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“These next few months might be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Despite the grim outlook, the CDC announced it had reduced the recommended minimum quarantine time for those exposed to the virus from 14 days.
\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.
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Voters in Seychelles are casting their ballots in the presidential and parliamentary elections spanning three days.
Saturday was the main and last day of voting. The exercise had opened on Thursday for voters on fringe islands and essential workers such as hospital staff in the Indian Ocean island country.
74,600 people are eligible to vote.
Most of the Indian Ocean islands making up the Seychelles, a prized honeymoon destination famed for white beaches and lush vegetation, are uninhabited and the archipelago's 98,000 residents mainly live on the islands of Mahe, Praslin and La Digue.
The opposition is hoping to unseat incumbent president Danny Faure, in power since 2016. Faure was not elected but took over after his boss, James Michel, resigned as president.
Faure is running under the United Seychelles party, which has been in power since 1977.
His main rival is the Anglican priest Wavel Ramkalawan, who is taking his sixth shot at the presidency and lost by only 193 votes to Michel in an unprecedented second round of voting in 2015.
Virus and economy
The main concern of voters is the economic situation in the country, which has suffered the loss of vital tourism -- its main earner -- because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Seychelles has recorded only 149 mostly imported cases, but the virus has been a key campaign issue, with the health minister banning election rallies which would have been a barometer of support for various candidates in a country without a polling institute.
The campaign has mainly happened over social media, where the opposition and its supporters are the most active, and on television where the country held its first ever debates between the candidates, which proved extremely popular.
Since the start of the pandemic, the economy has slowed significantly, with some 700 Seychellois losing their jobs, according to government figures.
And while average income is among the highest in Africa, the national statistics agency says that about 40 percent of Seychellois live in poverty because of the high cost of living.
Another key theme of the campaign has been corruption, a largely taboo topic in the tiny country where business and politics are often intertwined.
In a fortnight the respective states will be counting ballots to determine the next President of the United States. Absurdly, we do not vote directly for the President but for electors who vote in the Electoral College on December 14, 2020, to crown the candidate who won a majority of Electoral votes, not necessarily a majority of the votes cast.
The stars of \"Bad Hair,\" a comedy-horror about a woman who ends up getting a demonic weave in order to get ahead in the workplace, talk Black hair politics.
Lenny Kravitz admits he is amused by all the memes inspired by the infamous giant scarf that he wore to... View Article
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Getting counted in the 2020 Census was a critical democratic process. Census data not only affects whether our schools are overcrowded and our neighborhoods get their fair share of resources; […]
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[Africa Renewal] United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will launch a groundbreaking global online action tomorrow (21 October), calling on people around the world to #PledgetoPause before they share content online. The activation is part of a wider behavior change campaign that aims to create a new social media norm to help combat the rising impact of viral misinformation.
The 11 political parties, which have been approved to contest the March 2, 2020 elections, yesterday signed a Code of Conduct under the auspices of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC).
[IPS] Rome -- The month of October 2020 will be recalled as one of the most important moments in raising awareness about world food security, whether in the global debate or in the search for possible concrete solutions.
The 16-year-old white teen who was charged with plotting to kill Black churchgoers in Georgia was sentenced to four years in juvenile detention on Thursday.
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The lines are long, but Black voters are demonstrating their will to vote. In Texas, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and Indiana, African Americans’ resiliency and resolve have never been as severely tested. They have gone to great lengths to overcome voter suppression, discouragement, misinformation, gerrymandering, and so many other obstacles to participate in America’s elections. In Fort Bend County, Texas, […]
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Narine Singh has acknowledged that the home isolation system for COVID-19 patients is “not a fool proof system,” but says Guyana does not yet have the capacity to institutionalise all persons who test positive for the virus.
The article Health system lacks capacity to institutionalise all positive COVID-19 cases - CMO appeared first on Stabroek News.
(Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON, DC - Kornisha McGill Brown has been elected as the 27th National President of Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated. With more than 245 chapters nationwide, representing more than 40,000 family members, Jack and Jill of America is the nation's oldest African American family organization. Founded in 1938, Jack and Jill […]
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Courtesy of MonogramHip-hop mogul and billionaire Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter has launched his own cannabis line, Monogram. With its 'careful strain selection, meticulous cultivation practices and uncompromising quality,' the line seeks to 'redefine what cannabis…
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa F Etienne, on Wednesday warned that while the Americas, including the Caribbean, urgently awaits a breakthrough, the regional health organisation will only support the distribution of a novel coronavirus vaccine that has proven to be 'safe and effective' in clinical trials.
A new play — directed and performed via Zoom — imagines workplace life at Russia's Internet Research Agency, a real life troll-farm indicted for its interference in the 2016 election.
RICHMOND, Virginia-Research examining the link between hot weather and construction methods is allowing city officials to right decades-old wrongs resulting from discriminatory banking practices. A four-year study conducted by the Science Museum of Virginia shed [...]
Producers of the Florida, New York, and Canada Grace Jamaican Jerk Festivals, along with Orlando and Palm Beach festivals, have partnered to celebrate the food, music, art, and the culture of jerk in an unprecedented way with National Jamaican Jerk...
An unreleased Biggie freestyle has surfaced 23 years after the rapper's death — and in a Pepsi commercial, no less. Tune in here.
Waka Flocka Flame is no stranger to controversy but this week he is facing heightened backlash after suggesting that President... View Article
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This expression of concern was penned on October 14th after discussion among a small group of parents and chaperones who are grappling with the steep learning curve occasioned by Covid -19 on the formal education scenario.
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In November 2019 authorities discovered Caitlyn Pye planned to carry out a knife attack on members of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Gainesville, Georgia, citing the white supremacist murderer Dylann Roof as her inspiration.
A coalition of nonpartisan organizations, influencers, generational leaders, and activists have joined forces to host VOTE WITH US, a massive virtual rally and 11-day on-the- ground mobilization to create unprecedented voter turnout among young people and communities of color in the final days leading up to the general election. The three-hour event will stream on … Continued
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