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Turkey continued on Tuesday to reach out to regional rivals Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in a renewed bid to mend frayed ties that have stoked regional tensions.
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
Good-natured likeable minister and pastor James Adam “Jimmy” Wilborn, Jr. would often be good-naturedly teased about his birth date of February 29, 1948 with having been “leap year day.”
His surviving sibling, Reverend Reginald H. Wilborn, pastor of the Union Institutional Baptist Church of southwest Atlanta, informed The Atlanta Inquirer of his older brother’s demise.
Upon retirement from the U. S. Air Force with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he returned to Atlanta in the 1990s, helped share the pulpit with his father and brother Reginald but soon left to create the Victory Baptist Church of southwest Atlanta on Dotson Drive.
NOTE:
Hal Lamar, a retired print/broadcast journalist, was a close and personal friend of the pastor, preacher and pal called “Jimmy” as we grew up together in the Union Baptist Church of Atlanta.
Reverend Jimmy Wilborn and the Wilborn family remain dearly loved by The Atlanta Inquirer newspaper family.
The newspaper said prosecutors have charged the 38-year-old, whose real name is Ramoni Abbas, with \"obtaining money from others through fraudulent means.\"
Security officers in the emirate arrested Mr Abbas and 12 others for online fraud that targets companies and individuals.
\"They would send out letters from email addresses almost identical to those of legitimate companies, targeting customers of these companies, with the purpose of diverting payments to themselves,\" the newspaper quoted a senior Dubai prosecutor as saying.
According to the report, security officers in the emirate arrested Hushpuppi and 12 others for online fraud that targets companies and individuals.
Many of his followers acknowledged benefitting from his occasional cash 'giveaways', even though his source of affluence, which has long evoked the curiosity of bloggers, remained unclear,
Mr Abbas appeared to be the highest-profile Nigerian to be arrested so far in 2020, months after several other Nigerians, including Obinwanne Okeke and Ismaila Mompha, were arrested in August and October 2019, respectively, for their alleged roles in separate multinational fraud.
Name:
Susan Elizabeth Rice
Position:
Nominated as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by then President-elect Barack Obama on December 1, 2008
Born:
November 17, 1964 in Washington, DC
Education:
Graduated National Cathedral School in Washington, DC in 1982
Undergraduate:
Stanford University, B.A. in History, 1986.
Graduate:
Rhodes Scholar, New College, Oxford University, M.Phil., 1988
Oxford University, D.Phil.
(Ph.D) in International Relations, 1990
Family Background & Influences:
Susan was born to Emmett J. Rice, Senior VP at the National Bank of Washington and Lois Dickson Rice, Senior VP for Government Affairs at Control Data Corporation.
A Fulbright Scholar who served with the Tuskegee Airmen in WWII, Emmett integrated the Berkeley Fire Department as its first black fireman while earning a Ph.D. at the University of California; taught economics at Cornell as the only black assistant professor; and was a governor of the Federal Reserve from 1979-1986.
A Radcliffe graduate, Lois was a former VP of the College Board and chaired an advisory council of the National Science Foundation.
High School & College Years:
At the elite private girls school that Rice attended, she was nicknamed Spo (short for Sportin); she played three sports, was student council president and valedictorian. At home, the family entertained distinguished friends such as Madeleine Albright, who would later become the first female Secretary of State.
At Stanford, Rice studied hard yet made her mark via political activism. To protest apartheid, she established a fund for alumni gifts with a catch - the funds could only be accessed if the university divested from companies conducting business with South Africa, or if apartheid were abolished.
Professional Career:
Senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Obama, 2005-08
Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy, Global Economy & Development, Brookings Institution, 2002-present
Senior adviser for National Security Affairs, Kerry-Edwards campaign, 2004
Managing Director & Principal of Intellibridge
April 1 : Virus-free South Sudan reports paltry tests
\tSouth Sudan, one of five virus-free African countries, says it has carried out 18 tests for the COVID-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic.
A March 31, 2020 statement from the office of the first vice-president confirmed that the country had no case of coronavirus.
The same day that Burundi confirmed an index case leaving South Sudan as the only East African country uninfected.
Previously, some experts had expressed doubts about South Sudan’s prolonged no case citing that the country could have failed to detect cases due to lack of capacity.
In mid-March this year, South Sudan suspended flights from countries affected by coronavirus, including Egypt and United Arab Emirates.
[Premium Times] Nigeria ranks below the United Arab Emirates and Mexico.
Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary left South Africa for Malawi despite bail conditions that prohibited travel outside the country.
Ole Sereni, a four-star hotel bordering Nairobi National Park, has introduced social distancing conferencing in which seats are about two metres apart in all directions.
Lockdown of five hotspot counties and the months-long dusk-to-dawn curfew may be removed in the coming days, the President said, adding that Kenyans will have to learn to live with the virus.
Before that, the government had announced a 21-day extension of the night curfew and lockdowns affecting Nairobi, Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale and Mandera counties to June 6.
