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Sierra Leone confirms over a thousand COVID-19 cases as calls to ease country’s lockdown increases
The toll of confirmed coronavirus cases in Sierra Leone has now reached 1,001, as 32 new cases were reported yesterday.
But the number of people dying from the virus continues to remain at it’s standstill. There has been no report of any new deaths since the start of this month, with the total number dead still standing at 49.
A total of 341 people are currently in isolation centres where they are being observed, while 611 people have recovered from the virus.
The toll of people in Africa that have so far contracted the virus stands at 199,321, with 5,392 dead and 88,266 recovered from the illness.
Source___Sierra Leone Telegraph
APRC leader claims Barrow’s gov’t of secret sale of Jammeh’s property
Fabakary Tobong Jatta, the leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) has claimed that Adama Barrow’s government is selling former president Jammeh’s assets secretly and at give-away-price to themselves.
“We know of former and current ministers who are riding in Yahya Jammeh’s vehicles, and those vehicles we understand were sold to them at give-away-prices,” he revealed.
Mr. Jatta was speaking in an interview with BBC about government’s decision to suspend the sales of former President Jammeh’s assets after a ruling from The Gambia Court of Appeal.
As of now, The Ministry of Justice last week announced that The Gambia government had stopped “all sales” of properties following the Janneh Commission’s recommendations in deference to the ruling of the Court of Appeal until a final pronouncement is made on the matter.
Source___The Point
Get to know who George Floyd was, the man who sparked a movement?
As George Floyd is laid to rest in Houston, family members and friends remember the man who sparked a movement.
As per those who knew him, he was a man who was kind to people around him,, in the Third Ward of Houston where he grew and everywhere else he went.
Floyd was recalled by family members as a man everyone wanted to be around. Philonise Floyd, George’s brother, said he was like “a general” that everyone wanted to follow.
Growing up in a single-parent household, Floyd was remembered as a loving, supportive and guiding presence by his siblings at a memorial in Minneapolislast week.
“He was like a big brother,” Terai Lawson, who grew up in Houston, told National Public Radio in an interview that aired on Tuesday morning.
Terai is the younger brother of Ortierre Lawson, Floyd’s friend and former football team mate.
Terai said Floyd took an interested in his sports life. “I always mysteriously see him in the stands, watching me play basketball all the way through high school,” Terai said.
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Floyd was an enthusiastic sportsman. Having an height of 6’4″ (194cm) and loved basketball. He was a huge fan of LeBron James, star player for the Los Angeles Lakers who made his mark on basketball with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
“He was the biggest LeBron James fan,” Floyd’s nephew Brandon Williams recalled at his eulogy service in Minneapolis. When James won the championship with the Cavaliers against the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 NBA finals, Floyd was elated.
“When the [Cavaliers] came back on the Golden State Warriors in the Finals, and I remember the very first phone call. I told him, ‘You’re too happy. You sound like you won a championship.’ ”
Floyd responded: “Man, you know how I feel about LeBron. I did win a championship”.
Source___Aljazeera
Deaths from Corona Virus Exceed 400,000 Globally
The novel coronavirus has killed not less 407,914 people since it’s emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1900 GMT on Tuesday.
Not less than 7,169,550 cases of coronavirus have been registered in 196 countries and territories. Of these, at least 3,148,200 are now considered recovered.
The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
Many countries are testing only symptomatic cases or the most serious ones.
Since 1900 GMT Sunday, 3,653 new deaths and 102,424 new cases were recorded worldwide.
The countries with the most new deaths were Brazil with 679, the United States with 604, and Mexico with 354.
The United States is the worst-hit country overall with 111,375 deaths from 1,968,221 cases. At least 518,522 people have been declared recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Britain with 40,883 deaths from 289,140 cases, Brazil with 37,134 deaths from 707,412 infections, Italy with 34,043 deaths from 235,561 cases, and France with 29,296 deaths from 191,394 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population is Belgium with 83 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Britain with 60, Spain 58, Italy 56 and Sweden 47.
Source__Channels TV
Nigeria Covid-19 cases surpass 13,000
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday make known 663 new positive cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.
This figure happen to be the highest daily increase since the country started reporting coronavirus cases in February and brings the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 13,464.
As per the NCDC, Lagos State recorded the highest number of infections for the day in the country with 170 cases while Ogun and Bauchi had 108 and 69 cases respectively.
Of the number of positive cases in Nigeria so far, 4,206 persons have fully recovered and have been discharged while 365 persons have died.
Source__Channels TV
Many killed in attack in northern Nigeria
Not less than 59 people have been killed in a mistrust jihadist attack in north-eastern Nigeria.
Gunmen entered a distant village in the Gubio district of Borno state on Tuesday afternoon, killing many people.
The village was also razed, in what is believed to have been a reprisal attack, according to local reports.
No group has yet claimed the attack. The AFP news agency said that 59 bodies had been recovered, while Reuters reported that 69 people were killed.
Reuters reported that the militants suspected villagers of sharing information about their movements to security forces, while AFP said jihadist fighters had been killed by locals trying to protect livestock.
While it is unclear who carried out the attack, both the jihadist group Boko Haram and an offshoot which fights under the banner of the Islamic State group have carried out deadly attacks in the north-east of Nigeria.
Boko Haram, which sparked global outrage in 2014 when they abducted more than 270 schoolgirls in Chibok in Borno state, is also active in neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
In March, its militants ambushed and killed at least 47 Nigerian soldiers in the country’s north east, before killing almost 100 soldiers in Chad the following day.
