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[Monitor] Mbale High Court has upheld the election of Ms Connie Nakayenze Galiwango as Mbale City Woman Member of Parliament and dismissed, with costs, the election petition filed by Ms Lydia Wanyoto.
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.
[African Arguments] I was arrested and beaten last week for daring to contest the presidential election. This is not a fair fight, but I have no option but to be strong.
[Ghanaian Times] The World Bank Group (WBG) will continue to support African governments' efforts to ensure fast recovery from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Country Director for the World Bank, Pierre Laporte, has said.
Kenya records 661 new Covid-19 infections from 8,141 samples in last 24 hours, positivity rate at 8.1 per cent as 32 die and 533 patients recover.
[New Times] E-waste collection and recycling has created over 400 green jobs which is expected to increase once the recycling facility and nationwide collection points are fully operational.
[East African] Bill Gates, co-founder of tech giant Microsoft, philanthropist, and one of the world's richest men scares some people, especially those on the extreme political right.
Guinea's main oppositon party published Friday a list of 46 people, aged between 3 and 70 years, killed during the repression of demonstrations after the October 18 election, officially won by the incumbent Alpha Condé.
Condé was declared re-elected on October 24 by the Electoral Commission for a controversial third term with 59.5% of the vote, but three of his opponents, including opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, are contesting the results before the Constitutional Court, whose decision is expected on Saturday.
Diallo's party, the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), denounced in a statement a \"wave of terror\" orchestrated by the government between October 19 and November 3.
\"The provisional toll of this repression is 46 dead, nearly 200 wounded by gunfire, about a hundred arrests and extensive material damage,\" according to the UFDG.
The opposition has so far reported a death toll of at least 27, while for the government, the post-election violence resulted in 21 deaths, including members of the security forces.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Africa Officer Ida Sawyer on Twitter on October 24 accused Guinean security forces of killing \"at least 8 people, including 3 children.
Amnesty International for its part accused the same security forces of firing live ammunition at demonstrators, without giving a detailed account.
The Ministries of Security and Territorial Administration did not immediately respond to the multiple requests for a reaction from the AFP to the UFDG document.
This document includes a list of names, usually with age, profession, circumstances of death, contacts of a relative, and photos showing these people, dead or alive. In about fifteen cases, these are photos of bodies showing traces of violence.
Most of the presumed victims are young men and women between 15 and 30 years old: motorcycle cab drivers, mechanics, students...
The youngest are a boy and a girl of 3 years old, Mamadou Midiaou Diallo and Mariatou Bah, and the oldest Mamouna Camara, a housewife of 70 years old.
The UFDG also states that \"the overwhelming majority of the victims (...) belong to the same ethnic group as the opposition leader,\" in a country where community affiliations play an important role in elections.
Despite a dramatic increase in COVID-19 cases over the past two months, more than 60 per cent of respondents in the latest survey conducted by veteran pollster Bill Johnson have given the Government high marks for its handling of the pandemic.
MOST Jamaicans agree with the postponement or cancellation of mass gatherings and events as a means of limiting the spread of the novel coronavirus, a survey by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has found.
A Tea plantation farm in Kericho County [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] Landowners will pay more in annual land rates after ward representatives unanimously approved the County Valuation Roll 2020 Bill. The proposed law that is now awaiting Governor Paul Chepwony’s assent, increases the rates per acre from Sh284 to Sh2,000…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) - Novel coronavirus lockdowns in Europe have led to some environmental improvements such as better air quality and lower carbon emissions, but they are temporary and coupled with a surge in single-use plastics, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said yesterday.
[Daily Trust] A former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has said stakeholders in the nation's polity should jettison the idea of zoning the presidency to a particular region of the country ahead of the 2023 general polls.
[New Times] Rwanda has joined the rest of the world to mark the World Lung Cancer Day, which is observed every year on August 1.
[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) has been invited to discuss the formation of a Legislative Council in Sudan, according to new percentages agreed in the Juba Peace Agreement, with the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC).
