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Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo made history on Sunday by becoming the first African to win a men’s 100 m medal at the World Athletics Championships, in Budapest.
The 20-year-old silver medalist clocked 9.88 seconds in the race, setting a new national record.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
The company California keeps with the other four U.S. states that are still prohibiting theme parks from reopening after more than eight months of coronavirus closures doesn’t bode well for the reopening of Disneyland, Universal Studios and their Golden State counterparts. California, New York, Illinois, Michigan and Massachusetts are the only states that have not […]
Most Wisconsin singles would not date someone from a high-risk COVID-19 area, reveals survey Half of singles would prefer their first date to be a virtual one. The average Wisconsin single would travel 3.1 hours for a date (thanks to the pandemic). Interactive map showing results across America. If there’s one thing the coronavirus has taught us is […]
The post (No) Love in the time of Corona… appeared first on Milwaukee Community Journal.
Ghanaians will go to the polls on Monday in a heated contest that will revive old rivalries between incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo and his predecessor John Mahama.
… them.” Evidently no films by African Americans fit these categories — not “Do …
Maryland reported a record 3,742 new coronavirus infections Friday, obliterating the previous mark by more than 800 cases as the pandemic rapidly worsens in the state.
[The Conversation Africa] The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) population has declined by over 95% since the 1900s and by nearly 65% over the past 30 years.
Uganda police say they regret recent altercation that lead to some of them firing live bullets that killed more than 50 people during the demonstration against the arrest of Robert Kyagulanyi, Bobi Wine.
The director of Police in charge of operations, Mr Edward Ochom, said passed the apology noted that the firing of live bullets to disperse crowds was uncalled for, saying that police officers could have used teargas instead.
“The circumstances under which we lost those lives is really regrettable and it would have been avoided if our officers had used teargas to disperse the protesters. However, there is a scientific investigation going on to establish which guns fired the live bullets and I can assure you those officers who did will be individually held accountable,” he said.
Wine whose real is Robert Kyagulanyi was arrested in eastern Uganda November 18 morning for allegedly contravening electoral guidelines which require candidates not to have more than 200 supporters at a rally so as to curb the spread of COVID-19 according to Police.
The police defended their action by claiming that the opposition were in the breech of laid down measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.
He was later released.
Bobi Wine, 38, and a pop star-turned-politician, is seen by many as the new face of Uganda's opposition. But he faces an uphill task in his country's politics particularly since expressing his intention to bring to an end the long running rule of 76 year old President Yoweri Museveni.
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America's employers sharply scaled back their hiring last month as the viral pandemic accelerated across the country, adding 245,000 jobs, the fewest since April and the fifth straight monthly slowdown. At the same time, the unemployment rate fell to a still-high 6.7%, from 6.9% in October as many people stopped looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed, the Labor Department said. November's job gain was down from 610,000 in October. Friday's report of another hiring slowdown provided the latest evidence that the job market and the economy are […]
The post US hiring slows sharply to 245,000 jobs as virus intensifies appeared first on Black News Channel.
The Texas Tribune Thought the seven-day average for COVID-19 cases has decreased by 971 cases, health experts have reported that the number of cases will begin to increase by the end of the [...]
The post An update on COVID-19 in Dallas county and throughout Texas appeared first on Dallas Examiner.
GUARATINGUETA, Brazil -A Brazilian woman who pretended to be pregnant was actually wearing a hollowed-out half watermelon containing several blocks of cocaine. The unnamed 38-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking in the Brazilian municipality of Guaratingueta on Nov. 29. The woman was on a tour bus heading to Rio de Janeiro when passengers thought her supposed pregnant […]
The post Cocaine Trafficker Used Hollowed-Out Watermelon as Fake Baby Bump first appeared on The Florida Star | The Georgia Star.
Recent shootings in Daytona Beach lead to increased law enforcement action. BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES Daytona Beach’s new police chief urged residents to help fight crime and laid out measures being taken to stop violence in the city during a meeting Monday night at the Midtown Cultural & Educational Center. Daytona Beach Police Chief […]
The post CHIEF: HELP STOP THE VIOLENCE appeared first on Daytona Times.
