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(The Center Square) – Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell announced a series of proposed ordinances, including protest buffer zones around public building and parking lots, in order to combat recent protests in the city. Protesters interrupted the council’s July meeting after reportedly “espousing various forms of hatred filmed, chanted, displayed offensive signage and clothing,” according to […]
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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.
Pension savings hold key to home ownership
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 0:01
By HOSEA AKILI |
Kenya’s pension and retirement benefits industry plays a big role in the economy.
The clause, which proposes to allow contributors to access 40 percent of their savings ahead of retirement will free tens of billions of shillings for home ownership given that Kenya’s pension sector currently controls Sh1.2 trillion in value; held in property, cash, shares and government bonds among other investment instruments.
With the new law in place, workers will have an incentive to save in retirement benefits schemes as well as boost one of the Government’s Big Four Agenda, which aims to improve home ownership rates by enhancing the diversification of sources of funds to be used in the purchasing of residential homes by Kenyans.
When it comes to leveraging retirement savings to guarantee home ownership, Kenya can benefit immensely by modelling after the Asian tiger – Singapore.
This is similar to the defined contribution arrangement provided by the County Pension Fund – which is the retirement scheme for county governments in Kenya.
LOTTO Results edit post Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 28 February 2021 2021-02-28 edit post Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 27 February 2021
A project to repave parking lots and other sections of the compound at St Richard’s Primary on Red Hills Road in St Andrew has been halted weeks after thugs reportedly scaled the perimeter wall, demanding that they be employed on the site. Although...
In an effort to highlight the people who are leading graduate chapters across the nation, we at Watch The Yard reached out to the sorority sisters of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.’s Lambda Zeta Chapter in Houston and did an interview with JeNeika Smith Boone the President of the chapter. The position of Basileus/president of […]
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Government promises to spend less on state funerals, state visits and other functions.
Mississippi police had a checkpoint and roadblocks \"next to\" the state's largest polling place in what the NAACP called \"voter intimidation.\"
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Belgium is a small country in northwest Europe that joined Europes race for colonies in the late 19th century. Many European countries wanted to colonize distant parts of the world in order to exploit the resources and civilize the inhabitants of these less-developed countries. Belgium gained independence in 1830. Then, King Leopold II came to power in 1865 and believed that colonies would greatly enhance Belgiums wealth and prestige.
Leopolds cruel, greedy activities in the current Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi continue to affect the welfare of these countries today.
European adventurers experienced great difficulty in exploring and colonizing the Congo River Basin, due to the regions tropical climate, disease, and the resistance of the natives. In the 1870s, Leopold II created an organization called the International African Association. This sham was supposedly a scientific and philanthropic organization which would greatly improve the lives of native Africans by converting them to Christianity, ending the slave trade, and introducing European health and educational systems.
King Leopold sent the explorer Henry Morton Stanley to the region. Stanley successfully made treaties with native tribes, set up military posts, and forced most Muslim slave traders out of the region.
He acquired millions of square kilometers of central African land for Belgium. However, most of Belgiums government leaders and citizens did not want to spend the exorbitant amount of money that would be needed to maintain distant colonies. At the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, other European countries did not want the Congo River region.
King Leopold II insisted that he would maintain this region as a free-trade zone, and he was given personal control of the region, which was nearly eighty times larger than Belgium. He named the region the Congo Free State.
Leopold promised that he would develop his private property to improve the lives of the native Africans. He quickly disregarded all of his Berlin
[Premium Times] The Senate had earlier on Wednesday confirmed seven of the 10 resident electoral commissioners nominated by President Bola Tinubu last week.
Every government edict, at home and abroad, is backed by the credible threat of violence.
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The coronavirus may have been around as early as August, a new study from the Harvard Medical School found.
By DaQuan Lawrence, AFRO International Writer, DLawrence@afro.com Protests across the country have increased as the Israel-Hamas war intensifies. Americans across the nation are calling for a ceasefire and speaking up […]
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[New Times] Rayon Sports put Mukura Victory Sports to the sword with a 4-1 victory at the Kigali Pele Stadium on Saturday, November 4, in a Primus National League encounter that was marred by controversial refereeing decisions.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] The government has proposed a policy allowing mobile network operators to erect cellphone infrastructure on private property
AS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND APPROACHES, L.A. COUNTY ANNOUNCES NEW OPENINGS OF BEACH BIKE PATHS, INDOOR MALL CURBSIDE SERVICE, AND PERMISSION FOR CAR PARADES
Los Angeles County has announced three new openings in advance of the holiday weekend, allowing increased outdoor and retail activities for residents.
