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The general secretary of the Democratic Labour Party, Steve Blackett, has been suspended, party officials confirmed late on Thursday. The party’s top brass is to conduct an investigation, Barbados TODAY…
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Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Salisha Seebaran, speaks on the killing of Videsh Dookran, her 15-year-old grandson who was a student of Ste Madeleine Secondary School was killed and body dumped at the back of Classic Pluck Shop in Galonda. - Photo by Marvin Hamilton THE gruesome death of schoolboy Videsh Dookran, who was chopped and shot and his body stuffed in a latrine a short distance from his Golconda home, has left relatives baffled […]
Yet another qualifications row has hit the DA - but with grievances against some leaders lacking susbtance, things may not be so 'cut and dry'...
The group was forced to stay put with his convoy of more than 20 branded vehicles at the police roadblock between Njabini and Naivasha.
By Wilbert Mandinde/Yassin Nhara On March 2 2021, the now late Zanu PF legislator for Mberengwa South, Alum Mpofu moved a motion in the National Assembly for the drafting of the proposed “Patriotic Bill” which seeks to criminalise private correspondence with foreign governments. Mpofu indicated that he was concerned about the negative portrayal of the country’s image and reputation and cited that as the reason for moving the motion. At the opening of the Third Session of the Ninth Parliament (2020), President Emmerson Mnangagwa indicated that there were at least 37 Bills in the pipeline aimed at amending or replacing existing laws. Among them was the Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Bill (PVO Amendment Bill), which was intended to overhaul the administration of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and private voluntary organisations (PVOs) in the country. The development came as no surprise given various commentaries by government officials and associated actors that members of the NGO and PVO were descending into the arena of politics and involving themselves in activities outside their mandate. On March 15 2021, The Herald newspaper reported that the government was scheduled to deregister 450 NGOs for their failure to adhere to their mandate in terms of their registration. Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima, was quoted as saying the names of the affected organisations had been published by the government and that the deregistration was necessitated by inactivity and failure to submit tax returns. Of common interest is the deliberate narrowing of the civic space and a general interference with the activities of civil society organisations. Given the general portrayal that civil society as divergent from the interests of the State over the years, it is a useful exercise to give context to the rift between civil society organisations (CSOs) and the government, since they depend on each other for the betterment of society as a whole. On June 24 2020, the DailyNews reported that the Zanu PF-alligned Zimbabwe Citizens Forum (Citizens Forum), had called for an audit of CSOs in Zimbabwe to identify those that were fuelling anarchy in the country. Similar sentiments have also been echoed by the President at various fora. Taurai Kundishaya, who is the Citizens Forum national co-ordinator stated that: “I understand that civil society organisations are watchdogs to the government. However, there is need to understand who is behind theses civil society organisations, who funds them and for what purpose. We should be very much vigilant and aware of certain civil society organisations and unions who are there to further their own agenda and are siphoning money from funders under the guise of removing government from power.” Evidently, there are two general inferences that can be drawn from the aforementioned statement. Firstly, that certain CSOs are viewed as existing for the sole purpose of furthering their own nefarious agendas, and secondly, that certain CSOs are aligned with a perceived a
Black Headline Newswww.bhnnow.com The New Citizens PressBy TNCP Staff Nationwide — Leyla Marie Fasika Angelidis, is a 14-year-old young Black author from Seattle, Washington, who has co-authored 8 bilingual books featuring […]
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[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa says his government will deregister civil society organisations which stray from their mandates to dabble in national politics.
BY NUNURAI JENA ZANU PF politburo member Christopher Mutsvangwa has said Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was behind the chaos in the opposition MDC, telling party officials that he was using the courts to ensure that “MDC goes back to running by its constitution”. Speaking at a Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial co-ordinating committee meeting at Chinhoyi High School yesterday, Mutsvangwa, a former adviser to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, said the resultant infighting in the opposition ranks would ensure that Nelson Chamisa and his MDC-Alliance were “history”. “We are happy with the efforts by the MDC to go back to running by the constitution, that’s what Zimbabwe wants, a party which respects institutions. I hope they continue on that path and I want to thank our Minister of Justice (Ziyambi), who has been helping them moving in that direction by making sure the courts do their job,” he said. In March, the Supreme Court ruled that the late MDC founder and leader Morgan Tsvangirai had in 2016 unconstitutionally appointed Chamisa as vice-president alongside Elias Mudzuri, leading to his eventual elevation to lead the party in 2018. It declared Thokozani Khupe, who leads a smaller faction of the MDC, interim leader and charged her with organising an extraordinary congress to replace Chamisa. “ times are hard but, there is a lot of subversion which has been directed against Zimbabwe as a State, especially after the election period because one particular party has a young man who says ‘I don’t play by the rules’. He hates Zec, if the High Court gives a judgment, he refuses to accept it, if the Supreme Court delivers a judgment he does not accept it. “In his party, he rose by a coup and now those who were disgruntled, who were the victims of him in the party, their party, because he rose by a coup, they have now gathered the courage to challenge him back,” Mutsvangwa said. “It’s not a quarrel now between Chamisa and Zanu PF, it’s a quarrel between Chamisa and his colleagues within MDC. We are spectators to what is going on there, but along the way we hope they can become constitutional, but also they become more patriotic and love their country. That’s what we want. “We have no problem with an opposition, we are a democratic party.” Contacted for comment, MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende said Mutsvangwa was “daydreaming” because the party would not be destroyed easily. “Mutsvangwa is hallucinating. The MDC will not be easily destroyed. They have been trying since our founding father the late Morgan Tsvangirai to destroy our party, but they failed and will fail,” Hwende said. The MDC Alliance is on record accusing Khupe of dalliance with Zanu PF, while civic society organisations have in the past raised concern over judicial appointments made by the President and the bench’s independence
‘Dual citizenship is attractive for many reasons, but there are times when it simply should not be tolerated.
