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Kith Owner Ronnie Fieg Launches Kin Foundation & Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives For 2021
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.
DENVER — As the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic descended on Colorado in November, gatherings were limited and restaurants closed to sustain social distance. However, pot shops remained open. Recently at The Green Solution, [...]
The United Kingdom will deploy 300 troops to Mali this week as part of the UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA), the British Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday.
The mission comprising 250 soldiers and a support team of 50 will be based in Gao, some 320 southeast of Timbuku. The troops is mandated to conduct patrols to gather intelligence and dialogue with the local population to help the UN respond to threats by extremist violence and weak governance, the ministry’s statement said.
This peacekeeping mission is completely separate from the French operation Barkhane, which hunts jihadist groups active in northern Mali. But both forces will operate in the same region, the statement added.
Some members of British forces arrived in Mali on Wednesday and the rest will follow by December 8. They join some 14,000 UN peacekeepers from 56 countries. According to Defense Minister Ben Wallace, the commitment reflects \"the importance of improving security in the Sahel by protecting communities.’’
Meanwhile, the United Kingdom will remain engaged, with three Chinook helicopters and about 100 troops, in support of the French Operation Barkhane under a government-to-government agreement until June 2021.
MINUSMA was deployed in Mali in July 2013, after jihadist groups took control of the north of the vast Sahelian country in 2012. They were largely dispersed by a military intervention launched in January 2013 at the initiative of France. But entire zones remain beyond the control of Malian, French and UN forces.
MINUSMA is one of the most important missions of the UN. Currently, it is one of the most deadliest with more than 220 deaths since its deployment, including more than 130 in hostile acts. Its mandate was renewed for one year at the end of June by the UN Security Council.
The Debt Remains Unpaid
After failing to make an interest payment on a Eurobond which was due on Friday — making it Africa's first economy to default during the coronavirus pandemic, Zambia's central bank governor Christopher Mvunga said from Lusaka on Wednesday that the debt-ridden country last week could have paid $42.5 million towards its Eurobond liabilities.
He stated that the country deliberately chose not to do so in the spirit of fairness — as it wanted to treat all creditors equally, \"It is not that we could not pay. It's just that if we pay one creditor, then we need to pay all the creditors. So the decision that was undertaken, which was a conscious decision, is that we will not pay any of the creditors and we will treat all of them equally with the view that we will come up with a constructive, progressive, forward-looking plan on our debt sustainability which will allow us in the future to meet all our credit obligations.\"
Mvunga said that Finance Minister Bwalya Ngandu was engaging all creditors to negotiate the rescheduling of debt repayment.
Background
The government in September requested a six-month deferral on interest payments for three commercial Eurobonds worth 3 billion USD. However, it missed the 40 million USD interest payment due on one bond on October 14 which prompted ratings agency S&P to declare the country in default. The grace period which ended Friday was for payment on a 750 million USD Eurobond due to expire in 2022.
In spite of having the African continent's second-largest copper deposits, Zambia's external debt has surged to nearly 12 billion USD this year.
GOVERNMENT has been urged to assemble buses locally in order to curb externalisation of foreign currency by manufacturers. BY PRAISEMORE SITHOLE This was said yesterday by Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) president Tafadzwa Goliati in an interview with NewsDay. Goliati said assembling of buses locally would create employment for locals. Recently, the government received 50 buses from China to boost the Zupco fleet. In the last 12 months, the government imported over 300 buses from China and Belarus to boost the Zupco fleet which had aged. “We are at pains seeing what is currently happening whereby the government is importing buses from China and Belarus using a lot of foreign currency instead of asking those companies to open assembling factories for buses in Zimbabwe which will be very cheap,” Goliati said. “This idea of local assembling of buses is being implemented by African countries like Ghana, Kenya and others. This will create employment for the youth. They will learn how assembling is done and this will improve our nation,” he said. Goliati said countries like China managed to develop because they were able to attract external companies to open factories to assemble buses. “The idea of having assembling companies in the country has proven well in other countries and it is high time that we do the same as a country. In China there are so many companies which are into manufacturing and as a nation we should do the same and stop importing everything.” PAZ recently condemned the state of most conventional buses operating under the Zupco franchise. They described them as unroadworthy, adding that they were death traps for the commuting public. As commuter omnibus operators kept hiking fares, government decided to rope in the Zupco conventional buses to provide cheaper urban public transport. lFollow Praisemore on Twitter @TPraisemore
Ministry of Agriculture estimates that the vegetables and fruits markets have recorded up to 30 percent losses since Coronavirus outbreak.
[The Conversation Africa] For a brief moment in October, it seemed that youthful protesters calling to \"abolish\" a police force had succeeded. After weeks of mass demonstrations against police brutality, the government agreed to disband a widely hated police unit.
