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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.
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Donald Trump's legal team suffered yet another defeat in court Friday as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the campaign's latest effort to challenge the state's election results. Trump's lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court despite the judges' assessment that the 'campaign's claims have no merit.' 'Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here,' 3rd Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote […]
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BY FORTUNE MBELE FORMER Highlanders defender Bruce Kangwa, believes that newly-signed striker Prince Dube (pictured) will definitely add value to the Azam.Dube (23) signed a three-year contract with the club on Monday where he joins compatriots Kangwa and Never Tigere. He probably becomes a direct replacement for another Zimbabwean Donald Ngoma, who parted ways with the club in June.Kangwa says Dube just has to remain focused and hit the ground running. 'The way I know Prince, he will add value to the team here. I know he will give us something to smile about. When you are new in a club obviously the expectations will be high but all I can say to him is that football will be the same the way he knows. He just should not put himself under pressure,' Kangwa said. Kangwa warned Dude that he will need to provide the goals that he has been signed to produce if he is to succeed at the club. “There are a lot of things he can expect here and my advice to him is that he should stay focussed and put that ball️ into the nets and the rest will just come his way,” Kangwa said. Kangwa briefly played with Dube at Highlanders before he left for Tanzania. Dube paid tribute to Highlanders.“Bosso family I can’t thank you enough for everything you have done for me in all these past years. Thank you for everything; the love ,support, appreciation, just everything you did for me. Thank you Highlanders. You are such an amazing club and you will always be home. Thank you for the love, support through the bad and good times. Words cannot express my appreciation for the fans,” Dube said on his Twitter handle. Highlanders and Azam on Monday confirmed Dube's new deal.Dube joined the Highlanders' senior team in 2016 after a good season with the club's Division One side Bosso 90 the previous year. He was to move to SuperSport United in July 2017 but failed to impress at the South African club and returned home at the end of 2018 and signed for Highlanders once more, playing only a season last year before his move to Tanzania. Dube is eyeing a move to France where his handlers say he has attracted interest from two clubs for trials but has failed to travel due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.
BY MTHANDAZO NYONI SEEDCo International Limited (SCIL) says its Zimbabwean unit reported revenue of $975 million (inflation adjusted) for the half year ended 30 September 2020, up 55% compared to the same period last year. In historical terms, the revenue increased by 1 115% to $752 million. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) increased by 71% to $588 million. In the period under review, sales volumes for maize seed increased by 100% while for wheat rose seed by 10%. In a statement accompanying the group’s financial results, SCIL group secretary Terrence Chimanya said the macroeconomic environment was characterised by hyperinflation, high interest rates, tight liquidity and accelerated local currency depreciation following the introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar by the central bank. However, he said the period subsequent to the reporting date witnessed both inflation and exchange rate stability though interest rates rose. “The group’s profit performance was underpinned by strong sales volume growth and selling price increases effected in response to the inflation-induced rise in operating expenses,” Chimanya said. “Increased focus on local wheat production to reduce import dependence and improved irrigation capacity due to better electricity supply drove the increase in wheat seed sales volumes,” he said. “In addition, there was increased uptake of maize seed on the back of a lowveld winter grain production initiative targeted to enhance food security in the Masvingo province in the wake of recent devastating droughts in that area.” Chimanya also said the group’s half year results were enhanced by a combination of positive contribution from the foreign associate on account of early maize seed demand across the region and an encouraging out-turn from the local cotton seed associate and the vegetable seed joint venture. The group said capital expenditure (Capex) was mainly directed towards the artificial seed dryer project whose completion was unfortunately delayed by a combination of foreign currency shortages, liquidity challenges and COVID-19 restrictions. The company last year revealed plans to set up a US$10 million seed drying facility to reduce post-harvest losses and enable farmers to utilise land at least twice a year. “Inventory levels increased due to seed deliveries from contracted seed growers for processing in preparation of the main selling season in the second half,” he said. “Both Capex and seed production were financed by expensive local borrowings which are expected to unwind in the second half when the main selling period commences. The average cost of existing borrowing facilities is 45% and these borrowings are unsecured,” he said. Chimanya said during the period under review, foreign-dominated payables were successfully registered under the central bank legacy debt framework though settlement modalities were yet to be determined. In the outlook, he said the prevailing macro-economic stability and relaxation of lockdown restrictions augured well for local opera
Due to the coronavirus, this is the earliest point in any season schedule in which the Bruins have played a league game in the modern era.
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about her friendship with the African-American actress who married Prince Harry their L.A. home from African-American film mogul Tyler Perry, has
In summary Buckle in for a long count, remember that margins and geography matter, look for these clues- and prepare to wait days on close races. If you were looking for the best advice on how to spend the hours after the polls close on election night, here's the best we have to offer: Go […]
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ROME (AP) — Doctors, nurses and the elderly rolled up their sleeves across the European Union to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine Sunday in a symbolic show…
In summary A bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk would authorize a reparations study for Black Californians. But a prominent scholar says he hopes California’s effort won’t detract from the national conversation on redressing slavery. Coming off the defeat of a series of police reform bills, racial justice advocates and Democratic lawmakers are hoping to […]
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Ministry of Agriculture estimates that the vegetables and fruits markets have recorded up to 30 percent losses since Coronavirus outbreak.