Those that can afford will provide transport to staff to limit their exposure to coronavirus as much as possible
The elevator, a key daily conduit for thousands of people, is a potential place for infections.
Companies have given guidelines reducing the number of people that can use a lift at a time.
The ministry in a press statement termed the protests by Africans living in China against mistreatment there as having been a result of “miscommunication among local authorities about how to handle foreign nationals as they control the spread of coronavirus”.
Total confirmed cases = 859
Total recoveries = 794
Total deaths = 0
Active cases = 65
\tFigures valid as of close of day June 27, 2020
June 23: You are not gods: Uganda’s president asks WHO to be modest
\tUganda’s president on Monday expressed his frustration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying they are not gods and should be modest as they set out guidelines to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Museveni, who was addressing the country on the latest government efforts to deal with the coronavirus pandemic specifically took issue with WHO’s protocols on the tally of confirmed cases in Uganda.
“Following a Presidential Directive of deducting all foreign truck drivers from Uganda’s case count,” the ministry said at the time.
Uganda has sent back at least 167 nationals of neighbouring countries who tested positive in Uganda, and Museveni advised WHO to interest itself in Africa’s cultural context where hosts have a right to welcome or reject visitors.
U.S. Department of State Background Note
A wide variety of ethnic groups live in The Gambia with a minimum of intertribal friction, each preserving its own language and traditions. The Mandinka tribe is the largest, followed by the Fula, Wolof, Jola, and Serahule. Approximately 3,500 non-Africans live in The Gambia, including Europeans and families of Lebanese origin.
Muslims constitute more than 95% of the population. Christians of different denominations account for most of the remainder. Gambians officially observe the holidays of both religions and practice religious tolerance.
More than 63% of Gambians live in rural villages (1993 census), although more and more young people come to the capital in search of work and education. Provisional figures from the 2003 census show that the gap between the urban and rural populations is narrowing as more areas are declared urban. While urban migration, development projects, and modernization are bringing more Gambians into contact with Western habits and values, the traditional emphasis on the extended family, as well as indigenous forms of dress and celebration, remain integral parts of everyday life.
The Gambia was once part of the Empire of Ghana and the Kingdom of the Songhais. The first written accounts of the region come from records of Arab traders in the 9th and 10th centuries A.D. Arab traders established the trans-Saharan trade route for slaves, gold, and ivory. In the 15th century, the Portuguese took over this trade using maritime routes. At that time, The Gambia was part of the Kingdom of Mali.
In 1588, the claimant to the Portuguese throne, Antonio, Prior of Crato, sold exclusive trade rights on The Gambia River to English merchants; this grant was confirmed by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I. In 1618, King James I granted a charter to a British company for trade with The Gambia and the Gold Coast (now Ghana).
During the late 17th century and throughout the 18th, England and France struggled continuously for political and commercial supremacy in
(Reuters) - Indian opener Smriti Mandhana struck a half-century and Bangladesh’s Salma Khatun bagged three wickets as Trailblazers claimed the Women’s T20 Challenge title with a 16-run win over twice defending champions Supernovas in the final yesterday.
The article Trailblazers dethrone Supernovas to win Women’s T20 Challenge title appeared first on Stabroek News.
The Berlin Conference was Africas undoing in more ways than one. The colonial powers superimposed their domains on the African continent. By the time independence returned to Africa in 1950, the realm had acquired a legacy of political fragmentation that could neither be eliminated nor made to operate satisfactorily.*
In 1884 at the request of Portugal, German chancellor Otto von Bismark called together the major western powers of the world to negotiate questions and end confusion over the control of Africa.
Bismark appreciated the opportunity to expand Germanys sphere of influence over Africa and desired to force Germanys rivals to struggle with one another for territory.
At the time of the conference, 80% of Africa remained under traditional and local control. What ultimately resulted was a hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that divided Africa into fifty irregular countries. This new map of the continent was superimposed over the one thousand indigenous cultures and regions of Africa. The new countries lacked rhyme or reason and divided coherent groups of people and merged together disparate groups who really did not get along.
Fourteen countries were represented by a plethora of ambassadors when the conference opened in Berlin on November 15, 1884. The countries represented at the time included Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway (unified from 1814-1905), Turkey, and the United States of America.
Of these fourteen nations, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Portugal were the major players in the conference, controlling most of colonial Africa at the time.
The initial task of the conference was to agree that the Congo River and Niger River mouths and basins would be considered neutral and open to trade.
Despite its neutrality, part of the Congo Basin became a personal kingdom for Belgiums King Leopold II and under his rule, over half of the regions population died.
At the time of the conference, only the
[DW] Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) have accused Turkey of continuing to supply the GNA with arms and fighters. Its forces seized a Turkish container ship in the Mediterranean.
Libya's internationally recognised government has launched air strikes against forces loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar after his forces announced they were pulling back from Tripoli front lines.
