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Zomba High Court judge Zione Ntaba has suspended the arrest and further detention of Minister of Lands Kezzie Msukwa who was nabbed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday. Ntaba has questioned the manner in which Msukwa was arrested, describing it as unreasonable and meant to just embarrass him. However, ACB Director General Martha Chizuma …
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A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
Ronald Ron Kirk is the U.S. Trade Representative for U.S. President Barack Obama. Kirk was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 18, 2009, and officially sworn in two days later. Kirk is the 16th trade representative and the first African American to hold the Cabinet-level post. As trade representative, he serves as the presidents principal trade advisor, negotiator, and spokesperson. He is also responsible for the development of U.S. trade policy and the oversight of existing trade treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Kirk was born in 1954 in Austin, Texas. He received a BA degree in political science and sociology from Austin College in 1976 and then went on to the University of Texas Law School where he received a J.D. three years later. While attending law school, he accepted an internship with the Texas Legislature. After graduating, Kirk worked for Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas as an aide and later was appointed Texas Secretary of State by Texas Governor Ann Richards, also a Democrat.
In 1995, Kirk, in his first bid for public office and with major support from the local business community, ran for mayor of Dallas, Texas. He won a landslide victory, securing 62% of the vote to become mayor. During his mayoral campaign, Kirk promoted racial harmony in a city that had experienced considerable racial tension.
As mayor, Kirk promoted the development of a $230 million sports arena and a $256 million urban renewal project to revitalize the Trinity Corridor on the edge of downtown Dallas. Both projects were criticized by skeptics who claimed he promoted downtown business interests at the expense of basic city services and neighborhood development. Kirk overcame the criticism to win an overwhelming victory in his 1999 re-election bid. He defeated his opponent by a 2 to 1 margin.
In 2002 he ran unsuccessfully for the seat of retiring U.S. Republican Senator Phil Gramm. During the next six years prior to his confirmation to the Obama administration, Kirk
Former professional football player, businessman, and diplomat, Sidney Williams was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on March 24, 1942. Raised in Houston, Texas, he attended the city’s Phillis Wheatley High School and upon graduation in 1959 enrolled at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A standout on the university’s football team, he was drafted by the Cleveland (Ohio) Browns. In his rookie season as a defensive lineman in 1964 his team won the National Football League Championship with the help of legendary running back Jim Brown. Williams also played for the Washington (D.C.) Redskins, Baltimore (Maryland) Colts, and Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Steelers. On June 4, 1967, along with other prominent African American athletes, Williams participated in a historic press conference in Cleveland to express support for boxing great Muhammad Ali, who was to stand trial for refusing to submit to the military draft.
Leaving the gridiron in 1969, Williams worked for the Black Economic Union (BEC) which focused on assisting small businesses and hopeful entrepreneurs. Williams earned a master’s degree at Pepperdine University in 1973, and from 1974 to 1976 he worked as a legislative aid and later chief of staff for Los Angeles City Councilman David S. Cunningham. In the late 1970s he was also a project manager for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency. He married then California State Assemblywoman Maxine Waters, a divorcée with two children, in 1977. In 1979, Williams joined the sales force at a Los Angeles Mercedes-Benz dealership.
Williams was not at that time generally known to be interested in politics or public office. However, in early 1994, with the backing of his wife, now U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Williams was nominated by President Bill Clinton to become the first African American ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Although the nomination was controversial because of Williams’s lack of diplomatic or political experience, eventually he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
[Nairobi News] A man seriously beat up and injured his wife after he found out she had two other children.
A child of the early post-reconstruction south, Oscar DePriest was born in Florence, Alabama on March 9, 1871. In 1878 his family moved to Salina, Kansas. Sometime in the late 1880s DePriest moved to Chicago, Illinois where he found work as a house painter and decorator. DePriest created his own contracting business and became active in local civic affairs. DePriest’s organizational skills and his affable and engaging personality caught the eye of Republican Party leaders who eventually nominated him for Cook County commissioner in 1904. He won the election and served two terms in this position.
