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[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Three regions, which are the richest of Tunisia, accounted in 2016 for nearly three quarters of wealth creation: Greater Tunis (35.9%), the Center-East region (23.8%) and the North-East region (13.5%).
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
Despite the economic hardships caused by the ongoing coronavirus health crisis, business owners are forging ahead and restaurants are beginning to gain momentum. Detroit is welcoming the city’s first East African restaurant in Midtown. Owned by husband and wife, Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere, Baobab Fare brings authentic East African dishes front and center. Not stopping at a just … Continued
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Tunis/Tunisia — Attorney General at the Military Justice Directorate announced on Friday the total resumption of activities in military courts.
The Attorney General indicated that it had also been agreed to re-examine pending cases before military courts that have been postponed since March 17, a Defence Ministry press release reads.
The resumption of activities in military courts follows the Prime Ministry's decision to allow traffic and travel between regions as of June 4, the same source explained.
Community Hospital (MLKCH), which serves a safety-net population of over 1 million highly-vulnerable people in South Los Angeles.
Part of that revision involves stripping MLKCH of supplemental funding that enables it to provide high-quality care—funding established as legislation in 2010, key to making the dream of quality health care for an underserved community a reality.
By any measure, South Los Angeles is one of the most vulnerable communities in California—and the nation.
MLKCH was created to change these outcomes, by bringing high-quality doctors and healthcare professionals into our community through a unique funding arrangement with the state.
Further, it is the embodiment of a promise: that South L.A. would never again be left without a hospital and without access to the kind of care it needs and deserves for all its communities.
Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll now stands at 154 as one new fatality was recorded yesterday.
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The Berlin Conference was Africas undoing in more ways than one. The colonial powers superimposed their domains on the African continent. By the time independence returned to Africa in 1950, the realm had acquired a legacy of political fragmentation that could neither be eliminated nor made to operate satisfactorily.*
In 1884 at the request of Portugal, German chancellor Otto von Bismark called together the major western powers of the world to negotiate questions and end confusion over the control of Africa.
Bismark appreciated the opportunity to expand Germanys sphere of influence over Africa and desired to force Germanys rivals to struggle with one another for territory.
At the time of the conference, 80% of Africa remained under traditional and local control. What ultimately resulted was a hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that divided Africa into fifty irregular countries. This new map of the continent was superimposed over the one thousand indigenous cultures and regions of Africa. The new countries lacked rhyme or reason and divided coherent groups of people and merged together disparate groups who really did not get along.
Fourteen countries were represented by a plethora of ambassadors when the conference opened in Berlin on November 15, 1884. The countries represented at the time included Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway (unified from 1814-1905), Turkey, and the United States of America.
Of these fourteen nations, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Portugal were the major players in the conference, controlling most of colonial Africa at the time.
The initial task of the conference was to agree that the Congo River and Niger River mouths and basins would be considered neutral and open to trade.
Despite its neutrality, part of the Congo Basin became a personal kingdom for Belgiums King Leopold II and under his rule, over half of the regions population died.
At the time of the conference, only the
Information on how many slaves were shipped from Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas during the sixteenth century can only be estimated as very few records exist for this period. But from the seventeenth century onwards, increasingly accurate records, such as ship manifests, are available.
Where did the first Trans-Atlantic slaves come from?
At the beginning of the 1600s, slaves for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade were sourced in Senegambia and the Windward Coast.
This region had had a long history of providing slaves for the Islamic trans-Saharan trade. Around 1650 the Kingdom of the Kongo, which the Portuguese had ties with, started exporting slaves. The focus of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade moved to here and neighbouring northern Angola (grouped together on this table). Kongo and Angola would continue to be substantial exporters of slaves until the nineteenth century. Senegambia would provide a steady trickle of slaves through the centuries, but never on the same scale as the other regions of Africa.
From the 1670s the Slave Coast (Bight of Benin) underwent a rapid expansion of trade in slaves which continued until the end of the slave trade in the nineteenth century. Gold Coast slave exports rose sharply in eighteenth century, but dropped markedly when Britain abolished slavery in 1808 and commenced anti-slavery patrols along the coast.
The Bight of Biafra, centred on the Niger Delta and the Cross River, became a significant exporter of slaves from the 1740s and, along with its neighbour the Bight of Benin, dominated the Trans-Atlantic slave trade until its effective end in the mid-nineteenth century. These two regions alone account for two-thirds of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade in the first half of the 1800s.
The scale of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade declined during the Napoleonic wars in Europe (1799--1815), but quickly rebounded once peace returned. Britain abolished slavery in 1808 and British patrols effectively ended trade in slaves along the Gold Coast and up to Senegambia. When the
BY STEPHEN BATTAGLIO LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS Kim Godwin, a CBS News executive since 2007, is on track to become the first Black woman to run a broadcast network news operation, as she has been offered the top job at ABC News, according to people familiar with the plan. Godwin will fill the position vacated by […]
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Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama handed the online retail giant a decisive victory when they voted against... View Article
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President Paul Kagame has called for the review and consideration of sanctions against two African countries, Sudan and Zimbabwe, to support their ability to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kagame was speaking at the first Extraordinary Intercessional Summit of Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States.