As viewers continue to show solidarity with Black Lives Matter or support each other through the challenges of COVID-19, the live broadcast, \"Family Room\" has also become a place for healing. Kathy explains, \"At the beginning of every show, we do something called Prayer Hands. We tell people to just put a prayer in there for everything that's going on because you can feel that this is working, just saying a prayer. The whole screen lights up with all different cultures and all different color hands.\"
By Miriam Mangwaya Pupils have called on government to intensify awareness on cybercrime to help curb abuse of social media in schools. This was revealed during the on-going awareness campaigns by police to stop social media and drug abuse at schools throughout Mashonaland East province. Videos of schoolchildren engaging in sex orgies and drug abuse recently went viral on social media amid reports that pupils were taking advantage of the ongoing teachers’ strike to engage in social vices. Mashonaland East police spokesperson Inspector Tendai Mwanza told NewsDay that the police were educating pupils on the dangers of abusing social media in a bid to promote morality in schools and to protect the minors from abuse in communities. “Pupils should use the internet for academic purposes and stop committing crimes online,” Mwanza said. “They should desist from manufacturing and posting pornographic material on social media. Not only is it criminal, but it distracts them from focusing on their studies which were disturbed during the lockdown period.” Mwanza urged school authorities to ensure pupils abstain from all forms of wayward behaviour by pupils within school premises. Chipo Musindo, a Form 6 student at Liebenberg High School, said it was important for government to ensure that pupils are fully aware of cybercrime so that they do not commit crimes online out of ignorance. “New information and communication technologies are important to enhance education, but it is important for authorities to set parameters on how students can use the gadgets,” Musindo said. “Due to peer pressure, some pupils post obscene videos, messages or pictures on social media platforms unaware of the negative consequences of their acts. Some pupils will be experimenting yet the results can be harmful to the society.” She urged school authorities to remove social media applications on gadgets used for e-learning to curb commission of crimes through the internet.
There are now more than over 400,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when. As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.
We shall keep updating this list largely sourced from the John Hopkins University tallies, Africa CDC and from official government data.
SUGGESTED READING: Africa’s COVID-19 deaths pass 100,000 mark
Major African stats: June 30 at 7:00 GMT:
Confirmed cases = 432,421
Active cases = 214,627
Recoveries = 207,148
Number of deaths = 10,646
Countries in alphabetical order
Algeria – 14,657
Angola – 315
Benin – 1,199
Botswana – 227
Burkina Faso – 967
Burundi – 170
Cameroon – 12,592
Cape Verde – 1,301
Central African Republic – 3,788
Chad – 868
Comoros – 303
Congo-Brazzaville – 1,382
DR Congo – 7,189
Djibouti – 4,715
Egypt – 71,299
Equatorial Guinea – 3,071
Eritrea – 215
Eswatini – 873
Ethiopia – 5,846
Gabon – 5,513
(The) Gambia – 55
Ghana – 18,134
Guinea – 5,450
Guinea-Bissau – 1,654
Ivory Coast – 9,992
Kenya – 6,941
Lesotho – 35
Liberia – 819
Libya – 891
Madagascar – 2,403
Malawi – 1,342
Mali – 2,260
Mauritania – 4,606
Mauritius – 341
Morocco – 12,969
Mozambique – 918
Namibia – 293
Niger – 1,081
Nigeria- 27,110
Rwanda – 1,063
Sao Tome and Principe – 717
Senegal – 7,054
Seychelles – 81
Sierra Leone – 1,518
Somalia – 2,944
South Africa – 168,061
South Sudan – 2,021
Sudan – 9,663
Tanzania – 509
Togo – 667
Tunisia – 1,178
Uganda – 902
Zambia – 1,632
Zimbabwe – 617
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A survey by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) about working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that corporate America has treated Black workers categorically worse than White workers during the pandemic.
The survey found that Black workers were roughly twice as likely to have been retaliated against by their employers for speaking up about health concerns and requesting time off work.
Three out of four Black workers who took the survey said they showed up to work during the pandemic even though they believed they might have been seriously risking their health or the health of family members.
“Our results suggest that virus transmission in the workplace may be exacerbated by employer repression and that the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black communities may be related to greater exposure of Black workers to repressive workplace environments,” the study’s authors wrote.
“While Black workers at any given worksite tend to be treated worse than their white counterparts, the study’s authors suggest that Black workers, as a whole, tend to work in more repressive environments than White workers,” noted vice.com.
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent The Rev. C.T. Vivian, the legendary civil rights activist who marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. Rev. Vivian was 95. Vivian’s daughter, Denise Morse, confirmed her father’s death and told Atlanta’s NBC affiliate WXIA that he was “one of the most wonderful men who ever walked the earth.” Vivian reportedly suffered a stroke earlier this year, but his family said he died of natural causes. “He has always been one of the people who had the most insight, wisdom, integrity, and dedication,” said former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, a […]
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Juelz Santana is now a free man. Today (August 5), the Dipset rapper was freed from federal prison where he was serving a sentence for a gun conviction.
