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The content originally appeared on: Le Nouvelliste Jacques Ted Saint-Dic, membre de la Commission pour la recherche d'une solution haitienne a la crise (CRSHC) initiateur de l'accord dit de Montana, dit n'etre ni pour ni contre la demission de l'actuel chef du gouvernement, Ariel Henry. Par contre, ll pense que son depart devrait se faire dans l'ordre, suite a un accord prealablement trouve entre differents secteurs de la vie nationale. 'La commission est dans une construction pour remplacer l'actuel chef […]
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
CARACAS, (Reuters) - Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly, a pro-government legislature created in 2017 that was widely criticized for undermining democracy, will cease operations at the end of 2020, President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday.
The article Venezuela’s ruling Socialists to shut all-powerful legislative assembly appeared first on Stabroek News.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Nicol�s Maduro's political alliance claimed a sweeping victory yesterday in congressional elections boycotted by the most influential opposition politicians and widely criticized internationally as being fraudulent.
Donovan Coburn, a resident of Third Street in Trench Town, St Andrew, was at the wrong place at the wrong time when he was shot and paralysed at a football field in Waterhouse, St Andrew, 20 years ago. After he was bitten by a centipede, he was...
So, Trump’s initial talk about blowing off a Georgia vote, and name calling of Georgia’s top GOP officials was like much else with Trump, etc.
[UN News] With a week to go until elections are scheduled to take place in the Central African Republic (CAR), the UN is concerned about an escalation of armed attacks, amid reports that armed groups have taken control of towns near the capital, Bangui.
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As days turned into years, Brett Woolley came to accept that his father's murderer would never be found — and that his family's private tragedy had become a Wild West legend, the kind of thing folks shared when they were a few too many drinks deep into the night. Nearly 40 years ago, Dan Woolley was shot in the parking lot of a small-town bar. The shooter crossed the street to the town's other tavern, ordered a drink and declared, 'I just killed a man.' And then he disappeared, leaving no […]
The post Years-old murder shook town; new arrest causes aftershocks appeared first on Black News Channel.
[African Arguments] In March 2020, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed made an unthinkable announcement: national elections planned for August were postponed until 2021. At least. The country's fledgling democratic infrastructure couldn't safely handle the ballot amid Covid-19 restrictions. The vote would have to wait - it was in everyone's best interest.
ActionSA’s John Moodey has told the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) John Steenhuisen to worry about his own party’s affairs
Investing in 'predominately Black communities' is important to the Walz-Flanagan administration, Flanagan said.
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We hear a lot about you really don’t need much horsepower. The Encore proves that point.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “As a leading congressional advocate of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries and a supporter of the Jubilee movement, I am especially proud of President Rawlings’ advocacy for African nations to have their international debts cancelled. Debt relief was critical to free more than thirty-five of the world’s poorest countries – […]
The post Waters remembers Ghanaian president Jerry Rawlings on eve of country’s election appeared first on The Orlando Advocate.
A new variant of the coronavirus has been detected in South Africa, the health Ministry announced Friday night. This could explain the speed of transmission of this second wave, which also affects younger patients.
Is this Ambiente auto possibly the best EcoSport you can buy? We road test the latest addition to Ford’s compact crossover range.
[ICG] Yaoundé/Nairobi/Brussels -- Two years after Cameroon's contested presidential election, political rivalry has taken a worrying direction as the incumbent's supporters trade ethnic slurs with backers of his main challenger. The government should undertake electoral reforms, bar discrimination and work with social media platforms to curtail hate speech.
“As a leading congressional advocate of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries and a supporter of the Jubilee movement, I am especially proud of President Rawlings’ advocacy for African nations to have their international debts cancelled. Debt relief was critical to free more than thirty-five of the world’s poorest countries – including Ghana – from the burdens of international debts and enable them to invest their resources in health, education, poverty reduction, and infrastructure,” said Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee.
