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[The Herald] She succumbed to Covid-19 last night at the age of 48.
Announcement of the death of former President Rawlings pic.twitter.com/7ext0fp4sd
— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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Tecra Muigai's abrupt death is the latest in a string of sudden deaths that have hit prominent families in Kenya, leaving behind a trail of heartbreak, tears and plenty of controversy.
John Macharia - The son of media mogul and prominent business, SK Macharia, died suddenly in 2018.
Police later confirmed the younger Macharia, also a prominent businessman sped his way to death in a freak accident in his 2016 Porsche 911 Turbo S along the Southern bypass in Nairobi.
Tecra Muigai - The daughter of Keroche Breweries owners Joseph and Tabitha Karanja recently succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Nairobi.
Until his death, he served as head of communications, Liberty Kenya Holdings, where the business tycoon had a significant stake.
[Nation] Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to support neighbouring Mozambique fight an escalating insurgency after Islamic militants beheaded more than 50 people.
IN a tragic incident that left Mutoko residents shocked, a 20-year-old A-Level student died on the spot after she was struck by a bolt of lightning while on her way from writing an examination. by JAIROS SAUNYAMA The body of Constance Machemedze, a student at Mutoko Central High School was found charred after the strike. It was taken to Mutoko District Hospital for post-mortem. Mashonaland East provincial police spokesperson Inspector Tendai Mwanza confirmed the incident and urged the public to exercise caution during this rain season. “Members of the public must always take precautionary measures as stated by the Meteorological Department to avoid such disasters,” he said. It is reported that on December 2, at around 1:30pm, the A-Level student was in Chinzanga Primary School soccer ground on her way home from Mutoko Central High School where she had sat for her examinations. Upon realising that Machemedze had fallen to the ground and was motionless, a villager who witnessed the incident went to the scene and discovered that she had severe burns on her right side. A report was made at ZRP Mutoko whose officers attended the scene and rushed her to hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. In a related matter, nine-year-old girl, Fortunate Chifamba of Wedza died after she was struck by a bolt of lightning while seated in a hut in the company of her parents. On December 1, the deceased and her parents were in a kitchen hut while it was raining before a bolt of lightning struck, lifted the juvenile up before throwing her outside where she died on the spot. The hut immediately caught fire and the parents were assisted to escape by a fellow villager. They discovered the lifeless body of the juvenile. A report was made at Wedza Police Station which despatched officers to the scene. The body was taken to St Mary’s Hospital mortuary for post-mortem.
[Dalsan Radio] Somalia will get a share of ?17.2 million approved by the European Union through the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) to support COVID-19 preparedness in three Horn of Africa nations.
The last words of the posthumously famous George Floyd have flown in the sky as part of an emotional and inspirational tribute thanks to black artist Jammie Holmes.
In Los Angeles, Miami and Dallas, “My stomach hurts,” “My neck hurts” and “Everything hurts”, three statements Floyd struggled to get out while under the weight of Derek Chauvin, were flown.
The Dallas-born artist added: “The deployment of Floyd’s last words in parts of its whole across the country underlines a need for unity and the conviction that what happened to George Floyd is happening all over America”.
“The use of sky media to recount Floyd’s final words presents a contrast to the noise of digital media and employs a form of communication that is most often used by the privileged to announce sporting events, marriage proposals, or promote consumption,” said Holmes.
The team of experts hired by the deceased’s family as well as the Hennepin County Medical Examiner said Chauvin’s knee pressed into the back of Floyd’s neck thereby cutting blood flow to the brain.
The Police say they are investigating the murder of Sanesha Lall, 16, of Richmond Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast, which occurred on November 11, 2020, at Richmond Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast, allegedly at the hands of a 34-year-old self employed male of Bounty Hall, Essequibo Coast.
The article Sixteen-year-old Essequibo girl stabbed to death in home appeared first on Stabroek News.
[Premium Times] An official of the Enugu government says the disease was confirmed through verifiable diagnostic tests.
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The House of Federation has anonymously approved a proposed resolution presented to it by the federal government to interfere and establish transitional administration in Tigrai Regional state.
People wait in line to get food distributed by the National Guard in Chelsea, Mass., on April 16.
Harvard researchers found areas with more poverty, people of color and crowded housing had higher mortality rates for the coronavirus.
