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The Democratic Labour Party is making a case for a return to house-to-house testing of residents to counter the rapid spread of coronavirus infections. Spokesman on health for the DLP Andre Worrell has suggested the introduction of a mechanism similar to Operation Seek and Save which was effective earlier this year in helping to identify […]
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Abiy's government and the regional one run by the Tigray People's Liberation Front each consider the other illegitimate.
\t There was no immediate word from the three AU envoys, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe. AU spokeswoman Ebba Kalondo did not say whether they can meet with TPLF leaders, something Abiy's office has rejected.
\"``Not possible,'' senior Ethiopian official Redwan Hussein said in a message to the AP. ``\"Above all, TPLF leadership is still at large.'' He called reports that the TPLF had appointed an envoy to discuss an immediate cease-fire with the international community ``masquerading.''
\t Fighting reportedly remained well outside the Tigray capital of Mekele, a densely populated city of a half-million people who have been warned by the Ethiopian government that they will be shown ``no mercy'' if they don't distance themselves from the region's leaders.
\t Tigray has been almost entirely cut off from the outside world since Nov. 4, when Abiy announced a military offensive in response to a TPLF attack on a federal army base.
That makes it difficult to verify claims about the fighting, but humanitarians have said at least hundreds of people have been killed.
\t The fighting threatens to destabilize Ethiopia, which has been described as the linchpin of the strategic Horn of Africa.
\t With transport links cut, food and other supplies are running out in Tigray, home to 6 million people, and the United Nations has asked for immediate and unimpeded access for aid.
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The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has announced a pilot programme to improve efficiency by streamlining its billing cycles, with greater convenience for customers. The streamlining of the company’s billing cycles will mean that customers’...
FC PLATINUM coach Norman Mapeza officially makes a grand return to the miners’ technical bench looking to pick up from where he left. BY TERRY MADYAUTA On his first arrival, the main brief was to win a league title that had eluded the club since promotion despite huge investment. He accomplished the mission and to make a bold statement, repeated the feat before he sought new pastures. The club added another championship silverware under Lizwe Sweswe and as Mapeza returns, the brief and ambition has since shifted from success on home soil as the Zvishavane-based side looks to improve on an otherwise dismal record in the group stages of the Caf Champions League, where they have never progressed beyond the group stages. In his first media engagement on return, Mapeza refused to be drawn into discussing what the set targets were. In fact, he claimed there were no targets as he attempted to bat away pressure, but let that not fool anyone. Everyone knows that FC Platinum now want to at least reach the knockout stages of the premier continental competition and would have made it clear to the former Warriors captain. But he comes back under some of the most difficult conditions following the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. He leads a side that only started training together a few weeks ago since March. Yesterday, he announced a predictable 22-man squad for their preliminary round first leg match against Mozambican opponents CD Costa do Sol, with the bulk of the new signings finding their places in the team. The Zvishavane side takes on the Maputo-based side at Zimpeto National Stadium. Mapeza returned to the Zvishavane side last week, taking over from Hiendrikus Pieter De Jongh who was pushed out since he was not qualified to lead the platinum miners in the continental sojourn. The former Warriors gaffer will hope to navigate past Costa do Sol and has assembled a squad that looks formidable on paper. Captain Petros Mhari leads the squad and his recent experience will be needed as they face Costa Do Sol, whose players boast vast international experience. Winger Silas Songani is also expected to play a key role in the FC Platinum forward line. Songani gave a glimmer of what he could offer to the club when he notched a brace that helped FC Platinum retain the Castle Challenge Cup early this year. Tanzanian centre-forward Elias Maguri is also expected to be a vital cog in the team’s strike force, and although he has not really shown his quality, Mapeza and his lieutenants felt the lofty forward would help his side bamboozle defenders with his big frame. Veteran defender Gift Bello, who has enjoyed every bit of FC Platinum’s success in recent times, has been included in the travelling squad together with steely former Triangle defender Donald Dzvinyai, and could form a impenetrable backline, with Tawanda Chikore and Raphael Muduviwa operating as left and right full-backs, respectively. Ralph Kawondera, an impressive midfielder, is expected to add more impetus with his creativity and pace to Mapeza’s forward line. Former Highlan
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It is almost three weeks now that the East Bank hire cars park has been cut by half leaving operators struggling for survival.
