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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council unanimously called for a reversal of the military coup in Myanmar on Wednesday, strongly condemning the violence against peaceful protesters and calling for “utmost restraint...
In May, Burundi held a presidential election which was won by Evariste Ndayishimiye, candidate of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party.
Ndayishimiye was hurriedly sworn in after the untimely death of president Pierre Nkurunziza in June.
Rights violations continue
The Council encouraged donor countries which had suspended aid to Burundi to continue dialogue towards resumption of development assistance.
A report by a UN watchdog in September said human rights violations were still being committed in Burundi, including sexual violence and murder.
The country was plunged into a crisis in April 2015 when Ndayishimiye’s predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a controversial third term, which he ultimately won in July 2015.
His candidature, which was opposed by the opposition and civil society groups, resulted in a wave of protests, violence and even a failed coup in May 2015.
Hundreds of people were killed and over 300,000 fled to neighboring countries.
In early Jan. 2013, President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshal to Cairo. First, Morsi met with each one individually. The objective was to work toward a reconciliation of the two factions, Fatah and Hamas, but according to officials, there was little progress.
After meeting with Morsi, Abbas released a statement, We discussed the Palestinian conditions and the means to achieve reconciliation through implementing the agreed-upon steps according to the Doha and Cairo agreements. The Doha and Cairo agreements were pacts signed in 2012 by Fatah and Hamas. Abbas did not comment or release a statement after meeting with Meshal, another sign that there was little, if any, progress.
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned in April 2013 amid infighting among the top echelon of the Palestinian Authority and popular discontent. Fayyad is credited with cracking down on corruption in the West Bank, improving infrastructure, and boosting the economy, which resulted in an increase in international aid. However, after Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas requested a bid for statehood at the United Nations Security Council, the U.S. stopped funding the Palestinian Authority and the economy soured. It was unclear how Fayyads resignation would affect the reconciliation of Fatah and Hamas.
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Plain clothes members of the Wisconsin National Guard recently started conducting free COVID-19 testing for central city residents.
The tests are part of an initiative by the state and Gov. Tony Evers to test all of Milwaukee’s African Americans, Latinos, and tribal community members at two locations.
Thirty percent of Wisconsinites who have died after contracting COVID-19 are African American.
“Our African American and Latino residents have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 both at home and where they work,” read a joint statement from members of the Common Council.
The council members strongly urged African American, Latino and tribal community members—those with or without symptoms—to take advantage of the free COVID-19 testing.
Tensions grew between the Wafd Party and the monarchy following independence, and in 1952, the army, led by Gen. Mohammed Naguib, seized power. Three days later, King Farouk abdicated in favor of his infant son. The monarchy was abolished and a republic proclaimed on June 18, 1953, with Naguib becoming president and prime minister. He relinquished the prime ministership in 1954 to Gamal Abdel Nasser, leader of the ruling military junta. Nasser also assumed the presidency in 1956.
Nassers policies embroiled his country in continual conflict. In 1956, the U.S. and Britain withdrew their pledges of financial aid for the building of the Aswan High Dam. In response, Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and expelled British oil and embassy officials. The Soviet Union then agreed to finance the dam and would come to exert increasing influence over Egypt in the coming decade. Israel, barred from the canal and exasperated by terrorist raids, invaded the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. Britain and France, after demanding Egyptian evacuation of the canal zone, attacked Egypt on Oct. 31, 1956. Worldwide pressure forced Britain, France, and Israel to halt the hostilities. A UN emergency force occupied the canal zone, and all troops were evacuated in the spring of 1957.
From 1956 to 1961, Egypt and Syria united to form a single country called the United Arab Republic (UAR). Syria ended this relationship in 1961 after a military coup, but Egypt continued to call itself the UAR until 1971.
Nnamdi Azikiwe was the first President of Nigeria and wasinstrumental in founding a string of newspapers across Nigeria.
Azikiwe was born on November 16, 1904 in Zungeru which wasthen the capital of Northern Nigeria. His father, Chukwumeka Azikiwe, was a civilservant in the British colonial government. Azikiwe began attending school in 1912 after enrolling in the ChurchMissionary Society (CMS) Niger Mission in Onitsha. Between 1912 and 1921 Azikiwe switched mostlybetween CMS and Wesleyan Boys High School,both in Lagos,at the request of his father. In 1921Azikiwe passed his civil servant exam and was assigned to work in the TreasuryDepartment in Nigeria.
