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In a press conference on Monday, Cellou Diallo said he was willing to work with the junta, a major endorsement from the political class for coup leader Mamady Doumbouya
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.
[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum / Port Sudan -- Sovereign Council member Lt Gen Ibrahim Jabir announced that the Sudan Shipping Line will be restored as \"a national carrier and pillar of development\".
This article zooms in on technocrats leading Africa’s response at different levels be it at the health, diplomatic, social or economic levels.
READ MORE – Africanews’ 2017 profile of WHO DG, Dr. Tedros
May 18: John Nkengasong, Director of Africa CDC
\tHe is the man directly leading Africa’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak and he came to the post with lots of expertise and experience in a professional career that spans nearly three decades.
Since the arrival of the virus in Africa, Africa CDC has led a series of capacity building efforts for health workers across Africa.
Matshidiso Moeti: DG WHO Africa
\tThe WHO Africa region has been under the spotlight for among other reasons projections of a case spike in a vast region that has well documented health system challenges.
Leading the overall health response with a heavy political and diplomatic weight is the WHO Director General for the Africa region, Matshidiso Moeti shoulders that responsibility from Congo-Brazzaville where the regional headquarters is based.
Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga’s influence in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration is expected to grow further, with reports suggesting that he is being considered for a key role on a team to steer the country’s post-pandemic economic recovery efforts.
Speculation about a role for the former prime minister on the economic recovery council will especially unsettle the faction of the ruling Jubilee Party loyal to the Deputy President William Ruto.
The pro-Ruto camp blames Mr Odinga for fuelling the falling out in the ruling party, and sees the BBI reforms campaigns as part of a grand scheme to block Mr Ruto from succeeding President Kenyatta in 2022.
On Friday, senators removed Deputy Speaker Kindiki Kithure, extending a crackdown that started with the ousting last Monday of Kipchumba Murkomen and Susan Kihika as Majority Leader and Majority Chief Whip, respectively, during a parliamentary group meeting,
Five nominated senators who skipped the meeting chaired by President Kenyatta at State House, Nairobi, have been threatened with sanctions, including withdrawal of their nominations.
The Jubilee Party secretariat has warned of a similar purge in the National Assembly, where the Majority Leader Aden Duale and chairpersons of key House committees are also loyal to Mr Ruto.
Police in Minnesota were being accused of killing an unarmed Black man after a viral video showed an officer pinning down a suspect as he repeated that he couldn’t breathe.
The Minneapolis Poice Department was quick to announce that no weapons were involved in the man’s death it downplayed as a “medical incident,” but the video prompted speculation on social media of a brutality-induced “killing.”
A public information officer with the Minneapolis Poice Department used vague and general terms during a press conference.
Either that public information officer wasn’t fully briefed or he conveniently left out the part where one of the responding officers used his knee to pin and hold down the suspect by his neck, prompting the suspect to repeat, “I cannot breathe.”
Social media users quickly accused the Minnesota Police Department of killing the suspect, who had not been identified as of early Tuesday morning.
Guinea's 82-year-old incumbent leader Alpha Conde is running for a third term in Sunday's tense presidential election.
His bid was made possible after he pushed through a new constitution in March, which he said was to modernise the country but it also allowed him to run for another term.
The move sparked protests and subsequent crackdowns, which killed dozens.
What de we know about Conde?
After decades as an opposition activist, Conde became Guinea's first democratically-elected president in 2010.
He was reelected in 2015.
In both votes, he beat his main opposition rival Cellou Dalien Diallo, who he is facing again this year.
Conde has promised to boost the economy tackle corruption and increase Guinea's electricity access. And make Guinea Africa's second economic powerhouse after Nigeria.
Despite the promises, the mineral-rich country is one of the poorest in the world.
Conde calls for free election
As he cast his ballot on Sunday, Conde said he hoped the vote would be \" free, democratic and transparent\".
\"We are going to make sure that the polling stations are safe.
\"Guinea cannot develop without peace, security and unity. So we call on all candidates to avoid any act of violence. If some want to cause unrest, national and international awareness will be duly raised,\" he said.
What do Guineans say about him?
