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Tranquility Bay to be reopened as police facility
TREASURE BEACH, St Elizabeth – Just under a decade since the Tranquility Bay facility at Old Wharf in this secluded south coast village was used for a short time as a police training academy, police recruits are to return
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Tunisia: Parliamentary Blocs Intend to Vote On Motion Calling for French State's Apology to Tunisian People After Its Amendment
Tunis/Tunisia — Several blocs in the House of People's Representatives (HPR) have stated their intention to vote on the motion tabled by Al Karama Coalition group calling on the French state to apologise from the Tunisian people for the crimes committed during and after the colonial period, once
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Uganda: Politicians, Soldiers Mourn Gen Ggwanga
The death of Maj Gen (Rtd) Kasirye Ggwanga yesterday drew eulogies from friends, politicians and top military
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Kenya: Floods Kill 11 People in Turkana
Mr Wambua asked residents living downstream and along the River Turkwel to move to safer grounds to evade possible flash
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Zimbabwe: British Govt Petitioned to Revoke Mangwana Citizenship, Deport Family
Zimbabweans based in the United Kingdom has launched an online petition demanding the deportation of Information ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana's family from the European
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Kenya: Tana River Flood Victims Oppose Plans to Transfer Them
Residents of Bura in Tana River County have opposed plans to evacuate them to safety, saying the government had not shown them alternative land on which to
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Ghana: Don't Politicise COVID-19 Combat--MP
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ayawaso Central Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Henry Quartey, has cautioned against politicisation of governments effort in addressing threats posed by the coronavirus
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Lockdown: DA supports reopening of schools, but will monitor closely to ensure safety
The Democratic Alliance says, while it supports the Department of Education's decision to reopen schools as the country grapples with Covid-19, it will be closely monitoring the implementation of plans to ensure they are ready, safe and
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SANDF stays mum on possible assistance to Mozambique
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) will only discuss behind closed doors the possibility of the deployment of its special forces to Mozambique to help quell terrorist
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Tanzania opposition says attack on leader 'politically motivated'
Tanzania's main opposition party on Tuesday said its chairman had been hospitalised after being beaten up in a "politically-motivated" attack as police said they would investigate the
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Mkhize on Glenda Gray matter: 'Let's leave the issue at that'
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize considers the Professor Glenda Gray matter closed and denied that academic freedom and freedom of expression are under
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Raila orders purge in ODM
Radical surgery on National Assembly and Senate committees is in the offing as President Uhuru Kenyatta and Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga lay the ground for smooth implementation of the Building Bridges Initiative
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Kenya: Former MP Peter Kiilu Mourned as a Trusted Civil Servant During His Burial
Makueni — Former Makueni Member of Parliament Peter Kiilu was buried in his Ngoto village, Mbitini in Makueni
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Rift Valley leaders divided over Uhuru, Ruto war
A section of Jubilee Party senators and MPs from the Rift Valley — Deputy President William Ruto’s political bastion — are divided over the ruling party’s purge, which has seen some of the DP’s key allies kicked out of plum leadership
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Magufuli sacks deputy health minister
Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli has appointed Dr Godwin Mollel as the new deputy Health minister after sacking Dr Faustine Ndugulile from the
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Zimbabwe: Khupe's Youths Finger Zanu-PF in Alliance Activists' Abduction
Youths belonging to Thokozani Khupe's MDC-T have fingered the ruling Zanu PF party as behind the highly condemned abduction and torture of an MDC Alliance MP and two female activists last
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Security agents ‘stalk’ hospitalised MDC activists
ARMED State security agents are reportedly stalking the three MDC Alliance activists Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova, who are currently detained at a private hospital in the
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Holness lauds contributions of Robinson, Gallimore in tribute
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has lauded the contribution of late Labour and Social Security Minister Shahine Robinson to politics and national
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Ghana: Parliament Approves All 4 Supreme Court Nominees
The four, Clemence Jackson Honyenuga and Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu, Court of Appeal Judges, Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi, private legal practitioner and Professor Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu, last week endured an average of three hours of vetting at the Joseph Osei-Owusu chaired Appointments Committee where
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Isaac Ruto: Why I joined hands with Uhuru
Chama Cha Mashinani party leader, former Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto, has denied claims that he has been offered a Cabinet position by President Uhuru Kenyatta to support his house cleaning in
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ED warns Chamisa over demos
GOVERNMENT yesterday accused opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa of putting people’s lives in danger by embarking on unsanctioned demonstrations, but was mum on the alleged abduction and assault of opposition politicians which has provoked an international
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Fort Lawton (Seattle) “Riot” and POW Lynching, 1944
On August 14, 1944, African American soldiers “rioted” against Italian prisoners of war at Seattle’s Fort Lawton, an Army staging area for combat in the Pacific. American officers and POWs under their guard were severely beaten. The next morning one of the POWs, Guglielmo Olivotto, was
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MPs say no to schools reopening
Legislators across the political divide said “our children cannot be used as experiments” during debate on a report which was presented by chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education, Priscilla
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Tufton, health team welcome tighter holiday curfew hours
MINISTER of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says he and his public health team welcome the weekend curfew hours as an opportunity to control the spread of the novel coronavirus
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CMU VP says he took instructions for payments from Pinnock
PROFESSOR Fritz Pinnock's stewardship of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) yesterday again came under sharp scrutiny at a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at Gordon House, as officers of the institution say they were following direct instructions from the president's office for
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Rwanda: Kagame Sacks Two Governors Over Accountability
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has suspended two provincial governors as part of an ongoing purge targeting public servants deemed to be lacking
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DA calls for a special inspector-general to monitor govt's Covid-19 relief fund
To prevent corruption and theft in the R500 billion Covid-19 rescue package, the DA has proposed that Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni create a special
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AMHVoices: Ziyambi, don’t be that heartless
Well, the three may have a case to answer regarding the flash demonstration, but what concerns me is the fact that the minister refused to answer a simple question he had been asked about what is being done to investigate their
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#TBT: Chindori Chininga: The life and times in Multimedia
Senior officials from other political parties including those from Zanu PF’s arch-rival, the MDC-T, hailed Chindori-Chininga as someone who was candid in the handling of his work, including the Mines and Energy Parliamentary Portfolio Committee that he was chairing at the time of his
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Uganda: Museveni Rejects Move to Split NSSF
President Museveni has rejected a proposal to split oversight over the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), saying it should be placed wholly under the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic
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