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[Monitor] Presidential hopeful Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine will launch his manifesto a day later "in light of the untimely death of senior leader Sheikh Anas Kaliisa."
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
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Confirmed cases = 18,630
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\t\tActive cases = 4,467
\t\tRecoveries = 14,046
\t\tNumber of deaths = 117
Ghana Health Service stats valid as of July 1, 2020
June 25: 15,473 cases; mask arrests, apex court ruling
\tCase load as of today hit a total of 15,473 cases with 11,431 recoveries and 950 deaths, according to stats released Friday evening by the Ghana Health Service.
Confirmed cases = 15,473
\t\tActive cases = 3,947
\t\tRecoveries = 11,431
\t\tNumber of deaths = 95
John Hopkins Uni stats valid as of June 12, 2020
June 22: 14,154 cases; how recoveries jumped
\tGhana recorded a boom in recoveries over the weekend as over 6,000 patients were added to the tally which now stands at 10,473 according to authorities.
Confirmed cases = 14,154
\t\tActive cases = 3,596
\t\tRecoveries = 10,473
\t\tNumber of deaths = 85
John Hopkins Uni stats valid as of June 21, 2020
June 15: 13,203 cases; law enacted to penalize mask flouters
\tCase load hit a total of 13,203 cases with 4,548 recoveries and 70 deaths, according to stats released Friday evening by the Ghana Health Service.
Total confirmed cases = 12,193
Total recoveries = 4,326
Total deaths = 58
Active cases = 7,809
\tFigures valid as of close of day June 16, 2020
June 15: 11,964 cases; schools reopen, masks obligatory etc.
Confirmed cases = 11,964
\t\tNumber of deaths = 54
\t\tRecoveries = 4,258
\t\tActive cases = 7,652
\tJohn Hopkins Uni stats valid as of June 14, 2020
June 13: 11,118 cases, NDC advocates mass testing
\tGhana’s case load as of this morning stood at 11,118 cases with the disclosure of 262 new cases.
In some nations, there is a body or electoral commission that supervises elections, but that is not the situation in the United States. With each state having its own systems and laws for counting votes, vote-counting is still ongoing with people on the edge of their seats hoping to have a clear winner soon. Joe...
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Langston Hughes, American writer who was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and who vividly depicted the African American experience through his writings, which ranged from poetry and plays to novels and newspaper columns. Learn more about Hughes’s life and work.
June 27: Chakwera declared winner
\tMalawi Electoral Commission (MEC) late Saturday declared opposition alliance leader Lazarus Chakwera as the winner of Tuesday’s presidential re-run election.
June 25: Opposition celebrates unofficial Chakwera victory
\tOpposition chief Lazarus Chakwera has ‘taken the lead’ in Malawi’s poll count, according to unofficial results being projected by multiple local media outlets.
The third candidate in the rerun, MMD’s Peter Kuwani has also appealed to the elections body to disqualify incumbent Mutharika and opposition coalition chief Chakwera.
Read more – Malawi election commission appeals for calm as it tallies votes
June 23: Voting ends, ballot counting begins
\tPolls have closed in most parts of Malawi privately-run newspaper The Nation reports.
June 23: Malawians vote in crucial presidential poll rerun despite virus
\tVoters in Malawi have already started casting their ballots today in crucial presidential election rerun pitting incumbent Peter Mutharika and opposition coalition leader Lazarus Chakwera.
NBA photographer Bill Baptist will now be used as another example highlighting posting ridiculous, sexist and derogatory memes on your social media accounts can get you canned. Baptist learned that the hard way when he thought it was a good idea to share a meme on his Facebook page, which stated \"Joe and the Hoe.\"
The electoral commission last week told the nation to prepare for an unusual election where campaigning will be done digitally, as the destabilizing effects of the coronavirus continue.
Justifying scientific elections
\tUganda which currently has over 700 confirmed cases of the coronavirus has been slowly easing restrictions and emphasizing measures of social distancing for all activities in the country.
The commission says it is bound by Article 61 (2) of Uganda’s constitution which tasks it to organize elections within 120 days before the expiry of the term of president, parliament or local government.
In conducting a scientific election, the commission hopes to exercise its duty to facilitate Ugandans’ right to choose their leaders in a healthy and safe environment.
The opposition politicians accuse the electoral commission of not consulting them as it drafted the revised election roadmap.
Do Black Lives Matter in Italy?
