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The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has confirmed that the National Coronavirus Command Council is lawful and constitutional.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
Two women, a mother and an alleged sex worker, appeared at the Cala Magistrate's Court accused of trafficking a newborn baby girl.
Press Release - Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on Human Rights Day, 10 December
The rock musicians from Oklahoma City are literally blowing up in 2020, using inflatable human-sized bubbles to defend themselves and fans against Covid-19 while finding a way to play live.
Performing at The Criterion in their hometown on Monday evening, The Flaming Lips placed themselves -- and all attending fans -- inside individual plastic spheres. The concert -- which was part live show, part music video shoot -- was born out of a sketch doodled by Wayne Coyne during the pandemic's early days, the frontman told CNN.
\"I did a little drawing... where I drew a picture of The Flaming Lips doing a show in 2019. And I'm the only person in the space bubble, and everybody else is just normal,\" Coyne told CNN during a phone interview on Friday. \"Then (I did another drawing with) The Flaming Lips playing a show in 2020. The exact same scenario, but I'm in a bubble, and so is everybody else.\"
At the time, Coyne says, the idea was more or less a social commentary on the state of virus, with the thinking that Covid-19 would never linger long enough to see the bubble experiment fully inflate.
\"I don't think anybody would have thought ... in the middle of March that this is still going to be going, you know, eight months later. I think we all thought this is a month, this is maybe two months, but we're going to get a handle on this,\" he said.
Coyne and the band first unveiled the concept during a May visit to \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.\"
That inspired them to keep going.
\"We do a couple of songs with about 30 people in the bubbles. And we start to think, 'Well, you know, just from doing that, we start to get an idea that we could actually do it, you know, and it could actually happen,'\" Coyne revealed.
The \"space bubbles\" have long been a part of The Flaming Lips stage shows, so Coyne and company were familiar with a series of inflatable orbs. After setting the specs, the band ordered 100 bubbles from China, and this unique music event - one first drawn up on Coyne's sketchpad -- was ready to pop.
\"Since May, the desire to see the live music has just gotten, you know, more, more amplified,\" he told CNN, noting that fans interested in test-driving the experience were asked to arrive at The Criterion between 6:30 and 7 p.m. ET.
\"Right at a little after six, we already had enough people.\"
With a couple hundred fans floating about, The Flaming Lips performed a dance remix of \"Assassins of Youth\" and \"Brother Eye,\" a pair of tracks from their latest LP, \"American Head.\"
Coyne captioned an Instagram post from the show with the word \"Yessss!!!\" -- a nod to the feat they had collectively pulled off.
\"I like the way this looks, because you can get as excited as you want, you can scream as much as you want, you just can't infect the person next to you, no matter what you forget about, how excited you get,\" he said. \"That barrier is still there, they're protected, and you're protected... that part of it is what we really felt like was the success,\" he said.
So are bouncing bubbles, with fans and bands equally encased, the f
While the coronavirus pandemic has led to massive unemployment and job uncertainty for just about everyone, Black women have especially fallen victim.
The Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has released a statement deploring last week’s murder of one of its lecturers.\tNCU Associate Professor Dr Gordon Lightbourn was last week found at his Sedbergh, Christiana home with what appeared to be...
KOLKATA - Food security, early marriages and a family's purchasing power are cited among the key reasons why child malnutrition is on the rise in India. While the infant mortality rate for children under age 5 has come down in 18 states and union territories, 16 states recorded an increase in underweight and severely wasted children under 5. The findings […]
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Analysis - Somalia remains one of the most dangerous places for the media to operate in, with reporters facing the risk of arbitrary arrests, assaults, threats and even death from state agents and rebel groups.
United Kingdom (UK) chief of defence staff, General Sir Nick Carter, on Tuesday hosted a successful inaugural defence conference with his fellow chiefs of defence from across the Caribbean.
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As of now there have been three active Administrations within this decade, with each in such implacable opposition, that neither has troubled to relate to any positive effort the other may have promoted, with the aim of possible improvement.