The group’s decade-long revolt has left thousands dead and made others vacate their houses
Source__BBC
Chaos surrounds voting in White House battlegrounds
The US state of Georgia has ordered an inquiry after its primary election was ruined by pretends of voter crackdown.
Just fewv minutes of polls opening on Tuesday long queues formed in Atlanta as volunteers struggled with the state’s new election system.
Nevada, South Carolina, West Virginia and North Dakota also voted on Tuesday amid the coronavirus pandemic and unrest unseen since the 1960s.
The vote is being seen as a preview of November’s presidential election.
US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden are expected to compete hotly for Georgia in the forthcoming battle for the White House.
Before voting was finished for the day, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is in charge of state elections, opened an investigation into the way voting was conducted in Fulton and DeKalb counties.
In an interview with WAGA-TV, he called the situation “unacceptable” and promised “to determine what these counties need to do to resolve these issues before November’s election”.
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, who is like Mr Raffensperger is a Republican, has also called the state legislature to investigate the voting issues.
Atlanta’s Democratic Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms took to Twitter in the morning to report that residents across the city and some suburbs were turning up to find that voting machines “are not working”.
“If you are in line, PLEASE do not allow your vote to be suppressed,” she continued, amid reports that frustrated residents were leaving. “PLEASE stay in line.”
Georgia Congresswoman Lucy McBath also alleged “voter suppression” was the reason for the massive delays, tweeting: “Unacceptable. Our citizens have a right to vote. Plain and simple.”
Source___BBC
‘Barrow’s government behaves like Jammeh’s
Lamin DF Manneh, a Brufut native living in the UK has indicted the Barrow administration of manipulating people’s properties like former president Yahya Jammeh used to do.
“Given the ‘professional’ background of the current head of state, it is not a surprise land thievery is now on steroids. A cadre of administrators is in great haste to accumulate as much wealth as possible, in as short a period as possible. This is resulting in a feast on Kombo lands – as they embark on ever-more creative ways to future-proof their ill-gotten wealth,” Manneh said in write-up shared with The Standard.
Manneh is in the forefront on the fight to recover several hectares of land allegedly secured by Taf Africa Global without due process in Brufut community ahead of the 2006 AU Summit in Banjul.
“…[T]he current administration displays unfettered materialism, lacks amoral compass, or a sense of care, duty, and responsibility is no longer in doubt. In effect, it is a recycle of the decaying remnants of Jammeh era personalities. Except for half-hearted attempts at cosmetic change, the core has remained intact. No surprises then that there is no difference in either essence or substance between the 2ndand 3rdRepublics [sic]. Thus, like its predecessor, this administration carefully uses a mendacious and cynical cost-benefit analysis on all its dealings with Gambians. This includes which communities to enrage with negligible political cost,” he claimed.
He said the proliferation rise in “estate developers”, the
Burgeoning of “estates”, and their enablement through “crooked administrators and misguided locals”, has bring forward a convergence of necessities for an all-out spanking on custodial lands.
Source___Standard Newspaper
2 new Covid-19 cases confirmed in the Gambia
The Gambia has confirmed two new cases of the coronavirus, taking the toll of infection in the country to 28.
The two cases comes barely five days since The Gambia government eased limitations on public gatherings.
Enlightening the media yesterday on the 71st national situational report on Corona Virus, ministry of health Ahmadou Samateh said the two new cases were in isolation for having recent travel history to locations with ongoing community transmission.
One of the cases is a 20-year-old Gambian who currently returned from Guinea Bissau while the other is a 38-year-old who returned from Dakar, Senegal.
Minister Samateh also make known that 24 individuals who were head off from difference border posts while attempting to enter the country from locations where local transmission is ongoing have been taken into isolation.
The country at the moment has 125 persons in quarantine and 6 active cases.
Source___Standard Newspaper
Gambia government deproves claims of coup plot
The Gambia Government has deproved allegations of a coup in the future.
Government spokesperson Ebrima Sankareh last evening disclosed in a statement clearing the air.
It read: “In the wake of malicious and subversive audio messages circulating on social media warning The Gambia Government of a looming coup plot allegedly being hatched by some private citizens and senior government and military officials, the public is hereby informed that these are outrageous and baseless allegations.
“In total, all these audio messages being circulated are orchestrated by detractors and agent provocateurs who do not in any way wish The Gambia well contrary to what they claim in their audios.
“Their intention is to inject fear, panic, general apprehension and discord in public and within government circles. Therefore, no sooner had the audios hit the airwaves yesterday than the various security and intelligence services— SIS, police, military and Ecomig, conducted joint investigations to establish their veracity across the country.
“The government is pleased to announce that the totality of these tapes is false; they constitute fake news calculated to destabilise our fledgling democracy.
“Unlike the past dispensation where such wild allegations could have landed innocent citizens in unwarranted arrests and other forms of trouble, The Gambia Government exercised utmost maturity in handling these potentially incriminating recordings.
“As such, not a single officer or civilian was questioned, arrested or interrogated as the audios had intended the government to do. Also, no weapons were found nor the vehicle they claimed carried the cache of weapons for the imaginary coup operation.
“Preliminary investigations have established that two Gambians, Omar FS Sanneh aka Baitulah and Momodou Marong are complicit in the recording and subsequent dissemination of these provocative audios that have succeeded in sending fear and general apprehension among some Gambians both at home and abroad.
Source__Standard Newspaper
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