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It's seems to be a year when anything goes. Just ask Latino star Ricky Martin who has been showing off his new blond beard look.
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
Sky Days apparently has some big shoes to fill — literally. The \"Black Ink Crew\" star took to Instagram on Thursday, July 23, and posted a photo of
The flamboyant Nairobi city governor, Mike Mbuvi Sonko has been impeached by members of the county assembly.
88 members of the county assembly voted to support the impeachment motion while 2 others voted against the move.
The embattled governor is being accused of gross violation of the Constitution and other laws, abuse of office, commission of crimes under the national laws and lacking the mental capability to run the county government.
The flashy governor, always in love with gold, survived the first impeachment motion in February this year.
Sonko has been at loggerhead with the national government especially President Uhuru Kenyatta whom he accuse of meddling into Nairobi county matters.
President Uhuru Kenyatta had earlier formed the Nairobi Metropolitan Services headed by the army general, Mohammed Badi to oversee various developmet agendeas of the city.
This later brought am issue between the governor and the head of NMS with the former now blaming the national government for his woes.
Sonko has maintained innocence and has labled the recent move as uncesseary and will not be intimidated in his political ambition and duty to the Nairobians.
GOVERNMENT has ordered COVID-19 retests for all travellers coming into the country from Tanzania citing inconsistency in coronavirus certificates issued by that country. By NQOBANI NDLOVU “Following the repeated submission of inconsistent COVID-19 certificates from travellers arriving from Tanzania on Air Zimbabwe and Air Tanzania, the Ministry of Health and Child Care in the interest of public health has resolved that with immediate effect, all travellers arriving into Zimbabwe from Tanzania will be tested at the point of entry (airport or border post),” the chief director of preventive services in the Health ministry Gibson Mhlanga said in a memo dated November 20 to the Department of Immigration. All arrivals from Tanzania now have to undergo polymerasene chain reaction (PCR) tests at ports of entry. The country has been recording a surge in COVID-19 cases, with Bulawayo and Matabeleland North emerging as hotspots, according to statistics from the Health and Child Care ministry. lFollow Nqobani on Twitter @NqobaniNdlovu
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 July 2020: One of the youths shot by security forces last Saturday in Makeni has died this morning at the Connaught Hospital, where several other seriously injured young people are receiving treatment. This brings the total number of young people killed in Makeni last Saturday to [Read More]
Heineken SA said that the decision to cut 70 jobs was 'not easy', but the trading environment brought by the alcohol ban necessitated it.
Yesterday the Boston Celtic's star forward, Jayson Tatum posed with an an exclusive pair of the Air Jordan 35 which boasts a rather \"What The\" kind of colorway which features grey, black, blue, red, orange, and yellow all over the new silhouette.
Professional diver Emiliano Pescarolo contracted coronavirus in March and spent 17 days in hospital in the Italian port city of Genoa before being discharged on April 10.
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… to get any traction among African American voters. He will probably face … mayor of South Bend affected African Americans. Still, as transportation secretary Buttigieg … the Biden administration that affects African Americans across the country.
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By Associated Press Undefined INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana schools are slowly making a dent in more than $200 million of federal aid meant to help local districts manage financial hardships spurred by the coronavirus. Since May, nearly $22 million of Indiana’s share of federal CARES Act aid has been issued to school districts around the state, according to the Indiana Department of Education. State officials say millions more are expected to be given out in the coming months. The financial help is intended to buy remote learning technology, equipment for sanitizing school buildings, protective equipment, staff training and emotional support for […]
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[allAfrica] Cape Town -- While death is inevitably a part of life, but it doesn't make it any easier for those left behind. This year has been brutal to the entertainment industry as it robbed us of several icons from across the continent in different sectors.
(BPRW) FPL responding to outages caused by Tropical Storm Isaias as it continues to affect Florida - A significant number of customers remain in the path of the storm in…
Anyone can get a coronavirus test at the CentroMed clinic in San Antonio, but on a recent day, the drive-thru... View Article
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Kamala Harris' Chief Of Staff on taking our democracy back.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for an ad hoc committee to be established to preside over South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine program
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A closely-watched gauge for U.S. consumer confidence tumbled to a reading of 88.6 in December as rising coronavirus cases dragged American optimism to its lowest level since summer. Rising pessimism is spreading during the crucial holiday season, which could make or break a number of retailers, restaurants, gyms and other places hammered by the pandemic. The December number released Tuesday by the Conference Board represents a big decline from November's reading, which was revised downward to 92.9. The drop was far worse than analysts had expected and is an […]
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The Ministry of Health reports that South Africa's caseload increased with 1 806 confirmed COVID-19 during the past 24 hours.
Up to Friday, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) had confirmed a total of 40 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases after two new additional positive tests were recorded.
The article Region Seven’s total COVID-19 cases now at 40 appeared first on Stabroek News.
Elections generally have become a key fixture on the African news calendar and the year 2020 was no different.
West Africa has undertaken a number of key presidential votes that seen incumbents being retained – some under very tense circumstances. Two other polls are awaited in the region – Ghana and Niger; December 7 and 27 respectively.
As part of our 2020 review, we look back at some of the major elections that took place in the region. The review metrics shall be the significance of the vote, the main candidates, major issues, the final outcome and the poll aftermath.