Believing that education was his key to advancement inAfrica, Azikiwe left Lagos in 1925 to attend Storer Collegein West Virginia in the United States. He also attended HowardUniversity for a time beforegraduating from LincolnUniversity in 1930 withhis Bachelors Degree in Political Science. By 1933 Azikiwe would also earn two Masters Degrees in Arts and Sciencefrom Lincoln Universityand the Universityof Pennsylvania.
In late 1934 Azikiwe returned to Africa, settling in Accra, Ghanawhere he became the editor of the newly founded African Morning Post. Withthat position he began his career in the newspaper industry where he promotedAfrican nationalism and later African independence. After returning to Nigeriain 1937 Azikiwe founded the West AfricanPilot and the Zik Group of Newspapers which by 1944 controlled five majorpublications across Nigeria.
In 1947 Azikiwe was elected to his first government positionin the Nigerian Legislative Council. By1954 he was the Premier of Eastern Nigeria where he was forced to relinquishhis business interests. On October 1,1960 Nigeriabecame independent of the British government and Nnamdi Azikiwe became itsfirst indigenous Governor General. Threeyears later, on October 1, 1963 Nigeriawas declared a republic and Nnamdi Azikiwe was elected as its firstPresident. He shared power with thenewly elected Prime Minister
[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia's Foreign Minister, Gedu Andargachew has rejected Egypt's call to refer the dispute over Addis Ababa's construction of the giant Nile dam to the United Nations Security Council.
All over Wauwatosa on Thursday, June 18, 2020, calls for justice could be heard as the families of three people all of whom were killed by the same Wauwatosa police officer filed citizen complaints. Four years after Jay Anderson Jr.s death, his family filed a citizen complaint against the officer who killed him.... [Read More]
Mathieu Kérékou, (born Sept. 2, 1933, Kouarfa, French Dahomey [now Benin]—died Oct. 14, 2015, Cotonou, Benin), Beninese military and political leader who seized power in a military coup (1972), declared (1974) a one-party Marxist-Leninist state, renamed (1975) the country the People’s Republic of Benin, and ruled with an iron fist for almost 20 years. In 1991, however, he became the first sub-Saharan African strongman to step down peacefully in favour of a democratically elected president, and in 1996 he won election to that office. Kérékou attended military school and served in the French colonial army until Dahomey gained independence in 1960. He was named chairman of the country’s Military Revolutionary Council following a coup engineered in 1967 by his cousin Maurice Kouandété, but the latter was unable to hold on to power. (Kérékou later pardoned Kouandété, who had been sentenced to death by his successors.) Although Kérékou brought political stability to the country, his social and economic policies, which included nationalizing the banking and oil industries, failed, and Benin struggled economically even after he abandoned (1989) Marxism. He briefly changed his first name to Ahmed following a reported conversion to Islam in 1980, but he later reverted to using Mathieu and referred to himself as a born-again Christian. In 1987 Kérékou resigned from the army and declared himself to be a civilian head of state. Three years later he promulgated a new constitution and scheduled multiparty elections for 1991. He lost the presidency to Nicéphore Soglo but came back to defeat Soglo in 1996. Kérékou was reelected in 2001, but he was barred by the constitution from seeking a third term.
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Grenadas U.S. educated Prime Minister Maurice Bishop killed in a military coup.
Sudan will on May 31 know whether the United Nations Security Council has accepted to deploy a new peace mission that had been requested by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.
Dr Hamdok asked for a mission that would support the implementation of the Constitutional Declaration; implement peace accords in Darfur, Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile, mobilise international economic assistance for Sudan; and support drafting a new constitution.
The request comes as the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur ends in October, which could leave Sudan exposed to counter-revolutionary forces, given that there is still war in Darfur, the Blue Nile and Southern Cordofan regions.
However, experts on Sudan say that the request is a realisation that counter-revolutionary forces are rising, threatening the current governance arrangement between the military junta and civilians.
He said the transitional government is experiencing rivalry between the head of Sudan’s ruling council Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of the Sudan Armed Forces, and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo better known as Hemedti of the Rapid Support Forces.
COMPTON — City Councilman Isaac Galvan has responded to issues pertaining to an email making its rounds around the city about issues related to an alleged personal matters and the loss of his transportation allowance.
Galvan said he was still receiving his transportation allowance from the city because he was wrongfully arrested and that he used the allowance to take Lyft or Uber.
There is no provision in the city charter mandating the council members have a valid driver’s license.
The city gives council members the option to either drive a city car, which would require a valid driver’s license, or opt to take the transportation allowance, which does not.
Galvan says he currently receives approximately $1,300 per month, as a member of the City Council, which covers his monthly salary, technology and transportation expenses.
The Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Emergency Amendment Act of 2020, prohibits neck restraints and chokeholds, has restrictions on police hiring, emphasizes accountability procedures and punishments, and clarifies the meaning of deadly force.
