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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday urged wealthy countries to stop hoarding excess COVID-19 vaccines that they had ordered but did not immediately need, saying the world needed to act together to fight the pandemic. “We need those who have hoarded the vaccines to release the vaccines so that other countries can have them,” Ramaphosa told a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum. “The rich countries of the world went out and acquired large doses of vaccines. … Some countries even acquired up to four times what their population needs … to the exclusion of other countries”. Ramaphosa, who currently chairs the African Union, said African countries wanted access to vaccines as quickly as other nations. South Africa’s COVID outbreak is the worst in Africa, and the continent as a whole is struggling to secure sufficient vaccines to start countrywide inoculation programmes for its 1.3 billion people. “We are all not safe if some countries are vaccinating their people and other countries are not vaccinating,” Ramaphosa said. “We all must act together in combating the coronavirus.” - Reuters
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.
Ole Sereni, a four-star hotel bordering Nairobi National Park, has introduced social distancing conferencing in which seats are about two metres apart in all directions.
Lockdown of five hotspot counties and the months-long dusk-to-dawn curfew may be removed in the coming days, the President said, adding that Kenyans will have to learn to live with the virus.
Before that, the government had announced a 21-day extension of the night curfew and lockdowns affecting Nairobi, Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale and Mandera counties to June 6.
Those that can afford will provide transport to staff to limit their exposure to coronavirus as much as possible
The elevator, a key daily conduit for thousands of people, is a potential place for infections.
Companies have given guidelines reducing the number of people that can use a lift at a time.
In the spirit of good cheer and unwavering commitment to serving, the Kiwanis Club of West St Andrew (KCWSA) kick-started the festive season with its annual Christmas dinner for seniors of the Red Hills Golden-Agers Citizens Association in Red Hills, St Andrew, earlier this month. Scores of senior citizens gathered at the meeting hall at the Red Hills Basic School were treated to a Christmas dinner. Over 100 golden agers benefited from the charity effort, including deliveries made to...
Hoodcelebrityy new single “Broke Boy” empowering women amid uncertainty
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\t\tAmid the chaos this year has delivered, it is understandable that 2020 “Year Of The Woman” was somewhat overshadowed in mainstream news and media.
But amidst worldwide pandemics and racial injustices, art in its many forms has kept spirits lifted, whether social commentary songs, feel-good music or anthems of self-love, women have indeed been omnipresent topping charts and breaking records.
Among the ranks of women standing-out, KSR Group multi-talented HoodCelebrityy who brought us to hit records “Walking Trophy” and “Bum Pon It” once again is given the ladies a track displaying strength and vulnerability with “Broke Boy”.
“The specific moment that sparked the recording of this song was that I’ve seen women struggle financially, mentally, and physically and when you talk about being broke it’s not just money.
Distributed by KSR Group, “Broke Boy” will be available on all major streaming platforms and digital outlets HERE
THE Supreme Court has set aside a recent High Court judgment and granted Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga custody of his three minor children following protracted legal battles with estranged wife, Mary Mubaiwa.
Before yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, High Court judge Justice Christopher Dube-Banda had granted Mubaiwa sole custody of the couple’s three children.
Through his lawyer Lewis Uriri, Chiwenga told the Supreme Court that Mubaiwa could not be given custody of their three minor children since she had admitted in a medical affidavit filed in court that she was mentally ill and in need of urgent psychiatric treatment.
“My Lords and lady, the applicant (Chiwenga) is worried that respondent (Mubaiwa) wants to have the children but she personally submitted a medical affidavit that stated that she was mentally unfit and needed to visit the doctor frequently which may not be prudent under the circumstances,” Uriri said.
The matter was heard before a Supreme Court bench led by Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza assisted by Justices Paddington Garwe and Chinembiri Bhunu, who ruled in favour of the former military commander.
The melodramatic, self-defeating end of the Trump presidency has energized Democrats and gifted them the power to lead the United States in a different direction.
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You saved lives.
That's the finding of a study published Monday in the journal \"The Lancet: Infectious Diseases,\" which used mobile phone data to track how people behaved between January 1 and April 20, a time before widespread calls by state and local officials to stay at home.
The study found that individual decisions to stay put in homes, except for necessary outings for food and medical supplies, likely helped slow the spread of coronavirus before state or local stay-at-home orders were implemented by government officials.
Fast spread slowed by individual behavior
Within four months of Covid-19 first being reported in the US, the disease had spread to every state and to more than 90% of all counties.
The study found that social distancing measures and the slowdown of coronavirus were primarily driven by changes in individual behavior and local regulations, noting that state and federal regulations were implemented either too late or not at all.
In all 25 counties evaluated in the study, individuals moved around less six to 29 days before statewide stay-at-home orders were implemented.
In 21 counties, cell phone data found mobility slowed on an individual level even before local stay-at-home orders were in place, according to study author Lauren Gardner, an associate professor in the department of civil and systems engineering at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering.
Is using cell phone data a good way to track behavior?
They are a \"pretty good indicator of travel patterns because phones are often carried around by the person in question,\" Flavio Toxvaerd, a lecturer in economics at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, said in an email.
