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Last August 2 was the fourth anniversary of the declaration of the outcome of the March 2, 2020 elections.
The article Drama behind the 2020 elections results appeared first on Stabroek News.
\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.
[MAP] Casablana -- Morocco has made exceptional efforts at all levels to hold legislative, regional and communal elections, despite the constraints related to the Covid-19 pandemic, said, Wednesday in Casablanca, Secretary General of the Constitutional Union (UC), Mohamed Sajid.
Thousands of people turned out in Denver to march for justice in the police killing of 23-year-old, Elijah McClain.
READ MORE: Cops involved in death of Elijah McClain put on ‘non-enforcement’ duties
The day-long protest event began with a 1 p.m. rally and march followed by a 4 p.m. youth-led protest.
A kid cheers at a rally outside the Aurora Police Department Headquarters to demand justice for Elijah McClain on June 27, 2020, in Aurora, Colorado.
(Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
Naomi McClain, Elijah’s sister, told The Denver Post that it was good to see so many people out to remember Elijah.
READ MORE: Sherri Shepherd says Elijah McClain reminds her of son in tearful video
Police utilized a chokehold to detain the young man, and an ambulance was called.
Total confirmed cases = 6,677 (new cases = 226)
Total recoveries = 1,734
Total deaths = 192
Active cases = 4,475
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 19, 2020
May 20: Cases hit 6,401;
\tTotal confirmed cases = 6,401 (new cases = 284)
Total recoveries = 1,840
Total deaths = 200
Active cases = 4,637
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 20, 2020
\tState governments are being tasked to do more in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, this is the call of Sani Aliyu, national coordinator of the presidential task force.
May 19: Cases top 6,000; lockdown lifting risky
\tTotal confirmed cases = 6,175 (new cases = 216)
Total recoveries = 1,644
Total deaths = 191
Active cases = 4,340
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 18, 2020
\tThe federal government says Nigeria is not ready for total lifting of lockdown, hence the first level of easing will be in place for the next two weeks.
Additional reporting from BBC
May 18 : 5,959 cases, Buhari meets Task Force
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,959 (new cases = 338)
Total recoveries = 1,544
Total deaths = 182
Active cases = 4,183
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 17, 2020
\tPresident Buhari on Sunday evening met with the COVID-19 Presidential Task Force team at his residence for their weekly briefing.
Other news:
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\t\tKano state officials donate half salaries to COVID-19 response
\t\tHumanitarian Affairs Minister delivers federal food support to Kano
\t\tNigeria impounds UK jet for flouting regulations
\t\tLagos outlines conditions for lockdown lifting
\t\tDelta, Bauchi, Zamfara States distributing food palliatives
May 17 : 5,621 cases, three Dubai returnees infected
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,621 (new cases = 176)
Total recoveries = 1,472
Total deaths = 176
Active cases = 3,973
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 16, 2020
\tThree people who recently returned from the United Arab Emirates on an evacuation flight have tested positive for COVID-19.
May 16: 5,445 cases, govt on evacuees expenses
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,445 (new cases = 288)
Total recoveries = 1,320
Total deaths = 171
Active cases = 3,959
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 15, 2020
\tDuring their press briefing on Friday, the presidential task force covered a wide range of issues relative to the spread of the virus and containment efforts.
On June 13, Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield, told the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that “instances of voter impersonation” have affected the standard of the March 2 Polls and used this and other alleged anomalies to invalidate approximately 25% of the ballots cast but an interview from 2015 shows the same Lowenfield contending that impersonation “is just not possible”.
The article In 2015 Lowenfield said impersonation `just not possible’ appeared first on Stabroek News.
Stop neglecting persons with disabilities
Monday, June 22, 2020 0:01
By COLLINS ODOTE
Persons with disabilities should enjoy the same rights and opportunities that other members of society do enjoy.
The convention makes provision to guarantee the enjoyment of human rights by persons with disabilities by guaranteeing their dignity and preventing them from discrimination.
One of the people covered was a person with disability who, in addition to difficulty of meeting the requirements of wearing a mask and frequent washing of hands, had to struggle to travel to their place of \"work\" and back in time before the curfew.
It is important that we move from the token conversation of assessing whether persons with disabilities access five percent of procurement opportunities for goods and services.
It requires a change of attitude, true commitment and focus on reasonable accommodation in all facets of life so that persons with disabilities cane enjoy the same rights and opportunities that other members of society do get currently.
Source: Andy Cross / Getty
Elijah McClain lost his life at the hands of police violence last August and now the nation is demanding justice.
