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Shorter Time in Office for Liberian Lawmakers?
Long queues at polling stations in Monrovia — suggesting a high turn out as Liberians voted Tuesday on a referendum by President George Weah to shorten office terms for the president and lower-house lawmakers to five years instead of six. President George Weah shared a few words, "I asked all Liberians to be peaceful, to come to the polling centre, exercise their franchise, select their candidate and leave with peace. And at the end of the day, the results will come and those that were elected, those that you voted for, will win. But this country needs to be peaceful. We don't need to tear our country down."
Hundreds of thousands of Liberians are thought to reside overseas, having fled war and poverty. Upon acquiring another nationality, they lose their Liberian citizen and are thus barred from owning property at home — among other restrictions.
Dual Nationality for Liberians in the Diaspora
In a move that some hope could be an economic boost for the West African nation of 4.8 million people, voters are also choosing whether to repeal a 1973 ban on dual nationality as Patience Teegbeh, a local who came out to vote, shares her contentment with the voting process, "It’s free and fair and transparent. I love the way it is going on and it's okay for us."
Opposition politicians in Liberia suspect that Weah - elected in 2018 and still in his first term, could use the office-occupation length constitutional change to cling to power. The 54-year-old president has denied the claim.
Liberia’s constitution sets a maximum of two terms — as is also the case in two other nations in West Africa whose electoral process saw the maximum term limit be side-stepped.
Regional Track Record
In Guinea, 82-year-old President Alpha Conde won a controversial third term in October after pushing through a new constitution that allowed him to bypass a two-term limit. The same month, Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, 78, was elected for an equally contentious third term, after having revised the country's constitution.
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
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Suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels freed more than 1,300 prisoners in an assault on a jail in Beni, eastern Democratic Republic Congo.
Only about 100 prisoners after the attack on Kagbayi prison on Tuesday morning.
The ADF are a Ugandan rebel group with bases in eastern Congo.
\"We had a count before the escape of 1,456 (prisoners), 110 (of them) stayed and I thank them for that. Some 20 (escapees) have already returned and I know that others are on their way back. We'll do a tally, and work out how many have come back\", said Modeste Bakwanamaha, the mayor of Beni.
Kagbayi prison is used to hold errant army soldiers and militiamen captured in fighting, including some from the ADF.
Jail breaks are common in Congo where conditions in detention facilities are said to be very bad.
Senator Morris got a bit too personalLast Sunday's Observer column written by Senator Floyd Morris, headlined 'Mission: Comrade unity', smacked of elements of unfairness not usually associated with the author.
Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, reproductive rights, climate change. All are issues that have been brought to the forefront recently and consume the news from all different angles. As the world continues changing at a rapid pace, we’ve seen how governments on all different scales have responded to these matters in real time, making it more...
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Early voting for the 2020 election is nearly over – it ends Sunday, Nov. 1 – and to encourage more people to vote early, the mayors of five major cities in Wisconsin have issued a challenge. Mayor Cory Mason of Racine, Mayor John Antaramian of Kenosha, Mayor Eric Genrich of Green Bay, […]
The post Wisconsin Mayors Issue Early Voting Challenge to Five Cities first appeared on The Madison Times.
… for and delivering for the African American community. As a U.S … the Voting Rights Act, protecting African Americans' right to vote.… "Platinum Plan" for Black Americans, telling “Fox News Sunday” in …
East Lansing, Mich. (AP) – Merritt Norvell Jr., the first Black athletic director at Michigan State, has died. He was 79. A spokesman at the ...
Sports events in Guyana have been given the green light to resume under the new COVID-19 measures and the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) plans to run off meets in two weeks.
The article AAG plans to stage meets in two weeks appeared first on Stabroek News.
ELM CITY, N.C. (WNCN) — With just a few days left before the election, Vice President Mike Pence made his way back to North Carolina on Saturday to campaign in Wilson County. Pence stepped off of Air Force Two and began sprinting to an enthusiastic crowd waiting for him on the tarmac at the Rocky […]
In the spring of 2020, nursing homes were in the news and under considerable scrutiny because so many had patients with COVID-19. Many went into lockdown to keep their residents and staff safe. Nursing homes had been under the microscope long before the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 that resulted in the respiratory illness COVID-19, hit this country. […]
The post A Nursing Home That Turned It Around appeared first on BlackDoctor.org.
COMME des GARÇONS Adds Some Luxe Detailing To The Classic Air Force 1 Mid
Voting. A word defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “an expression of opinion or preference.” A concept well known by all Americans, as it should, considering our many things about this country are decided by elections. President, judges, mayors and governors are all voted upon by the general population; and if not, they are decided by elected officials.