While in office DePriest worked as a real estate broker and amassed considerable wealth by moving black families into previously all-white neighborhoods, a practice later know as blockbusting. He also continued to rise in Republican Party politics and in 1915 he became Chicago’s first black alderman.
DePriest soon became known as an avid defender of black civil rights and a progressive on labor issues. He also developed a reputation as a corrupt politician. In 1917 he was indicted for bribery and accused of protecting South Side gamblers. DePriest, however, was acquitted at his trial. For the next decade, he would continue to run for public office with varying degrees of success. Finally, in 1928 DePriest was elected to represent the First Congressional District of Illinois. He became the first African American Congressman since North Carolina’s George H. White left Washington, D.C. in 1901 and the first black congressman ever elected outside the South. As the sole early 20th Century black Congressman, DePriest soon became a political symbol for much of African America.
While in Congress DePriest vigorously fought against racial discrimination in both government and military employment. He introduced several measures that would have outlawed discrimination including, most notably, an anti-lynching bill. Most of his measures failed but his 1933 amendment barring racial discrimination in the Civilian
Malian officers upset with a government reshuffle have detained the president and prime minister at an army camp outside the capital, triggering broad international condemnation and demands for their immediate release.
Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton announced Monday that she is “officially qualified” to run for public office and is now a candidate for Miami-Dade County Commissioner for District 1 in her hometown of Miami Gardens, Florida.
Fulton joins a small group of mothers — including Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.)
Fulton — a former housing agency employee who assisted low-income renters — became a vocal gun reform advocate after the shooting death of her son in 2012.
She intends to continue prioritizing gun violence prevention, her campaign manager Willis Howard told The Washington Post when Fulton launched her campaign last year.
According to her campaign website, Fulton’s other priorities include economic opportunity, housing affordability and transportation.
[Nyasa Times] A new cabinet in Malawi was sworn-in on Friday with President Lazarus Chakwera warning 31 of his newly hired ministers and their deputies against corruption, saying he would not spare anyone found abusing their positions.
William Henry Ellis, an African American businessman who challenged racial constructs in the United States by “passing” as Hispanic, was born a slave to Charles and Margaret Ellis on June 15, 1864. His parents had been brought by Joseph Weisiger from Kentucky to Texas in 1853. In 1870 the Ellis parents had gained their freedom and relocated to Victoria, Texas, where they established a home for themselves and their seven children.
In his youth, William Henry Ellis attended school in Victoria with his sister, Fannie, while his other siblings held full-time jobs as laborers or servants. Sometime during his teenage years, Ellis learned to speak fluent Spanish.
During his early twenties, Ellis was employed by William McNamara, a cotton and hide dealer, and constantly conducted business with Spanish-speaking businessmen. Eventually, Ellis made a name for himself in the trade. Around 1887, Ellis settled permanently in San Antonio, Texas, and began calling himself “Guillermo Enrique Eliseo,” spreading a fabricated story of his Cuban and Mexican ancestry in newspapers and social circles to conceal his real racial identity, thus enjoying some of the freedoms other African Americans could not experience at the time. He balanced these two identities for the rest of his life.
By the early 1890s, Ellis was swept into Texas politics. In 1888 he gave a speech in support of Norris Wright Cuney that landed Ellis an appointment to the Texas Republican Party’s Committee on Resolutions. By 1892, Ellis was nominated to represent the 83rd District in the Texas Legislature but lost the election to A.G. Kennedy, a white Democrat. Ellis would never seek public office again.
