Login to BlackFacts.com using your favorite Social Media Login. Click the appropriate button below and you will be redirected to your Social Media Website for confirmation and then back to Blackfacts.com once successful.
Enter the email address and password you used to join BlackFacts.com. If you cannot remember your login information, click the “Forgot Password” link to reset your password.
[Monitor] The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has started curtailing the number of legislators who will attend plenary sessions.
In May, Burundi held a presidential election which was won by Evariste Ndayishimiye, candidate of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party.
Ndayishimiye was hurriedly sworn in after the untimely death of president Pierre Nkurunziza in June.
Rights violations continue
The Council encouraged donor countries which had suspended aid to Burundi to continue dialogue towards resumption of development assistance.
A report by a UN watchdog in September said human rights violations were still being committed in Burundi, including sexual violence and murder.
The country was plunged into a crisis in April 2015 when Ndayishimiye’s predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a controversial third term, which he ultimately won in July 2015.
His candidature, which was opposed by the opposition and civil society groups, resulted in a wave of protests, violence and even a failed coup in May 2015.
Hundreds of people were killed and over 300,000 fled to neighboring countries.
[MAP] Rabat -- Morocco has recorded 2,919 new cases of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) over the past 24 hours while 3,608 Covid-19 patients have recovered in the same period, the ministry of Health said on Sunday.
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has declared that he has 'absolute power' to issue a pardon to himself. Yet the law is much murkier than his confidence suggests. No president has attempted to pardon himself while in office, so if Trump tries to do so in the next six weeks, he will be venturing into legally untested territory without clear guidance from the Constitution or from judges. Legal experts are divided on an inherently ambiguous question that was left vague by the Founding Fathers and has never had to be definitively resolved in court. […]
The post Does Trump have power to pardon himself? It's complicated appeared first on Black News Channel.
Georgia’s top election official said the state had “counted legally cast ballots, three times, and the results remain unchanged.” A bipartisan group of Senators are pursuing a $908 billion virus aid bill focusing on small businesses, unemployed workers and state, local and tribal governments.
Watch BET UK on Sky 173, Virgin 184 Freesat 140
NJPAC's annual free Kwanzaa Family Festival is where family members of all ages will be engaged with activities dedicated to the Kwanzaa seven principles of Kwanzaa: Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity) and Imani (Faith).
“You’ve always had my back, and I’ll have yours.” In all my years of listening to presidential rhetoric, and in... View Article
The post Joe Biden criticism over cabinet diversity is not accurate nor fair appeared first on TheGrio.
Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now. The Los Angeles Unified School District on Monday indefinitely suspended all on-campus athletic conditioning along with shutting down school-based instruction beginning this week due to the high level of coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County. The district said the suspension will last […]
Last week, Weah said he strongly believed \"keeping someone in power for long is not the way to go\".
A Senegalese court on Tuesday handed down jail terms to three fathers accused of pushing their sons to migrate to Europe by sea, sending them on a trip that left one of them dead, a defence lawyer said.
In a high-profile case, the trio were given two-year jail terms, 23 months of which were suspended, on a charge of \"placing the lives of others in danger,\" attorney Assane Dioma Ndiaye said.
They were acquitted of the charge of abetting migrant trafficking, the lawyer said.
The sons were with other migrants who boarded a canoe to make the crossing from Senegal to Spain's Canary Islands, the first step in a plan to reach continental Europe.
But one of them, a teenager nicknamed Doudou, fell ill and died during the trip.
The fathers of the three, all of them fishermen in the coastal town of Mbour, were arrested a couple of weeks later.
Doudou's fate triggered uproar in Senegal, prompting debate about poverty, parental pressure and the allure of life in wealthy but distant Europe.
His father had paid 250,000 CFA francs ($460) to a smuggler, who was to take the boy to Spain. His destination after that was Italy, where he hoped to sign up for a football training academy.
A source close to the investigation said Doudou \"died after having problems eating\" during the trip.
Further details are unclear, as according to local media his body was tipped overboard after he died.
The children of the two other fathers survived the attempted crossing and returned home.
\"I wanted to open the doors of success to him,\" the father was quoted by a local newspaper as saying during the trial.
\"I took him to see the marabouts (witch doctors) so that they would pray for him. If I knew that he wasn't going to come back I would never have taken the risk.\"
He told the court: \"I am here before you today but my spirit has left me.\"
The prosecution had called for two-year terms against the three, while the defence had urged their acquittal.
The Canaries lie more than 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the coast of Africa at their closest point.
Over 500 people have died this year, mostly in October and November, according to the UN's International Office for Migration (IOM), compared to 210 fatalities for the whole of last year.