\"In 10 years, Alpha Conde has done nothing,\" said Aminata Barry, a 36-year-old opposition supporter, adding that he had made \"only promises\".
But Conde retains a bedrock of supporters who hail his efforts at economic revival. He drew huge crowds on the campaign trail, where he dismissed his many critics.
\"Despite his age, we want him for the future of our youth,\" said lawyer Sekou Diakate, 47, who was among thousands attending a Conde rally Friday.
The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus has sent a letter to Gov. Ralph Northam saying the move to reopen Virginia would be treating black and brown people like “guinea pigs for our economy.”
However, the black caucus believes the state doesn’t have the necessary testing capacity and infrastructure to safely reopen without putting minorities at an unfair risk.
Northam said his decision to open the state is based on positive trends in key metrics related to the virus’ spread, like testing capacity and hospital readiness.
After two weeks of debate by state lawmakers, Northam’s plan will reopen retail businesses with limited capacity.
However, Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax has asked Northam to create a task force to track racial disparities in coronavirus pandemic in the state.
There are also unconfirmed reports that the MPs in the deal will sooner or later receive another Shs60m each as a token for last week's resolution in which Parliament appreciated Mr Museveni for fighting Covid-19.
Many of the MPs had not followed Mr Museveni's directive, which the High Court reinforced, to refund the Shs20m each got in that appropriation until the Clerk to Parliament, Ms Jane Kibirige, gave them a deadline of May 27 to file accountability for the cash.
Addressing a press conference at Parliament on Friday, Lwemiyaga County MP Theodore Ssekikubo and Kumi Municipality MP Monica Amoding, said they had been informed by their friends that money was being dished out but that they had failed to access the venues where the distribution was taking place.
Some of the NRM party MPs from Busoga Sub-region about two weeks ago accused the President of fighting Ms Kadaga when he castigated Parliament over the Shs20m.
During the press conference, Mr Ssewungu said the President aims to destroy the institution of Parliament by fighting the Speaker and the MPs.
Abuja — The federal government yesterday said N46.2 billion has been voted for the payment of the 774,000 people to be engaged under the special public works programme.
Keyamo used opportunity to real out the composition of the committees that would help to implement the extended special public works programme across the 774 local government areas in Nigeria.
While speaking on the cost implications of the programme, the minister said the federal government had already allocated N46.2 billion to pay participants in the public works programme across 774 local government areas in the country.
Consequently, in line with Section 16(1) of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Act, I have decided to constitute special committees in each state of the federation for the purpose of deliberating, selecting and recommending to my office the names of the 1,000 persons from each of the local government areas in the states to be engaged for this programme,\" Keyamo said.
The minister said committees to be known as the State Selection Committees of the Special Public Works (SPW) would also identify the projects to be executed in those LGAs.
Last week, President Donald Trump called on governors to reopen houses of worship, calling it an “injustice” that that “liquor stores and abortion clinics” were open when churches were not.
With a slew of churches set to open their doors this weekend, some health experts are warning that these comparisons ignore the fact that worship services are substantially different from gatherings that take place in grocery stores and even in restaurants.
At the same time, houses of worship are likely more manageable than concerts and other massive gatherings in stadiums, since people in religious settings tend to be much more controlled and respectful of others nearby, according to Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco.
Comparing churches to retail stores is like comparing apples to oranges, Winslow said, since certain risky behaviors are much more likely to take place during religious services.
How To Tell If Your House Of Worship Is Prepared For suggested that people who are determined to attend services this weekend take some time to evaluate how well their house of worship seems to have understood the risks of COVID-19.
Jamaican health authorities have sought to explain why the requested medical evacuation of a distressed pregnant woman aboard the Adventure of the Seas was not executed.
On Monday as the ship waited in Haitian waters for clearance to dock in Jamaica, the captain announced that there was a medical emergency and the ill crew member would be evacuated by helicopter.
The woman was eventually removed from the ship via an ambulance after the vessel docked in Falmouth around noon on Tuesday.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Chief Medical Officer Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie said the condition of the woman allowed for her to dock.
As the ship moved into port on Tuesday afternoon, the ambulance was seen arriving on the property to remove the ill ship worker.