In the last subtitle of the emergency act, “Use of Deadly Force By a Police Officer,” Council members were clearly considering the death of Floyd, as well as countless others who similarly experienced excessive force by a police officer.
“A Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer, after giving notice of his or her identity as such, may use or threaten to use force that is reasonably necessary to accomplish the arrest of an individual suspected of a criminal act who resists or flees from the arrest,” one subsection of the legislation says.
To ensure that we do not see these incidents take place in the District of Columbia, this subtitle would require Metropolitan Police Department officers to exhaust every alternative to deadly force when effectuating an arrest.”
Despite the major changes in the emergency legislation, Color of Change and other local activist organizations encourage the Council to continue to listen to the community and demonstrators who are fighting for a fix of the police budget.
FORMER Zanu PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairman Dickson Mafios was arrested yesterday, a day after his brother, former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere was named among people plotting to oust President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
He was arrested together with former legislator Wonder Mashange, who together with him, are members of the opposition National Patriotic Front, made up of largely G40 members ousted from government by Mnangagwa in a November 2017 coup.
But National Patriotic Front spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire confirmed the arrests, saying the two were taken to Braeside Police Station in Harare.
Mafios was once convicted of border jumping after skipping the country during Operation Restore Legacy in November 2017 and was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment.
He once accused Mnangagwa of being corrupt and controlling mining cartels and machete gangs across the country before the ouster of former President Robert Mugabe in a military coup.
For many students across the city, especially those from black and brown communities, the option of a college education is far-fetched. Most of these students come from low-income families who face several barriers that prevent or limit their chances of continuing their education. To add to that list of obstacles is the COVID-19 pandemic and … Continued
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Tolbert was ousted in a military coup on April 12, 1980, by Master Sgt. Samuel K. Doe, backed by the U.S. government. Does rule was characterized by corruption and brutality. A rebellion led by Charles Taylor, a former Doe aide, and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), started in Dec. 1989; the following year, Doe was assassinated. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) negotiated with the government and the rebel factions and attempted to restore order, but the civil war raged on. By April 1996, factional fighting by the countrys warlords had destroyed any last vestige of normalcy and civil society. The civil war finally ended in 1997.
In what was considered by international observers to be a free election, Charles Taylor won 75% of the presidential vote in July 1997. The country had next to no health care system, and the capital was without electricity and running water. Taylor supported Sierra Leones brutal Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in the hopes of toppling his neighbors government and in exchange for diamonds, which enriched his personal coffers. As a consequence, the UN issued sanctions against Liberia.
In 2002, rebels—Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD)—intensified their attacks on Taylors government. By June 2003, LURD and other rebel groups controlled two-thirds of the country. Finally, on Aug. 11, Taylor stepped down and went into exile in Nigeria. By the time he was exiled, Taylor had bankrupted his own country, siphoning off $100 million and leaving Liberia the worlds poorest nation. Gyude Bryant, a businessman seen as a coalition builder, was selected by the various factions as the new president.
Kenya narrowly won an election for a non-permanent United Nations Security Council seat Thursday, in a vote impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
India, Ireland, Mexico and Norway all won their bids in first-round voting on Wednesday, but neither Kenya nor Djibouti attained the two-thirds majority needed in the U.N. General Assembly to take a seat designated for Africa on the powerful 15-nation council.
In a second round on Thursday, Kenya achieved the slimmest of victories, obtaining 129 votes, one more than needed to win the seat.
Djibouti’s foreign minister congratulated Kenya after the vote.
In the first round of voting on Wednesday, Ireland and Norway also had a tight race with Canada over two available seats for their regional group.
Nearly four times the size of Texas and the largest country on the continent, Algeria is bordered on the west by Morocco and Western Sahara and on the east by Tunisia and Libya. The Mediterranean Sea is to the north, and to the south are Mauritania, Mali, and Niger. The Saharan region, which is 85% of the country, is almost completely uninhabited. The highest point is Mount Tahat in the Sahara, which rises 9,850 ft (3,000 m).
Parliamentary republic.
Excavations in Algeria have indicated that Homo erectus resided there between 500,000 and 700,000 years ago. Phoenician traders settled on the Mediterranean coast in the 1st millennium B.C. As ancient Numidia, Algeria became a Roman colony, part of what was called Mauretania Caesariensis, at the close of the Punic Wars (145 B.C.). Conquered by the Vandals about A.D. 440, it fell from a high state of civilization to virtual barbarism, from which it partly recovered after an invasion by Arabs about 650. Christian during its Roman period, the indigenous Berbers were then converted to Islam. Falling under the control of the Ottoman Empire by 1536, Algiers served for three centuries as the headquarters of the Barbary pirates. Ostensibly to rid the region of the pirates, the French occupied Algeria in 1830 and made it a part of France in 1848.