On August 24, 2019, Elijah was walking home from a convenience store when Aurora police used excessive force to confront him, after receiving a phone call about a young man in a ski mask who looked suspicious.
Following the incident, the Sentinel Colorado stated:
“McClain told officers: ‘Let me go.
“Based on the investigation presented and the applicable Colorado law, there is no reasonable likelihood of success of proving any state crimes beyond a reasonable doubt at trial,” Young said in his letter to Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz, according to the Sentinel Colorado.
“While being restrained by police, Aurora Fire Rescue Medic Jeremy Cooper administered McClain 500 milligrams of ketamine in an effort to sedate him,” the site added.
Mayor Ubraj Narine should focus on the numerous problems plaguing the City Council instead of venturing out on the propaganda trail and postulating on legal matters for which he is immensely unqualified.
The article This call by Mayor Narine should be completely ignored appeared first on Stabroek News.
After updating her followers for months on her weight loss journey postpartum -- after welcoming her son Win with hubby Russell Wilson almost a year ago -- Ciara is now back to her pre-baby weight.
In the essay below, Associate Professor Trysh Travis of the University of Floridas Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research Center explores some of the controversy surrounding Kathryn Stocketts novel The Help, which has also become a major film of the same name. She argues that many people will view both the book and the film as not realistic. While BlackPast.org readers will certainly debate that point, her article does allow an opportunity to explore a much larger question: can any white author sensitively explore the deeply complex relationships between white women employers and their domestic servants.
Guess what? Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, a multi-million copy bestseller and the basis for an Oscar-nominated film, is not very realistic. It traffics in stereotypes and fails to present the complexity of race relations. It downplays both the institutionalized violence (including sexual violence) of southern culture and the Civil Rights movement’s collective resistance to that violence, centering instead on a white heroine and celebrating her limited rebellion against entrenched racism as if it was another Harper’s Ferry. By focusing on the heroic white individual and her personal response to racism, the novel fails to realistically represent the world it narrates. Worse, it leaves intact the political, economic, and social structures that it pretends to critique.
As the Hollywood hype-machine began cranking for the film version of The Help last August, this critique was advanced by the Association of Black Women Historians (AWBH) and other progressive groups; it has now been revived for red carpet season. It’s a powerful argument, but with a key weakness: it ignores the ways that literature’s form (longstanding conventions about what certain types of fiction do and don’t attempt to do) constrains its content. Much of the criticism of The Help seems to suggest that if it contained more or different characters, plot elements, and details of place and voice it would be more “realistic” and
OPPOSITION Senator Wade Mark asked the Election and Boundaries Commission (EBC) to halt a pilot project of electronic monitoring of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election, disliking its announcement on Wednesday ahead of Monday's polls.
At a UNC briefing on Thursday at the Opposition Leader's office in Port of Spain, he complained the EBC had not consulted the UNC nor any political party on the measure. Mark asked why the initiative would record which electors had already voted and who was present at a polling station.
Barataria/San Juan MP MP Saddam Hosein said no funding for the project had been mentioned in the budget debate by the House of Representatives Standing Finance Committee.
Newsday e-mailed several questions to the EBC which promised a response by Friday.
Meanwhile, several matters had been actually addressed in the EBC's statement on Wednesday titled, EBC reassures public on its pilot project for improved processes.
Saying the THA election would involve \"no electronic voting\" the statement said the \"same processes and procedures\" will be used in all polling stations as in past elections.
The EBC said the project will be run in all 13 polling stations in two electoral districts, Scarborough/Mt Grace and Mt St George/Goodwood.
The commission said the project will involve one of its processes to improve its election management and the timely provision of information.
The project will see more use of technology in data collection and will be conducted \"parallel to the traditional manual process for data collection.\"
\"This project will, in no way, replace the manual system that will be carried out in all polling stations on Election Day and will simply see the use of data entry clerks electronically identifying the voters present and those who have voted.\"
The EBC said the voting process remained as stipulated in the Representation of the People Act.
\"The EBC expects that the data collected in this project will give the commission the ability to generate its after-election reports more expeditiously and will in no way change the voting process and the sanctity and the safety that our electorate has known to exist in our country.\"
The EBC said it was independent and transparent and so sought to tell stakeholders in the Tobago election process of its intentions to improve its delivery of service in the democratic process.