The pressure to migrate is especially strong among fishing communities. Coastal villages in Senegal have been badly hit by dwindling catches, and by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
THE chaos that has been the hallmark of Zanu PF district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections continued yesterday in different parts of the country with re-runs and failure to produce results, while in some areas ballots were found thrown in bins amid suspicions of massive vote rigging. BY KENNETH NYANGANI/BLESSED MHLANGA/MOSES MATENGA/ GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVA Zanu PF party chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri yesterday said the party will order re-runs in some areas due to the chaos. Due to the volatile nature of the DCC elections, polling stations had to be guarded by members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, which the party however said they were not going to pay them. “The police were there to maintain peace and order, and this is not a service that is open only to Zanu PF but to every organization across the board when they have their activities and need police presence,” Muchinguri-Kashiri said. However, police normally charge per hour when they provide security details for private functions. In Muzarabani North, results of the elections started trickling in yesterday, and Muzarabani North MP who is also the Energy Minister Soda Zhemu landed the chairmanship post. Deputy Finance minister and Zaka East MP Clemence Chiduwa was voted chairperson for the Zaka district with 3 582 votes to his opponent, whose name was only given as Chitara, managed 300 votes. Another MP Davison Svuure (Zaka Central) landed the vice chairmanship post after polling 1 988 votes, while his close contender Paradzai Chakona garnered 1 291 votes. However, in Mutare the DCC elections were so chaotic that some original ballot papers were found thrown in bins, which raised fears of rigging. NewsDay is reliably informed that the ballot papers that were thrown into bins were found at First Class Academy School in Sakubva ward 3. A police report was then made. Four candidates namely, Binali Yard, Clever Muparutsa, Ivan Mbengo and Cecilia Gambe are eyeing the Mutare DCC chairmanship. One of the candidates who spoke to NewsDay on condition of anonymity said: “There is now a deliberate plot to delay the process and to frustrate my supporters so that they do not cast their votes. Just imagine we found used original ballot papers at First Class Academy in ward 3 thrown in various bins, this is rigging.” The elections have now spilled into the third day in Mutare and yet some centres in Chikanga have not yet received ballot papers. The Zanu PF provincial secretary for administration Kenneth Saruchera said he was not able to comment about the chaos to media. However, a re-run of the DCC elections was ordered in 14 of the 26 wards in the province. In Mangwe district, Matabeleland South, some wards did not vote amid allegations that the presiding officers did not turn up, especially in Empandeni ward. In response to the chaotic scenes at the DCC elections, Muchinguri-Kashiri during a media briefing warned all rogue elements within the party, saying that there will be a clampdown on anyone who attempts to cheat their way into power. Muchinguri-Kashiri said
Opinion - A month after Ethiopia launched a military operation against Tigray, a new face of war is emerging in the Horn of Africa. In the trenches of Tigray a new fighter is born, armed with an AK-47 or a rocket launcher, a twitter account and a Facebook page but evading sorties by lethal unmanned drones or stealth jets in increasingly ethnic but internationalised wars.
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lena Waithe and Malcolm Gladwell will join several influencers on an advisory board for Audible to help discover new talent. The online audiobook and podcast platform announced Monday the formation of the Emerging Voices Advisory Board. The diverse board of esteemed artists, podcasters, producers and writers was created to help Audible experts define and 'further the creative vision' of storytellers. The board will also help attract and develop projects from the 'best emerging and established voice across the globe.' Waithe is the creator of Showtime's 'The Chi' and wrote […]
The post Audible enlists Waithe, Gladwell to help find new talent appeared first on Black News Channel.
[East African] Governments in Africa lose about $25 billion annually to corporate abuse by multinationals who transfer profits to offshore tax havens and to individuals engaging in tax evasion through undeclared assets.
… the founder of the first African American-owned magazine focusing on black … .
Chadwick Boseman, 43. He played Black American icons Jackie Robinson and James … New York City’s first African American mayor but was doomed to …
Six Flags Magic Mountain plans to expand its once-in-a-lifetime drive-thru holiday lights event for a second time while rival theme parks are forced to close their gates because of the Southern California stay-at-home order issued by the state. Six Flags Magic Mountain will extend the popular Holiday in the Park Drive-Thru Experience through Jan. 31 […]
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Mayor of Montego Bay Leeroy Williams yesterday reiterated that there will be no grand market in the resort town this year, even as placard-bearing vendors protested the decision in the streets yesterday.
… .
Indeed, Pew also found that African-Americans, who overwhelmingly vote Democratic, are …