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Television networks are adding experts in election law to their election night coverage teams so they're prepared to explain legal challenges or irregularities that may come up during the vote. Veteran attorney Ben Ginsberg, who represented George W. Bush when the 2000 presidential race was decided in the Supreme Court, has joined CNN for this purpose. CBS News hired David Becker, founder of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. ABC and NBC have made similar arrangements, although some of those experts will have more offscreen roles. 'If the country […]
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JUNCTION, St Elizabeth - The novel coronavirus pandemic has caused serious dislocation of students and teachers, but BB Coke High School remains committed to eventually becoming a school of choice in south/central Jamaica. School Principal Evadney Ledgister told the Jamaica Observer last Wednesday that in prior years the school was underrated, but that the institution's academic performance has been streadily improving.
By MEHMET GUZEL and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 64 people and injuring more than 900. It was the latest series of remarkable rescues after the Friday afternoon earthquake, which was centered in the Aegean northeast of the Greek island of Samos. Search-and-rescue teams were working in nine toppled or damaged buildings in Izmir, Turkey's third-largest city, but appeared to be finding more bodies […]
The post 70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as quake toll hits 64 appeared first on Black News Channel.
One Beer At A Time: How Guinness Is Giving Back To Those Most Affected By The Pandemic
By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — With the coronavirus lockdown and school out for the summer, 9-year-old Maya Gebler's social world had shrunk to her immediate family and a few friends. When her human pen pals stopped writing, she turned to the fairies who had taken up residence at a tree in her Virginia neighborhood. And the fairies wrote back. 'They care about you,' she said. 'And they want to write to you.' Beneath a crape myrtle at the edge of a lawn in Norfolk lies a fairy village. A sign on a small wooden door shaped […]
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A custody battle for Jodian Fearon’s six-month-old daughter Peyton-Grace is threatening to inflict fresh wounds in the relationship between the deceased first-time mom’s loved ones even as they try to come to terms with her tragic passing under...
The UK Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, travelled to Malawi and Zambia this week (5 to 9 October) where he built on UK partnerships across Southern Africa to promote, support and reinforce our shared national interests – with a focus on boosting regional trade links and tackling the health and economic impacts of COVID-19. He […]
The post Minister for Africa announces closer UK-Southern Africa Partnership appeared first on African Voice Newspaper.
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Mwazulu Diyabanza is a man on a crusade that has taken nearly a dozen African governments more than half a century but the 41-year-old believes his unique strategy would force the issue into Africa's favor, in the least. Diyabanza wants to reclaim for African countries, artworks that were looted by colonizers during the centuries of...
The post Mwazulu Diyabanza: The man who is taking African artworks from European museums by force appeared first on Face2Face Africa.
By Barrington M. Salmon, Contributing Writer Sabila Khan is one of more than 209,000 American families who have lost a loved one to COVID-19 since the global pandemic slammed the United States in March of this year. On Sunday, October 4 at noon, she and others around the US will publicly honor victims of coronavirus at an hour-long memorial event on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Khan’s father Shafqat died unexpectedly in April after contracting the disease. He has been suffering from Parkinson’s for the past 10 years and was staying at a rehab facility. She is left with […]
The post Daughter of COVID Victim Works to Honor Father's Memory appeared first on Black News Channel.
Best Selling Author Dr. Sidjae Price Releases New Book For Faith-Based Entrepreneurs Titled Chasing Rainbows Why Chasing Rainbows Will Have You Pursuing The Bag Outside The Will of God (Black PR Wire) Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Best-Selling author, speaker and entrepreneur Dr. Sidjae Price authors her third book and shares her story and Biblical … Continued
The post Author Dr. Sidjae Price Releases New Book For Faith-Based Entrepreneurs appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.
Donald Trump ridiculed natural science. He encouraged his followers to discount all scientific recommendations regarding how to lessen the impact of the pandemic. Through public displays of contempt for mask-wearing and social distancing, Trump, in typical masculinist mode, attempted to display that his own strength and arrogance were sufficient to defeat the Covid19 plague.
As the novel coronavirus pandemic swirls, resulting in economic stagnation and the layoff of thousands of people across various sectors globally, Sandals Royal Caribbean's 2018 Diamond Team Member of the Year Cion Robinson has learnt one lesson: 'How to appreciate my job much more.'
Rapper and entrepreneur Curtis Jackson (aka 50 Cent) recently said \"Vote for Trump\" via his Instagram account. Does he really mean it?
You don’t get a prize for predicting rain, you get a prize for building an ARK...
Dear Mr Bassie, I have a British passport and some of my personal details have changed. How would I go about correcting the data in my passport? I do hope that you are able to assist. – M.M. Dear M.M., Persons will need to get a new passport...
