desperate for their stories to be heard.
It was the Nigerian army who fired, all three said.
The government denies any responsibility and labeled reports that soldiers killed 12 people as \"fake news\". The police on Friday said 22 officers had been killed in protest-linked unrest this month.
\"How can they say it's not true?,\" asked Patrick.
\"We saw them. Two guys died instantly in my presence, and one is still in the coma -- my friend Nicholas,\" said the 25-year-old demonstrator, unemployed since a lockdown in March imposed to contain the coronavirus.
Shot in the arm -- he was brandishing a flag when he came under fire -- Patrick was evacuated, put on a canoe that crisscrossed the Lagos lagoon and took him to a hospital.
\"The soldiers were blocking the roads, the ambulances could not access the scene. Some were using bikes, others wheelbarrows to take the injured,\" he said.
Samuel, 30, was helping to ensure safety at the protest ground with a group of volunteers when he heard the first gunshots.
\"We saw armed, military men, so we came back to the stage and started waving our flags and singing the national anthem.\"
\"I was not expecting them to shoot at us,\" said the young man, who works in agriculture in the outskirts of the sprawling city.
\"I was expecting them to address us in a normal manner. But they didn't talk to anybody, they just started shooting.\"
\"All of a sudden I started feeling something hit my left thigh,\" he remembered. The screen of his phone might have saved him -- the bullet would have otherwise penetrated even deeper.
In pain, he managed to walk 500 metres to find someone who could take him to hospital.
\"I saw like three people dying, but I was also injured, so I couldn't help them. I had to help myself first.\"
It was a close call for Solomon as well. A bullet pierced his shoulder, and another grazed his neck, leaving a burn scar.
The 38-year-old construction worker is still in shock.
\"The country doesn't realise what happened, but for me this is not the end, this is just the beginning of the protests,\" he told AFP.
\"I need a better Nigeria. This wound made me even more ready to fight, I have nothing to lose anymore.\"
By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A more measured President Donald Trump does not necessarily mean a more truthful one. In the final debate of the presidential campaign, he was loose with facts on the crisis of the time — the pandemic — and much else. Trump did, though, exploit confusion sowed by Joe Biden during the primaries, when the Democrat occasionally made his position on energy sound more to the left than it actually is. Trump accurately called out Biden when Biden denied he had ever vowed to ban fracking. That was never Biden's […]
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Close to 60 members of one family, including more than 20 children, in Lindo’s Gap in St Andrew East Rural are battling fears that further torrential rains and swirling winds triggered by the outer bands of Tropical Storm Zeta could sweep their...
[Nation] Olympics marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge is still recovering from the London Marathon setback in which he finished eighth on October 4.
The Ministries of Industry, Investment and Commerce (MIIC) and Agriculture and Fisheries will soon launch a programme targeted at workers operating informally in household services, agriculture and fisheries to aid their transition to the formal...
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Former Principal Secretary Lilian Omollo was on Thursday awarded Sh1 as compensation in a case in which she had sued the govermnent for unfair dismissal when she was facing corruption charges.
With just days until the Ivory Coast presidential election, campaigning is unusually quiet this year as the spectres of the 2010 post-election violence, which killed thousands of people, still haunt the population.
\"Frankly you don't feel an upcoming election in the countryside, because people are fearful. Everyone just has to go and get their voter card to vote, that's what is essential,\" one voter told Africanews.
\"Our neighborhood is Williamsville. No one said to my brothers and sisters let's go and campaign, No one did,\" said another.
The posters of incumbent Alassane Ouattara, who is seeking a controversial third term are not as visible as in the 2010 and 2015 votes.
Posters of Konan Kouadio Bertin, his only campaigning opponent are even rarer.
More than 7.5 million voters are expected to cast their ballots on Saturday but violence has already flared in some regions, over Ouattara's decision to run again.
National observers fear the insecurity could cause a high abstention rate.
Ouattara has been in power for nearly a decade. After his heir-apparent died unexpectedly, the incumbent president said he would run for a third term.
Ouattara insists that his first two terms do not count toward term limits because Ivory Coast has approved a new constitution.
Opposition activists want Ouattara disqualified from the election. ECOWAS advised a meeting between the president and Bertin but so far they only reportedly spoke on the phone on Sunday.
\"When an election is organized and the leaders who decide to boycott the elections and whoever decides to go to the elections, goes independent, he has no structure, he has no political apparatus, of course, there is no enthusiasm,'' said Professor Mahomet N’Guessann, Senior Lecturer in Political History, University of Cocody.
Faced with a petition for her removal due to the disruption of mining activities, the toshao of Campbelltown, in Region Eight, has said the village council has acted on the guidance of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), which found the operations unsafe.
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It boggles the mind that after all the upheaval created by the dual citizenship of former MP Charrandass Persaud which forced the resignation from Parliament of the current Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon, the current Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge that we are facing yet again a similar situation.
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The major political parties of Kashmir, India's northernmost union territory, have formed a grand alliance to fight for the restoration of Article 370 of India's Constitution, granting the region special status with limited autonomy. ThePeople's [...]
[Egypt Online] Egypt's Prime Minster Moustafa Madbouly agreed with South Sudan irrigation minister Manawa Peter on forming a joint high committee with Egypt and to start coordinating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to hold the committee's first meeting in Cairo before the end of the year.