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Michael Belnavis, the mayor and chairman of the St Ann’s Bay Municipal Corporation, is faced with a decision to relinquish his position or could possibly be unceremoniously toppled from his high seat. With a no-confidence motion from five People’...
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has psyched up hard-pressed Zimbabweans to liberate themselves from the heavy Zanu PF yoke which he claims has shrunk the democratic space and deprived citizens of the much-needed breath.
“It’s not about me or the MDC Alliance, it is about the people of Zimbabwe, the democratic space is being choked by Zanu PF and it is time we act, draw a line in the sand or we will be choked to death,” he said.
But Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa last week shot down reports of human rights abuses and dictatorship by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration, saying there was no repression in the country to justify protests.
The clampdown on human rights defenders climaxed last week with the arrest of Chamisa’s lawyer Thabani Mpofu for allegedly falsifying the signature of a “non-existent” Simbarashe Zuze in a Constitutional Court challenge over the appointment of Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi.
Chamisa, who was accused of receiving advice and funding from former members of the vanquished G40 faction of Zanu PF in the run-up to the 2018 harmonised elections, said clueless leaders thrived on labelling opponents.
The content originally appeared on: Le Nouvelliste Frantz Jacques, 29 ans, pr?sent? par son p?re comme un marchand ambulant de papita a ?t? tu?, ce lundi 10 octobre 2022, au Cap-Ha?tien, en marge d'une ?ni?me manifestation anti-gouvernementale, teint?e de violences. Selon le p?re de la victime, son enfant se trouvait chez lui lorsqu'il a ?t? cribl? de balles. Des protestataires ont accus?, dans un premier temps, un policier dans l'assassinat du jeune Frantz Jacques, th?se qui a ?t? rejet? par […]
Guinea's opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo declared on Monday declared himself winner of Sunday's vote, defeating Alpha Conde, the incumbent president.
Speaking at a press conference in the capital Conakry a day after the hotly contested election, Diallo said he had emerged \"victorious\" despite \"anomalies which marred the ballot\".
\"I invite all my fellow citizens who love peace and justice to stay vigilant and committed to defend this democratic victory,\" the 68-year-old said, dressed in a sky-blue robe, from his party headquarters.
Outside the building, supporters erupted in joy and chanted \"Cellou, president\". Elsewhere in the city, security forces fired tear gas canisters at crowds assembling in support of Diallo.
Bakary Mansare, the vice-president of Guinea's electoral authority, told AFP that Diallo's self-proclaimed victory was \"null and void\".
\"It is not up to a candidate or a person to proclaim himself the winner outside the bodies defined by the law,\" he said.
Conde's RPG party also said in a statement Monday that it condemned \"with the utmost firmness the irresponsible and dangerous declaration\" by Diallo. It called for its activists to remain calm.
Diallo's announcement sets the stage for a showdown with the government, which insists that Sunday's vote was fair and that the official electoral authority must declare the results.
Signs of a looming electoral dispute began to appear during the vote, however, when Diallo told reporters that Conde could \"cheat\" his way to power.
'Chaos'
Ousmane Gaoual Diallo, a cadre in Diallo's UFDG party, said that results at individual polling states were public, enabling the party's own observers to conduct a count.
\"If we are the winners, we will defend our victory,\" he said. \"We won't wait.\"
Earlier on Monday, Guinea's government said in a statement that the opposition \"clearly intended to create chaos and to call into question the real results that will come out of the ballot box\".
Much of the tension in Guinea relates to President Conde's controversial bid for a third term.
He pushed through a new constitution in March which he argued would modernise the country. But it also allowed him to bypass a two-term limit for presidents, provoking mass protests.
Prime Minister Kassory Fofana said that the opposition publishing results ahead of the official results was tantamount to pouring \"oil on the fire\".