Stella Jean is making a huge fashion statement- and not just with her clothing, but with her voice. The Afro-Italian designer is unapologetically proclaiming that Black Lives Matter in Italy and has even demanded that the Italian National Fashion Chamber- as well as her fellow designers and industry peers, uphold with concrete action, their public pledges of support of racial diversity that followed the global revival of the movement back in May after the incident of police brutality in the USA which resulted in the death of George Floyd. Incidents of racism by Italian fashion houses have been well-documented, from Gucci's Blackface sweater to Prada's Little Black Sambo bag charm to Dolce and Gabbana videos that were seen by many as mocking Asians. Even this summer, Marni - another major fashion house, apologised after being called out for its images of a Black man with chains around his ankles.
Jean and the co-author of her appeal, Milan-based U.S. designer Edward Buchanan, have expressed in interviews that the issue is deeper than just culturally insensitive designs. They claim that these racially-charged missteps highlight the lack of diversity in Italian fashion houses and the \"pervasive racism and prejudice'' in the industry despite ''significant funds allocated to provide sensitive training.''
Mixed Responses
So far, responses to her call to action have been less than encouraging as she received a letter from the council president saying that addressing racial disparity within Italian fashion was not within the body's area of responsibility - despite the fact that members had backed a diversity manifesto in December. According to the letter, such initiatives \"pertain instead to parliament, the government or any other bodies.'' Nevertheless, Jean is standing firmly on her stance, \"When you tell most people in Italy that there is a racial problem and that we are victims of racism, sometimes even on a daily basis, they reply, 'No Stella, come on, what are you talking about? Racism doesn't exist in Italy, my best friend is black, I have a black nanny, so there is no racism in Italy.'
A frequent refrain from Black creatives in Italian fashion is that they are often the only non-white person in the workplace. They also see their opportunities and access limited by their ethnic background. Jean emphasised that she is trying to prompt change from within as the only Black designer to belong to the council since its formation in 1958.
The Rome-based designer of Haitian origins released a video Monday which explores the lack of black designers showcasing their work at the last two prestigious Milan Fashion Week events - a career-transforming opportunity in the business.
The underlying message of the video communicates, \"Do you see us now? We are Made in Italy and Italy is Made of Us.\"
Continued Fight for Racial Justice
Jean is a unicorn, with her eponymous brand - rooted in multiculturalism, steadily growing since her Milan runway debut seven years ago. Still ev
Evariste Ndayishimiye, a retired general, will take over from President Pierre Nkurunziza, after he beat the main opposition candidate Agathon Rwasa, and five others, avoiding a runoff by securing more than 50% of the vote.
The main opposition candidate, Agathon Rwasa, president of the National Council for Liberty (CNL), has already described these results as “fanciful” and accused the government of “cheating” and “pure manipulation”.
Election held in the midst of COVID-19
\tAccording to partial results compiled by AFP covering 105 communes, Mr. Ndayishimiye obtained an absolute majority of the votes in 101 communes.
The CNL is also outraged at the case of the Musigati commune (west), where Mr. Ndayishimiye received 99.9% of the vote.
Burundi is ranked among the three poorest countries in the world according to the World Bank, which estimates that 75% of the population lives below the poverty line, compared to 65% when Mr. Nkurunziza came to power in 2005.
A militia group linked to Rwanda National Congress (RNC) in eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been \"significantly weakened\" by recent operations by Congolese forces, a new UN report indicates.
P5 was operating in DR Congo's South Kivu province in 2018, and the latest report of the UN Group of Experts on DR Congo described P5 as the armed branch of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) together with other outfits.
According to the latest report by the UN Group pf Experts, militia operating under this armed group were weakened by Congolese forces last year in an operation dubbed \"Sokola II\" as part of the Government's efforts to secure the region.
\"The Group found that P5, the armed branch of Rwanda National Congress (RNC), was significantly weakened by the FARDC operation \"Sokola II\" and had decamped from Bijabo, Uvira territory, as of April 2019, to settle in North Kivu,\" UN experts said in a report.
In Kalehe, they had been temporarily hosted by combatants of the National Council for Democratic Renewal (CNRD) - a breakaway faction of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) militia group also based in DRC.
[Ghanaian Times] The Electoral Commission (EC), yesterday inaugurated a 16-member Adjudication Committee to clean the new voters register to ensure a credible 2020 polls come December 7.