Algerian independence movements led to the uprisings of 1954–1955, which developed into full-scale war. In 1962, French president Charles de Gaulle began the peace negotiations, and on July 5, 1962, Algeria was proclaimed independent. In Oct. 1963, Ahmed Ben Bella was elected president, and the country became Socialist. He began to nationalize foreign holdings and aroused opposition. He was overthrown in a military coup on June 19, 1965, by Col. Houari Boumédienne, who suspended the constitution and sought to restore economic stability. After his death, Boumédienne was succeeded by Col. Chadli Bendjedid in 1978. Berbers rioted in 1980 when Arabic was made the countrys only official language. Algeria entered a major recession after
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In an effort to abolish term limits and broaden his powers, President Tandja in May and into June 2009 suspended the Constitution and implemented emergency rule,
The former Michigan State Fairgrounds is in for an industrial transformation. In a 5-2 majority vote Tuesday, Detroit City Council officials approved plans to build an Amazon.com Inc. distribution center in place of the historic Michigan State Fairgrounds. City Council members James Tate, Janeé Ayers, André Spivey, Scott Benson, Gabe Leland and Roy McCalister were … Continued
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Amadou Toumani Touré , byname ATT (born November 4, 1948, Mopti, French Sudan [now in Mali]), Malian politician and military leader who twice led his country. He served as interim president (1991–92) after a coup and was elected president in 2002. In March 2012 he was deposed in a military coup. He officially resigned the next month.
Touré studied to be a teacher and later joined the army in 1969, receiving military training in France and the U.S.S.R. At one time he was a member of the Presidential Guard in Mali, but he had a falling out with the president, Gen. Moussa Traoré, and lost this position.
Touré first came to international prominence on March 26, 1991, as the leader of a coup that toppled Traoré (who had himself come to power in 1968 in a coup against Modibo Keita). Touré’s coup was generally welcomed because of Traoré’s repressive policies, which had led to popular unrest, often manifested in violent riots, in 1990–91. It was after days of such rioting that the coup took place, and it seemed to many that Touré had acted in the name of the people and brought stability and democracy to the country. Be this as it may, the pro-democracy forces in the country lost little time in organizing the 1992 presidential election, in which Touré did not stand, and he retired as president on June 8, 1992.
For the next decade Touré occupied himself with nonmilitary activities, mostly concerned with public health. In 1992 he became the head of Mali’s Intersectoral Committee for Guinea Worm Eradication, and he was associated with campaigns to eliminate polio and other childhood diseases as well as working for the control of AIDS in Africa, often collaborating with the Carter Center, the nonprofit humanitarian organization run by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. Touré also was active in trying to resolve disputes in the Great Lakes region (Rwanda, Burundi, and Democratic Republic of the Congo) and served as a United Nations special envoy to the Central African Republic after a coup occurred in that country in
BY MOSES MATENGA PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told a Zanu PF central committee meeting in Harare that he appointed Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to head the Health portfolio to sort out striking doctors and nurses with a “soldier mentality”. Chiwenga was appointed to the portfolio last month following the ouster of Obadiah Moyo, who is facing abuse of office charges that also involve associates of Mnangagwa’s Family. The former Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander, who traded the military fatigue for political office after a military coup that ousted the late former President Robert Mugabe in November 2017, came into the health portfolio amid a crippling job action by nurses demanding a living wage. “We realised that year after year, we would not go for four or five months without a strike in the health sector. I realised we needed a soldier there. We had to second a soldier there and now they are back at work,” Mnangagwa said in apparent reference to Chiwenga. In August, armed police were deployed to beat up striking nurses at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital in Harare, while others were also deployed in Bulawayo and other cities. Nurses were also arrested for downing tools during that period. Chiwenga, soon after his appointment, pleaded with the health workers to return to work and pledged to end the culture of looting by those politically connected. He came in when the health workers had declared war on their employers, insisting they would not go back to work before their concerns were raised. Their concerns included United States dollar-pegged salaries, personal protective equipment, among other essentials, and the government had failed to convince them to go back to work. There were reports soon after his appointment that Chiwenga was targeting some members of Mnangagwa’s family who were fingered in the COVID-19 looting scandals that involved alleged abuse of millions of dollars. Several people, including Moyo and one Delish Nguwaya, a close associate of the Mnangagwa family, have since been arrested over the scandals, while journalists who exposed the said rot have either been arrested or are in hiding.
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