Second round
Guinea's acrimonious political campaign saw Conde and Diallo trade insults, and was marked by violent incidents in some parts of the west African country.
But it also raised the spectre of ethnic strife, with Conde accused of exploiting divisions for electoral ends - a charge he denies.
Guinea's politics are mainly drawn along ethnic lines: the president's base is mostly from the ethnic Malinke community and Diallo's from the Fulani people.
A second round of voting, if needed, is scheduled for November 24.
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News The 118-year-old St Francis RC Church in Belmont - Photo by Sureash Cholai The St Francis of Assisi Building Committee hopes to raise more than $6 million for phase two of its restoration work on the St Francis of Assisi RC Church, Belmont Circular Road. The church is 120 years old. The committee is hoping to raise part of the funds through its Belmont Heritage Art Exhibition and auction from […]
The Barbados Secondary Teachers’ Union (BSTU) has called on the Ministry of Education to schedule an urgent meeting to discuss the growing controversy surrounding a survey containing controversial questions and administered a week ago as part of a Computer Science test sanctioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).In a statement from the union, President Mary Redman said that though the union itself had “not been party to any discussions with the Ministry of Education and any other entities bearing responsibility for the “survey” or ”pre-test” on October 3, it is well aware of the current justifiable grievances it has raised.“The BSTU has therefore already written the Chief Education Officer asking for an urgent meeting to be provided with details relevant to the union so that it can have a fuller understanding of what took place. It has done this as a matter of course in its obligation to protect the interests of its members and its students. There are obvious implications for what may follow for its members and some of the students in the schools involved.”
South Africa's electoral commission on Monday pushed forward the planned local election after a court ruling that directed the vote to be postponed due to the ongoing health crisis.
Minister of Education Kay McConney has again made it clear that she has no intention of stepping down from office amid growing calls for her resignation. “I don’t think this is something to run from sir, this is where we stand and resolve and that is what I intend to do,” she declared while appearing […]
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With more than 54,000 registered voters in the territory as of early September, the Elections System counted 929 at the early voting polls Monday, with the highest number on St. Thomas at 453.
[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- Chadema national vice chairman Tundu Lissu was on Monday August 3 nominated as party's presidential candidate for the October General Election at the party's general council, pending approval by the national delegates conference slated for Tuesday.
[Nation] Aspirants seeking Deputy President William Ruto-linked United Democratic Alliance (UDA) ticket in next year's General Election have demanded an assurance of fair nominations.
POWER struggles have ripped the MDC-T faction apart ahead of its extraordinary congress slated for September, with interim leader Thokozani Khupe’s aides allegedly assaulted by party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora’s security staff at the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House party headquarters in Harare on Wednesday.
The fracas reportedly took place before the party’s Wednesday standing committee meeting when Khupe’s aide, identified as Kudzanai Mashumba, was allegedly assaulted by Mwonzora’s security.
“We were preparing for the standing committee and Khupe’s aides came through wanting to do security checks and also to see where the president was going to sit and other issues as per procedure,” one of the party officials who witnessed the fracas said.
The Supreme Court recently recognised Khupe as bona fide MDC-T interim leader following the death of party founder Morgan Tsvangirai in February 2018.
“Around 2:30pm, there was again another incident when Khupe’s aide only identified as Rice was supposed to attend the Press conference, but was barred by the security personnel who claimed that Khupe’s aides were not allowed at that Press conference,” a high-ranking party official said.
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News The Petrotrin refinery in Pointe-a-Pierre - File photo EX-Petrotrin Pointe-a-Pierre refinery workers staged their second protest in as many days on Sunday, demanding the restart of the refinery in the face of rising fuel prices. Led by Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) Pointe-a-Pierre branch president Christopher Jackman, about two dozen ex-employees marched from Marabella to the main gate of the refinery. They waved a national flag and carried placards which […]
The party has mobilised over 2,000 volunteers to facilitate registration of new members in counties ahead of next year's general election.
BY RICHARD MUPONDE/JAIROS SAUNYAMA UNDER-FIRE Zanu PF yesterday made a dramatic U-turn and ordered a stop to the demolition of all illegal
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A HUMAN rights lobby group has challenged government to stop making false claims about civic organisations while trying to divert attention on the abduction and alleged torture of three MDC Alliance officials last month.
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum said government should stop looking at civic organisations as “avid critics of government”, but lawful entities that exist for constitutional causes.
The Forum was reacting to claims by Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe on Thursday implicating opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, churches, rights lawyers and doctors as well as western embassies in participating in a “fake” abduction of Harare West MP Joanah Mamombe, activists Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova.
He implicated the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights and the Counselling Services Unit, all members of the Forum, a grouping of 20 human rights organisations, saying they were all complicit in the abductions.
The Forum said its members were performing their constitutional mandates and have been assisting government, especially during the COVID-19 crisis, and wonders how the State has chosen to describe them adversaries of the state.
