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President Irfaan Ali on Saturday said that the flooding currently occurring across Guyana is one of the worst disasters the country has ever faced and projected that it will take some time for the country recover once the situation has abated.
The article Current flooding among worst disasters in country’s history appeared first on Stabroek News.
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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The New York Times went beyond the raw data that is quoted daily by Johns Hopkins University which tracks the incidence of COVID-19 in the United States (over 1.6 million confirmed cases, and over 98,000 deaths - the highest COVID-19 figures in the world!)
Whereas North African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Algeria) where there are high figures of COVID-19 enforced rules of physical distancing, many worshippers South of the Sahara threw caution to the winds, with perhaps the notable exceptions of Ghana and Senegal.
In Tanzania, a country that has been \"Magufulifised\" to paraphrase the eminent Kenyan Professor, PLO Lumumba, the leaders pretended to be aware of the need for physical distancing but the worshippers who trooped to mosques in Dodoma and elsewhere in the country could not be bothered.
The point I am really trying to make is that in Burundi, not even the country's Muslim population had any need to worry about COVID-19.
However, the fact that Muslim leaders were also not entirely quiet soon became evident as many states in the North began to announce that religious worship was in order, and that mosques and churches could re-open even as COVID-19 figures in Nigeria increased geometrically.
Mayor-elect Ella Jones, currently a city council member who was elected mayor on Tuesday, will become the first black and first female mayor of Ferguson, Mo.
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Ella Jones will be sworn in as mayor of Ferguson, Mo., next week, becoming the first black mayor — and the first woman — to lead the city that gained national attention when police killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014.
Still, nearly six years after Brown's death, Jones says the protests against police brutality — this time in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis — feel the same.
Jones thinks that despite the work Ferguson has done, her city — which has a population that is two-thirds black — still feels like the center of the discussion around police violence in the U.S.
\"Even though we are striving to do better, Ferguson is considered as ground zero,\" she says, \"and anything that happens in the United States, they're gonna always come back to Ferguson.\"
Hulan Jack was elected first Black Borough President of Manhattan, NYC, 1953
The corruption case against Vital Kamerhe, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi's chief of staff, has been unfolding with all the ingredients of a thriller.
Kamerhe and his Union for the Congolese Nation political party had formed the Cap pour le Changement (CACH) coalition with Tshisekedi's Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) for the 2018 elections.
So the unlikeliness of the president now going after Kamerhe prompted, among many others, the theory that Tshisekedi acted under pressure from the Trump administration to clean out government graft.
He had become too powerful for the comfort of not only Tshisekedi but other officials and party leaders, including former president Joseph Kabila.
Many believe that after the last elections, Kabila's quid pro quo for anointing Tshisekedi as his successor - rather than his own party's candidate (who failed dismally at the polls) - was that he, rather than Kamerhe, should be the supported candidate next time around.
Former Controller of Budget Agnes Odhiambo has been appointed the chairperson of the board of the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA).
President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday appointed Ms Odhiambo to the new post for a term of three years.
NTSA has not had a substantive board chairperson since the former chairman, Lt-Gen (Rtd) Jackson Waweru left in 2019.
Meanwhile, President Kenyatta has also appointed the former vice-chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Prof Mabel Imbuga, as the new chairperson of the board of the anti-drug abuse agency Nacada.
Like NTSA, the Nacada board was being headed by an acting chairperson, Ms Margret Moitallel.
Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839–98, American temperance leader and reformer, b. Churchville, N.Y., grad. Northwestern Female College, 1859. She was president of Evanston College for Ladies and dean of women at Northwestern Univ. After leaving the university, she helped organize (1874) the Womans Christian Temperance Union and in 1879 became its president. She devoted most of her life to the organization of women for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages but was active in other causes, especially that of woman suffrage.
See her autobiography, Glimpses of Fifty Years (1889) biographies by M. Earhart (1944) and M. L. Gates (1964).
Etta Moten sings for President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at a White House Dinner. It is the first time an African American actress performs at the White House.
Former President Barack Obama called Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, and offered his support and condolences shortly before Floyd’s memorial service.
According to The New York Times, former Vice President Joe Biden also called Floyd’s brother, who asked the Democratic nominee for the 2020 Presidential Election for “justice.”
“I never had to beg a man before, but I asked [Biden] could he please, please get justice for my brother, please,” Philonise told the Times about their conversation.
The discussion Philonise had with Obama and Biden were significantly different from the one he had with Trump.
Since the coronavirus pandemic hit U.S. shores, which Trump called a Democratic hoax in February, Obama has given public comments on the pandemic, addressed HBCU and high school graduates in a virtual commencement speech, and discussed the death of George Floyd.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, testified for three hours before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
He and Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, urged Americans to wear masks to curb the spread of the virus.
In response to a question from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Fauci said that the entire country is at risk if an outbreak occurs in one area.
Fauci also said there was no guarantee the U.S. could develop a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine.
The post VIDEO: Fauci warns a coronavirus vaccine is not guaranteed appeared first on Zenger News.
Dmitri Stockton was Chairman, President and CEO of GE Asset Management for GE. In this role, Stockton oversaw $115 billion in assets under management for GE’s U.S. employee pension and benefits plans and a wide range of other institutional investors.
crafted and executed successful strategic initiatives that resulted in market share gains, acquisitions and integrations, cost reduction, loss management and business portfolio rationalization. Stockton led GE Consumer Finance’s expansion in Eastern Europe
as President and CEO growing profits to nearly $1 billion. Stockton was one of 40 executives to have served on GE’s Corporate Executive Council.
banking, asset management, commercial real estate and insurance.