Sentenced to two years in jail and fined just under $700,000 for trafficking a pound of marijuana, a 36-year-old unemployed mother of four was yesterday released on $50,000 bail by the High Court pending an appeal of the sentence and fine imposed upon her by a Magistrate about two months ago.
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The Associated Press The Latest on Hurricane Laura: LAKE CHARLES, La. — Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said state officials now know of four deaths tied to Hurricane Laura. The deaths were all caused by trees falling on residences, Edwards said. None were on the coast, having happened in Vernon, Jackson and Acadia parishes. One death in Jackson in north Louisiana demonstrated the power of the storm, which made landfall as a Category 4 storm early Thursday, and traveled farther inland. Edwards said the current priority is search and rescue, followed by efforts to find hotel or motel rooms for […]
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This is not the first time a social media post by a DA MP or senior official has been called into question for its comments and positioning on race.
In what may not be the biggest surprise, it was reported that the teenager accused of murdering at least two people at a protest over the police killing of an unarmed Black man appears to be a supporter of President Donald Trump.
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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(TriceEdneyWire.com) – A special report released by the National Urban League reveals that the U. S. Census Bureau omitted at least 3.7 million African-Americans from its 2010 count, nearly five times the 800,000 “undercount” that the bureau has long reported. Largely due to the Coronavirus, the sluggish response to the 2020 Census count now underway […]
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By Tatenda Chitagu/Brenna Matendere The opening of schools for examination classes after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been dealt a blow after teachers declared incapacitation, NewsDay Weekender has learnt. Government announced Grade Seven, Ordinary and Advanced Level exam classes will resume lessons on September 28, with examinations starting on December 1. But two teacher unions, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union in Zimbabwe (Artuz) and the Progressive Teachers Union in Zimbabwe (PTUZ) said their members cannot make it back to work as they do not have transport money and are facing food shortages. In a letter to chairperson of the Public Service Commission Vincent Hungwe, Artuz secretary-general Robson Chere requested an urgent review of teachers’ salaries to their August 2018 benchmark of US$520 or the equivalent at the prevailing interbank rate. “This letter serves to inform you that as Artuz members we are incapacitated to report back for duty and survive this harsh economic environment heightened by COVID-19,” Chere wrote. “We can no longer afford transport to duty stations, to pay basic food stuffs, rentals, water, electricity bills and other essential services now priced in US dollars.” Chere added: “Our paltry salaries in RTGS cannot sustain us for a whole month or even a week. We request an urgent review of our salaries in US dollar or RTGS at the prevailing interbank rate, with monthly reviews from the government. We urge the employer to come up with an urgent solution to avert our situation,” the letter read in part. Teachers started receiving their salaries this week, with some crying foul after funeral insurance fees of $1 000 were added to their cost. Most teachers who earned about $3 800 walked away with about $2 600, about US$31 using the auction rate, after deductions of the insurance fees. The teachers are also yet to receive their US$75 COVID-19 allowance. PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou reiterated that the government has overstretched the patience of teachers who have waited for long to have their working conditions improved. “Admittedly, the government has overstretched teachers’ patience and elasticity that has now reached a breaking point. Only a few days before public schools open, there is no clarity over improvement of salaries and conditions of service,” he said. “What is inherently clear is that teachers have all tested positive to poverty and unless there is a concerted effort to address this long standing issue, teachers would be incapacitated to report for work on 28 July 2020.” “Yet sound as this appears, the government has been prevaricating since its flirtation with moribund, obsolete and archaic Apex Council in Victoria Falls in February 2020.” He added that the Apex Council has blatantly failed to lobby for better salaries of teachers and entirety of public service workers. “Worse still Apex Council’s unprocedural extension of mandate has even expired, but government is still closeted to romance with it for firefighting escapades instead of addressing the plight o
Breonna Taylor's former neighbor whose apartment was also hit by the same police gunfire that resulted in a weak indictment of a fired cop is wondering why the shots that ripped through his home weren't factored into last week's charges.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida launched an investigation Wednesday into an upscale nursing home amid reports that it administered coronavirus vaccines to wealthy donors and members of a country…
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — A powerful earthquake centred near the southern Mexico resort of Huatulco killed at least four people, swayed buildings in Mexico City and sent thousands fleeing into the streets.
Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said one person was killed and another injured when a building collapse in Huatulco, Oaxaca.
The US Geologic Survey said the quake hit at 10:29 a.m. (11:29 am Eastern) along Mexico's southern Pacific coast at a depth of 16 miles (26 km).
Mari González of the Princess Mayev hotel in Huatulco said staff and guests were able to evacuate the building before the quake, but that 45 minutes after the initial quake they were still outside as strong aftershocks continued.
Local news media reported damage to some buildings in the state capital, Oaxaca city.
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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President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on Wednesday 11 November 2020. Here are the main points you need to be aware of.