Ed Towns emerged from North Carolina’s tobacco fields, mastered the sometimes turbulent politics of urban Brooklyn, and rose to chair the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform during a 30-year career in the U.S. House. Much of Towns’s low-key legislative style kept him focused on local concerns rather than cultivating a national presence which his senior status might have allowed. “I should jump out and push and get in front of the camera,” he once acknowledged, “but that’s just not my nature.”1Edolphus (Ed) Towns was born on July 21, 1934, in Chadbourn, North Carolina, to Versie and Dolphus Towns. His father was a tobacco sharecropper. Towns attended the local public schools before graduating in 1956 from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro. Towns served in the U.S. Army for two years before moving to New York City where he taught at Medgar Evers College, Fordham University, and in the city’s public schools. From 1965 to 1975 Towns served as director of the Metropolitan Hospital and then assistant administrator at Beth Israel Hospital. Towns earned a master’s degree in social work in 1973 from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. Towns married the former Gwendolyn Forbes in 1960, and they have two children, Darryl and Deidra.2Active in the Brooklyn Democratic organization, Towns won election as Democratic Party state committeeman for New York’s 40th assembly district (Brooklyn) in 1972. He became the first African American appointed as deputy borough president for Brooklyn in 1976, a position that Towns used to connect with the various social and political organizations in the borough.3 In 1982 when Democratic Representative Frederick W. Richmond resigned after being indicted on felony charges, Towns moved quickly to fill the vacancy. Redistricting that year had created a new Democratic district composed primarily of African-American and Hispanic voters in Northern Brooklyn and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Towns garnered the support of Brooklyn Democratic leader Meade H. Esposito and Democratic reformer Al Vann. “I expect to be the consensus candidate,” Towns predicted. Two other candidates split the Hispanic vote, and Towns won the primary by a plurality.4 He easily won the general election.5Subsequent re-districting made Towns’s district more Democratic. Bedford-Stuyvesant remained the heart of the district while portions of Brooklyn fell away and Brooklyn Heights was added.6 The 2000 Census led to parts of south-central Brooklyn and Canarsie being absorbed into his district. Towns’s constituency was described as one of the state’s most diverse and solidly Democratic, comprising black, Hispanic, Caribbean, and Jewish voters.7 Towns’s winning margins in the general elections hovered at 85 percent or more in his 14 re-election bids.8Nevertheless, Towns often faced challengers in the Democratic primaries. As the 1998 race neared, for instance, Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Clarence Norman actively tried to recruit a challenger to Towns and former Democratic mayor David Dinkin
NEW YORK, United States - Jamaican-born Muslim cleric Sheikh Abullah el-Faisal, who was extradited here last Thursday, was arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday and ordered held without bail.El-Faisal had pleaded not guilty to a slew of federal charges that could see him spending the remainder of his life behind bars if convicted.
[Monitor] Members of Parliament (MPs) sitting on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee yesterday rejected the Electoral Commission's (EC) decision banning open public rallies ahead of the 2021 General Elections.
Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the likelihood of a delay in the planned reopening of schools is a real possibility as the country grapples with an increase of COVID-19 infections.\tResponding to questions at a virtual press...
The IEC says that it stands ready to resume running by-elections under Level 1 lockdown, with strict Covid-19 protocols in place.
ASHBURN, VA. - The Washington Football Team has hired Jason Wright as their new team president. This historic move makes Wright the first ever black team president of an NFL franchise. Washington Football Team appointed Jason Wright as team president in a historic hire. Wright will be responsible for leading the organization’s business divisions, including […]
BY NQOBANI NDLOVU MDC Alliance Bulawayo province has reacted angrily to the recall of five of its councillors by MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe, describing the move as an attempt at stoking factionalism in the party. Recent reports said a group of MDC Alliance Bulawayo councillors and legislators were mulling crossing the floor to the Khupe-led MDC faction fearing recall from Parliament and council. Councillor Silas Chigora has already been removed from his post as Bulawayo East constituency district chairperson over charges of questionable loyalty to the MDC Alliance and its leadership. Khupe recently recalled former deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami, who is already barred from office pending the outcome of a Supreme Court appeal on his legitimacy, councillors Concillia Mlalazi, Earnest Rafamoyo, Tinevimbo Maphosa and Norman Hlabani. “The Bulawayo province has decided to recall the councillors guided by the party’s constitution which states that every member shall have the duty to accept and conform to the constitution, policies, principles, rules and regulations of the party,” wrote Nomvula Mguni, the MDC-T Bulawayo provincial secretary. MDC Alliance Bulawayo spokesperson Swithern Chirowodza condemned the recalls. “We condemn the decision to recommend the recall of five Bulawayo councillors…and note there is nothing constitutional about the recommendation (to recall),” Chirowodza said. “Zimbabweans are now witnessing Khupe’s factionalism disguised as compliance with the rule of law.” The former Deputy Prime Minister, who has assumed control of the MDC party following a March 30 Supreme Court ruling, has also recalled 21 MDC Alliance legislators from Parliament and councillors from Harare City Council. Indications are that more MDC Alliance members face recall for refusing to recognise Khupe’s legitimacy. Khupe has been mandated to hold an extraordinary congress to elect a substantive leader after she won control of the opposition party formed in 1999.