Utilizing Conduent’s debit card to obtain unemployment advantages is about to get cheaper. After dealing with questions from lawmakers in regards to the charges the corporate expenses out-of-work Oklahomans, Conduent…
Develop me :Tapiwa Gomo AFRICAN countries have continued to face a huge dilemma in strategising their development models. Most countries face a daunting challenge on whether to be more inclined towards economic or social development. There is wide range of reasons, though some not so teleological, underpinning this conundrum. And in most cases, the choice of approach is largely influenced by political considerations over development. Most major global economies are built on the foundation of economic development models which presume that when major economic sectors such as agriculture, mining, industry, trade, transport, irrigation, power resources and others have improved, they will have a trickle down effect on social development. This is the case, at least, with most Western economies that were established in the 17th up to 20th centuries — which today have stronger welfare systems. For most of these, the ability of their societies to sustain themselves largely depends on their key economic sectors’ ability to thrive with a stronger knock-on effect on other dependent sectors. When major economic sectors improve, they remit taxes needed to run government affairs, spruce up the service industry and banking sectors and create an environment which enables the improvement of economic conditions of the people. This includes creation of employment and other economic opportunities. The model also assumes that better employment and economic opportunities increase incomes which enable people to improve their standard of life. Its critics, however, argued that it is a centralised approach which ensures that government support towards economic growth is only channelled to few individuals who run the economy with the rest of population reduced to providing labour. However, in a scenario where proper national planning is in place, it is possible to dovetail national economic development with community-level economic development to ensure that economic activity is not only limited to huge corporates. To achieve this, an efficient and robust community driven economic sector will need to be based on effective social development strategy. This means that if an economic development programme has been effective in sustaining government fiscal requirements, part of the resources can be used to implement a national social development plan with the goal to improve the well-being of every individual in society and to ensure they can achieve their full potential. While effective economic development strategies can help to improve the national development indicators, the real success is seen in how nations and societies facilitate the wellbeing of each and every citizen. This entails the provision of public healthcare, education, housing, drinking water, power and others which together contribute to an improvement in the standard of life and citizens’ social status. Depending on various factors which form the overall context, improvements in these depends on economic development. Zimbabwe is partly in the same scenario, where when the agro
As progressive Asian American activists, we support the suspension of the entrance exam as a criteria for selection to attend the exam schools in favor of standards that will lead to increased diversity and improved access, particularly for Black and Latinx communities.
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Monetary and bodily well being have been among the many high two stressors for Indians amid Covid-19 maybe, even forward of relationships and household, a brand new survey has revealed.…
THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) yesterday painted a gloomy picture of the country’s economic situation, claiming several attempts by the churches to engage Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to proffer solutions to the country’s challenges had been ignored. BY VENERANDA LANGA This came out during a faith leaders’ breakfast meeting with the Felix Mhona-led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance in Harare. ZCC revealed that its recent survey on the 2020 national budget performance exposed that people expected to see economic transformation during the transition from the late former President Robert Mugabe’s era to the new dispensation led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, but there was none. ZCC supervisor Ephraim Ngadziore said: “We churches have schools and hospitals that we run and we are surprised when we hear that the economy has achieved stability. “We are a failed leadership. There is no stability when children are not in class. Yesterday, they said Forms Three and Five should go back to school, but they did not, we know because we run schools. We cannot say the economy is stable when we do not know where we are heading to, yet after 1980, a lot of investment was put in education.” Ngadziore said school fees had gone up while some schools charged in foreign currency yet people earned Zimdollars, which exposed a serious mismatch. “Government must engage churches and union leaders so that we come up with a solution together. We wrote to Ncube twice and he responded by declining our invite. We are the major stakeholders in the education sector with 68% schools and there is need to ensure that children are learning,” he said. ZCC general-secretary Kenneth Mtata chided MPs, saying the electorate perceived them as gold diggers that were not interested in the welfare of people. “Many citizens are complaining that when MPs are in Parliament, they seek personal gain and not the interests of those that sent them to Parliament. We need to ensure that the 2021 national budget is responsive to the needs of the people,” Mtata said. ZCC economic justice and youth empowerment officer Admire Mutizwa said although their economic survey painted a gloomy picture which reflected macro-economic instability, there was a bit of stability achieved in the exchange rate which has steadied. “In 2020, citizens expected the budget to attend to the most pressing needs, particularly the deepening health crisis, inflation, exchange rate instability, extremely low salaries, poor service delivery, foreign currency shortages, and the fuel and electricity crisis,” he said. “Since 2018, we were agitated by austerity measures implemented in the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP). It seems we did not learn from the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) and we continue to have policies that have a huge social cost to society.” Mutizwa said the 2020 budget did not address developmental issues, adding: “We are saying that an economy should produce jobs, health delivery and service delivery for the dignity of citizens.
[FAO] Accra/Harare/Rome -- FAO Regional Conference for Africa focuses on country-led, country-owned actions
Colonel Ruth Alice Lucas was the first African American woman in the Air Force to be promoted to the rank of colonel. At the time of her retirement, she was the highest-ranking African American woman in the Air Force. Lucas was born in Stamford, Connecticut, on November 28, 1920. After high school, she attended Tuskegee […]
The virtual summit will bring together mobility thought leaders from business and government to consolidate efforts and discuss the future of mobility solutions in South African and Africa.
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Gwendolyn Reese, president of the African American Heritage Association St. Petersburg BY NICOLE SLAUGHTER GRAHAM, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – Last month, Gwendolyn Reese, president of the African American Heritage Association St. Petersburg, kicked off a virtual event on St. Petersburg’s Black history by reciting the late Rosalie Peck’s poem, “Remembering 22nd Street the Way We […]
Announcement - President Donald J. Trump, Sudanese Chairman of the Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke today to discuss Sudan’s historic progress towards democracy and opportunities to advance peace in the region.