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The term 'Black Friday' will not be used in the northern Nigerian state of Kano on the occasion of this year's reduced-to-clear shopping festival as the state's Islamic religious police, or hisbah, has determined that the term insults Muslim sensitivities on the holy congregational day of Friday. A statement that was sent for an announcement...
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Argentine football star Diego Maradona cast his ‘Hand of God’ goal in the crucial 1986 World Cup play-off as a vengeful strike against England four years after the British crushed an invading force in a bitter war over the Falklands Islands. The...
By Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com) - Economic recovery will be a long time coming. The Federal Reserve Bank says our corona recession will last into 2021, and perhaps even into 2022. If a vaccine is developed, a distribution plan still needs to be worked out, and there is still so much we don’t know about COVID. […]
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As COVID-19 wears on, Southern Californians have become painfully aware of the things they can
By SCOTT SMITH ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A U.S. oil executive jailed for three years in Venezuela said all he hopes for is a fair trial so that he can walk free with his name cleared and go home to his family in the United States. In a letter from prison provided exclusively to The Associated Press, Tomeu Vadell said it's especially painful to be separated during the Thanksgiving season from his wife, three adult children and a newborn grandson he's never held. 'Before living this tragedy, these celebrations were very special times for our family,' Vadell wrote, […]
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A team of UCLA researchers has developed a method to identify those most at risk of the coronavirus pandemic in an attempt to guide public policy related to the control and prevention of COVID-19.
WELLINGTON, (Reuters) - The Pakistan cricket team’s behaviour in their bio-secure facility in Christchurch had “significantly improved”, New Zealand’s Ministry of Health said yesterday, just 24 hours after the tourists had been warned about breaching COVID-19 protocols.
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By Associated Press Undefined COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State coach Ryan Day has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not be with the Buckeyes when they play at Illinois on Saturday. Ohio State said Friday it had an increased number of positive COVID-19 tests in the program this week, but the game against the Illini was still on. Buckeyes veteran defensive line coach Larry Johnson will act as interim coach with Day unavailable.
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By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump still won't bring himself to concede the election he decisively lost to President-elect Joe Biden. But he's now acknowledging he will leave the White House if Biden's win is affirmed by the Electoral College, which is firmly on track to do just that in a few weeks. 'Certainly I will,' he said Thursday when asked if he will vacate the premises after electors make Biden's win formal. 'But you know that.' Trump, who took questions from reporters for the first time since the election, unleashed another round of complaints […]
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A two-week lockdown has been instituted at Orealla and its satellite village, Siparuta, in Region Six, after they recorded multiple cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in less than two weeks.
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[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Many transgender women employed in hospitality and as sex workers have struggled during the coronavirus pandemic
Western Bureau: Despite the United States issuing a Level 3 travel advisory warning its citizens to reconsider travel to Jamaica as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the operators of Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay remain hopeful...
Yesterday representatives from the African Union held desperate eleventh-hour talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to dissuade him from the ‘final phase’ of his military campaign to crush the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Ani Sirois, a respiratory nurse, has spent months caring for coronavirus patients at a Portland, Oregon, hospital, and she's only getting busier as infections — and hospitalizations — surge before the holidays. But on a recent sunny day, COVID-19 seemed far away as she, her husband and their 2-year-old daughter roamed a Christmas tree farm in search of the perfect evergreen for a holiday season unlike any other. The family was tree-shopping nearly a week before Thanksgiving and, for the first time, they were picking their own tree instead of buying […]
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Black Friday officially kicked off the 2020 holiday shopping season, but the coronavirus pandemic has affected consumers' spending habits considerably in myriad ways. Black consumers have not been exempt from that truth.
[IPS] Johannesburg, South Africa -- Japan should step up and play a role as a global facilitator for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, Dr Daisaku Higashi said at a recent Japan Parliamentarians Federation for Population (JPFP) study meeting.
Thanksgiving is going to look a little different this year. To keep COVID-19 transmission at bay, families will likely opt for smaller gatherings (and smaller turkeys) instead of the customary large get-togethers with relatives who’ve flown in from across the country. Unfortunately, this means that many seniors, who are at a heightened risk of developing... [Read More]
