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By Victor Omondi In a clip that has since gone viral, a 76-year-old woman by the name Xiao Zhen Xie was seen being taken away from a white man who allegedly assaulted her as he was being wheeled away by paramedics. According to witnesses and the victim, an unknown white man unjustifiably assaulted the woman […]
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.
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Mellody Hobson, a Princeton graduate who in 2019 earned the Woodrow Wilson Award, the university’s highest honor, was named Chairwoman of the Board of Starbucks. With the promotion, Hobson becomes the only African American woman to chair a Fortune 500 company. “I am thrilled and […]
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Queen Naija is known as a singer, but she may also have a talent for giving great birthday gifts. On Wednesday, Dec. 9, the Instagram star shared several
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with science writer and medical ethicist Harriet Washington about the factors that contribute to vaccine skepticism among communities of color and ways to address them.
\"Today, we wish to reiterate our plea to South Africans to heed the threat of the rising numbers of Covid-19 cases identified,\" Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.
Family and friends of 25-year-old Kerry Ann Collins wept today as she succumbed to third-degree burns she received during a kitchen fire at her Palm Grove apartment off Spanish Town Road in Kingston two Fridays ago.
The news comes after voting rights activists again accused election officials of voter suppression, voicing concerns that lack of accessibility limits access for Black and Latino voters.
Bill Cosby had a few people to thank for supporting him during his prison sentence and one of them was... View Article
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Former cybersecurity and infrastructure security chief Christopher Krebs has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration and news outlet Newsmax.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has hit at the national executive in a Saturday morning tweet rant, following his impeachment by the Senate on Thursday over among other things graft and abuse of office.
The United States has warned Uganda to ensure free and fair elections.
Uganda is due to hold a general election in January of 2021. Opposition presidential candidates have accused security forces of brutally breaking up their rallies and beating their supporters.
In November, one of the candidates – Bobi Wine was arrested and charged for defying COVID-19 regulations governing mass gatherings.
Scores of people were killed and hundreds more injured as police and the military fought to quell the protests that followed Wine’s arrest.
“The United States is a longstanding partner of Uganda. We expect our partners to live up to their obligations to hold free and fair elections. We are paying close attention to the actions of individuals who seek to impede the ongoing democratic process,” said Mike Pompeo, the Secretary U.S. Department of State in a tweet Thursday evening.
Pompeo’s remarks came a day after Eliot Engel, the chairperson of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, demanded that several Ugandan security officials be sanctioned for what called a worsening human rights in the country.
“My desire to see a better human rights record in Uganda is firmly rooted in the country’s own constitution and legal code, which prevent torture and enshrine the right to freely assemble and express viewpoints that may not be in accordance with those of President Museveni,” wrote Engel.
Engel wants the Trump administration to invoke the Magnitsky act to punish General Peter Elwelu, the Commander of Land Forces, General James Birungi, Commander of the presidential protection force and General Abel Kandiho, the head of military intelligence.
Other are the deputy head of General Steven Sabiiti Muzeyi, and Colonel Chris Serunjogi Ddamulira, the head of crime intelligence in the police force.
Washington uses the Magnitsky legislation which came into force in 2012 to sanction foreign individuals who have committed human rights abuses or been involved in significant corruption.
In his December 9th, 2020 letter to Pompeo and Steven Mnuchin, the Secretary U.S. Department of the Treasury, Engel expresses concern over president, Yoweri Museveni’s “long track record of repressive behavior”.
“However, diplomatic rhetoric alone has had little impact on President Museveni’s behavior. Instead, he has further consolidated power while preventing the emergence of a viable democratic opposition,” the letter reads.
In power since 1986, Museveni is re-election in the January polls. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove an age cap that would have prevented him from placing another bid at the presidency. He is 76.
He has called his opponents ‘enemies’ of Uganda for addressing huge rallies in the middle of a pandemic.
After initially suggesting that the elections would be postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, Museveni backtracked in June telling the country’s election commission to accelerate the electoral road map.
In a May interview with a local TV station, he said it would be ‘madness’ to hold the vote
by Larry Smith From the time it was clear that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for president in 2016, I have warned my GOP friends — publicly and privately — that their party would eventually pay a steep price for his brand of politics. Some chose to ignore his tiresome, vitriolic, insipid, intemperate, … Continued
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Somewhere in in the world — California, Nevada, or beyond — Snoop Dogg, Mike Tyson, J.R. Smith, and millions of other Americans are smiling. They might even be enjoying a puff and “passing it around.”
The post Somewhere, Snoop Dogg, Mike Tyson and JR Smith are Celebrating Federal Bill to Legalize Marijuana appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
Michigan authorities have agreed to reinstate the licenses of two suburban Detroit paramedics if they pass a national exam after... View Article
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Press Release - TB Alliance welcomes the Wits Health Consortium and the South African National Department of Health (DoH)’s announcement of an initiative to provide a new, shorter treatment regimen for people affected with highly drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB). Funded by the United States Agency for International Development, a new clinical access program (CAP) will enroll 400 people in South Africa for treatment with a three-drug, six-month, all-oral regimen of bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid (know
The Toshao of Warapoka in Region One, Alan Henry yesterday said that the COVID-19 infection rate in the community of 500 may be much higher as not much testing is being done.
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH | Associated Press MISSION, Kan. — Just when the U.S. appears on the verge of rolling out a COVID-19 vaccine, the numbers have become gloomier than ever: Over 3,000 American deaths in a single day, more than on D-Day or 9/11. One million new cases in the span of five days. More […]
Jamaican Professor Kevin Fenton has been named on the Powerlist 2021 as the second most influential black person in Britain for his role in the fight against the novel coronavirus. The annual Powerlist honours the most powerful people of African,...
by Tammy Gibson, Contributing Writer 51 years ago Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, and Mark Clark, Black Panther Leaders Defense Captain from Peoria, IL died at the hands of Chicago Police. Killed by Chicago police in an early morning raid, the police said the killing was in self-defense … Continued
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As states frantically prepare to begin months of vaccinations that could end the pandemic, a new poll finds only about half of Americans are ready to roll up their sleeves when their turn comes. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about a quarter of U.S. adults aren't sure if they want to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Roughly another quarter say they won't. Many on the fence have safety concerns and want to watch how the initial rollout fares — skepticism that could […]
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In order to return to a welcome normalcy, we need to do our part—get the vaccine.
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By Dwain Price NDG Sports This past Tuesday was the first time in the Dallas Cowboys’ illustrious 60-year history that they ventured out and played a game on a Tuesday. And judging by the results, they probably wish they’ll never have to play another game on a Tuesday. The Baltimore Ravens bludgeoned the Cowboys’ run […]
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By YULIA ALEXEYEVA Associated Press IRKUTSK, Russia (AP) — As coronavirus resurged across Russia this fall, one of the most common complaints from people with symptoms who were self-isolating at home was that they had to wait hours or sometimes days before a visiting doctor would arrive to check on them. Record-breaking numbers of confirmed infections have strained the country's health care system to its limits and left doctors all across Russia inundated with demands for house calls for virus patients. 'We have already started to choke, with our doctors making 20-25 house calls a day,' Vera Klyuyeva, head of […]
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