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One year ago at least 50 people were killed by military men inside a temple. On the first commemoration of the tragic event, relatives of the victims and congregants attended a ceremony. Pain and anger were palpable inside their new temple. About a hundred people were gathered on Friday (Aug. 30).
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — A coalition of 180 rights group on Wednesday called for a boycott of next year's Beijing Winter Olympics tied to reported human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in China. The games are to open in one year, on Feb. 4, 2022, and are set to go forward despite the pandemic. The coalition is composed of groups representing Tibetans, Uighurs, Inner Mongolians, residents of Hong Kong and others. The group has issued an open letter to governments calling for a boycott of the Olympics 'to ensure they are not used to embolden […]
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[CAJ News] Bangui -- From dispatching hundreds of military personnel to delivering humanitarian aid in recent years, Russia's role in assisting the Central African Republic (CAR) hold elections and avert catastrophe cannot be overestimated.
[Monitor] A 45-year-old businessman who allegedly set his house on fire, killing his wife and three children following a misunderstanding in Rubanda District in western Uganda has been arrested.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Attorney General of the Republic, Hélder Pitta Groz, announced Tuesday that the Angolan judicial authorities have resorted to international cooperation in order to help locate and seize new assets covered by \"Operation Crab.
National Name: Republique Democratique du Congo
Current government officials
Languages: French (official), Lingala, Kingwana, Kikongo, Tshiluba
Ethnicity/race: With over 200 African ethnic groups, the majority are Bantu; the four largest tribes—Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic)—make up about 45% of the population
National Holiday: Independence Day, June 30
Religions: Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Islam 10%; other syncretic and indigenous 10%
Literacy rate: 66.8% (2010 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2013 est.): $29.39 billion; per capita $400. Real growth rate: 6.2%. Inflation: 7.1% (2013 est.). Unemployment: n.a. Arable land: 2.9%. Agriculture: coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber, tea, cotton, cocoa, quinine, cassava (manioc), bananas, plantains, peanuts, root crops, corn, fruits; wood products. Labor force: 35.18 million (2013) Industries: mining (copper, cobalt, gold, diamonds, coltan, zinc, tin, tungsten), mineral processing, consumer products (textiles, plastics, footwear, cigarettes), metal products, processed foods and beverages, timber, cement, commercial ship repair. Natural resources: cobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, timber. Exports: $9.936 billion (2013 est.): diamonds, copper, gold, cobalt, wood products, crude oil, coffee. Imports: $8.924 billion (2013 est.): foodstuffs, mining and other machinery, transport equipment, fuels. Major trading partners: Belgium, China, South Africa, France, Zambia, Kenya, Zimbabwe (2012).
Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 58,200 (2012); mobile cellular: 19.487 million (2012). Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 11, shortwave 2 (2001). Television broadcast stations: 4 (2001). Internet hosts: 2,515 (2012). Internet users: 290,000 (2008).
Transportation: Railways: total: 4,007 km (2008). Highways: total: 153,497 km; paved: 2,794 km; unpaved: 150,703 km (2004). Waterways: 15,000 km (navigation on the
La Communauté internationale célèbre l’Indépendance d’Haïti
Haiti Liberte
La République d’Haïti a eu l’honneur de recevoir les souhaits de solidarité de plusieurs autres pays dans le cadre de la proclamation des 220 ans d'Haïti, le 1er janvier 2024, qui coïncide également au 220ème anniversaire de la révolution anti-esclavagiste et anticoloniale d’Haïti. En cette occasion, de nombreux pays frères ont commémoré ce jour historique […]
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Tanu Henry, Antonio Ray Harvey and Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media Former foster youth living in the city and county of San Francisco are eligible to apply for a Guaranteed Income Pilot Program that will pay them $1200 a month for 18 months. “Guaranteed income programs help level the playing field and […]
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[VOA] Harare -- Rights groups in Zimbabwe are expressing concern about vulnerable groups after authorities imposed a new, strict lockdown to curb a spike in coronavirus infections. The restrictions come as Zimbabwe's number of confirmed infections has more than doubled in the past week.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- As part of an effort to cement national synergy among civil society institutions in Liberia aimed at defeating impunity via the full and timely implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Report, The National Consortium to Eliminate Impunity in Liberia was established on Monday, May 31, 2021 by 20 registered institutions to ensure the establishment of a War Crimes Court in Liberia.
