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Lors du match entre Nice et Marseille, le 22 août 2021. VALERY HACHE / AFP «De graves incidents»: voici comment la Ligue de football professionnel (LFP) a résumé les événements qui se sont produits, dans la soirée de dimanche 22août, à l’occasion du match de Ligue 1 opposant Nice à Marseille (1-0) après l’envahissement du
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\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.
CARACAS, (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez has abandoned the Spanish ambassador's residence in Caracas to leave the country, more than a year after seeking refuge there to escape house arrest, three people familiar with his exit said.
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editorial comment ON Saturday Zimbabwe woke up to shocking news that government had given public schools the nod to hike third term school fees up to $55 000 from $3 000. This would be a joke if it was not a serious matter considering this has been a difficult year. Poor rains meant that parents earning a living from farming failed to generate enough to keep their families away from hunger. Parents in formal employment, like their counterparts running small businesses, have been affected by firm closures and reduced business triggered by the explosion of COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic struck in March, Zimbabweans were in the eye of a raging economic storm. Foreign currency and power shortages were among the factors that were wreaking havoc to our fragile economy. It does not need a rocket scientist to see that this has been a terrible and wasted year. Government has failed to get teachers back to work because it is reluctant to listen to very genuine grievances. They want a living wage to fire up their morale to teach our children. But apart from threats, government has done little to hear them out. So, the chaos that rocked schools since examination classes returned on September 28 continues. There are no lessons taking place. More children are returning to school today and will face classes without teachers. Now, an average Zimbabwean earning under $5 000 per month is being forced to pay $55 000 to a school that is not operating. This is impossible. Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema knew this when he approved the fees. We wonder what was in his mind. He must be out of touch with reality, or he is trying to please someone. But it does not work that way, minister. It is such ill-thought decisions by ministers that make the government appear out of touch with the realities its people are facing. It’s like the ministers live in some utopian fantasy and confine citizens to dystopian existence. Mathema needs to rethink his school fees decision fast. He must explain if his strategy is to eliminate the poor from Zimbabwe’s once prosperous education system and make education a preserve for the elite. We remind him that it is this segregation that inspired Zimbabwe’s wars of liberation from 1893 to 1980. We must not revert to the same plight because Mathema is determined to turn a blind eye to the reality parents are facing.
[Nation] Gor Mahia legends from Nyanza have said that the building of Jomo Kenyatta International Stadium will play a key role in nurturing talent in the region.
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Western Bureau: People’s National Party (PNP) presidential aspirant, Lisa Hanna, says the creative industries and agriculture are key sectors that must be given top priority if Jamaica is to quickly recover from a post-COVID-19 era. Addressing a...
The Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry and the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) say it is too early to provide a realistic estimate of the damage and losses to the agriculture caused by days of heavy rainfall.
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Pro-democracy demonstrators in Thailand expanded their protests internationally on Monday, marching to the German Embassy to appeal to Angela Merkel's government to investigate whether Thailand's king has exercised political power during his extended stays in Bavaria. The protesters acted while criticizing their own Parliament, which began a special two-day session earlier Monday to address political tensions resulting from the near-daily pro-democracy protests demanding the prime minister's resignation, constitutional changes and reforms to the monarchy. They believe the king wields an inordinate amount of power in what is nominally a […]
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By RAF CASERT Associated Press HEIKRUIS, Belgium (AP) — As the Friday night dinner service began earlier this month at the De Viering restaurant outside Brussels, it seemed the owners' decision to move the operation into the spacious village church to comply with coronavirus rules was paying off. The reservation book was full and the kitchen was bustling. And then Belgium's prime minister ordered cafes, bars and restaurants to close for at least a month in the face of surging infections. 'It's another shock, of course, because — yes, all the investments are made,' said chef Heidi Vanhasselt. She and […]
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Like many schools and extracurricular programs reorienting during the pandemic, the ACE Mentor Program of Greater Boston is grappling with the big question: How do you create an engaging online learning program?
