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"We will work to involve all Tunisians to get out of the crisis .... And I appeal to citizens to help find the financial balance required," he said while chairing the Council of Ministers.
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.
In early October, a memorial marker was installed at the end of Boston’s Long Wharf to acknowledge Boston’s history of slavery and to honor the Africans who died in and those who survived the transatlantic voyage known as the Middle Passage.
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Judge Tintswalo Makhubele says she saw no conflict with her appointment as a judge while serving as chair of the former PRASA interim board.
George Clinton is a popular African-American musician. He is known for his signing, songwriting, music composing skills. In fact, he is the principal creator of P-Funk. Before launching into his solo career during eighties, Clinton was a mastermind behind the bands, Funkadelic and Parliament.
Born on July 22, 1941, in Kannapolis, George Clinton grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey and currently settled in Florida. Before stepping into major musical career, Clinton used to work at a barber salon in his teenage. During that period he formed a local band, The Parliaments, inspired by the renowned Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. As the years passed he became a staff songwriter for Motown. At first, the band faced commercial failure but soon after the band was renamed as Parliament. And with that the band also gained success and another band was formed Funkadelic.
Under Clinton’s supervision, the bands were influenced by musical elements from several legendary artists and bands. These bands and artists included names like Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Cream and James Brown. They explored different dimensions of sounds, lyricism and technology in their music. The seventies were dominated by diverse music of Parliament-Funkadelic with over 40 top chart singles. As soon as his bands gained spotlight and success, Clinton began to work on his solo career in the eighties.
From 1982, Clinton took up music production job as well. He not only produced his own albums but also produced albums for several other music artists including Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bootsy Collins. Early in his solo career, Clinton produced albums of trivial importance. In fact, these albums also featured work from P-Funk’s core musicians. The sole reason why he would produce music under his own name was due to some legal issues. Later he signed Capitol Records, as a band and also as a solo artist producing Computer Games under his own name. He produced numerous top chart singles and albums, such as “Loopzilla”, “Atomic Dog”, R&B Skeletons in
Family and friends of former president Barack Obama shared public tributes on social media Wednesday, wishing him a happy 60th birthday.
On July 25, Saied invoked the constitution to seize executive power in what his main opponents, the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, denounced as a \"coup\"
(CALMATTERS) - For many Californians, it appears that sticks are more effective than carrots. As more and more local governments and businesses adopt policies that require employees — and in […]
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After a slight dip in cases last week, Covid-19 cases are surging again, says the World Health Organisation. More than half of African countries are experiencing a third wave, while four are in the grip of a fourth one.
[Nation] The financial crisis facing public universities is set to deepen after the National Treasury cut funding by 9 percent- Sh9.4billion- despite an expected increase in enrolment.
Hanna Hankins, a spokesperson for former President Barack Obama, has relayed to critics, pundits, and congresspeople that he will now change the theme behind his 60th birthday bash. Due to COVID-19 variant concerns, Obama’s oceanfront estate bash in Martha’s Vineyard will now just be “family and close friends,” which should satiate the ire of conservatives…
Congressman Colin Allred (TX-32) joined President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House as he signed into law bipartisan legislation led by Allred to authorize several Veterans Affairs construction projects funded in fiscal year.
They've endured a financial crisis. Two deep recessions. Mounds of student debt. Stagnant pay. Costly health care. Dim job prospects. They've seen the uber-rich grow richer while a pandemic threw tens of millions of people out of work and left many more isolated and vulnerable at home. Now, they feel, it's payback time. Nearly a […]
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Alleged to have used black magic, he got the Dubai Islamic Bank to give him over $200 million dollars, and to date, the once fabulously wealthy man has never spent a day in jail for the bank heist.
The bank manager at the time, Mohammed Ayoub, agreed to give him the loan and Sissoko invited him home for dinner.
Court and bank records would later show that between 1995 and 1998, money from the Dubai Islamic Bank was transferred to the following U.S. institutions:
*Citibank in New York received $37.2 million, which was deposited into an account bearing Sissoko’s name
*Barnett Bank in Miami received $26.5 million, which was deposited into an account under the name Abdou Karim Pouye, who has been described by Sissoko’s attorneys as his chief financial officer overseeing daily operations of Sissoko’s businesses
*City National Bank in Miami received $10.7 million for an account in Pouye’s name
*NationsBank in Miami received $2.4 million for an account in Pouye’s name
*First Union Bank in Miami received $1.4 million for an account in Pouye’s name
*Commercebank National Association in Miami received $400,000 for an account in Pouye’s name, among others.
With these monies, Sissoko was able to open his dream airline for West Africa – Air Dabia, named after his village in Mali.
When Sissoko’s case eventually came to court, he pleaded guilty and received 43 days in prison and a $250,000 fine, which was paid for by the Dubai Islamic Bank, though without its knowledge.
The Western Cape has overtaken Gauteng as the epicentre of the Covid-19 third wave, says newly-appointed Health Minister Joe Phaahla.
Regional Tensions Mount
Ethiopia declared a state of emergency on Wednesday following a deadly attack by the Tigray ruling party on a federal troop camp. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has ordered a military response. The Prime Minister stated in his public address to the country, \"My dear people. Today the apostate Ethiopian has stabbed Ethiopia. What makes this attack one of the most shocking attacks is that Tigray People's Liberation Front TPLF is viewing the Ethiopian National Defence Forces as a foreign army rather than an army that has been protecting the people of Tigray for more than twenty years.\"
Ahmed also declared that Ethiopians should unite in light of the ongoing tensions between the Tigray region and the rest of the country. It was not immediately clear what form the federal military response might take, or what the state of emergency will actually entail.