[Nairobi News] A woman who cut her neighbour on the thighs during a fight pleaded guilty to assault charges at Kibera law courts and claimed she acted in self-defence, in anticipation her attacker could behead her.
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Housing and Urban Development Minister Camille Robinson-Regis says the Highlander Pan Theatre and Learning Centre is a significant addition to the community of Laventille.
She made these remarks at its opening on Friday, located on the Eastern Main Road in Laventille. In her address, Robinson-Regis expressed pride in what the government has been doing for the pan fraternity, saying the government has invested over $13m in East Port of Spain.
She said the government's commitment to continuing the construction of pan theatres is to ensure the steelpan is treated with the respect it deserves. Robinson-Regis said the commemoration of the opening is evidence of the contract of trust developed by the people of Laventille, Pantrinbago and the government. Robinson-Regis said no other administration has done as much for the steelpan movement and industry as the current government.
She emphasised that East Port of Spain is the nation's heartbeat and called on the country to take note of the government's actions, saying, \"With this new pan theatre and learning centre, we are nurturing one of our greatest assets, our rich cultural heritage in the birthplace of the steelpan, Laventille.\"
She viewed the celebration as more than the opening of a pan theatre, stressing that the steelpan plays an important role in revitalising communities.
\"When future generations continue to capture the story of the steelpan, they must be able to acknowledge that we, the present custodians of this national treasure, did ample justice to the genius of its pioneer.\"
Robinson-Regis said the government is on a journey to rejuvenate the souls of the communities - which are the panyards - places where music and camaraderie intertwine.
\"To the people of these communities through the Pan Up programme, let it be known we are steadfast in our commitment to preserving the rich cultural legacy that reverberates through the steelpan from Laventille to the world.\"
Robinson Regis called for the centre to be more than just a storage room for steelpan, urging it to be a business hub and a tool for the growth of young people.
The manager of the Highlander Steel Orchestra, Robert Hernandez, in his address, called the theatre a safe space in the community, emphasising its role in saving lives and being much more than just a space for pan.
He said it is a place seeking to unify the surrounding communities, asserting, \"Steelpan is the business of people. We are about making a home and a space that is about taking young people and giving them focus.\"
He highlighted the importance of the centre in addressing the needs of the young people in the Morvant Laventille community, some of whom he said do not leave their areas due to warring gangs, saying the theatre aims to be a guiding place that builds bridges in the greater Laventille area through music.
\"When youths come into a pan yard, they tend to leave all their baggage at the door. There is a harmony, a love, a synergy that exists in the pan yard.\"
Hernandez reiterated th
A spokesperson to Governor Soludo disclosed this on Monday.
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TNH has interviewed 13 current and former Mercy Corps staff members - including alleged ringleaders - several other senior UN and aid officials, six complicit business owners, journalists, civil society leaders, and displaced people in reporting trips to Minova and Kalungu.
Business owners, who played a key role in the fraud, gave Mercy Corps investigators the names of nine other aid agencies - in addition to Mercy Corps and the Danish Refugee Council, which said it had launched an internal review but provided few details - allegedly affected by the same scheme, in some cases providing details of complicit aid workers and timelines of their involvement.
Following the discovery of fraud within Mercy Corps' programmes, however, aid agencies did join forces to launch an anti-fraud taskforce and commissioned an operational review - backed with a £200,000 grant from the UK's government aid agency, DFID, which funded RRMP until it was brought to a close last year - examining the integrity of humanitarian assistance in Congo.
A 70-page draft version, circulated among aid groups last month and seen by TNH, does not take a position on the findings of the Mercy Corps investigation, but it does describe many of the same schemes: exaggerated reports of displacements, collusion between aid workers and local communities, and distributions of aid to ineligible beneficiaries.
A 'particularly striking' scale of alleged collaboration and collusion
In its investigation, Mercy Corps, one of the larger aid operators in eastern Congo, interviewed more than 220 staff members, business owners, local leaders, beneficiaries, and members of militia groups who provided corroborating details about the fraud scheme.
In last week’s article, we discussed Transparency International’s (TI) 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index.