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Guinean President Alpha Condé makes his first public appearance since the election of October 18, 2020 by visiting gendarmes and police officers injured in the clashes that followed the election. According to provisional results announced on 24 October by the electoral commission (Céni), the head of state, 82 years old, was reappointed for a third controversial term by obtaining 59.5% of the votes cast.
Guinean opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo said Wednesday that a blockade of his home, imposed by the security forces following tumultuous presidential elections on October 18, had been lifted.
\"We discovered on the stroke of noon that we could go in and out. They packed up without warning, in the same way that they had come,\" Diallo told the press.
Police barricaded the politician in his home in the capital Conakry after he declared victory a day after the vote -- a claim denied by the government and which led to lethal clashes.
On Tuesday, mediators from the UN, African Union and regional bloc ECOWAS called on the \"security measures\" around Diallo's home to be lifted \"in the spirit of inclusive dialogue.\"
Diallo said that barricades around the headquarters of his party, the UFDG, and around his offices, remained in place.
The security presence in reputedly pro-opposition districts of Conakry was also notably lighter on Wednesday.
\"We were surprised this morning to see that the troops deployed in our area had packed up and gone,\" said Souleymane Bangoura, an inhabitant of the district of Sonfonia.
President Alpha Conde, 82, won the hotly-contested election according to official results announced Saturday, setting the stage for a controversial third term.
Conde was a former opposition leader during years of hardline rule who in 2010 became the first democratically-elected president of one of Africa's poorest and most volatile states.
But he has been accused by critics of authoritarian drift during his second term in office, which he won in 2015.
He pushed through a new constitution in March which he argued would modernise the country.
But it also allowed him to bypass a two-term limit for presidents, arguing that the counter had been reset to zero.
Opposition to that outcome had provoked mass protests from October 2019, in which security forces killed dozens of people.
Conde, who had not been seen in public since election day, visited the military hospital in the capital on Wednesday under the close guard of the \"red berets\", an elite military unit.
Accompanied by Defence Minister Mohamed Diane and his personal adviser Tibou Camara, Conde spoke with police and gendarmes who had been injured in post-election violence.
- Deadly clashes -
Diallo was formerly a prime minister under authoritarian leader Lansana Conte, and has unsuccessfully challenged Conde in each election the president has contested.
On October 19, without waiting for official results, Diallo maintained that data his activists had gathered at individual polling stations showed that he had won.
The self-pr
The president of the Fraternal Order of Police in Louisville says \"officers were definitely justified\" when police officers shot Breonna Taylor
By Associated Press Undefined ZURICH (AP) — FIFA president Gianni Infantino has tested positive for COVID-19. The governing body of world soccer said Tuesday that Infantino has mild symptoms and 'has immediately placed himself in self-isolation and will remain in quarantine at least for 10 days.' People who have come into contact with the 50-year-old Swiss lawyer in recent days have been informed 'to take the necessary steps,' FIFA said. Infantino has traveled little during the coronavirus pandemic, but he attended a signing ceremony at the White House last month to mark normalized relations for Israel with the United Arab […]
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The advantages of leading a healthier lifestyle might seem apparent. You might feel better physically, look better, and not have to visit the doctor as often. But there are other advantages that you might overlook at first glance. Eating well, getting enough exercise, and sleeping enough hours has many benefits. Read More
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The intensification of cereal cultivation will not assist Africa in reducing poverty and malnutrition as the crops are vulnerable to pests, diseases and climate change. write Ethel Phiri, Elsje Dippenaar, Mpho Molapo and Philasande Feju.
Omar Muhammad, formerly known as Omar Saunders, is one of the now exonerated Roscetti Four. Omar and three others were convicted of rape, kidnapping, and murder of medical student, Lori Roscetti. Sentenced to life in prison, they were forced to confess to the crime. After it was determined DNA did not match any of the … Continued
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Making voting harder is about grabbing even more disproportionate power and delaying the impact of shifting demographics “This article was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity. “You will not replace us!” The words chanted in 2017 by tiki torch-wielding white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, get right to the heart of what voter disenfranchisement tactics are all […]
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Solomon, Patrick and Samuel were wounded on October 20 during a crackdown by Nigerian security forces on protesters in Lagos who had gathered despite a curfew order.