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Several Trump allies and former aides acknowledge this is a sensitive time for the nation but remain unsure as to whether Trump can lead at this particular moment.
“This is more of a time for healing than anything else, and they need to figure out a way to take the tensions down,” said one former senior administration official.
“There are people around him who know that.
For the second night in a row chaos erupted outside the White House.
More Secret Service than usual could be seen pacing the roof of the White House as the president’s helicopter landed on the South Lawn, and just a few hundred yards away people yelled “F— Trump.”
WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - Gone are the days when President Donald Trump held forth daily at the White House podium flanked by members of his novel coronavirus task force. And the days when Vice-President Mike Pence and other task force officials would head to Trump's office to brief him immediately after their meetings. The White House won't say when Trump last met with the task force.
Cape Town — Covid-19 Connect, a WhatsApp service that provides users with relevant information to help make informed and effective decisions during the pandemic, was developed by Praekelt.org for South Africa, but the organisation's experience with digital health technology like MomConnect allowed it to gain the attention of the World Health Organisation.
In particular, we're rolled out in South Africa a service within the WhatsApp platform that's also available for free on USSD called HealthCheck which is essentially a screening tool that people can use to check their symptoms and understand whether they should be moving around as per regulations, if they should be self-isolating, if they should be tested or if they should seek care.
Since that launched we've had about just about a million users complete 1.5 million health checks and that's something we're going to be rolling out to other countries now that we've tested it here in South Africa as a tool that creates a feedback mechanism between citizens and the national department of health.
In South Africa, the service is available in five South African languages and we've certainly seeing through marketing how important it is to have things in these languages, but in other countries it's even more critical and so we work with ministries of health and out on-the-ground partners to translate into multiple languages before we launch.
We have interest from Bangladesh, Uganda and Ethiopia to do so but I'm sure most of them will start to take that on because it's turning into a really useful service in South Africa and as the pandemic progresses in each country, screening is going to become a critical tool more and more so I think it will be in demand by various countries.
The U.S. reported a record-high 121,888 new coronavirus cases Thursday — the second straight day the country has set a new mark for daily cases.
18 Georgia NAACP Branches in 19 Counties to “Party at the Polls' in Pivotal State ATLANTA – In one of the most unique get-out-the-vote efforts this year, 18 Georgia NAACP branches over 19 counties have launched an ambitious plan to get more than 40,000 African-American voters to the polls across the state on the last … Continued
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It turns out there are no silent nights in the Trump era. Even in the lead-up to Christmas, even in humiliating loss, even as Americans attempt reflection on what has been, for many, the worst year of their lives, President Donald Trump seems bent on maintaining an unrelenting pace of norm-smashing as his term concludes. No one expected him to […]
The normally quiet Upper East Side erupted into a street brawl between white supremacists and anti-fascists. Members of the Proud Boys, a white supremacist group with a violent history, allegedly attacked four Antifa protesters Oct. [...]
As the ruling party of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region fires rockets at the capital of neighbouring Eritrea, we look at the crisis stoking fears of a devastating conflict in Africa's second most populous country.
Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels released a video.
By Miriam Mangwaya TEN general hands at Chivhu General Hospital were recently suspended from work barely a month after they joined the institution amid allegations of nepotism in their recruitment. Allegations are that the authorities who presided over the recruitment process disregarded applicants recommended by the Ministry of Health and Child Care and ordered their preferred aspirants to pay US$5 “interview fees”. According to sources at the hospital, seven out of the 10 newly-hired employees were closely related to some senior staff members at the hospital and two of them were known girlfriends of a named senior doctor. Mashonaland East acting provincial medical director (PMD) Paul Matsvimbo confirmed the developments yesterday saying the matter was now under investigation. “Yes, I am aware of allegations of some alleged anomalies during the recruitment of staff at Chivhu General Hospital, but the matter is still under investigation. The 10 recruits have been suspended pending determination of the investigation,” he said. Health deputy minister John Mangwiro also said he was aware of the issue although he did not have the finer details. The alleged scam came to light after a nurse whose daughter had been turned away lodged a complaint with Matsvimbo, leading to the suspension of the recruits. The interviews were conducted by then acting medical superintendent Gift Munjanja and other five staff members. Munjanja declined to comment on the issue, and referred all questions to one Alice Kanyemba. “I was in charge of the interviews to recruit the general hand employees, but I cannot comment on the issue. What I can say is everything was conducted following the proper procedures. Kanyemba is the one who is authorised to speak to the media on all issues at this institution,” he said. Kanyemba also declined to comment.
By Associated Press Undefined GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film 'Lean on Me,' died at his Florida home on Tuesday after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said. He was 82. At crime- and drug-ridden Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, Clark expelled 300 students in a single day for fighting, vandalism, abusing teachers and drug possession. That lifted the expectations of those who remained, continually challenging them to perform better. Clark's unorthodox methods, which […]
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