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[CPJ] New York -- In response to Algerian authorities' recent decision to revoke the accreditation of French public broadcaster France 24, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement:
\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.
Her athletic performance in Rome earned her the title of one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century.
The post Track and Field Olympic Champion Wilma Rudolph: Lightning Fast first appeared on Post News Group.
2007: A car bomb strikes near the revered Shiite Khillani mosque in Baghdad, killing at least 78 people and wounding more than 200, the same day about 10,000 US soldiers launch an offensive against al-Qaeda in Iraq north-east of Baghdad, killing at least 22 insurgents.
2008: Serbia's Supreme Court sentences Radomir Markovic, who was security chief for the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, to 40 years in prison for organising an attack on a prominent dissident in which four people died.
2009: The Vatican condemns as 'unjustified and inopportune” a claim by a church official that pressure from Jewish organisations is delaying the beatification of Pope Pius XII, the wartime pontiff who critics say did not do enough to stop the Holocaust.
2013: President Barack Obama cautions the US and Europe against “complacency” brought on by peace, pledging to cut America's deployed nuclear weapons by one-third if Cold War foe Russia does the same.
2013: Afghan President Hamid Karzai suspends talks with the US on a new security deal to protest the way his Government was left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban.
The battleground states across the industrial Midwest have functioned as the decisive tipping point of American politics for at least 30 years, especially in presidential elections. But the latest Census Bureau findings on both overall population growth and voter turnout in 2020 signal that the Sun Belt will increasingly rival, and potentially replace, the Rust Belt as the central battlefield in US elections.
Today (Sept. 17), Foot Locker, Inc. announced that it is partnering with Rock The Vote. If you can work a sneaker app, you can certainly figure out if you're registered to vote, right?
BY J.A. JONES, Staff Writer The Equal Ground Education Fund (EGEF) is a non-partisan non-profit focused on building Black political power in Florida. Equal Ground’s “Take the Lead: A Black Political Leadership Training Series” was created to help Black community leaders expand political engagement within their local community and across the state. During the last […]
This week at the Georgia state capitol in Atlanta, representatives from Black Voters Matter joined a press conference re: GA’s recently passed voter suppression bill, SB 202, which prevents full and free access to the ballot for voters throughout the state, and the corporate accountability campaign movement to combat it. See statement below: “When Kemp […]
The post Black Voters Matter Files Lawsuit Against Georgia Officials appeared first on Atlanta Tribune.
by Najee El-Amin - In 2016, Mississippi’s voter turnout rate took a nosedive as 70,000 eligible citizens did not show up to cast a ballot. Activists have been trying to figure out why this happened and how to get African Americans, a powerful voting bloc, energized and back to the polls. Their efforts are coming […]
The growing disdain for Biden among young Democratic voters has been predicted to dwindle with the promise of a Black woman as vice president, but for many, this is not the case.
This sentiment is shared amongst many young Black voters who are weary of the Democratic Party’s unfulfilled promises as a whole.
Still, other young Black voters aren’t impressed with the pool of choices, and the disdain for Biden is so much that they would risk another four years of Trump.
“I hate to say it, but between Biden and Trump, I’d still vote Trump,” says one young Black woman.
There seems to be no guarantee that the Democratic party will achieve its intended end if Biden chooses a Black woman to run alongside him.
TAXPAYERS COULD see a huge windfall of nearly $750 million if Jamaica holds both the local government and general elections together.
The local government vote is due in November this year, while the general election is due next February.
However, with the constitutional allowance of three months post due date in special circumstances, local government elections can be held no later than next February.
Ruling parties have often used local government polls as a test of the political temperature before lining up their ducks for the general election.
There is currently no fixed date for voting in Jamaica, but general elections are constitutionally due every five years, and local government polls every three years.
This weekend marks the first round of elections for 568 seats in the lower house of parliament.
By Julianne Malveaux Voters between 18 and 29 made history in the 2020 election. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, or CIRCLE [https://circletufts.edu/2020-election-center], at least 52 percent of them, and perhaps as many as 55 percent, voted. That turnout is at least ten percentage points higher than in 2016, and […]
UN Member States chose the country in a second round of voting on Thursday in the General Assembly, with 192 ambassadors casting their ballots during pre-determined time slots, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The run-off took place one day after elections to select five new non-permanent members to serve on the Council, based on regional groupings.
In the second round, Kenya received 129 votes, and Djibouti 62.
Fifteen countries sit on the Security Council, the UN organ that maintains international peace and security.
Ten non-permanent members are elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms, with five elected each year.
ANC members have blocked roads in Naledi, Soweto, apparently in a bid to prevent voters from partiipating in local by-elections
Nearly 10 years after a clean-up was urged for areas polluted by Shell and other oil companies in the Niger Delta, work has begun on only 11 per cent of planned sites while vast areas remain heavily contaminated, according to a new investigation by four NGOs.
The continued and systematic failure of oil companies and government to clean up have left hundreds of thousands of Ogoni people facing serious health risks, struggling to access safe drinking water, and unable to earn a living.