The three say they spent several days at the Lekki toll gate, the epicentre of demonstrations that erupted on October 8 over police violence and bad governance, as they themselves had been victims of police abuse in the past.
Now discharged from hospital, the three men -- whose full names we are not disclosing for their own safety-- are desperate for their stories to be heard.
It was the Nigerian army who fired, all three said.
The government denies any responsibility and labeled reports that soldiers killed 12 people as \"fake news\". The police on Friday said 22 officers had been killed in protest-linked unrest this month.
\"How can they say it's not true?,\" asked Patrick.
\"We saw them. Two guys died instantly in my presence, and one is still in the coma -- my friend Nicholas,\" said the 25-year-old demonstrator, unemployed since a lockdown in March imposed to contain the coronavirus.
Shot in the arm -- he was brandishing a flag when he came under fire -- Patrick was evacuated, put on a canoe that crisscrossed the Lagos lagoon and took him to a hospital.
\"The soldiers were blocking the roads, the ambulances could not access the scene. Some were using bikes, others wheelbarrows to take the injured,\" he said.
Samuel, 30, was helping to ensure safety at the protest ground with a group of volunteers when he heard the first gunshots.
\"We saw armed, military men, so we came back to the stage and started waving our flags and singing the national anthem.\"
\"I was not expecting them to shoot at us,\" said the young man, who works in agriculture in the outskirts of the sprawling city.
\"I was expecting them to address us in a normal manner. But they didn't talk to anybody, they just started shooting.\"
\"All of a sudden I started feeling something hit my left thigh,\" he remembered. The screen of his phone might have saved him -- the bullet would have otherwise penetrated even deeper.
In pain, he managed to walk 500 metres to find someone who could take him to hospital.
\"I saw like three people dying, but I was also injured, so I couldn't help them. I had to help myself first.\"
It was a close call for Solomon as well. A bullet pierced his shoulder, and another grazed his neck, leaving a burn scar.
The 38-year-old construction worker is still in shock.
\"The country doesn't realise what happened, but for me this is not the end, this is just the beginning of the protests,\" he told AFP.
\"I need a better Nigeria. This wound made me even more ready to fight, I have nothing to lose anymore.\"
[IPS] London -- US Christian right groups, many with close links to the Trump administration, have spent at least $280m in 'dark money' fuelling campaigns against the rights of women and LGBTIQ people across five continents, openDemocracy can reveal today.
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International envoys mediating in the violence following Guinea's disputed election have urged the government to lift a blockade of the home of opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo.
Representatives from the United Nations, African Union and the 15-nation West African bloc ECOWAS said in a statement on Tuesday that \"Guinean authorities (must) lift the barricade in the spirit of inclusive dialogue\".
Police have barricaded Diallo inside his house for days, as post-election clashes between his supporters and security forces flared last week.
President Alpha Conde, 82, won the October 18 election according to official preliminary results announced on Saturday, which would give him a controversial third term in office.
He pushed through a new constitution in March which allowed him to bypass a two-term limit for presidents. The move sparked mass protests, which were met with deadly crackdowns by security forces.
But Diallo disputes the results and claimed victory last week, citing data his activists gathered at individual polling stations.
His self-proclaimed victory led to unrest.
The government put the number of dead at 21, but the political opposition says 27 people died. AFP was unable to independently confirm the number of deaths.
The international envoys -- who include ECOWAS Commission President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou and the UN special representative to West Africa, Mohamed Ibn Chambas -- landed in Guinea on Sunday to mediate.
In a statement on Tuesday, the representatives said they had come to \"lower sociopolitical tensions\" after the election.
They urged Guinea to investigate and bring the perpetrators to justice.