Opposition Spokesperson on National Security Fitz Jackson is urging the security forces to maintain a strong level of vigilance in communities where the states of public emergency have been lifted.\tThe security measures, which were imposed in...
Many were waiting for Ivorian opposition leader Henri Konan Bédié to speak, but instead it was FPI's P ascal Affi N'guessan who spoke for the opposition parties.
N'guessan confirmed they rejected the October 31st vote , and stated once more the opposition no longer recognized Alassane Ouattara as the country's president.
\" The Ivorian opposition political parties do not recognize the election of october 31st 2020. They note the end of president Ouattara's mandate as of October 31st 2020, and call on the international community to duly record it.\"
\"Therefore, the Ivorian opposition political parties demand the opening of a civilian transition, in order to create conditions for a just, transparant and inclusive presidential election \" N'guessan said.
Affi N'gessan also called for a transitional government to be instaured shortly with all opposition forces.
In the meantime, partial results have arrived at the electoral commission , which, department after department, continues to gather reports.
\" The key point tonight remains the turnout rate of this vote . This is what everyone is waiting for \" added Africanews' Abidjan correspondant Yannick Djahoun.
The police high command is warning campaign managers and organisers of motorcades as well as supporters of political parties that fitting vehicles with green, orange, or other coloured flashing lights constitutes a breach of the Road Traffic Act....
… . The fight to fully secure African-Americans’ right to vote continues, as …
Malawi’s electoral commission appealed for “peace and calm” on Wednesday as it counted ballots following a historic poll to re-elect a president after Peter Mutharika’s victory was overturned.
Voters in Malawi went to the polls on Tuesday for the second time in just over a year after the Constitutional Court dramatically ruled that last year’s polls were fraught with “grave and widespread” irregularities.
Results from the May 2019 election sparked countrywide protest that lasted months, a rare occurrence in the impoverished southern African country.
It took the top court six months to sift through the evidence before concluding that Mutharika was not duly elected and ordered fresh elections.
The chairman of the Malawi Electoral Commission, Chifundo Kachale, said tallying of the votes from 5,002 polling stations was underway.
“We appeal to Malawians to maintain peace and calm as the vote-counting continues,” Kachale told a news conference in Blantyre.
Mutharika has accused the opposition of inciting violence following isolated incidents which the police and electoral commission said had not affected the election.
“It’s obvious that the opposition is doing this,” he told reporters after voting in Blantyre, claiming some of his party monitors were “chased away, some were beaten”.
“It’s obviously people that are afraid of the will of the people that are engaging in these barbaric acts,” he alleged.
Mutharika, 79, did not take the decision of the constitutional court lightly when it overturned last year’s poll.
He accused judges of working with the opposition to steal the election through what he dubbed a “judicial coup d’etat”.
He had narrowly won the now-discredited election with 38.5 percent of the ballots, beating his closest rival Lazarus Chakwera, 65, by just 159,000 votes .
Victory in the rerun will be determined by whoever garners more than 50 percent of the votes — a new threshold set by the top court.
Some 6.8 million people were asked to vote between Mutharika, Chakwera and an underdog candidate, Peter Dominico Kuwani.
The electoral commission has until July 3 to unveil the results, although the announcement is widely thought likely to come this week.
Kachale says the commission will only announce results after dealing with all the complaints.
AFP
Malawi's governing party has called for a third presidential election, citing irregularities and intimidation in this week's re-run vote as unofficial tallies show incumbent President Peter Mutharika losing to the opposition leader.
A News24/Ipsos poll has revealed what appears to be high levels of apathy among News24 readers toward Covid-19, and particularly among young people.
About 43% of people ages 35 to 39 expected to get the virus, which is the highest percentage across the age groups.
But when the results of the survey were split according to race, the concern was markedly higher among coloured people at 70%, compared to other aged groups, of which around 53 to 60% were afraid someone close to them would die of Covid-19.
About 65% of white people said they would have access to quality healthcare if infected, compared to 52% of black participants.
While the percentage of those who would vaccinate was in the high 60% across all age groups, it was Indian/Asian people who were more likely to do so out of all race groups.
