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Even as the rate of new coronavirus cases falls, there are still troubling signs of the impact of COVID-19 on Black and Latino communities.
In May, Burundi held a presidential election which was won by Evariste Ndayishimiye, candidate of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party.
Ndayishimiye was hurriedly sworn in after the untimely death of president Pierre Nkurunziza in June.
Rights violations continue
The Council encouraged donor countries which had suspended aid to Burundi to continue dialogue towards resumption of development assistance.
A report by a UN watchdog in September said human rights violations were still being committed in Burundi, including sexual violence and murder.
The country was plunged into a crisis in April 2015 when Ndayishimiye’s predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a controversial third term, which he ultimately won in July 2015.
His candidature, which was opposed by the opposition and civil society groups, resulted in a wave of protests, violence and even a failed coup in May 2015.
Hundreds of people were killed and over 300,000 fled to neighboring countries.
by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Voters between 18 and 29 made history in the 2020 election. According tothe Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, or CIRCLE (https://circle.tufts.edu/2020-election-center), atleast 52 percent of them, and perhaps as many as 55 percent voted. That turnout is at least ten percentage points higher than in 2016, and … Continued
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By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia's government says its security forces shot at and detained United Nations staffers as they tried to reach part of the embattled Tigray region. Senior official Redwan Hussein told reporters that the U.N. staffers were to blame because they 'broke' two checkpoints to go to areas where 'they were not supposed to go.' He said the staffers have since been released. The shooting occurred amid soaring frustration among humanitarians as aid is still not freely reaching the Tigray region more than a week after the U.N. and Ethiopia's government signed a […]
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… men and women. The only African American in attendance was abolitionist Frederick … — in unspeakably racist terms.”
For African American women, for example, Tetrault says … race, but were enforced unequally. Black Americans were far more often than …
Stopping the Exploitation of Prisoners and Their Families Requires More Comprehensive Solutions By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. 2020 brought renewed global focus to issues of social justice in America. From the racial disparities and inequities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic to the killings of George Floyd and so many other Black and Brown Americans … Continued
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Today, Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) Director Gary Brown joined Mayor Mike Duggan to announce the intention to permanently end water service interruptions in the city of Detroit. Currently, through several available funding sources, water service will be maintained for residents who do not have the ability to pay through at least 2022. The … Continued
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With two members of the far-right Crusaders group now behind bars, a third - Harry Knoesen - will contest the terror charges filed against him.
Omari Bryant's body was hanging in front of a motel early Saturday morning in the town of Homerville and people close to the 18-year-old are doubting the cause of death is suicide.
A Customs and Excise official in Beitbridge was nabbed for attempting to illegally move out of a State warehouse goods worth $6 million or US$8 483. BY REX MPHISA Nelson Chinguwa, 31, faces a charge of criminal abuse of office. Chinguwa was arraigned before Beitbridge magistrate Annia Chiweta and was released on $30 000 bail. He is denying the charge. According to State papers, on December 3, Chinguwa, of 103 Limpopo View went to Manica Transit Shed, which houses a State warehouse in contravention of his assigned duties. He then tried to remove the goods in question, which had been seized on June 30 pending payment of $2, 7 million or US$4 241, 56 duty equivalent to a level seven fine for importing goods without a licence. Chinguwa had taken the goods but was intercepted at the Malala Tollgate on the Beitbridge- Bulawayo Highway. He is expected again in court on December 21 this year. Lawyer Jabulani Mzinyathi appeared for Chinguwa.
Stopping the Exploitation of Prisoners and Their Families Requires More Comprehensive SolutionsBy Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. 2020 brought renewed global focus to issues of social justice in America. From the racial disparities and inequities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic to the killings of George Floyd and so many other Black and Brown Americans at […]
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(CBM) - More than half of California is now under a regional stay-at-home order. Last week, when the governor announced the impending shutdown, he said health officials had carved the state into five regions. Their goal is to coordinate a broad emergency response that would reach across county lines and consider the proximity and capacity […]
BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume, who is being accused of parcelling out residential stands, has been granted $30 000 bail by High Court Judge Justice Benjamin Chikowero. Mafume appealed to the High Court after he was denied bail by magistrate Bianca Makwande who said he was likely to interfere with witnesses in the matter. But Justice Chikowero ruled out that Makwande had misdirected herself by denying Mafume bail. He was ordered not interfere with witnesses, to surrender his passport and to continue residing at his given residential address, as part of his bail conditions. It is alleged that Mafume allocated residential stands to his sister Rotina Mafume and secretary at his law firm Rutendo Muvuti without following due process. The State alleges that in March this year Mafume allegedly called housing director Admore Nhekairo asking him to allocate stands to Rotina and Muvuti but the council had closed interviews for home seekers. But Mafume allegedelly used his influenced responsible council employees to allocate the stands to the two. Rotina and Muvuti were allocated the stands valued at $219 938 although they were not on the waiting list. More to follow…
