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Zomba High Court judge Zione Ntaba has suspended the arrest and further detention of Minister of Lands Kezzie Msukwa who was nabbed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday. Ntaba has questioned the manner in which Msukwa was arrested, describing it as unreasonable and meant to just embarrass him. However, ACB Director General Martha Chizuma …
The post High Court saves Kezzie Msukwa appeared first on The Times Group Malawi.
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
By JILL LAWLESS British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told world leaders at the United Nations on Wednesday night that humanity has to 'grow up' and tackle climate change, saying humans must stop trashing the planet like a teenager on a bender. Johnson is due to host a major United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland […]
The post ‘Grow up’: UK’s Johnson says world must face climate change appeared first on L.A. Focus News.
[Nation] Nairobi County Assembly Speaker Benson Mutura is set to be sworn in today (Monday) as acting Nairobi Governor, even as Mike Sonko's political fate looks sealed.
The historic Constitutional Court judgment which allows independent candidates to run for office in the provincial and national elections was largely lauded by political figures who were at court on Thursday.
The judgment paves the way for independent candidates to stand for elections in national and provincial elections.
It challenged the Electoral Act 73 of 1998, arguing that it infringed on the right to exercise individual political choices.The NNM wanted the Electoral Act to be amended to allow independent candidates to run in provincial and national elections.
Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota said: \"We can say now with confidence that whatever else may gone wrong the people of this country with full political power will be able to correct on a good cause and South Africa will make this the best nation around the world.\"
The fallout they would experience from any form of direct accountability would be disastrous for them, given the poor calibre of candidates that political parties put forward to represent the people of South Africa,\" Mashaba said.
The Ethnic Relations Commission, (ERC), undeniably supports an articulate and free press which contributes to the good tenets of a democratic nation.
Mr. Lenox Shuman on 25 June, 2020 during a live Facebook stream of the Kaieteur Radio show made damning imputations of corruption against the Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission and by extension, the Commission in its entirety.
Any reasonable person hearing the words uttered by Shuman would come to the conclusion that his proclamations have brought the integrity of the Commission into disrepute.
The Commission assures the public that it takes pride in operating in the interest of what is just and fair and it is a reflection of safeguarding the concerns of all Guyanese.
Decisions made on behalf of the Commission are done collectively by the members of this panel and are not at the discretion of the Chairman of the Commission.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says it has not found any evidence to suggest that State House inflated figures when making payments for the accommodation of four foreign guests who were booked at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe in July, 2020. Last year, there were allegation that State House spent K65 million on hotel bills for security […]
The post ACB clears State House over K12.5m payment to Crossroads appeared first on Malawi 24.
Analysis - Exploiting public office to win elections is common but Madagascar and Cabo Verde are making polls more fair.
BANGOR, MAINE, USA, January 18, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Maine Mesothelioma Victims Center says, "If a Navy Veteran or person with mesothelioma in Maine want the best possible financial compensation it is extremely important- they …
DIAMOND RUBY — Contrary to what has been recently communicated by some media outlets, the Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Emergency Room (ER) remain open and caring for patients, the hospital said today. JFL has suffered staffing challenges and has been using Pafford
[DW] The West African nation's fight against corruption started bearing fruit when political will supported by international partners began mixing with digital technology. Can Sierra Leone be a model for the rest of Africa?
CANBERRA, Australia — Thousands of Australians have rallied across the country, calling on political leaders to make greater strides towards equality and ending violence towards women. Crowds were out on the streets of Australia chanting, “enough is enough.” They gathered in front of the front lawns of Parliament House in Canberra, within a few hundred meters of where political leaders can […]
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LIFE in Zimbabwe public office seems the most secure thing, no one makes anyone accountable, workers can embezzle and divert funds and be certain to walk away with it. Is it not time that President Emmerson Mnangagwa cracks the whip?
The post A clean out urgently needed appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted local artistes the go ahead to resume live shows but with strict conditions not to entertain more than fifty people in the venues.
OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar alleged that the transfer of a Porsche car sold by someone in 2016 had not been declared to the Integrity Commission for several years, until 2021. She was speaking in the budget debate in the House of Representatives on Friday.
She said the budget has an allocation for the Integrity Commission, to which people in public office are compelled by law to declare assets.
\"The country learnt of individuals who sold a Porche SUV to their friend and did not transfer it. That is in breach of the law.
\"Additionally, if a person in public life fails to declare any sale of any assets, he is in breach of the law.\"
She said Integrity Commission records showed a person in public life sold a vehicle in 2016 and failed to disclose the sale to the Integrity Commission in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
\"Failed! In breach of the law. Only in 2021, after the mark buss, was the sale declared by letter (in) February 2021. Why did it take five years to disclose this sale? What were you hiding?\"
She asked if the commission was under-resourced to detect these matters?
\"This Government has slashed the recurrent expenditure to the Integrity Commission, from $16.6 million in 2015 to $8.3 million in this budget. We deserve an explanation.\"
Persad-Bissessar said while citizens were lining up to do their personal transactions, Attorney General Al-Rawi's family was collecting millions of dollars per year by renting offices to the Government, including buildings housing branches of the Ministry of Public Utilities, Personnel Department, Ministry of Social Development and Family Services, and the police service.
Persad-Bissessar also inquired about TT Petroleum Holdings Ltd overriding the advice of its own legal team not to appeal TTPH's lost case against AV Oil Ltd, the sale of Kay Donna land and the growth of NCB GlobalFinance.
She asked if the Government had contracted an Israeli company to intercept people's phone calls, claiming a whistleblower had said so, as she recalled a past PNM government once tapping the phone of the then president.
Persad-Bissessar asked why a proposed fuel card was to be distributed by the Ministry of Public Utilities, asking, \"Is this to be another PNM slush fund?\"
On the Police Service Commission imbroglio, she said it was an unprecedented constitutional crisis which demands absolute transparency.
\"In this regard, I wish to advise that I have written to Her Excellency the President, co-signed by all 19 UNC MPs, calling on the President to provide much-needed answers to a series of questions.\"
The post Persad-Bissessar: Porsche sale not declared appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic nominee for President, recently appeared on a Black media talk show and suggested that Black voters that don’t know the difference between Biden and incumbent President Donald Trump “ain’t Black”!
I blame the people of African descent that support and work for Biden for not preparing him on how to best communicate with the Black media and to Black voters.
At the time of this writing, Joe Biden had already spoken to Barack Obama, Jim Clyburn, Stacey Abrams, Kamala Harris and a horde of other Black elected officials and so-called Black political operatives about how to behave on the campaign trail.
Joe Biden’s campaign, in one respect, is akin to Martin Luther King, good but dead, if his spending is based on race instead of spending money with Blacks that can truly deliver Black votes.
What Joe Biden said on Black media was a blip, but it was no different than the way many Americans talk about Blacks when they are behind closed doors.