Air strikes by the Government of National Accord (GNA) targeted several locations in the west of the country, including in the Haftar stronghold of Tarhouna near the capital, Tripoli, according to GNA army spokesperson Colonel Mohamed Qanunu.
Last month, the GNA took a string of small towns linking Tripoli to the Tunisian border.
Last month, GNA Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha said capturing Tarhouna would end Haftar's campaign to seize Tripoli, but that the fighting in the capital was the priority.
An LNA military source told Reuters news agency that in Tripoli the LNA had completed a gradual withdrawal from the Salahedin battlefront, one of the main theatres of fighting in the capital.
June 10: Cases pass 10,000 mark as rapid test kit makers advance
\tGhana reached 10,000 mark in terms of confirmed cases on Tuesday (June 9); the case load reached 10,201 with deaths still at 48, 3,755 recoveries and 6,398 active cases.
“The app will basically work well with the rapid test kit because once classified as high risk you need to test the person,” he said, stressing the need for mass testing given that Ghana had entered community transmission stage of virus spread.
Total confirmed cases = 9,910
Total recoveries = 3,645
Total deaths = 48
Active cases = 6,217
June 8: 9,638 cases, govt evacuation plans
\tGovernment has confirmed that it was preparing to evacuate some Ghanaians stranded overseas due to the COVID-19 disruption.
Total confirmed cases = 9,638
Total recoveries = 3,636
Total deaths = 44
Active cases = 5,958
\tFigures valid as of close of day June 7, 2020
June 7: 9,462 cases, deaths hit 44
\tThe Managing Director of a major private health care facility in the capital Accra reported testing positive for the virus.
Total confirmed cases = 9,462
Total recoveries = 3,547
Active cases = 5,871
\tFigures valid as of close of day June 6, 2020
June 3: 8,297 cases; govt defends ban on football
\tSports Minister, Isaac Asiamah has defended government’s decision to maintain a ban on football despite the recent lifting of a raft of restrictions.
This is what president Bio said:
Mr. Speaker, Honourable Vice President, Honourable Chief Justice, Ministers of Government, Honourable Members of Parliament, Your Worship, The Mayor of the Municipality of Freetown, The First Lady, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen.
Mr. Speaker Honourable Members of Parliament, my Government has launched the medium-term National Development Plan, increased domestic revenue mobilisation, eased tax burdens on businesses, and introduced business-friendly policies and processes.
Mr. Speaker Honourable Members of Parliament, our Medium-Term National Development Plan for 2019-2023 highlights our integrated commitment to transform the Sierra Leone economy.
We have developed monitoring and evaluation mechanisms that will enhance transparency and accountability and Government will strengthen its public performance management and service delivery mechanisms
Mr. Speaker, Honourable Members, we thank our Development Partners for supporting development financing and service delivery in the country.
Mr. Speaker Honourable Members of Parliament, at the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2019, I argued the need for a singular, securitised, and serially numbered identification instrument that can be used for “governance, development planning, financial inclusion, and human rights imperatives”, and also “strengthen healthcare planning, health information systems, disease surveillance and monitor public health interventions and outcomes.”
This is a list of fictional characters in the book The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus. Uncle Remus himself, and a couple boys to whom he tells the tales, appear as framing devices & narrators in all the stories. The stories of Uncle Remus visitor Daddy Jack often also include unnamed stock roles such as a daughter, a foolish bird, a man, a mother, a snake, a wise bird, and a witch.
In the collection The Tales From Daddy Jake, the Runaway, & Short Stories Told After Dark, Uncle Remus also uses unnamed stock roles including a miller, his wife, & a preacher (in How a Witch Was Caught); a man & his wife (in The Foolish Woman); and a slave & master (in Death & the Negro Man).
In the collection The Tales From Uncle Remus & His Friends, Remus uses an unnamed king (in The King That Talked Biggity); two unnamed men, one who fools the other (in both According to How the Drop Falls and in The Man & His Boots); and an unnamed protagonist who acts foolishly but grows rich anyhow (in A Fool for Luck).
In the collection Told By Uncle Remus, an unnamed man, wife, & magical dinner pot appear in the story The Hard-Headed Woman.
In the collection Seven Tales of Uncle Remus, an unnamed woman squares off against a witch baby in The Baby & the Punkins.
NameCharacterStories in which the character plays a role
Brer Rabbit a trickster who succeeds by his speed & wits rather than by brawn Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy/ The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story/ How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox/ Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceivrennetes Mr. Fox/ Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized/ Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit/ Mr. Terrapin Appears upon the Scene/ Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure/ The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf/ Mr. Fox Goes a-Hunting, but Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game/ Old Mr. Rabbit, Hes a Good Fisherman/ Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter/ Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match at Last/ The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow/ How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat/ Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again/ A Story About the Little Rabbits/ Mr. Rabbit & Mr. Bear/ How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine
Obediah Moyo who is accused of illegally awarding multi-million-dollar contract for medical supplies, has been removed 'with immediate effect'.