CHIREDZI residents have rejected a $208 million proposed 2021 budget by the Chiredzi Town Council, arguing that the local authority intended to use it to purchase vehicles for its top management. BY GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVA In an explosive budget consultative meeting that was held in the council board room last week, residents proposed that council should come up with a policy that protects council property, especially vehicles. This was after Francis Moyo the former council chairperson went away with a three-year-old Toyota D4D vehicle when his term ended. The vehicle was allegedly sold to him at book value after a contentious council resolution. Moyo, who was ward four councillor decided not to stand for a second term and opted for a parliamentary seat, but he was defeated by the incumbent Chiredzi West MP Farai Musikavanhu in the 2018 Zanu PF primaries. The council is expected to gobble over $20 million of the 2021 budget in purchasing vehicles. A section of the budget which was contested was the one that dealt with the proposed construction of two public toilets in ward three using devolution money at a cost of $8 million, which translates to US$98 000 using the current auction rate. The residents argued that the figures were overstated and could result in a distorted budget. United Chiredzi Residents and Ratepayers Association (UCHIRRA) advocacy officer, Bernard Dachi, handed out two letters written to the town secretary Charles Muchatukwa in 2018 and 2019, demanding that council should come up with a policy that protects council vehicles from abuse. “In 2018 and 2019, we wrote to you demanding that you come up with a policy that protects our vehicles after we lost one of our vehicles, but you chose to ignore the suggestion. So as residents we are saying unless we have such a policy, we are rejecting your proposed budget,” Dachi said. The Chiredzi RDC was also accused of wanting to buy a refuse compactor using devolution funds from government. Follow us on Twitter@NewsDayZimbabwe
Hubs in the UK are starting the rollout by vaccinating the over-80s and some health and care staff.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported another 8,086 new cases of coronavirus on Monday, Dec. 7. That increases the cumulative total in the county to 457,880 cases since tracking began. There were 27 new deaths reported by the county, raising the total number of reported deaths to 7,936. Hospitalizations continue to reach […]
Even in a normal year, the scene I found inside a luxury car garage in central London was unusual. It was here in Marylebone, on a murky November morning, that I found a young Zimbabwean aviation and sex toy tycoon who had devoted his life to fulfilling a boyhood dream: building his own hypercar. Ameerh Naran , who is 34, stood next to a full-size model of the Naran, a 1,048 brake-horse-power “hyper-coupé” currently in production in Germany. He’s making 48 of the four-seater cars initially and offering buyers the chance to customise pretty much everything. Prices start at US$1,1 million, but Naran expected most builds would exceed US$1,3m. It was a mad, muscular looking beast, with a shark-like nose, gold-leaf trim, and giant spoilers. The boxy exhaust housings looked like a pharaoh’s cat flaps. It dwarfed the Lamborghini parked next to it — and Naran himself, who presented rather more elegantly in a navy Celine blazer with immaculately pressed mustard trousers and patent Ferragamo loafers. “We’ve got a client who’s big into horses and we’re working out a way to do the interior using horse hair,” Naran said of the cars, the design for which he is revealing today (it won’t smell of a horse, he assured me). “We have another client who has a tattoo on his body that we’re embroidering into the car.” A tattoo of what? “He’s honestly very high-profile, if I said you would know who he is.” Such was life in the rarefied world of the limited-run hypercar, in which lowly supercars — your off-the-shelf Ferraris and Lamborghinis — became the antelopes to the hypercar’s apex predator. It’s a trend that arguably started in 1993 with the McLaren F1. Other exotic species have included the Bugatti Veyron and the Swedish marque Koenigsegg. Some came and flamed out, while others became highly collectible; the F1 cost about £1,2m in today’s money at its launch. Last year, one sold for £16,2m. If 2020 seemed like a perverse year to launch a US$1million car, well, the supercar market had rallied. The very wealthy had money to burn, and a desire to invest in collectibles. Ferrari’s share price, meanwhile, had exceeded its pre-pandemic high. Ameerh said his customers came from sport, music, and big business. All of them had expensively stocked garages. They were the spenders for whom a million pounds on a shiny new toy wasn’t such a stretch. Not that anything 2020 has thrown Naran’s way would have diverted him from a journey he said he began 30 years ago. While exotic car fantasies were hardly rare in children, Ameerh’s entrepreneurial background — he descended from Indian immigrants who built a small shoe manufacturing empire (Conte Shoes) in Zimbabwe — gave him different ideas. Just getting behind the wheel wasn’t going to cut it. “I was four when I decided my purpose in life was to build my own supercar company,” he said, solemnly. Everything since had been in service to that dream — and amassing the huge pile of cash (an undisclosed amount) required to make it real. At school in Harare, Naran sold tadpoles to his classmates and later be
Temple says he thinks he might have been exposed to the virus after spending time with family in Louisiana.
By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — There were no clear signs that an attack last year on two New Zealand mosques was imminent, but police should have done a better job vetting the lone gunman when he applied for a gun license, and intelligence agencies should have focused more on threats such as white supremacism, according to a new report. Among 44 recommendations, the report released Tuesday says the government should establish a new national intelligence agency. The report details how the attacker, white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, was able to live a solitary, almost ghostlike existence […]
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By ZEKE MILLER and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration is facing new scrutiny Tuesday after failing to lock in a chance to buy millions of additional doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, which has shown to be highly effective against COVID-19. That decision could delay the delivery of a second batch of doses until Pfizer fulfills other international contracts. The revelation comes as Trump's plans to host a White House summit aimed at celebrating the expected approval of the first vaccine later this week. His administration is seeking to tamp down public skepticism over the […]
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The legendary Kurtis Blow is still ticking. The Hip-Hop pioneer is recovering after a successful heart transplant surgery.
“A Cassimy Kinda Christmas” Available Everywhere Now After the year that we’ve all been through it’s safe to say the holidays can’t come soon enough. That was the inspiration behind TV News Anchor, Evrod Cassimy’s new Christmas EP. “It’s been a hard year for everyone. From racial unrest to my own personal battle with the … Continued
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