Areas with \"widespread economic segregation and heavy concentrations of poverty, people of color, and crowded housing\" had higher mortality rates compared with everywhere else from the beginning of the year through April 15, they found.
\"These are communities in which people may be working 'essential jobs,' where they're unable to practice physical distancing,\" Chen tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.
The couple was found dead in their Las Vegas condo.
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopian Airlines has received today two of the 10 new Airbus A350-900 it ordered in 2017, bringing the total number of its Airbus fleet to 16.
[Nation] In nearly one month, the number of young, healthy people dying of the coronavirus has significantly increased.
[Nation] President Uhuru Kenyatta and his 'Handshake' partner Raila Odinga were no-shows in Naivasha yesterday, despite being expected.
The Portland Police are investigating the shooting death of a man on Wednesday night near his house in Buff Bay.
Portland’s crime chief Detective Inspector Linton Bailey says reports have indicated that shortly after 9 o’ clock the deceased was at the entrance to his house when he was shot.
Bailey says Prince was pounced upon by a gunman who opened fire hitting him in the head.
This latest murder comes after Monday's gruesome discovery of a headless body of 74-year-old farmer Fitzroy Buckley in the community of Reach in East Portland.
Portland has recorded four murders since the start of 2020.
[East African] Cameroon national football team former captain, Samuel Eto'o, is in good health after he was involved in a road accident in his country Sunday morning, sources have said.
An elderly man who was scheduled to be sentenced on Friday for gun-related crimes has died in police custody.\tDudley Watt, 65, reportedly collapsed inside a lock-up at Central Police Station, in downtown Kingston, yesterday.\tHe was later pronounced...
Officials at the Kaduna custodial centre have demanded that relatives of inmates who died during the April 1 violent protest at the centre must sign an undertaking absolving the authorities of being responsible for the deaths.
The undertaking reads in part; \"On behalf of the family of the above named inmate (late), we are pleading with the Nigerian Correctional Service to release his body to me for burial, and that we don't have anything against the Nigerian Correctional Service about his death.
Upon getting to the custodial centre in the company of representatives of three other families, Mr Usman said right in the office of the deputy controller in charge of the centre, he was handed a copy of the letter serving as an undertaking.
Felix's name was written as replacement for the late inmate's name in the copy, while the details of where the family representative's name should be inserted is also clearly indicated,\" Mr Usman told PREMIUM TIMES on the phone.
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Since the deputy controller of corrections in charge of the centre refused to speak, our reporter pretended to be one of the late Felix's relation to speak to the centre's welfare officer, Abubakar Sadangi, who confirmed the development.
Associated Press More than 1,600 new confirmed coronavirus cases were reported in Alabama on Sunday, along with seven additional virus-related deaths. The state has recorded 16,520 new confirmed cases of the virus over the last 14 days, according to data from the Alabama Department of Public Health, accounting for about 31% of the 52,908 total []
[CAF] Egypt coach Hossam El Badry recalled 26 players for The Pharaohs squad that will face Togo in Group G double header of the Cameroon 2021 Total Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
The Covid-19 death toll in South Africa has topped 1 000 after a further 82 deaths were reported on Monday evening by Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize.
According to a statement by the minister, the death toll rose to 1 080, which translated to a mortality rate of 2.1%.
\"Regrettably, we report a further 82 Covid-19 related deaths; 55 from the Western Cape, 26 from the Eastern Cape and one from KwaZulu-Natal,\" Mkhize said in the statement.
Of all the deaths recorded as of 8 June, 27.7% were aged between 60-69, 24.2% were aged between 50-59 and 18.6% were between the ages of 70 and 79.
On the lower end of the mortality statistics, only 0.2% of the recorded victims were aged 0 to 9, 0.3% were aged 10 to 19, and 1.3% of the deaths were in the age group 20-29.
NBC's Saturday Night Live made timely commentary on the election of Joe Biden hours after the race was called for... View Article
The post SNL takes on unending election coverage, Biden victory and Trump misery in cold open appeared first on TheGrio.
(Trinidad Express) The search for 30-year-old Staton Octave has ended. He is dead.
The article Missing Trinidad bar operator found shot to death appeared first on Stabroek News.