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R&B singers of the hit Say My Name
The music group Destinys Child was formed in 1990 as a novelty group of pre-teen girls; by decades end they had become a superstar female R&B vocal quartet. They later became a trio featuring Kelly Rowland (b. 11 February 1981), her cousin Beyoncé Knowles (b. 4 September 1981) and newcomer Michelle Williams (b. 23 July 1980). (Two earlier members of Destinys Child, LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett, left the group in 2000 and later formed their own band, Angel.) The groups top singles include 1997s No, No, No, 1999s Bills, Bills, Bills and the 2000 hit Say My Name and their albums include Destinys Child (1997), The Writings On the Wall (1999), Survivor (2001), Desinty Fulfilled (2004) and the compilation album #1 (2005). After a 2002 tour the group split up, at least temporarily, to pursue individual projects. They reunited in 2004, but announced that their 2005 world tour was their last and that they would leave Destinys Child on a high note and no longer perform together as a group. Beyoncé went on to a major solo career and later married rap impresario Jay-Z. Destinys Child did reunite for a few songs on February 3, 2013, during Beyoncés halftime show at Super Bowl XLVII.
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The construction of stadia for domestic football powerhouses Nyasa Big Bullets and Be Forward Wanderers in Blantyre is expected to start this Thursday June 11 2020 soon after President Peter Mutharika presides over the groundbreaking ceremony, government has said.
President Mutharika promised to build the stadia's for the two giants last year and Treasury allocated K1.6 billion (K800 million) each in the 2019/20 National Budget.
The President will tour both sites--near Moneymen along Chikwawa Road for Bullets and Kanjedza Forest near Blantyre Teachers College for the Nomads.
Both Bullets and Wanderers officials have commended President Mutharika for fulfilling his promise and that they were pleased with the state-of-the art designs of their home grounds.
The People'sTeam chief administration officer Albert Chigoga said the country has reached reached a stage where \" all doubters realise the fulfillment of the project\"
Nomads general secretary Victor Maunde said the Lali Lubani Road side is thankful to the President Mutharika and government for living up to the promise.
Acting Assistant Secretary for the US Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Michael Kozak yesterday congratulated President Irfaan Ali on his swearing in.
The article US official congratulates Ali appeared first on Stabroek News.
A more recent study by Laurent Lebreton and colleagues suggests that 96%-98% of litter from land-based sources washes up within one year of entering the sea.
Olivelli's survey of beaches around Australia found that most litter items were concentrated on the backshore storm strand line, where litter items were larger on average than along recent tide-lines closer to the sea.
South Africa is an ideal place to study the fate of marine plastics because it is far from other major litter sources, and so most of the litter comes from local sources.
Jambeck's 2015 study estimated that the high proportion of mismanaged waste in South Africa results in 90,000 tonnes to 250,000 tonnes of plastic entering the sea each year.
To directly measure the amount of plastic leaking into the sea from urban areas, my student Eleanor Weideman sampled litter loads in Cape Town storm drains.
May 25: Congolese lawmakers exchange blows over leadership vote
\tThe Democratic Republic of Congo’s National Assembly was the scene of an open-for-all fight when lawmakers moved to remove the first deputy speaker of the house.
Lawmakers rushed to the front of the parliament engaging in violent exchanges over the intended vote as security detail were called in to restore calm.
The vote eventually took place with 289 out of 500 lawmakers voting in favour of the removal of Jean – Marc Kabund from his post as first vice-president of the National Assembly.
Protests over parliamentary sacking of president’s top ally
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November 22, 2018 – Zimbabwe joins Uganda, South Africa
\tPrior to Thursday November 22, 2018; the Ugandan and South African parliaments were on record as places that had ‘hosted’ violent confrontation between lawmakers and security agents.
READ MORE: Photos from Africa’s chaotic parliaments: Uganda and South Africa
\tPhotos shared on Twitter by the state-owned Zimpapers Images showed a very physical encounter between security detail and lawmakers of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change – Alliance.
Kumasi — Residents of Obuasi and its surrounding towns in the Ashanti Region are living in fear as they are facing stigma and discrimination from the coronavirus (COVID-19).
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says residents of Obuasi and its surrounding towns in the Ashanti Region are scared of availing themselves for COVID-19 testing because of the fear of being stigmatised and discriminated against by society.
He stated that, new infected cases were going down in Obuasi two weeks after the area was reported to be leading in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Ashanti Region.
Dr Tenkorang stated that, the total confirmed cases in the region have increased to 886 with a total of seven deaths while 15 people were currently on admission and 75 people in isolation.
Dr Tenkorang commended authorities in the region for ensuring that safety protocols were being adhered to and that it has accounted for the reduction of new infected cases of the disease.
Out-of-favour West Indies fast-bowler Ronsford Beaton has joined a list of people on the Essequibo Coast sharing out food hampers during this time of uncertainty owing to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Beaton, who has so far represented West Indies in two one-day internationals and has played 33 first-class matches for Guyana, collaborated with NGO Welead Caribbean which is being run by his sister, Abbigale Lonche, president of the organisation.
According to Beaton, who has featured for Guyana Amazon Warriors and Trinbago Knight Riders in the Caribbean Premier League tournament, he was ecstatic to come on board.