By Victor Omondi Kevin Kelley, the man who became infamous all over the internet for his unfaltering anti-twerking attitude and his negativity towards black women, is no longer allied to Taste Bar and Kitchen, one of his restaurants in Houston. Kelley and Taste chef and owner Don Bowie are no longer in good terms, and […]
BY RICHARD MUPONDE MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe yesterday summoned all provincial structures to Harare on Wednesday to inspect the voters roll as she moves to curb interim secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora’s alleged attempts to use a manipulated roll at the extraordinary congress to be held at the weekend. The party was forced to postpone the congress last weekend after disputes arose over the voters roll amid allegations that Mwonzora availed a manipulated roll. But the national council (NC), in a virtual meeting held yesterday, resolved to summon all 2014 structures to Harare to verify the voters roll. The NC also resolved to fire Mwonzora’s lieutenant, Simon Hove, who was masquerading as the Harare provincial chairperson and was reportedly causing problems in the party in cahoots with him. The aborted congress had been scheduled for Harare last Saturday, but was postponed at the eleventh hour after Khupe and Mwonzora, seen as the main rivals, were involved in a vicious battle over the voters roll. After the agreement to cancel the congress, another war erupted over US$29 000 that was allegedly given to some delegates clandestinely, it has emerged. Yesterday, the national council made a resolution that the 2014 voters roll, which was produced by the Khupe camp, was going to prevail. “The party has summoned its 2014 provincial structures to inspect the voters roll. Team Dougie suffered a blow. Mwonzora had presented a roll staffed with his allies who were not members of the 2014 structures, as ordered by the Supreme Court in March this year,” the source said. The source said the party’s highest organ also resolved to fire Hove, Mwonzora’s ally, from his post as Harare provincial chairperson. “It was ordered that Simon Hove, Mwonzora’s ally who was masquerading as Harare provincial chairman, reverts to his position as treasurer in Hatfield district. He replaced the late Thomas Muzuva, who held the post. Hove was working with Mashonaland East provincial chairman Piniel Denga and Lloyd Damba, from Chitungwiza, to drive the process of filling gaps left in the structures with Mwonzora’s supporters before the party stopped them. Mwonzora’s team protested over Khupe’s gap-filling which brought in her backers, treasurer-general Chief Ndlovu and spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni. Khupe referred to a part of the constitution that empowers her as party leader to appoint members to key posts to avoid a void,” he said. A Matabeleland North provincial official is said to have asked for an explanation on allegations that Mwonzora and team took US$29 000 from party coffers, but the issue was abandoned during the virtual meeting after no one responded. Efforts to get a comment from party acting spokesperson Tapiwa Mashakada and Mwonzora were fruitless as their cellphones were unreachable. However, Khupe confirmed the new development in a statement she issued yesterday, saying that they were now using the 2014 structures to produce the voters roll. “We called this meeting to update you on the postponement of the extraordina
Efforts to overturn November’s election results in Pennsylvania are not dead, say the attorneys who continued working after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a one-sentence ruling that was widely seen as the case’s last breath. [...]
[Nation] The woes of embattled Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko ballooned yesterday as he fought to retain the seat after Thursday's impeachment.
Through his deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino, CNN reports that Donald Trump \"pledges there will be an orderly transition,\" but at the same time still falsely arguing that the election was stolen from him. This follows after the failed Pro-Trump coup and Joe Biden's Electoral College victory was certified by Congress.
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The United States has warned Uganda to ensure free and fair elections.
Uganda is due to hold a general election in January of 2021. Opposition presidential candidates have accused security forces of brutally breaking up their rallies and beating their supporters.
In November, one of the candidates – Bobi Wine was arrested and charged for defying COVID-19 regulations governing mass gatherings.
Scores of people were killed and hundreds more injured as police and the military fought to quell the protests that followed Wine’s arrest.
“The United States is a longstanding partner of Uganda. We expect our partners to live up to their obligations to hold free and fair elections. We are paying close attention to the actions of individuals who seek to impede the ongoing democratic process,” said Mike Pompeo, the Secretary U.S. Department of State in a tweet Thursday evening.
Pompeo’s remarks came a day after Eliot Engel, the chairperson of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, demanded that several Ugandan security officials be sanctioned for what called a worsening human rights in the country.
“My desire to see a better human rights record in Uganda is firmly rooted in the country’s own constitution and legal code, which prevent torture and enshrine the right to freely assemble and express viewpoints that may not be in accordance with those of President Museveni,” wrote Engel.
Engel wants the Trump administration to invoke the Magnitsky act to punish General Peter Elwelu, the Commander of Land Forces, General James Birungi, Commander of the presidential protection force and General Abel Kandiho, the head of military intelligence.
Other are the deputy head of General Steven Sabiiti Muzeyi, and Colonel Chris Serunjogi Ddamulira, the head of crime intelligence in the police force.
Washington uses the Magnitsky legislation which came into force in 2012 to sanction foreign individuals who have committed human rights abuses or been involved in significant corruption.
In his December 9th, 2020 letter to Pompeo and Steven Mnuchin, the Secretary U.S. Department of the Treasury, Engel expresses concern over president, Yoweri Museveni’s “long track record of repressive behavior”.
“However, diplomatic rhetoric alone has had little impact on President Museveni’s behavior. Instead, he has further consolidated power while preventing the emergence of a viable democratic opposition,” the letter reads.
In power since 1986, Museveni is re-election in the January polls. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove an age cap that would have prevented him from placing another bid at the presidency. He is 76.
He has called his opponents ‘enemies’ of Uganda for addressing huge rallies in the middle of a pandemic.
After initially suggesting that the elections would be postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, Museveni backtracked in June telling the country’s election commission to accelerate the electoral road map.
In a May interview with a local TV station, he said it would be ‘madness’ to hold the vote
[DW] The incumbent Ghanaian president Akufo-Addo has held on to power following the release of official results. Tensions are rising in the normally peaceful country as his opponent calls foul play.
La patrona de México tiene su día especial. Esta fecha es muy importante para la mayoría de los mexicanos—el 12 de diciembre, cuando se celebra a La Virgen de Guadalupe. La Basílica donde descansa su [...]
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Audley Shaw has congratulated Sagicor Bank Jamaica on its innovative roll-out of the Bank on Wheels initiative, which has been operating from Spalding, Clarendon, since last month.
The man who could become the first Black person to lead the Department of Defense is at the center of a brewing inter-Party controversy as a growing number of Senate Democrats have signaled their opposition to his nomination.