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MONTEGO BAY, St James - Chief Justice Bryan Sykes says the novel coronavirus pandemic has presented Government with the golden opportunity to invest in technology in the court system.
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[New Times] The UK government has added Rwanda to its travel corridor list, enabling citizens from Rwanda to travel to the UK without having to quarantine.
ZANU PF youths yesterday slammed the shooting of two locals by a Chinese miner in Gweru and warned that the incident could trigger anarchy in the country.
Tendai Chirau, acting Zanu PF youth league boss, urged the authorities to be tough against abusive Chinese investors.
“The Zanu PF youth league strongly condemns the callous shooting of comrades Wendy Chikwaira (31) and Kennedy Tachiona (39) by a Chinese national, one Zhang Xuelin (a general manager) following a wage dispute at Reeden Mine, located some 25km out of Gweru.
The youth league is deeply concerned and perplexed with this flagrant disregard of existing dispute resolution mechanisms encapsulated in Zimbabwe’s labour laws in preference of barbaric law of the jungle tactics,” he said.
“Zimbabwe is a civilised, progressive, democratic nation and our youth league is deeply perturbed by such an inhuman act.
We Can’t Talk About Farming Without Talking About Race
Leah Penniman is helping BIPOC become food sovereign at her 80-acre farm
When nationwide hoarding left supermarket shelves empty in early March, many were forced to get innovative about how they filled their refrigerators.
Through her work with Soul Fire Farm, Black Kreyol farmer and food justice activist Leah Penniman is making it easier for those communities to become food sovereign and reclaim their rightful relationship to the land.
Penniman co-founded Soul Fire Farm in 2010 on 80 acres of Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican territory in Grafton, New York.
The farm works toward a goal of ending racism and injustice in the food industry with immersion programs that train BIPOC in regenerative farming practices, anti-racist trainings for environmentalists and food justice activists, and no-cost doorstep delivery of fresh produce and garden-building for people living under food apartheid in New York’s Albany-Troy area.
Zora spoke with Penniman about the legacy she’s contributing to as a food sovereignty activist, systemic racism and injustice in America’s food systems, and how Soul Fire Farm is adapting amid a global pandemic.
[African Arguments] Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.
Ghana’s longest-serving leader, ex-President Jerry John Rawlings will be laid to rest Wednesday. The remains of Mr. Rawlings has been lying in state since Monday. The general public and dignitaries have taken the opportunity to pay their last respects.
President-elect Joe Biden’s scientific advisers plan to meet with vaccine makers in coming days even as a stalled presidential transition keeps them... View Article
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The 24-year-old hopes to become the first Moroccan Olympic gold winner since Hicham El Guerrouj won two gold medals in Athens in 2004
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - The Trump administration yesterday announced it was returning Cuba to the U.S.
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Australian Open chief Craig Tiley is confident that all of the world's top players will take part in the tournament including Roger Federer.
A setback that did not prevent Pierre Lescure, the president of the festival, and Thierry Frémaux, the artistic director, from announcing the creation of the Cannes 2020 label to encourage the directors of 56 films.
In this official selection, only two films are directed by professionals from the African continent: the documentary En route Pour le Milliard du Congolais by Dieudo Hamadi and Souad, the feature film by Egyptian director Ayten Amin.
Included in this selection are two feature films by British director Steve McQueen, which shed light on issues faced by the black community in England.
Frémaux told the press: “He’s (Steve McQueen) coming with two films produced by the BBC “Lover’s Rock” and “Mangrove”, two historical films.
Films that as one of the members of the selection committee said we’re really going to increase the rate of diversity since it’s the black community in London in the 70’s…
\t“… and obviously “Mangrove” is a film of trials of police officers who harass the black community, obviously it resonates very dramatically with what happened to George Floyd and Adama Traoré.”
By Oscar H. Blayton Black folks’ struggle to exist in America is no game. It is deadly serious. The bloody opposition to our survival in this white dominated society is a daunting challenge for all people of color. Since arriving in the Americas as captive and enslaved human chattel, Black folk have suffered every conceivable […]