Luanda — The easing of some measures included in the Presidential Decree that declares the fourth State of Emergency, which entered into force this Monday, across the country, aims to ensure a balance between the protection of public health and economic and social well-being of the population.
Thus, in the next 15 days, the public markets (formal or informal) and street vendors will be able to work from Tuesday to Saturday, from 6:00 am to 1:00 pm.
However, within the framework of the new measures of the Government, as from this Monday (11 May), is prohibited not only the cease of legal and labor relations based on the absence of employees and workers from the workplace, but the suspension of the legal relationship work.
According to the Minister of State and Chief of Staff of the Head of State, Adão de Almeida who was speaking at a press conference last Sunday in Luanda, the new emergency period intends to maintain a prudent attitude, which allows combining and balancing the preservation of health and economic activity, aiming at the well-being of citizens.
Adão de Almeida says that \"there is not necessarily a loosening of measures\", but a different reality from the one that the country had at the end of March, a period in which the first State of Emergency in Angola was declared.
The shooting of John Crawford III occurred on August 5, 2014. Crawford was a 22-year-old African-American man shot to death by Beavercreek police officer Sean Williams, in a Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio, near Dayton, while holding a toy BB gun.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
A grand jury declined to indict the two officers on criminal charges. Crawfords death led to protests, including some organized by the Black Lives Matter movement.
John Crawford III was born on July 29, 1992.
Crawford picked up an un-packaged BB/pellet air rifle inside the stores sporting goods section and continued shopping in the store. Another customer, Ronald Ritchie, called 911. According to Ritchie at the time, Crawford was pointing the gun at people and at children walking by, and messing with the gun.[6] Ritchie has since stated “At no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody”, while maintaining that Crawford was waving it around.[7] Two officers of the Beavercreek Police arrived at the Walmart shortly after their dispatcher informed them of a subject with a gun in the pet supplies area of the store and Crawford was shot. He was later pronounced dead at Daytons Miami Valley Hospital.[8]
A second person, Angela Williams, died after suffering a heart attack while fleeing from the shooting. Her death was ruled a homicide.[9]
According to initial accounts from the officers, Crawford did not respond to verbal commands to drop the BB gun/air rifle and lie on the ground, and eventually began to move as if trying to escape. Believing the air-rifle was a real firearm, one of the officers fired two shots into Crawfords torso and arm. He died of his injuries shortly afterwards.[10] [11]
Though after the grand jury did not indict the officers involved, a press conference was held where Special Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier presented the fact that the police officer shot Crawford on sight, as was consistent with their recent training.[12]
The shooting was captured by the stores security video camera.[13] Crawford was talking
Des Moines, Iowa – Reports from Des Moines, Iowa claim police in the area are investigating a potential hate crime after a 22-year old man, DarQuan Jones, was found beaten on Saturday morning.
According to a report by the Des Moines Register, Jones police he was walking to his girlfriend’s house nearby around 3:25 am when he suddenly heard a group of men yelling racist insults before they began physically assaulting him.
The local NAACP chapter in the Iowa city held a press conference to address the alleged hate crime with Jones’ father in attendance where he told reporters that his son’s jaw was broken in five places.
“After speaking with Quan, his family and the witnesses that have come forward, if the story is as they state it is, then what occurred yesterday should be nothing less than a hate crime,” Kameron Middlebrooks, the president of the Des Moines NAACP said during an interview.
Despite the alleged racist comments reported by Jones, the Des Moines police stated that further investigation needs to be conducted before labeling it as a hate crime.
Thousands of protesters march down Hiawatha Ave in Minneapolis to protest the police killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police on May 26, 2020.
The Minneapolis Police Department fired four police officers who arrested Floyd.
George Floyd died Monday after his arrest outside Cup Foods, a Minneapolis restaurant that reported a customer who paid for a meal with a counterfeit $20 bill.
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo fired Officer Derek Chauvin and three other officers who were present.
“Friends, Please wear your masks and join us if you can in demanding justice for the Black man who was unjustly killed by Minneapolis Police yesterday in broad daylight,” she wrote.