Beach bike paths are now open, indoor malls can open for curbside service, and car parades will be allowed.
The opening of bike paths follows the May 13 announcement that County beaches would be available for active recreation.
The County will also open indoor shopping malls for curbside service.
It is recommended that shopping malls createclearly-marked curbside or outside pickup points that maintain physical distance with visual cues or other measures, and have purchased goods available there or available through home delivery.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The national men's rugby 15s team began their Victoria Cup campaign on a no-nonsense note with a 36-12 win over Zambia at the Kyadondo Grounds in Kampala on Wednesday evening.
Seven residents of Brevard County — where cruelty and violence are fixtures of \"Make America Great Again\" politics — have been arrested since Jan. 6, 2021.
“I HAVE long given up on active politics,” Gertrude Sidambe, a 36-year-old member of one of Zimbabwe’s opposition parties, tells IPS. When female members of the ruling Zanu PF party complained last month about political violence as male members chose brawn over brains to solicit for positions, the party’s national secretary for women’s affairs Mabel Chinomona advised that they enter the punch-and-insult battlefield and “fight” like everyone else. The violence has pushed women further away from the bruising contests. Yet it has become another reminder of the country’s commitments — or lack thereof — toward gender inclusivity and parity and the conditions women face in their aspirations for political office. “At one time I was confident my many years in the forefront would culminate in running for public office but that never happened, and that’s not because I did not try. Everyone appeared to think men could do a better job,” Sidambe says. She made the comments at a time when Zimbabwe’s political parties are engaged choosing representatives for positions that range from district coordinating committees to local councils and by-elections for vacant legislative seats. Sidambe’s disillusion with party politics is not unusual or isolated. The main opposition MDC Alliance (MDC-A) has also not been spared. The party has put in motion internal processes to elect representatives who will contest for vacant parliamentary and local council positions once the government lifts the moratorium on by-elections because of coronavirus fears. Last month, government was taken to court by female aspiring candidates challenging the indefinite suspension of the by-elections. The court action is being supported by the Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE), a local NGO lobbying for the equal representation of women in public leadership positions. According to WALPE, there are 35 vacant parliamentary seats, while 55 local council wards are yet to be filled and the suspension of the by-elections “violates people’s rights to be represented whoever they want”. Meanwhile, MDC-A prospective female candidates have complained of being sidelined, amid developments that male candidates were running in positions that had previously been agreed to be reserved for a female candidate. “It has been normalised that women are mobilisers for male candidates, but there comes a time when you become tired and just quit after you ask yourself ‘what’s in it for me?’” Sidambe says, highlighting a recurring motif each time the Zimbabwe’s political parties prepare for elections. Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, an opposition legislator in Zimbabwe, says there are no binding codes of conduct within political parties regarding gender parity and this has allowed the pushing of women to the periphery of political participation. “There are simply no internal party rules that ensure political parties live up to their proclamations for women to be part of leadership,” Misihairabwi-Mushonga tells IPS. “Political parties are operating without rules.
Three young opposition activists in Zimbabwe who said they had been abducted and sexually assaulted faced charges on Friday of lying about their treatment as the government claims their allegations are part of a plot to destabilise the country.
Their case has become the latest flashpoint in Zimbabwe, with a group of United Nations experts this week speaking out against a “reported pattern of disappearances and torture” by government agents in the southern African nation.
The women already faced charges of contravening Zimbabwe’s coronavirus lockdown.
Magistrate Bianca Makwande said she will rule on the bail application on Monday, meaning the women will spend the weekend in remand prison.
The women alleged their abductors took them from a police station in May after they were arrested for organising an anti-government protest.
Officials are reviewing the citations and the police department's evidence. \"It's now incumbent on the city counselor to decide whether or not to charge these people,\" the city counselor said.
[Nation] Quarry workers in Lamu have accused State security agents of colluding with tycoons in the region to forcibly evict them from their sites.
By Scott McClallen (The Center Square) – Michigan voters will see a question on the Nov. 3 ballot asking whether police should need a warrant to search electronic data. The federal and state Constitution protects against unreasonable search and seizure of peoples “houses, papers, and effects” without a warrant. The Senate and House unanimously approved Senate Continued
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By Scott McClallen (The Center Square) – Michigan drivers will be able to opt out of unlimited personal injury protection (PIP) insurance and cut costs on their car insurance rate beginning Thursday, when an insurance reform measure goes into effect. The state enacted a no-fault insurance law in 1973 that required all state policyholders to buy Continued
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[Cameroon Tribune] During a meeting with the Prime Minister Mohamed Roble, the fifteen candidate called for a halt to the ongoing parliamentary elections.