[Monitor] The Court of Appeal has ordered Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to refund billions of shillings, which was illegally levied from 13,946 traders who imported goods for 11 years.
[Monitor] Presidential candidates have condemned the violence meted out on candidates and supporters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and the Forum Democratic Change (FDC) Opposition political parties.
Delegates from the country's rival administrations held two days of talks in Rabat, Morocco's capital which wrapped up Friday without an agreement on a contested electoral law
Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) is calling for greater assistance to be provided to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Deodat Maharaj, who took up the top position at the Barbados-based regional agency earlier this year, said MSMEs remained the backbone of Caribbean economies. He highlighted the fact that on average, […]
The post Call to action- do more for small, micro enterprises appeared first on Barbados Today.
ORISHA priest Michael Osouna believes the time has come for the Orisha faith to be given the recognition it deserves, since it was the spirit of the orishas that guided the Haitians to revolt in 1804, triggering the movement to free African slaves across the world, decades later.
Osouna said the Orisha faith, which originated among the Yoruba of Nigeria and other west African countries, is a “way of life” that should be celebrated, especially on Emancipation Day, when the abolition of slavery in the English-speaking Caribbean, in 1834, is observed.
“In Haiti they call Orisha voodoo. The first country to be liberated from slavery was Haiti. There are different aspects or representations of Orisha. The ancestors' forces and the orishas were used in Haiti under the terminology of voodoo to acquire emancipation.”
[caption id=\"attachment_904583\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"] Orisha Kaalah Durham pays respect to ancestors on ancestral grounds in Lopinot/Bon Air West on March 21. - PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE[/caption]
Osouna, known to most as calypsonian Sugar Aloes, said the Orisha faith, which is separate from the Spiritual Baptist religion, is about honouring African ancestors and praising the orishas or deities.
“Yes! One hundred per cent,” he said, in answer to if more should be done to explain the role the orishas played in bringing freedom to slaves.
His call for recognition was agreed to by head of the Emancipation Support Committee Zakiya Uzoma-Wadada.
She said over the years, there have been various African groups calling for the recognition of certain festivals in the Orisha faith such as the Shango festival.
“They believe that we should have a holiday that recognises at least one of the festivals linked to Orisha. I do think that if there is to be a holiday then the Orisha community should come together and make a case and put forward that case and that rationale.”
She added: “The Spiritual Baptist case was based on the amount of torture because of how they expressed their religion in a particular way. I am sure the Orisha suffered the same fate. The strength and organisation of the Spiritual Baptist community is not the same as the Orisha community.”
[caption id=\"attachment_904582\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"] Orisha priest Michael Osouna, left, and spritiual elders officiate at the funeral for calypsonian Sandra \"Singing Sandra\" des Vignes-Millington at the Hirondelle Street Basketball Court, Morvant on February 4, 2021. - PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB[/caption]
The lack of unity and support for the Orisha faith stems from followers not unifying and making their case as a unified voice, she said. Regarding the Emancipation Support Committee advocating for the recognition of Orishas, she said the committee is a non-religious organisation promoting all things African. She said any call for a holiday should be done by the Orishas.
Osouna agreed that Orishas should unite in order to achieve their goals. He said the Orisha Square, near the Besson Street Police Station, Port of Spain, is not eno
[Nation] An estimated 112 million more women started using mobile Internet for the first time last year across low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), says the 2021 GSMA Mobile Gender Gap Report.
[Monitor] The government spokesperson, Mr Ofwono Opondo, and the Mbarara Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Lt Col James Mwesigye, have disagreed on how to deal with NRM leaning independent parliamentary candidates.
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - There is a high recovery rate among COVID-19 patients in this south-central parish, with 90 per cent of the 396 confirmed cases having recuperated.Up to yesterday, there were only 23 active COVID-19 cases in the parish. Manchester has seen 17 people die from the virus since its onset in March.
