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BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA A DIRECTOR in the finance ministry, Fidelis Ngorora yesterday told chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi that Treasury did not approve former Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira's request to secure a loan from the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) to purchase personal motor vehicles. Ngorora said the government was supposed to go through the formal procurement process, and that the request was unlawfully done. Mupfumira is jointly charged for graft with former permanent secretary Ngoni Masoka, on two counts of criminal abuse of office. She claimed that she got approval from Cabinet to secure a loan from NSSA to purchase the motor vehicles, but Ngorora told the court that it is only the Finance Ministry that deals with such financial matters. More details to follow…
\t While no one claimed responsibility for the attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed the finger at Israel, calling the killing an act of ``\"state terror.''
\t ``Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice _ with serious indications of Israeli role _ shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,'' Zarif wrote on Twitter.
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By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A group of Cuban artists and intellectuals say they won an unusual government vow of greater tolerance for independent art on Saturday after a demonstration in front of the Culture Ministry. About 20 artists had gathered Friday and the crowd grew to 200 by late night, when Vice Minister Fernando Rojas and the directors of several associations affiliated with the governing Communist Party met with delegates of the demonstrators until after midnight. The officials agreed to talks on 'an agenda of multiple topics with proposals by both sides,' said writer Katherine Bisquet. […]
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[DW] TPLF leader Debretsion Gebremichael used to be one of the most powerful Tigray in federal politics. Now he's at war with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and there's a warrant out for his arrest.
[East African] Rwanda has recorded a 12.4 percent drop in Growth Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter from July to September compared to the same period last year.
MOUNT SALEM, St James - The Government says it is calling out the Jamaica National Reserve to enhance the security forces' presence in communities islandwide in a push back against increasing criminal activities.
It’s been a month since Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was transferred to Germany for a specialized medical treatment. He has yet to return to the country.
The 75-year old was transferred on Wednesday October 28th a day after the presidency announced his hospitalization without explaining the cause.
Senior officials in Tebboune’s entourage in Algiers had developed symptoms for the novel coronavirus. The president was placed in what the government called ‘’voluntary preventive confinement.’’
It is not clear whether the Algerian president’s hospitalization was connected to exposure. State Television reported that his condition was stable.
The absence of president Tebboune has raised concerns about the vacancy of power as was the case during the hospitalization of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika abroad after his serious stroke in 2013.
His brother Said Bouteflika then took over the reins of leadership and tried to impose a 5th term of office for Mr. Bouteflika. This forced Algerians to take to the streets in February 2019. Mr. Bouteflika stepped down on April 2 that same year under the double pressure from the army and the unprecedented and peaceful popular Hirak uprising.
Since his absence from the country to Cologne, Germany aboard a French medical plane, according to Algerian media, six communiqués, sometimes contradictory, have been issued by the presidency.
Following announcement on October 28 that Mr. Tebboune was hospitalized in Germany for \"thorough medical examinations\", the presidency explained the next day that he was receiving \"adequate treatment adding that his state of health was \"stable and not worrying\", without indicating what the president was suffering from.
On November 3, the presidency announced that he was infected with Covid-19. Five days later, it indicated that the head of state was \"on the verge of completing his treatment\". Then on November 15, another statement said that he had completed his treatment and was undergoing \"medical examinations\".
[IPS] Kuala Lumpur and Sydney -- The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks (MDBs) and international financial institutions to press developing country governments to 'de-risk' infrastructure and other private, especially foreign investments.
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way to use other methods like firing squads and poison gas. The amended rule, published Friday in the Federal Register, allows the U.S. government to conduct executions by lethal injection or use 'any other manner prescribed by the law of the state in which the sentence was imposed.' A number of states allow other methods of execution, including electrocution, inhaling nitrogen gas or death by firing squad. […]
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Guinea is one of the poorest countries in the world but it has a booming mining industry that brings in millions of revenue each year. Since 2015, the West African nation has transformed into a top global producer of bauxite. According to the World Bank, Guinea’s bauxite production increased from 59.6 million tonnes in 2018...
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Across the grounds of a south Georgia courthouse, scores of masked and socially distanced voters bowed their heads in prayer for the 260,000-plus Americans who have died from the coronavirus. Then Democratic Senate hopeful Raphael Warnock took the microphone, promising to push for more economic aid for businesses and people affected by the pandemic and touting Democratic plans to combat […]
After more than six months without a local case of Covid-19, Mauritius recorded two new local cases.
The popular tourism destination has been marketing itself as Covid-safe to attract tourists in Europe particularly.
Mid-November a 29-year-old man was tested positive after being infected by his father, who returned from Australia via Dubai on October 24.
The contact tracing exercise initiated found another case of local transmission of Covid-19 yesterday.
A 57-year-old woman who had prolonged and close contact with the 2 initially positive cases.
The patient is asymptomatic and was transferred, from isolation to hospital, the ministry of Health told.
Two cases imported from COVID-19 were also detected friday from persons in quarantine.
They are a man and a woman from France and have a stable state of health.
Mauritius has so far registered 501 cases of Covid-19, the country has 10 deaths, 443 persons have been cured of the disease while the number of active cases is 48.
1,629 people are currently in quarantine as the country has opened its borders with compulsory 14 days quarantine.
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer NBA players who test positive for the coronavirus this season may have to miss nearly two weeks in some instances before being allowed to return to the court, the league told its teams Saturday. That revelation was one of many in a 63,000-word document, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, that explained some of the heath and safety protocols for the looming season. Preseason games begin Dec. 11 and regular-season contests start Dec. 22. The document still needs to be ratified by the league and the National Basketball Players Association, […]
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