\"In any case, the results chime with those found using other data, such as transaction data from credit cards,\" said Toxvaerd, who was not involved in the study.
From late January to mid-April, the study found people reduced their daily movements by varying amounts: In New York City, people reduced their normal activity by 35%; while people in Houston's Harris County reduced their activity by 63% of what was typical.
The study found it took about nine to 12 days, on average, for the effects to begin showing in infection rates, which is somewhat consistent with the 5 to 14 day incubation period of the virus.
Gardner's team said the strong connection between social distancing and decreased transmission rates means that a return to normal mobility around the country creates a significant risk of increased infections -- one that will likely not be apparent for up to three weeks after people begin resuming their normal activity.
\"Indeed, information here is key,\" Toxvaerd said. \"You cannot react to changes in infection risks if you don't know what they are.
\"There are those for which information may not change behavior,\" he added. \"For those people, we may have to provide incentives for desirable social distancing behavior, for example through fin
In summary Lawmakers at every level of government have a role to play in tackling the student homelessness crisis. By Joseph Bishop Joseph Bishop is the director of the Center for the Transformation of Schools, UCLA, jbishop@gseis.ucla.edu. Xilonin Cruz-Gonzalez, Special to CalMatters Xilonin Cruz-Gonzalez is president of the California School Boards Association, xcruz-gonzalez@csba.org. During the […]
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have both tested positive for COVID-19, CNN reports. The news come after Hope Hicks, 31, a top Trump aid who traveled with […]
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In United States history, a free negro or free black was the legal status, in the geographic area of the United States, of blacks who were not slaves.
This term was in use before the independence of the Thirteen Colonies and elsewhere in British North America, until the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1865, which rendered the term unnecessary.
Slavery was legal and practiced in each of the Thirteen Colonies at various times. Not all Africans who came to America were slaves; a few came even in the 17th century as free men, sailors working on ships. In the early colonial years, some Africans came as indentured servants, as did many of the immigrants from the British Isles. Such servants became free when they completed their term of indenture; they were also eligible for headrights for land in the new colony in the Chesapeake Bay region, where indentured servants were more common. As early as 1619, a class of free black people existed in North America.[1]
The free Negro population increased in a number of ways:
In most places black workers were either house servants or farm workers. Black labor was of economic importance in the export-oriented tobacco plantations of Virginia and Maryland, and the rice and indigo plantations of South Carolina.[4] About 287,000 slaves were imported into the Thirteen Colonies, or 2% of the 12 million slaves brought across from Africa. The great majority went to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil, where life expectancy was short and the numbers had to be continually replenished.
Life expectancy of slaves was much higher in the U.S. Combined with a very high birth rate, the numbers grew rapidly as the number of births exceeded deaths, reaching nearly 4 million by the 1860 census. From 1770 until 1860, the rate of natural growth of North American slaves was much greater than for the population of any nation in Europe, and was nearly twice as rapid as that of England. This was sometimes attributed to very high birth rates: U.S. slaves, then, reached similar
Patrice Lumumba , in full Patrice Hemery Lumumba (born July 2, 1925, Onalua, Belgian Congo [now the Democratic Republic of the Congo]—died January 1961, Katanga province), African nationalist leader, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (June–September 1960). Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later.
Lumumba was born in the village of Onalua in Kasai province, Belgian Congo. He was a member of the small Batetela ethnic group, a fact that became significant in his later political life. His two principal rivals, Moise Tshombe, who led the breakaway of the Katanga province, and Joseph Kasavubu, who later became the Congo’s president, both came from large, powerful ethnic groups from which they derived their major support, giving their political movements a regional character. In contrast, Lumumba’s movement emphasized its all-Congolese nature.
After attending a Protestant mission school, Lumumba went to work in Kindu-Port-Empain, where he became active in the club of the évolués (Western-educated Africans). He began to write essays and poems for Congolese journals. He also applied for and received full Belgian citizenship. Lumumba next moved to Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) to become a postal clerk and went on to become an accountant in the post office in Stanleyville (now Kisangani). There he continued to contribute to the Congolese press.
In 1955 Lumumba became regional president of a purely Congolese trade union of government employees that was not affiliated, as were other unions, to either of the two Belgian trade-union federations (socialist and Roman Catholic). He also became active in the Belgian Liberal Party in the Congo. Although conservative in many ways, the party was not linked to either of the trade-union federations, which were hostile to it. In 1956 Lumumba was invited with others on a study tour of Belgium under the auspices of the minister of colonies. On his return he was arrested on a charge of embezzlement from the
Mozambique will lift the state of emergency to the spread of coronavirus this weekend, President Filipe Nyusi announced in a television address on Friday.
Nyusi said the state of emergency would end Sunday night as infections have not increased much compared to neighbouring countries in the region.
“We are proud of the measures we have taken that have allowed the spread of the disease to be contained,” said President Nyusi.
It will also re-open its borders on Monday allowing international flights and beaches will also re-open while religious services of up to 250 people will be allowed.
There are 4,265 infections in the country including 26 deaths, which is much lower than neighbouring South Africa which has topped 635,000 infections.
