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[African Arguments] Ethnicity isn't meant to be a big part of politics, yet both the president and his rival accuse the other of tribalism and see themselves as its antidote.
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
By Joseph Phillips, Crusader Sports Editor Chicago Bears defensive lineman Akiem Hicks in collaboration with UnitedHealthcare and the Dreambuilders Foundation, delivered 150 pairs of new shoes to members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago’s Pedersen-McCormick facility, 4835 N. Sheridan Rd, on Chicago’s north side, on September 21. The event took place in Chicago’s […]
A TEACHER by nature, writer Ellen Aaku was born to Zambian parents in the UK,...
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The president of the Union for Progress and Change (UPC), Burkina Faso's main opposition party, Zephirin Diabré, and former Prime Minister Isaac Zida, filed their candidacies for the November 22 presidential election with the National Electoral Commission (Ceni) on Friday.
In the 2015 elections, Diabré, 61 years old, came second with 29.65% of the votes, defeated by current President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, who is seeking a second term and whose record he criticized.
\"Five years of managing the MPP (People's Movement for Progress, President Kaboré's party), have brought Burkina Faso to the brink of chaos. We are obliged to save it today because that is what it is all about,\" he said.
Former minister of Blaise Compaoré in the 1990s, Zéphirin Diabré had gone into opposition in 2011 by founding the UPC, three years before a popular uprising ousted his former boss after 27 years in power.
Threat of arrest
Supporters of former Prime Minister Yacouba Isaac Zida, in exile in Canada, also submitted his candidacy, assuring that he would be back for the election campaign.
\"This country not only needs justice and reconciliation, but above all it needs love because it is in the hearts that conflicts are born. The Burkinabe need brotherhood to be able to face a number of challenges that beset the country and that we are facing,\" said the president of the Patriotic Movement for Salvation (MPS), Augustin Loada, on his exit from the Ceni.
In exile in Canada since 2016, Zida, who is the MPS candidate and whose return has been repeatedly announced by his supporters, is facing an arrest warrant for \"desertion in peacetime and refusal to obey\".
At the time a lieutenant-colonel, Zida seized power on 1 November 2014, the day after the fall of Blaise Compaoré.
After strong pressure from political parties, civil society and the international community, he relinquished power after three weeks to Michel Kafando, a retired diplomat, who immediately appointed him Prime Minister in a transitional government.
In early August, several opposition political parties, including the MPS and the UPC, signed an agreement to support, in the event of a second round, the candidate who had come out ahead in the first round.
Crowded field
Other candidates who have already run for the presidency include many Compaore-era officials: former Prime Minister Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo, Gilbert Noël Ouédraogo, leader of a party formerly allied with Compaore, and Eddie Komboïgo, president of the ruling Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP).
Other strong candidates include Tahirou Barry, third in the 2015 presidential election, a minister who resigned from Kaboré's first government, and the jurist Abdoulaye Soma.
Since 2015, jihadist attacks have occurred almost daily in Burkina. This violence, sometimes intertwined with inter-community conflicts, resulted in at least 1,100 deaths and forced more than one million people to flee their homes.
According to a law passed in August, elections will be validated, although they cannot be
Uber believes every eligible American citizen should have access to vote and the company knows it is uniquely positioned to help move people to the polls. That’s why they’ve been working hard to ensure everyone, regardless of what barriers they face, has access to vote. In September, Uber announced a commitment to help get folks … Continued
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Shaneille Hall became an orphan at three years old and was placed in the care of her maternal family. She was learning to adjust to life without her parents and enjoying the joys of childhood when, at five years old, she was sexually abused by her...
by Linda S. Wallace - Fearful people are at work trying to undermine our democracy. Unfortunately, I’m not talking about Chinese or Russian agents. I’m referring to the neighbor next door who is so afraid of ending up on the losing side of the Nov. 3 presidential election that he/she/they view scare tactics and dirty […]
During Lizzo's meteoric rise she's been both praised and dragged for her body positivity. But now the entertainer is coming... View Article
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Residents of Ivory Coast's capital city Abidjan fear what will come next.
The city is calm this morning, but incertainty is till on everyone's mind.
Following yesterday's acts of violents in some of the country's major cities, many dread a return of the 2010 post electoral violence, that killed over 3 000 people.
\" We no longer want war, we want peace, so that what happened in 2010 never happens again. We ask those who are against it to come to their senses so democracy can move forward. We cannot developp a country in war and hate \", 67-year-old Moussa Doumbia, a local Resident of Abobo, in the capital city.
Life may just be like everyday on this market, however after months of violence, many wonder what will come next
\"We are afraid of what's to come, we are afraid of what will come next, Honestly we don't know how things are going to go, so we are afraid \" confesses Aicha Toure, a Vegetable seller.
Now according to this local resident, fear and weariness are on everyone's mind.
\" We're scared, the Ivorians are tired (of the situation), we're not going to spend our time with politicians, that's not where we're going to stay. Young people have to work, we Ivorians are united \" assures Local Resident Julien Yobouet.
Uncertainty has surronded the coming days. Ivoirians now wonder whether the release of even partial election results in the next five days could set off more unrest in the country, just like it did, a decade ago.
So far violence surronding the presidential elections in the country have left at least 30 dead since August, a number that is expected to change, in the coming hours.
She also discussed issues including education and COVID-19.
James Coleman - A slate of reforms designed to curb the use of excessive force and the procurement of military equipment by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department and Shelby County corrections officers continued to be a focal point of discussion during Monday’s Shelby County Commission meeting. The proposed regulations, which were considered on the second […]
