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The Egyptian Drug Authority issued an official license of the Sinopharm Chinese developed coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in Egypt.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
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By TIM SULLIVAN and AMY FORLITI, Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The police officer seen on video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in custody after pleading that he could not breathe, was arrested Friday after three days of often-violent protests that resulted in looting across parts of Minneapolis.
His comments came the morning after protesters torched a police station that officers abandoned during a third night of violence.
A visibly tired and frustrated Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey made his first public appearance of the night early Friday at City Hall and took responsibility for evacuating the precinct, saying it had become too dangerous for officers.
In New York City, protesters defied New York’s coronavirus prohibition on public gatherings Thursday, clashing with police, while demonstrators blocked traffic in downtown Denver and downtown Columbus.
The city on Thursday released a transcript of the 911 call that brought police to the grocery store where Floyd was arrested.
These steps have been the new normal since March, but rapper Wiz Khalifa is seemingly over the restrictions after tweeting on Tuesday, June 23, “Y’all can have them masks fam.”
Over 1,000 users reacted to Khalifa’s tweet, many disappointed in the message that the rapper might be sending to fans during the pandemic.
The findings also suggested that those communities coronavirus risks are compounded by higher rates of underlying health problems, which are often caused by economic and social conditions that leave many with comparatively less access to proper health care to address said issues.
While Khalifa did not address his critics, the rapper posted a follow-up tweet giving viewers an update on his life.
Cases continue to grow in the United States despite many states reopening, reducing the chances Khalifa will be in anyone’s club soon, with or without a mask.
As the remaining days dwindle for small businesses to apply for loans through the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), both banks and federal officials are being challenged by several House leaders to explain how the $670 billion program intended to aid the nation’s small businesses has actually been operating.
The second June 17 Hill hearing, convened by the House Committee on Small Business, was entitled “Paycheck Protection Program: Loan Forgiveness and Other Challenges.”
The Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by South Carolina’s Rep. Jim Clyburn, demanded that U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, the Small Business Administration’s Jovita Carranza and many of the nation’s largest banks “take immediate steps to ensure that remaining PPP funds are allocated to businesses truly in need, and to increase transparency so taxpayers can see whether federal funds are being diverted due to waste, fraud, and abuse.”
Continuing, the Select Subcommittee added that the agencies “provide more transparency about the administration of this program so American taxpayers can understand whether federal funds are helping vulnerable businesses and saving jobs, or are being diverted due to waste, fraud, and abuse … Contrary to Secretary Mnuchin’s recent testimony, there is nothing ‘proprietary’ or ‘confidential’ about a business receiving millions of dollars appropriated by Congress and taxpayers deserve to know how their money is being spent.”
Representatives Richard E. Neal (Committee on Ways and Means), Maxine Waters (House Financial Services), and Nydia M. Velazquez (Committee on Small Business) jointly wrote both Mnuchin and Carranza, saying in part, “Transparency is critical to ensure the program is operating as intended … Furthermore, we are deeply concerned that Treasury and SBA have yet to share this information with the Government Accountability Office, which is required to report to Congress on the CARES Act by the end of the month.”
While the city plans to clean the Columbus statue of the vandalism, some people believe his statue should share the fate of the Foster statue and Parran Hall.
Tim McNulty, spokesperson for Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, explained that any decision regarding the Columbus statue was up to the city’s Art Commission.
The decision regarding the Stephen Foster statue was also in the hands of the city’s Art Commission.
After it was relocated, the city promised to replace Foster’s statue with a monument to a prominent African-American woman.
A statue of Christopher Columbus in Schenley Park in Oakland, near Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, as seen on June 22.
A survey by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) about working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that corporate America has treated Black workers categorically worse than White workers during the pandemic.
The survey found that Black workers were roughly twice as likely to have been retaliated against by their employers for speaking up about health concerns and requesting time off work.
Three out of four Black workers who took the survey said they showed up to work during the pandemic even though they believed they might have been seriously risking their health or the health of family members.
“Our results suggest that virus transmission in the workplace may be exacerbated by employer repression and that the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black communities may be related to greater exposure of Black workers to repressive workplace environments,” the study’s authors wrote.
“While Black workers at any given worksite tend to be treated worse than their white counterparts, the study’s authors suggest that Black workers, as a whole, tend to work in more repressive environments than White workers,” noted vice.com.
After the FBI concluded that a noose discovered over the weekend in his garage was not a hate crime, Bubba Wallace sat down with CNN’s Don Lemon on Tuesday to talk about the slew of hateful messages he received online, saying he was using the moment as an opportunist and accusing him of being the NASCAR’s Jussie Smollett.
In a report released on Tuesday, the FBI concluded that a rope found in Wallace’s garage was a “garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose,” and was present in the location since last year.
Since the news broke, white supremacists have taken to Twitter to berate Wallace, even though he was not the person who observed the noose or reported it.
But Wallace said he doesn’t hold any of that in regard regard, because no matter how it was fashioned, at the end of the day, the rope was tied into a noose, which has many dangerous implications for a lone Black man in a primarily white sport.
“From the evidence that we have, that I have–it’s a straight up noose,” Wallace continued.
A few days after my call with Rep. Reynolds, I received a call on my cell phone from U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on Wednesday, March 25th.
As I was driving to the hospital, Congresswoman Jackson Lee told me that she had already spoken to the Chief Medical Officer for United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC), Dr. Joseph Varon, and that he was prepared to receive me and administer the test.