Key findings of the report include:
Work has begun on only 11% of polluted sites identified by UNEP, with only a further 5% included in current clean-up efforts, and no site has been entirely cleaned up;
Actions classified by UNEP as \"emergency measures\" - immediate action on drinking water and health protection - have not been implemented properly; there are still communities without access to clean water supplies;
Health and environmental monitoring has not been carried out;
There has not been any public accounting for how the 31 million USD funding provided since 2018 has been spent;
11 of 16 companies contracted for the clean-up are reported to have no registered expertise in oil pollution remediation or related areas;
HYPREP has numerous conflicts of interest as Shell continues to be involved in the governing boards for the clean-up and even places its own staff in HYPREP.
The organisations demand rapid clean-up and in particular that the Nigerian government:
makes sure that Ogoni people can access their basic rights including the right to safe drinking water
develops and implements a strategy to address the root causes of oil pollution, while fully involving local communities
strengthens HYPREP and ensures it is an independent, transparent agency without involvement of Shell in oversight and management structures
publishes all information on the clean-up project and its progress
that Shell:
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provides proper compensation to all communities affected by failed or delayed clean-ups of oil spills
decommissions all aging and damaged pipelines
commits to funding the clean-up of Ogoniland and the rest of the Niger Delta until completed
that European governments home to oil companies operating in the Niger Delta:
make a fundamental shift to prioritise the clean-up of Ogoniland and the rest of the Niger Delta over the interests of companies
increase engagement with and support for the Nigerian government to ensure effective implementation of UNEP's recommendations, independent oversight of the oil industry and effective remedy for affected communities
establish strong international regulations for corporate liability abroad - such as an EU law for mandatory Human Rights due diligence and a binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights.
With no clinical trials conducted in Africa, researchers have emphasized that Africa's Covid-19 research should be tailored to the continent's realities.
While some African countries, Nigeria, Zambia, Tunisia and Egypt are involved in the global Solidarity Clinical Trials, the continent needs support to develop its medicinal research potential, improve efficacy and quality as well as and encourage best medical practices.
Following the Malagasy Institute's Covid-19 drink, WHO's calls, reinforced by US Centers for Disease Control, urged people not to try the untested remedy arguing that Africans deserve to use medicines at the same standards as people in the rest of the world.
Thus, like other medicines, Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin were tested as part of Covid-19 treatment trials, so too should COVID-ORGANICS have been given the chance to allow a scientific and non-emotional rejection.
Indeed, until 12 May 2020 when the WHO agreed to clinical trials of COVID-ORGANICS, President Rajoelina had criticized the West for a condescending attitude towards traditional medicine in Africa.
1921: President Warren G Harding nominates former President William Howard Taft to be chief justice of the US Supreme Court, succeeding the late Edward Douglass White.
2008: US President George W Bush signs legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency and beyond, hailing the US$162-billion plan as a rare product of bipartisan cooperation.
2011: The UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon issues an indictment naming four suspects in the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri (rah-FEEK' hah-REER'-ee), including a high-ranking Hezbollah militant linked to the 1983 truck bombings at the US and French embassies in Kuwait.
2016: Saying it was the right thing to do, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces that transgender people would be allowed to serve openly in the military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces.
George Duhamel, French author (1884-1966); Walter Ulbricht, East German Communist leader (1893-1973); Czeslaw Milosz, Czech poet and Nobel laureate (1911-2004); Lena Horne, US singer (1917-2010); Anthony 'Tony' Gambrill, Jamaican writer (1935-); David Alan Grier, actor/comedian (1955-); Vincent D'Onofrio, US actor (1959-); Fantasia, rhythm-and-blues singer (1984- ); Michael Phelps, Olympic gold medal swimmer (1985- )
Like other sports federations, Uganda Rugby Union (URU) has felt the pinch, tricking down to the most important stakeholders, the players.
But the biggest hit for the national Rugby Sevens team players, majority of them students or unemployed and therefore struggling to make ends meet, has come in terms of unpaid monthly allowances.
The next trip was due around this time in Biarritz, France for the final Olympics qualifying tournament (June 20-21) before heading to Hong Kong with the Safari Sevens and Africa Cup also waiting.
During a Zoom meeting organized by Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) to discuss how athletes can keep active during the ongoing lockdown on sport last weekend, Rugby Sevens Cranes captain Michael Wokorach, inquired on why his team had stopped receiving payment despite having running contracts.
\"I would like to know if National Council (of Sports) is still sending money to federations in this period because since lockdown, we have not received the allowances we are supposed to get as national team players,\" Wokorach said.
With 34/34 voter service centers reporting and a voter turnout of 39.3%, 143,761 ballots cast from 365,839 registered voters, Kevin Lincoln II secured 25,749 votes or 51.96% to Mayor Michael Tubbs’ 23,807 or 48.04% of the vote. Tubbs, a Democrat, is Stockton’s first Black mayor and youngest mayor in Stockton’s history. He is being challenged […]
The post Mayor Michael Tubbs Trails Kevin Lincoln II in Stockton Mayoral Race first appeared on Post News Group.