Kagame said that while effects of Covid-19 could persist for long even after the virus has been defeated, increased cooperation and mutual interdependence will guarantee the effectiveness of international response.
Increased cooperation and mutual interdependence will be the hallmark of effective international response,\" he said,
With uncertainty of how long the pandemic and its consequent disruptions will last, the response capacity of many African, Caribbean and Pacific States requires reinforcement.
\"In this context, it is important for African, Caribbean and Pacific States to cooperate closely on measures to end the pandemic and enhance economic resilience.
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The call to hold government to fulfill promises made to an opposition stronghold, while as it should be, can be seen as partisan.
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Zanzibar — THREE more CCM cadres, including retired teacher and currently full-time peasant Haji Rashid Pandu, joined the Zanzibar presidential race yesterday, bringing to 13, the total number of candidates seeking to succeed outgoing President Dr Ali Mohammed Shein.
Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) Kisiwandui main offices also received the first female presidential hopeful, Ms Mwatum Mussa Sultan, who collected the nomination papers, encouraging women to come out and join the pursuit if \"We really want to attain the widely touted gender equality\" in decision making.
Others are Zanzibar Y outh, Culture, Arts and Sports Minister Ali Abeid Amani Karume, Mr Mbwana Y ahya Mwinyi, Mbwana Bakar Juma and former Permanent Secretary in the revolutionary government Omar Sheha Mussa.
The ruling party has opened doors for aspiring presidential candidates to pick the nomination forms for Zanzibar and union presidencies.
CCM Deputy Secretary General (Zanzibar) Dr Abdallah Juma Abdallah, speaking to reporters here last week, invited all \"courageous\" party members to collect the nomination papers but warned the corruption tainted individuals to remain at bay.
[Vanguard] With one voice, a collection of Igbo elders and leading organisations, yesterday, raised alarm over alleged ethnic cleansing plans against the Igbo ethnic nationality in Nigeria.
With the expansion of the COVID-19 vaccination programme to cover all persons 18 years and older, the Ministry of Health is conducting vaccination outreaches over the weekend at health centres and pop-up sites across regions Two, Four, Seven, Eight and Nine.
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Gauteng Premier David Makhura says there has been an increase in the number of cases in the province in the last seven days.
During a Gauteng Provincial Command Council update on Friday, he said the province had recorded 1 516 new coronavirus cases and four deaths in the past 24 hours.
Once people test positive, our tracing team has to immediately track contacts to contain the spread,\" said Makhura.
\"The West Rand is our area of great concern, especially in the mining areas of the Merafong Municipality.
Five people are on ventilators, with one person in a public hospital and four in private hospitals.
More than 100 chief executives and corporate leaders held a zoom conference to discuss actions to fight the growing slate of voting restriction bills
By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com According to Forbes, as of October 2020, there were 614 American billionaires, the largest number of billionaires in the country’s history. And the vast majority of them are not people of color. However, there are some Black Americans with a net worth of more than one billion dollars. […]
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to loom within our communities, the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago, in conjunction with the City of Chicago, is working to address the impact of the financial strain of the pandemic, particularly within underserved communities, through Money Smart Week. Money Smart Week is an annual event that usually takes place … Continued
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Tension between Amhara and Tigray, two of Ethiopia's most powerful regions, is increasing as the country approaches elections next year, says a new International Crisis Group report.
But it is the dispute between the Amhara and Tigray regions, the new report says, that “is arguably the bitterest of these contests, fueled in part by rising ethnic nationalism in both regions.”
William Davison, the Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Ethiopia, tells VOA that Amhara citizens believe that several key zones, notably the Wolqait and Raya areas, were annexed by Tigray when the current Ethiopian federation was mapped out in the early 1990s.
Plans to hold a vote have led political elites in Tigray and Amhara to adopt increasingly hardline stances toward each other, the report says, noting a recent warning from Prime Minister Abiy that any such act would “result in harm to the country and the people.”
But Dessalegn Chanie Dagnew, chairman of the opposition National Movement of Amhara, said via a messaging app that Ethiopia’s regional map based on ethnic territories has been the root cause of many tensions, not just between the Amhara and Tigray regions, but many others.
Girls attending school can now feel more confident about their menstrual cycle with the launching of a Menstrual Hygiene Initiative by First Lady Arya Ali yesterday at the Anna Regina Multilateral Secondary School (ARMS) in Region Two.
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By Ralph E. Moore Jr. Special to the AFRO When Earl Graves Sr. left this world a year ago, it was a little bit wealthier for Black people than he’d found it. The wealth and income gaps between Whites and Blacks in America is stubbornly wide. The Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, says […]
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