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – A recent NAACP “Black Media Speaks” forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy Black-owned newspapers was all but pronounced dead.
“In 2020, for there to be a virtual panel on Black Media and not invite or involve the NNPA or any of our member publishers to be on the panel goes beyond a mere oversight,” said NNPA President/CEO Benjamin Chavis in an interview about the May 20 forum.
Hosted by NAACP President/CEO Derrick Johnson and moderated by journalist Ed Gordon of Ed Gordon Media, formerly of BET, the forum had been widely promoted by the NAACP as a discussion on the need for Black media during the coronavirus pandemic and continued physical attacks on Black people by police and others.
Barnes wrote, “I am sure by now you and President Johnson have heard from some of our Black Press publishers around the country expressing their disappointment with the NAACP’s participation in last evening’s Black Media Speaks event hosted [by] Ed Gordon.
Blankson did not explain how or why members of NNPA or other reporters for Black newspapers were not invited to the “Black Media Speaks” panel in the first place.
HARRIS COUNTY DA KIM OGG REFUSES TO RELEASE FACTS ABOUT EX COP’S ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN SHOOTING DEATH'S OF NINE AFRICAN AMERICANS
HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, June 30, 2020 / EINPresswire.com / -- More than 19 months have passed since the formal request was made to the Harris County Conviction Integrity Unit for the release of the disciplinary file of former DEA Agent John Jack Schumacher.
Schumacher, who was once investigated by congress for Civil Rights Violations, has been subpoenaed by state officials to testify in the wrongful conviction of case of Lamar Burks Burks has spent the last 20 years in the state for a murder he claims was pinned on him by Schumacher and partner Chad Scott in their effort to destroy black owned businesses in the Fifth Ward Section of Houston, Texas.
On November 6, 2018 Attorneys at Hughes Arrell & Kinchen LLP emailed and delivered a formal request to Harris County DA Kim Ogg and her Chief of the Conviction Integrity Unit Assistant District Attorney Gerald Doyle seeking the file on Schumacher who has been professional disciplined 19 times and who allegedly is responsible for the deaths of 9 African American civilian while in the line of duty.
Yes.Legal experts say that Lamar Burks Constitutional rights would be seriously violated if the Harris County District Attorney’s Office continue to intentionally withhold what is known as legal circle as Brady evidence without this evidence lawyers for Mr. Burks would be denied the right to properly cross examine Schumacher about his disciplinary history or subpoena as witnesses family members of the 9 people Schumacher has killed.
Burks’ release the following statement:“Ms. Ogg is engaged in a witch hunt of former HPD officers Gerald Goins and Stephen Bryant, two African Americans, and at the same time she is given a pass to two white EX COPS would killed, tortured, and falsely imprisoned members of the African American community for over two decades.”
The Nation has learnt that the Jubilee MPs plan to frustrate government business in both the Senate and the National Assembly as a way of getting back at President Kenyatta for removing Majority Leader and Whip Kipchumba Murkomen and Susan Kihika from the leadership positions.
According to an insider, the MPs have little hope of overturning the party’s decision, but will use the court cases to embarrass the President.
Belgut MP Nelson Koech said the Ruto-leaning MPs were aware that the Senate changes were the first step in the President's plan to tame leaders associating with his deputy, but took issue with the manner in which it was done, terming it 'unacceptable'.
Therefore, we will use our numbers in both Houses to shoot down any government agenda in its entirety due to what the President has started doing to those perceived as pro-Ruto,\" revealed Keiyo South MP Daniel Rono.
Mr Javas Bigambo, a political analyst, is of the view that the changes effected by President Kenyatta reveal the reason we went into partnership with Kanu and ODM.
All planned Election Commission (EC) activities between March and May 2020, including elections for Special Interest Groups (SIG), have been suspended until further notice.
The EC secretary, Mr Sam Rwakoojo, on Tuesday said the Covid-19 lockdown affected many programmes on the elections roadmap and that discussions with different stakeholders are on-going to see how to readjust.
At the time government issued the directives, the EC was completing the public display of the national voters' register for the elections scheduled for April 2020.
The activities which have been affected according to the roadmap include display of tribunal recommendations for deletion or inclusion on the National Voters Register (NVR), gazetting and publishing of candidates' nomination dates and venues, Elections of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), including older persons, Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and youth at village and parish levels and internal political party candidates identification processes.
Former coordinator of Citizen Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda, Mr Crispy Kaheru, said the way out is to suspend the planned 2021 electoral programmes to fit between the months of July and October or have the elections of SIG after the General Election.
