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By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's opposition leader Soumaila Cisse, who was held hostage for six months earlier this year by jihadists and was considered a leading contender in 2022 elections, has died in Paris, his family said Friday. Cissé, 71, died after contracting COVID-19, his eldest son Bocar told The Associated Press. 'The doctors did everything to keep him alive, but that's the way of God's will,' he said. The news throws Malian politics into new uncertainty. Cissé was the runner-up in the past three presidential elections and many thought he had the best chances […]
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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.
Former Love and Hip Hop Hollywood star Brandi Boyd is thanking people for their kind words and encouragement, but she is making it clear that she's just fine after the abusive incident in her home with husband Max Lux.
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston's recently opened Nancy and Rich Kinder Building is touting its inaugural installations. Of the art displays, Gary Tinterow, Director, the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, said, “In the dynamic spaces that Steven Holl Architects has designed for the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, our […]
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The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County chapter of the NAACP has chosen Al Jabbar to become their next president.
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by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent “In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name/by chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she did the same…” That’s how one of the greatest albums in history opened. The title track to Prince’s “Sign o’ the Times” … Continued
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BULAWAYO-BASED photographer, Mgcini Nyoni (pictured) has published a photobook titled #ConvergenceZW set to be launched at Amakhosi Cultural Centre on Saturday. BY SHARON SIBINDI In an interview with NewsDay Life & Style yesterday, Nyoni said the official launch would be preceded by a publicity and book signing session at Zonkizizwe Shopping Centre on Friday. “The 244-page photobook that features over a hundred artists is a collection of images taken between 2015 and 2020. The book borrows its title from a project of the same name; a project that I set up in 2018 to create a convergence of creatives, spaces meant for consumption of art products and the market,” he said. Nyoni said the images in the book were of arts events and portrait sessions with artists that he interacted with, adding that the book would be available for sale on Saturday. “The work done consistently over a period of five years is one of the reasons why Mgcini Nyoni won the Bulawayo Arts Awards Outstanding Arts Photographer for three years in a row from 2017 to 2019,” he said. Nyoni said some of the artistes featured in the book were the late music hero Oliver Mtukudzi, the well-travelled veterans Black Umfolosi, the multi-award-winning Israel Israel, the legendary Busi Ncube, dancehall singer Winky D, the hip-hop king Asaph and the globe-trotting Iyasa. Follow Sharon on Twitter @SibindiSharon
Edwin Buggage Editor-in-Chief The Race to Reform the District Attorney’s Office In these historic times, there are many things that are happening that’s shifting the cultural landscape and conversations about justice, equity, and fairness. New [...]
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Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland are emerging as the leading contenders to be nominated... View Article
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1/5 say they are detoxing in preparation for a boozy holiday season. 34% admit they start drinking first thing in the morning on Christmas Day. Infographic included showing America's favorite Christmas drink by state . As temperatures drop, trees go up and fireplaces are aflame, it can only mean one thing… the countdown to Christmas 2020 has […]
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Cardi B posted a heartfelt message on Monday, Dec. 7, to a special fan she discovered is battling brain cancer. The rapper took to her Instagram to share
By Samuetta Hill Drew With COVID-19 numbers continuing to spiral upward at an increasingly rapid and alarming rate across the country, which includes our state where two major cities are reporting no available ICU beds, how is one to determine if they are designated as “high risk?” With a disease where the medical and scientific […]
MINISTER of state in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn says Jamaicans accepting personal responsibility for protecting their own health is a major factor in overall wellness.Speaking at the opening of the Life Store Wellness Boutique on Constant Spring Road in St Andrew yesterday, the state minister said this is a necessary mindset that needs to be adopted, along with a change of lifestyles and habits.
South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison is being looked at as the frontrunner for the next Democratic National Committee chairman
Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo narrowly beat his long-time rival John Mahama to win a second term, the electoral commission announced on Wednesday.
But Ghana's main opposition party has rejected the results of the presidential and legislative vote, citing alleged irregularities.
Akufo-Addo, 76, won by a slim margin securing 51.59% of the total votes cast, while opposition leader former President John Mahama secured 47.36%.
In his victory speech, Akufo-Addo called for unity.
\"Now is the time, irrespective of political affiliations, to unite, join hands and stand shoulder to shoulder,\" he told his cheering supporters.
Local and international election monitors have said that the elections were transparent, free and fair.
But tensions rose on Monday after Mahama,62, claimed to have won a parliamentary majority and warned Akufo-Addo against stealing the vote.
Mahama alleged that Akufo-Addo had harnessed the military in a bid to sway the outcome, a claim the government said was false.
\"You cannot use the military to try and overturn some of the results in constituencies that we have won. We will resist any attempts to subvert the sovereign will of the Ghanaian people,\" Mahama said.
'Prosperous and progressive Ghana'
The West African country is known as a bastion of stability and democracy in the region but police said five people were killed in election-related violence.
An urgent task for the next government will be to improve living standards and bolster growth, which has been hammered by the coronavirus pandemic.
\"There could be a tendency for an incumbent, who has just secured a second term, to take it easy and relax,\" Akufo-Addo said.
\"I am of a different character. I give you my word that I will continue to work very hard to build a prosperous and progressive Ghana, for which we yearn.\"
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, turnout was high, with over 13 million people voting (79 percent of registered voters).
Severely hit by the pandemic, growth in the nation of 30 million people is expected to fall this year to its lowest in three decades, to 0.9 percent according to the International Monetary Fund, a steep decline from 6.5 percent growth in 2019.
The full count of the 275 parliamentary seats has not been announced and is expected to be very close between Akufo-Addo's centre-right New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Mahama's National Democratic Congress (NDC) party.