South Africa has the most COVID cases on the continent with over 630,00 0 infections.
For two consecutive days it has reported over 2,000 cases a day in a 24 hour period.
It is the sixth worst hit country in the world.
There are 1,275,815 confirmed infections on the African continent and 1,015,865 recoveries, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
‘Hola Guyana,’ the sole Spanish/Latin radio programme on the local airwaves, on Wednesday marked a year since it first aired in Guyana.
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Still in Position
Akinwumi Adesina - a 60-year-old former Nigerian agriculture minister, was unanimously re-elected to serve as the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) for a second term of five years.
The winning and only candidate, over an exceptional annual meeting held via a video conference call, thanked his peers, \"We also made history by re-electing me by 100% vote, via a vote I became the first president of the bank in its history to be re-elected by a 100% vote of all its shareholders and I am most grateful and appreciative.\"
Alleged Corruption
Grateful indeed, as events over recent months saw this same re-elected president of the AfDB facing accusations of corruption and favouritism - of which, he has since been exonerated following an internal inquiry by the bank's ethics committee Amadou Hott, the Senegalese finance minister and AfDB board of governors member, shared some words, \"In this regard, and in the spirit of unity and collaboration, we authorize the creation of an ad hoc committee of the Board of Governors to oversee the review of the Bank's governance framework for ethics and complaints handling.\"
In spite of the affair, the bank - although its reputation did take a hit, managed to maintain its triple-A evaluation from the rating agencies.
The son of a farming family, in 2015 he became the first Nigerian to head the bank, one of the world's five biggest multilateral lenders and an important but often unseen player in economic development.
He gained continent-wide recognition last October when the AfDB secured $115 billion (105 billion euros) in funding pledges, a move that doubled its capital and cemented its triple-A credit rating.
Post-Pandemic Anticipated Recession
The 56-year-old institution estimates that Africa could lose at least $173 billion (147 billion euros) in GDP in 2020 and $236 billion in 2021 as a result of the economic fallout from the Covid-19 crisis. The bank set up a coronavirus funding mechanism up to $10 billion in April. Adesina has five years to revive the continent's economies, which are feeling the weight of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says he and his family continue to receive death threats over his public statements about combating the... View Article
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — “From what I’m looking at — just by reading and what I know — it seems like this was way overboard and this thing should have never even gotten to this point. “This kid should have never been recommended for expulsion over something like this with a BB gun,” said Sen. Kirk Talbot.
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Recent mobilizations of the Black community in reaction to the shooting deaths of unarmed Black men demonstrate that we can have an impact on the course of actions by officials of the criminal justice system.
Today, the criminal justice system in Minnesota is being used to control and weaken the Black and American Indian communities by making felons a very large segment of the Black and Indian male populations.
Turning the Black community against Itself
Perhaps the greatest immediate danger to the social fabric of the Black community is the criminal “justice” system.
The social dysfunctions in the depressed areas of the ghetto can be largely attributed to the anti-Black functions of the criminal justice system, which operates to debilitate the Black community by making felons out of a large proportion of Black men who then prey largely on members of their community- “Black-on-Black” crime.
Racial profiling is a tactic used in the strategy of the criminal justice system to maintain the subordination of Black people.
by Megan Kirk Comcast Corporation is bringing marketing and technology resources to Black-, Indigenous- and People of Color-owned businesses. The initiative, designed for small businesses, is entering its second phase of eligibility and is looking to assist businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Comcast RISE, an acronym meaning Representation, Investment, Strength and Empowerment, launched its … Continued
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ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County has seen a 4% increase in daily positive cases of COVID-19 in the two weeks since Christmas Day compared to the two weeks prior to…
The SA Human Rights Commission intends taking the City of Cape Town to court over its eviction policy following the forced removal of a naked man from his shack in Khayelitsha.
Speaking after midnight following a full day of campaigning, the President was complaining about
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On Monday night, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin was admitted to a hospital to treat COVID-19 symptoms including pneumonia five days... View Article
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African women at maternal care clinic (TriceEdneyWire.com/GIN) – Maternal health groups worldwide are hoping that the election of Joe Biden will lead to a lifting of the so-called “global gag rule’…
[This Day] The federal government yesterday attributed the delay in effectively routing Boko Haram, which it said it had technically defeated, to global powers that are blocking Nigeria's moves to acquire weapons to fight terrorism and win the insurgency war.
The first HBO comedy special from Yvonne Orji, 'Momma, I Made It!' is now streaming on Showmax. Find out more over here:
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Authorities warned Monday that Belgium faces a pivotal week in its struggle to limit the spread of the coronavirus, as a series of new restrictions took effect in one of the European countries hardest hit by the pandemic. Almost 12,500 new cases are being reported on average every 24 hours, figures released Monday for the week from Oct. 16-22 showed, compared to around 5,000 a day two weeks ago. About one person in every five who is tested turns out to be positive. The very elderly are hardest hit. On average over […]
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If you are an outdoor junkie and have missed the scenic views of mountains, you can still reignite your passion, albeit with a face mask, sanitiser and physical distancing.