The piece is the concluding part of our election review and focuses on polls in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Togo.
Togo re-elects Faure
Togo held Africa’s first presidential vote in February, just in time before the disruption of COVID-19 which forced other countries to postpone or consider postponing their elections.
The February 22 poll was the first since constitutional reforms capped the presidential term limits. The new legislation means that incumbent Faure Gnassingbe could run for two more terms (2020 – 2030).
Two days after the vote, he was declared winner of the vote at a time opposition said it was contesting the process and outcome. The elections body announced that the president had won 72 percent of the vote in the first round.
The body added that main contender and former Prime Minister, Agbeyome Kodjo, came in second with just 18 percent of votes. The president was subsequently sworn into office at a social distanced event in the capital Lome.
Guinea’s busy, bustling election year
Guinea conducted three different votes this year. A referendum on extending presidential term limits, a partial legislative poll and a presidential poll. The referendum was passed amid tension and widespread opposition protest. That set the tone for the equally bloody presidential poll as opposition protesters clashed with security forces.
At the end of the vote, President Alpha Conde was declared winner with 59.49% of the vote, defeating his main rival Cellou Diallo. Diallo received 33.50% of the vote, the electoral commission said. Voter turnout was almost 80%.
Political tensions in the West African nation turned violent after Diallo claimed victory ahead of the official results. Celebrations by his supporters were suppressed when security forces fired tear gas to disperse them.
Ouattara pushes ahead with third term
Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara was on his way out of the presidency until his Prime Minister and candidate of the ruling party Amadou Gon Coulibaly died.
Then the president reversed his quit promise. The consequence of which was an opposition mobilization against his candidature. Clashes with security forces did little to deter Ouattara who had been cleared with three others to run in the October 31 poll.
Days to the vote, main opposition candidates ex-president Henri Konan Bedie and ex-prime minister Pascal Affi N’guessan announced a boycott of the vote. Ouattara press
With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, it's time to make it a point to buy Black.
Defensive end Tia Savea of Desert Pines High in Las Vegas will be part of UCLA’s 2021 recruiting class, as he announced his decision during ESPN’s broadcast of the Under Armour All-American showcase on Sunday. The addition of the four-star prospect will help the Bruins’ class, ranked 28th in the nation and fourth in the […]
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan issued a stern message Thursday to public education officials in the state: It's time to start getting children back in school.
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RB singer-songwriter August Alsina is opening up about his past alleged relationship with Jada Pinkett Smith. While promoting his new album The Product III: stateofEMERGEncy, []
Nationwide — Just weeks after recovering from the deadly coronavirus, Shiela Lucas, a 71-year old grandmother from Washington, DC has tragically died after being shot while protecting her granddaughter during an altercation with two other women.
According to reports, the shooting happened after two women had a confrontation inside a Giant supermarket.
Lucas was walking back home with her daughter, granddaughter, and great-grandchildren when the women, whom they didn’t know, returned and started another confrontation.
Lucas’ son, Robert J. Alston Jr., said Lucas stepped in to try to protect her granddaughter when someone started shooting.
Meanwhile, DC Metropolitan Police are calling for anyone with information about the shooting to come forward.
(Black PR Wire) Atlanta, GA - Many of us, who care deeply about health equity, are struggling to re-attain our 'balance.' We continue to reel, as the acute, formidable challenges…
Theres something in the Houston water and its bubbling. Not to the levels of its 2005 zenith, when Houston had rap in a choke hold. But were getting to that mark with every passing day. One luminary currently holds the #3 spot on the Billboard Rap Chart (Kirko Bangz), others are still churning out music with no signs of letting up anytime soon.
Its the new blood running Houston, filling up venues and tape decks with quality music, ranging from complete nihilism wrapped in gangsta bravado to introspection through a cloud of weed smoke. Its lush, its lovely and there are ten names to be wary of from the Lone Star States most populous city.
A noteworthy name for considerable reasons. If Kendrick Lamar had a symbiotic twin, he’d still support the Lakers yet live in the Houston suburb of Missouri City. That’s Cannon, a Stunt Team affiliate (he and Hoodstar Chantz combine for the sort of Riggs & Murtaugh sh!t talking rap everyone would love) with an impeccable sense of knowing when to drop a punchline. His Yours Truly (download it here) mixtape was released during the beginning of 2012 and remains one of the city’s most unappreciated lyrical voyages. More »
Cut from a different cloth, Travis $cott has made waves as a Houston producer and rapper without necessarily going through Houston to get there. He’s already got a track with T.I. (Animal) and a far more welcome and engaging cut in 16 Chapels. Hes down with ILLROOTS, and he’s been spotted in the studio with Kanye West -- a man who he gets compared to production-wise for his emphasis on tossing everything together to make anthemic, grandiose productions just for the hell of it.
A whirlwind in her own right, Tawn P boasts the two things that made Lauryn Hill almost a demigod for female rappers: non-conformist looks and the ability to switch between soul singer and fiery rapper without hesitation. The blonde dreadlocked Tasmanian devil is steadily improving as a rapper, slowly but surely finding a balance between
By Victor Omondi Owing to the ongoing pandemic, Bahamas has officially closed its border to American tourists. In a public address on Sunday, Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis announced that due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the U.S., Bahamas officials had decided to block international commercial flights and vessels ferrying passengers from […]