One of the first things Dr. Varon ordered his medical staff to do with me upon my arrival to the ER was to do a CT Scan.
Not only did I have a severe case of pneumonia when I entered ICU, my liver and kidneys also needed to be protected from the virus; my heart rate was through the roof; my heart condition worsened and I was headed to the point of potential heart failure; my blood pressure was high; I had a sharp pain in my right side; I continued to have heavy diarrhea episodes; and I still had a loss of appetite.
From the very beginning, I had to rely on my faith in God, as I continued to deal with the mental anguish of being in this Coronavirus-specific ICU area, particularly knowing that there were people around with breathing issues and hearing machines go off all day and night, and as I regularly looked at the news and read reports showing the number of people dying on a daily basis as a result of
ZIMBABWE’S safari sector has lost revenue of nearly US$100 million due to the outbreak of the COVID-19, a new report has revealed.
In its latest report titled: “The effects of COVID-19 pandemic on communities and conservation efforts in Zimbabwe,” the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) said the wildlife sector was facing a bleak future.
“The national lockdowns have cast a dark spell on the wildlife sector.
Without any trophy hunting, Zela said most areas would likely witness a reversal of wildlife conservation efforts.
“With less revenue coming into the sector, conservation efforts have been crippled.
Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa, on the coast of the Indian Ocean. It is twice the size of Nevada. Kenya borders Somalia to the east, Ethiopia to the north, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. In the north, the land is arid; the southwest corner is in the fertile Lake Victoria Basin; and a length of the eastern depression of the Great Rift Valley separates western highlands from those that rise from the lowland coastal strip.
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Paleontologists believe people may first have inhabited Kenya about 2 million years ago. In the 700s, Arab seafarers established settlements along the coast, and the Portuguese took control of the area in the early 1500s. More than 40 ethnic groups reside in Kenya. Its largest group, the Kikuyu, migrated to the region at the beginning of the 18th century.
The land became a British protectorate in 1890 and a Crown colony in 1920, called British East Africa. Nationalist stirrings began in the 1940s, and in 1952 the Mau Mau movement, made up of Kikuyu militants, rebelled against the government. The fighting lasted until 1956.
On Dec. 12, 1963, Kenya achieved full independence. Jomo Kenyatta, a nationalist leader during the fight to win independence who had been jailed by the British, was its first president.
From 1964 to 1992, the country was ruled as a one-party state by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), first under Kenyatta, and then under Daniel arap Moi. Demonstrations and riots put pressure on Moi to allow multiparty elections in 1992.
The economy did not flourish under Mois rule. In the 1990s, Kenyas infrastructure began disintegrating and official graft was rampant, contributing to the withdrawal of much foreign aid. In early 1995, President Moi moved against the opposition and ordered the arrest of anyone who insulted him.
A series of disasters plagued Kenya in 1997 and 1998: severe flooding destroyed roads, bridges, and crops; epidemics of malaria and cholera overwhelmed the ineffectual health care system; and
In light of the Trump administration's rising COVID-19 cases, new precautions have been announced for the vice presidential debate.
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For the first time in NASCAR history, there were no Confederate flags flying inside of the NASCAR Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway on Monday, June 22, where a noose was found a day earlier hanging in the stall of its only Black driver, Bubba Wallace.
Two weeks ago, NASCAR announced it was removing the Confederate flag from all of its events, an act that incited the flying of a plane above the track on Monday with a Confederate flag banner reading, “Defund NASCAR.”
NASCAR made its announcement on June 10 after Bubba Wallace made headlines when he painted the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on his race car in support of the protests over the police killing in Minneapolis of George Floyd.
Before Monday’s race, NASCAR drivers galvanized support for Wallace by pushing his No. 43 Chevrolet car to the front of the track, as the FBI began its investigation into the racist act.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement Monday, ”I am shocked and appalled to hear of yesterday’s vile act against Bubba Wallace in Talladega — there is no place for this disgusting display of hatred in our state.”
Born: October 17, 1956
Birthplace: Decatur, Alabama
Mae C. Jemison was born the youngest of three children of Charlie and Dorothy Jemison, a maintenance worker and
schoolteacher. Raised in Chicago, Illinois, she graduated from Morgan Park High School in 1973. She earned a Bachelor of
Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 1977, while also fulfilling the requirements for a Bachelor
of Arts in African-American Studies. She attended medical school and received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Cornell
University in 1981. While in medical school she traveled to Cuba, Kenya and Thailand, providing primary medical care to
people living there.
Following medical school Dr. Jemison served in the Peace Corps, from January 1983 to June 1985. She was stationed in
Sierra Leone and Liberia, West Africa as the area Peace Corps medical officer. There she supervised the pharmacy,
laboratory, medical staff. She provided medical care, wrote self-care manuals, developed and implemented guidelines for health
and safety issues. She also had contact with and worked in conjunction with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) on
research for various vaccines.
In 1985, after returning from the Peace Corps, Dr. Jemison secured a position with the CIGNA Health Plans of California as a
general practitioner in Los Angeles, California. There she began attending graduate classes in engineering and applied to the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for admission to the astronaut program. Her first application was not
accepted. It was her second application in 1987 that was accepted as an astronaut candidate; Mae Jemison became one of the
fifteen candidate accepted from some 2,000 applicants.
Dr. Jemison successfully completed her astronaut training program in August 1988, becoming the fifth black astronaut and the
first black female astronaut in NASA history. In August 1992, SPACELAB J was a successful joint U.S. and Japanese science
mission, making Mae Jemison the first black woman in space.