Background
The TPLF dominated politics in Africa's second-most populous country for nearly three decades before Abiy came to power in 2018 on the strength of anti-government protests. Under Abiy, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, Tigrayan leaders have complained of being unfairly targeted in corruption prosecutions, removed from top positions and broadly scapegoated for the country's woes.
Ethiopia was due to hold national elections in August, but the country's poll body ruled in March that all voting would need to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lawmakers then voted to extend officials' mandates -- which would have expired in early October — but Tigrayan leaders rejected this and went ahead with regional elections in September that Abiy's government deemed illegal.
Now each side sees the other as illegitimate, and federal lawmakers have ruled Abiy's government should cut off contact with — and funding to Tigray's leadership.
In recent days tensions have also risen over who controls federal military assets in Tigray.
From Aug. 9-15, more than 200 restaurants in the D.C. region will offer good lunch, brunch and dinner prices as part of Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington's Summer Restaurant Week.
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Secretary General António Guterres — As COVID-19 spreads across the continent, Africa has responded swiftly to the pandemic, and as of now reported cases are lower than feared.
I express my total solidarity with the people and governments of Africa in tackling COVID-19.
We are calling for international action to strengthen Africa's health systems, maintain food supplies, avoid a financial crisis, support education, protect jobs, keep households and businesses afloat, and cushion the continent against lost income and export earnings.
African countries should also have quick, equal and affordable access to any eventual vaccine and treatment, that must be considered global public goods
I have been calling for a global response package amounting to at least 10 per cent of the world's Gross Domestic Product.
It will also be essential for African countries to sustain their efforts to silence the guns and address violent extremism - and I welcome African support for my call for a global ceasefire.
[Egypt Online] Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Sunday arrived in the Scottish city of Glasgow to take part in the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).
During the inauguration ceremony, the new minister \"took the constitutional oath before the president, in accordance with article 89 of the Tunisian Constitution,\" a presidency statement said.
State and school management seem to have learnt very little from the tragedy that befell Biego Primary School in Nyamira County in 1980.
Arthur Allen Fletcher is known to many as the father of affirmative action. In the following account historian David Hamilton Golland describes the career of Fletcher, a Republican civil rights activist during the last half of the 20th Century.
Arthur Allen Fletcher, known to many as the father of affirmative action, was born on December 22, 1924, in Phoenix, Arizona. Little is known of Fletcher’s birth father, but his mother, Edna, soon married Buffalo Soldier Andrew Fletcher, who would eventually adopt Arthur. The family moved from one Army base to another for much of Arthur’s childhood before finally settling in Junction City, Kansas.
Fletcher graduated from Junction City High School in 1943, after leading a protest against the school yearbook which placed the photos of black students in a separate section in the back of the publication. Fletcher in his senior year organized a boycott of the segregated yearbook and the following year the practice was permanently dropped.
While at Junction City High Fletcher met Mary Harden, a daughter of one of the local black communitys wealthiest families. Hardens grandparents had owned much of the land that eventually became Fort Riley. They married in May 1943 just as he graduated. Within a year their daughter Phyllis was born, followed by Sylvia (1945), Arthur, Jr. (1947), Paul (1948), and Philip (1949).
Fletcher joined the U.S. Army immediately upon graduation from high school and in the Spring of 1944 was sent to England, where he performed in one of many Army bands and played intramural football. In the fall of 1944 he was a military police officer on the “Red Ball Express” supply line in France. The following spring Fletcher was wounded while serving in Germany in General George Patton’s Third Army. He recovered and was discharged later that year.
Returning to Kansas after the war, Fletcher enrolled in Washburn University in Topeka on the G.I. Bill. While at Washburn he was a doorman at the state legislature and a waiter at the Jayhawk Hotel, a
August celebrates National Black Business Month and its importance and impact on the community. From humble beginnings in the 1960’s to the creation and founding of the month more than 40 years later, the need for Black Business Month remains. The vision to establish the month came from two men and their years of personal … Continued
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Angela Bassett Becomes TV's Highest-Paid Black Actress
Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was briefing the Joint Standing Committee on Defence on Thursday evening.
A new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, (UNCTAD) forecasts a steep drop by up to 40 per cent in global trade, due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected the global economy.
This would bring foreign investment in Africa below $35 billion.
Released on June 16, the annual World Investment Report (WIR 2020) showed global investment continuing to nosedive below $1 trillion for the first time since 2005, a recession much worse than the 2008 financial crisis.
Africa, which accounts for less than 3 percent of the world's trade inflow in 2019, will see the second-largest decrease in foreign investment.
In terms of investment ties, the country posed an attractive posture by reaching a deal with Rosatom, a Russian company to set up a centre for nuclear science and technology.
Atlanta, Georgia-based water data company, Aquagenuity, is one of the newest companies featured in the 2021 Atlanta Metro Export Challenge (Atlanta MEC) cohort alongside 11 other companies. The Atlanta MEC provides small and medium-sized metro Atlanta businesses with funding and tailored mentorship to help develop international business prospects. Aquagenuity’s mission is to build a future where everyone has access to […]
This year, thanks to the generosity of philanthropist Donald Sussman, the community can rely on another full season of arts programming in 2021-2022.
[VOA] Tunisian President Kais Saied surprised many Wednesday with his appointment of Najla Bouden Romdhane, a 63-year-old professor at a prestigious engineering school, as the country's first female prime minister.
More than 200 million coronavirus cases have now been reported worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
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All signs are pointing to another lockdown. The New York Auto Show has been cancelled due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases. As spotted on The Verge the yearly outing for car enthusiasts has been put on hold. The organizers at the New York International Auto Show confirmed the rumors that started last week in conjunction […]