\"The commission recognises that the use of technology can assist in improving many of its internal processes and it is hoped that should this project be successful that greater information and communication technology could be used at all polling stations across both TT in future elections.\"
The post UNC queries EBC pilot project in Tobago appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
After quitting her job, Carah Lockett vented on LinkedIn about the hiring process. Then her post went viral, attracting the attention of many new employers.
Jacob Blake Jr. is opening up about being shot by a Kenosha police officer which left him partially paralyzed. Blake,... View Article
The post Jacob Blake recalls being shot 7 times: 'Daddy loves you no matter what' appeared first on TheGrio.
LOTTO Results edit post Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 28 February 2021 2021-02-28 edit post Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 27 February 2021
Lying on the Atlantic in the southern part of West Africa, Liberia is bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte dIvoire. It is comparable in size to Tennessee. Most of the country is a plateau covered by dense tropical forests, which thrive under an annual rainfall of about 160 in. a year.
Republic.
Africas first republic, Liberia was founded in 1822 as a result of the efforts of the American Colonization Society to settle freed American slaves in West Africa. The society contended that the emigration of blacks to Africa was an answer to the problem of slavery and the incompatibility of the races. Over the course of forty years, about 12,000 slaves were voluntarily relocated. Originally called Monrovia, the colony became the Free and Independent Republic of Liberia in 1847.
The English-speaking Americo-Liberians, descendants of former American slaves, make up only 5% of the population, but have historically dominated the intellectual and ruling class. Liberias indigenous population is composed of 16 different ethnic groups.
The government of Africas first republic was modeled after that of the United States, and Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Virginia was elected the first president. Ironically, Liberias constitution denied indigenous Liberians equal to the lighter-skinned American immigrants and their descendants.
After 1920, considerable progress was made toward opening up the interior of the country, a process that facilitated by the 1951 establishment of a 43-mile (69-km) railroad to the Bomi Hills from Monrovia. In July 1971, while serving his sixth term as president, William V. S. Tubman died following surgery and was succeeded by his longtime associate, Vice President William R. Tolbert, Jr.
Tolbert was ousted in a military coup on April 12, 1980, by Master Sgt. Samuel K. Doe, backed by the U.S. government. Does rule was characterized by corruption and brutality. A rebellion led by Charles Taylor, a former Doe aide, and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), started in Dec. 1989; the following
It looks to some like rapper YFN Lucci, 29, isn’t quite over ex-girlfriend Reginae Carter, 21.
On Wednesday, June 17, rapper and singer YK Osiris spoke with the Shade Room on camera and made a pass at Lil Wayne and Toya Johnson‘s daughter, Carter.
Kandi Burruss, one of Johnson’s close friends, urged Carter to give the “Ride” rapper a chance.
Carter’s mother seemed equally impressed with Osiris wearing her daughter’s face on his chain pendant.
Carter and Lucci called it quits last August after she allegedly spotted him flirting with other women at an Atlanta cucumber-themed pool party.
Guinea, in West Africa on the Atlantic, is also bordered by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Côte dIvoire, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Slightly smaller than Oregon, the country consists of a coastal plain, a mountainous region, a savanna interior, and a forest area in the Guinea Highlands. The highest peak is Mount Nimba at 5,748 ft (1,752 m).
Beginning in 900, the Susu migrated from the north and began settling in the area that is now Guinea. The Susu civilization reached its height in the 13th century. Today the Susu make up about 20% of Guineas population. From the 16th to the 19th century, the Fulani empire dominated the region. In 1849, the French claimed it as a protectorate. First called Rivières du Sud, the protectorate was rechristened French Guinea; finally, in 1895, it became part of French West Africa.
Guinea achieved independence on Oct. 2, 1958, and became an independent state with Sékou Touré as president. Under Touré, the country was the first avowedly Marxist state in Africa. Diplomatic relations with France were suspended in 1965, with the Soviet Union replacing France as the countrys chief source of economic and technical assistance.
Prosperity came in 1960 after the start of exploitation of bauxite deposits. Touré was reelected to a seven-year term in 1974 and again in 1981. He died after 26 years as president in March 1984. A week later, a military regime headed by Col. Lansana Conté took power.
In 1989, President Conté announced that Guinea would move to a multiparty democracy, and in 1991, voters approved a new constitution. In Dec. 1993 elections, the presidents Unity and Progress Party took almost 51% of the vote. In 2001, a government referendum was passed that eliminated presidential term limits, thus allowing Conté to run for a third term in 2003. Despite the trappings of multiparty rule, Conté has ruled the country with an iron fist.
Guinea has had ongoing difficulties with its neighbor Liberia, which was embroiled in a long civil war during the 1990s and again in