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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2021: Report from Abuja this evening, says that a Nigerian Air Force Beechcraft 350 plane with registration NGR203 carrying the country’s chief of defence staff - Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru from Abuja to Kaduna military airport was diverted to Kaduna civil airport due to bad weather but touchdown and skidded…
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Budget carrier Jambojet is seeking approval to fly between cities in Kenya without stopping at its hub in Nairobi and also expand into cargo business.
Jambojet is also seeking permission to expand its existing international destinations, which could see it fly to Dare Salaam, Zanzibar, Moroni, Bujumbura, Addis Ababa and Goma if the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) grants the approval.
Mr Kibe said the airline is seeking permission to open other bases in regional cities such as Mombasa and Kisumu.
It is not clear how Jambojet will manage the Addis Ababa route given that it is dominated by Ethiopian Airlines, which offers relatively lower price on tickets when compared with other carriers.
According to the gazette notice, the airline will use aircraft B737, implying that the carrier plans to acquire a new high capacity aircraft for regional routes.
Australia's PM fended off accusations of having blood on his hands as he retreated from a threat to jail Australians trying to escape Covid-wracked India.
With the SRD grant deadline looming once again, civil rights organisations are demanding another extension for those affected by COVID-19.
The opposition coalition which led mass protests in Mali ahead of last month's coup has rejected a transition charter to establish an 18-month interim government until an election could take place.
It followed three days of talks with opposition and civil society groups.
The M5-RFP group said the document was an attempt by military leaders to \"grab and confiscate power\"
\"It concerns in particular the profile of the president of the transition who must be a civilian and non-military personality, since this would subject us to the sanctions of the international community, hence ECOWAS, and the terms and conditions for the appointment of this president. And we have heard that it would be by a panel whereas this aspect was never debated in the plenary.\" Ibrahim Ikassa Maïga, one of the leaders of the June 5 Movement explained.
A meeting is planned on Tuesday in Accra between ECOWAS and Mali.
Regional powers worried that political instability will undermine a years-long fight against armed groups across West Africa, have pushed for a swift transition back to civilian rule.
ECOWAS has warned the military government must designate a civilian leader to head a one-year transition period by September 15 or else the country could face further sanctions.
By Rebecca Marks Jimerson America has been observing and celebrating, in most states, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday for 26 years. The federal holiday, which went into effect in 1986 and was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on Nov. 3, 1983, is traditionally celebrated annually on the third Monday of January […]
The 36-year-old man, who is accused of killing his wife, with an angle grinder appeared in the Mbumbulu Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday morning, on charges of murder.
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In the middle of May, Vodacom in partnership with Muska, launched DRC's first mobile music streaming service.
Russell Southwood spoke to Muska's Congolese founder Djo Moupondo about bringing his music platform home.
Muska is the first premium music platform in DRC offered by an MNO and it has taken a long time to get the agreement in place.
None of the other operators in DRC have music platforms:\"They have been talking to all the big ones like Deezer but they have never signed anything.
The biggest label on the service will be Universal Music and Muska is only the second platform it has signed an agreement with.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Standing Committee of the Political Commission of the largest opposition party, UNITA, encouraged on Saturday the Angolan Executive to take all measures to make the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, underway in the country, really a massive campaign.
[Reporter] In the Horn of Africa where many competing interests are exposing the region to security threats, the defense forces play crucial roles in maintaining peace and security. They have been on the frontlines in protecting the national sovereignty of the country and ensuring law and order under difficult conditions. Despite their lifetime service, soldiers in Ethiopia are not well remunerated both during their service and after retirement, lacking social security benefits. Hence, they constitute one of the less
Before hiring new employees, Deryl McKissack says she makes sure they align with the company's three-word mantra: hungry, humble, and smart.
Analysis - Mass graves keep cropping up in Zimbabwe. The killings of civilians date back years, but wounds remain. The hurdle to healing is the government, experts say.
This week, DAV & RecruitMilitary will host the Atlanta Virtual Career Fair for Veterans on Thursday, Feb. 11 from 11am to 3pm EST online. This free virtual event is open to ALL members of the military community, past and present, as well as military spouses and dependents. RecruitMilitary’s virtual events are technologically enhanced to provide personal interaction … Continued
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About 14 tons of water were dumped from a military helicopter to help extinguish fires near a village in the Yekaterinburg region in Russia. The blaze began on May 17. The Ministry of Defense of Russia posted a video of the Mi-8MTV5 military transport helicopter using a large tethered bucket to gather some water at a nearby lake. It then […]
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