As time went on, Ellis began embracing ideas of African American colonization abroad, especially in Mexico. He was once quoted as saying, “Mexico has no race prejudice from a social standpoint.” Twice during the 1890s, Ellis attempted to create a colony for blacks in Mexico from the southern United States. Both attempts would fail. The first, started in 1889, fell
Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia First came the testimony and closing arguments – Congress members laid out a four-year reign of terror that was Donald Trump’s presidency. Then came the verdict – Congress voted to impeach Trump, and in the process, placed an exclamation stamp at the end of perhaps […]
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The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says it has suspended vetting and clearance of motor vehicles, land and houses before change of ownership. ACB Principal Public Relations Egrita Ndala said in a statement today that the suspension is effective from 6th August, 2021. “The process which was made in accordance with Section 10 (1) of the Corrupt […]
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[New Zimbabwe] TRADE promotion agency, Zimtrade has urged local farmers to tap into the US$1,7 million Bambara nuts (nyimo/indlubu) export market covering countries like the USA, UK and the Netherlands among others.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic nominee for President, recently appeared on a Black media talk show and suggested that Black voters that don’t know the difference between Biden and incumbent President Donald Trump “ain’t Black”!
I blame the people of African descent that support and work for Biden for not preparing him on how to best communicate with the Black media and to Black voters.
At the time of this writing, Joe Biden had already spoken to Barack Obama, Jim Clyburn, Stacey Abrams, Kamala Harris and a horde of other Black elected officials and so-called Black political operatives about how to behave on the campaign trail.
Joe Biden’s campaign, in one respect, is akin to Martin Luther King, good but dead, if his spending is based on race instead of spending money with Blacks that can truly deliver Black votes.
What Joe Biden said on Black media was a blip, but it was no different than the way many Americans talk about Blacks when they are behind closed doors.
Following allegations of the stealing of funds meant to cushion the impact of the recent three days lockdown enforced by the government of Sierra Leone last month, May 2020, the Anti-Corruption Commission has published a statement saying it has concluded its investigation into those allegations and found no evidence of misappropriation by public officials.
This is what the ACC says:
“The public may recall that sometime in May 2020, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) commenced investigation into allegations relating to misappropriation of public funds by officials of the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) and a staff of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), which came about from a video footage screened by the Africa Young Voices (AYV) Television on 12th May, 2020, in which, supposed beneficiaries expressed their frustrations over the payment of funds provided by the Government of Sierra Leone, to vulnerable people in the Bombali community, to cushion the effect of the three days lockdown, at 10 Arabic College Road, Makeni.
“Moreover, our investigations revealed that a Mary Kamara, also a beneficiary, residing at the 10 Arabic College Road admitted that she machinated and participated in the scheme of calling neighbours and passers-by to stand in as proxies for four registered beneficiaries who were absent on the day of the payment.
Adequate measures were not put in place to forestall corrupt activities by staff of NaCSA, its partners and the beneficiaries because of the rush to implement the safety net Cash Transfer Payment by the Government, and the sudden announcement of the pending lockdown due to Covid-19 spread fears.
“Therefore, the Commission is recommending for a review of the policies surrounding such payments as the process around it appears to be mostly ad hoc; which leaves room for corruption and corrupt practices in the list generation, payment and fraudulent activities by some disingenuous beneficiaries – as it happened in this case.
A LEGAL showdown is looming between Hwange Colliery Company and former workers after the coal mining firm cut electricity to their homes in a bid to force them out of company-owned houses. BY FRANCIS MWINDE Two weeks ago, the colliery company cut off electricity to company-owned houses occupied by former workers following their retrenchment but are refusing to vacate. Four years ago the colliery retrenched hundreds of workers both on compulsory and voluntary bases. Most of them have since gone to their respective homes. However, others are disputing the retrenchment process which they claim was fraught with irregularities resulting in them seeking legal advice on the way forward. Their lawyers, Calderwood, Bryce Hendrie and Partners, wrote a letter advising the company that their ex-employees would continue staying at their respective houses until finalisation of the matter between the two parties. Last week, the lawyers wrote a letter to Hwange Colliery threatening legal action against the company and the respective officers if the retrenched workers were not provided with electricity within forty-eight hours. “The conduct is, with respect, unlawful and constitutes proper grounds for relief at the High Court on an urgent basis. “The law frowns on persons who take the law into their own hands and we suggest that you seek legal advice on how to deal with this matter,” read part of the letter by the Bulawayo-based legal firm. Efforts to get a comment from Hwange Colliery Company were fruitless yesterday.
