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Sudanese Court Postpones al-Bashir Second Trial for Three Weeks
July 21, 2020 (KHARTOUM) - A Sudanese court postponed the trial of the former President Omer al-Bashir over his coup d’état 30 years ago for three weeks to allow the preparation of a bigger hall.
"We decided to postpone the trial session to 11 August as we need a bigger hall to guarantee social distancing, put different arrangements in place and ensure that the entire defendants have lawyers and other rights," said the judge.
The courtroom was not enough to contain over a hundred lawyers, family members of Omer al-Bashir and the other indicted and journalists who jostled outside the court.
This is the second time after his ouster that al-Bashir appeared in court for as he faces charges of undermining the constitution when he carried out a military coup that brought him and other Islamists to power in June 1989.
Al-Bashir who had been ousted in April 2019 following four months of protests was sentenced last December to two years in a correctional facility as he was convicted of corruption and detention of hard currency.
This time he is tried with other Islamist leaders for overthrowing a democratically elected government of former prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi on 30 June 1989.
Al-Bashir who was seen in a white prison uniform faces death penalty in convicted by the court.
Appeared with him some 20 former officials including former Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, Ali al-Haj, Secretary-General of the Islamist Popular Congress Party (PCP), and Nafi Ali Nafi a former presidential aide and influential Islamist leader.
In February 2020, Sudan agreed to hand al-Bashir and others to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur.
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Watchdogs to Review Conduct of US Agents in Portland, DC
By ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG
Federal officers use crowd control munitions to disperse Black Lives Matter protesters outside the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two government watchdogs said Thursday that they had opened investigations into the conduct of federal agents responding to unrest in Portland, Oregon, following abuse of power allegations by members of Congress, local officials and the public.
The Justice Department watchdog said that it would investigate use of force allegations in Portland, while its counterpart at the Department of Homeland Security said it would examine whether officers from the agency improperly detained and transported protesters in the city last week.
The Justice Department is also examining the training and instruction provided to the federal agents who responded last month to protest activity at Lafayette Square, near the White House. Among the questions being studied are whether the agents followed department guidelines on the use of chemical agents and less lethal munitions and whether they followed identification requirements.
Democrats in Congress cheered the announcement of the investigations. The chairs of the Judiciary, Homeland Security and Oversight committees issued a joint statement saying many federal agents are dressed as soldiers, driving unmarked vehicles and refusing to identify themselves or the agencies where they work.
“Congress will continue to check this reckless Administration, but it is deeply important that these independent inspectors general get to the bottom of President Trump’s use of force against his own citizens,” the statement said.
The investigations were announced amid ongoing chaos in Portland, where Mayor Ted Wheeler was tear-gassed by federal agents as he stood outside the courthouse there.
Local authorities have complained that the presence of federal agents have exacerbated tensions on the streets, while residents have accused the government of violating their constitutional rights.
Civil unrest escalated in Portland after federal agents were accused of whisking people away in unmarked cars without probable cause. And in Washington, peaceful protesters were violently cleared from the streets by federal officers using tear gas ahead of a photo op by President Donald Trump in front of a nearby church.
The decision to dispatch federal agents to American cities is playing out at a hyperpoliticized moment when Trump is grasping for a new reelection strategy after the coronavirus upended the economy, dismantling what his campaign had seen as his ticket to a second term.
Trump has seized on a moment of spiking violence in some cities, claiming it will only rise if his Democratic rival Joe Biden is elected in November and Democrats have a chance to make the police reforms they have endorsed after the killing of George Floyd and nationwide protests demanding racial justice.
The federal response to the demonstrations is likely to be a major topic of discussion next week when Attorney General William Barr appears before the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing.
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On House Floor, Democratic Women Call Out Abusive Treatment by Men
By ALAN FRAM
In this image from video, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks on the House floor, Thursday, July 23, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ocasio-Cortez's objections to a Republican lawmaker's verbal assault on her expanded Thursday as she and other Democrats took to the House floor to demand an end to a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women.” Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., is seated right. (House Television via AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrage over a Republican lawmaker’s verbal assault broadened into an extraordinary moment on the House floor Thursday as she and other Democrats assailed a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women” whose adherents include President Donald Trump.
A day after rejecting an offer of contrition from Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., for his language during this week’s Capitol steps confrontation, Ocasio-Cortez and more than a dozen colleagues cast the incident as all-too-common behavior by men, including Trump and other Republicans.
“This issue is not about one incident. It is cultural,” said Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., calling it a culture “of accepting a violence and violent language against women, an entire structure of power that supports that.”
The remarkable outpouring, with female lawmakers saying they’d routinely encountered such treatment, came in an election year in which polls show women leaning decisively against Trump, who has a history of mocking women.
“I personally have experienced a lifetime of insults, racism and sexism,” said Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif. “And believe me, this did not stop after being elected to public office.”
Trump was captured in a 2005 tape boasting about physically abusing women, and his disparagement of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has included calling her “crazy.” In an apparent reference to that tape, which drew attention during the 2016 presidential campaign, Ocasio-Cortez said men accost women “with a sense of impunity” every day, including when “individuals who hold the highest office in this land admit, admit to hurting women.”
She also recalled that last year, Trump said she and three colleagues on the “squad” of progressive Democratic women of color should “go back” to their home countries — even though all but one were born in the U.S. and all are American citizens.
The lawmakers joining Ocasio-Cortez represented a wide range of the chamber’s Democrats, underscoring their unity over an issue that is at once core to the party and capable of energizing its voters.
On the establishment side was No. 2 House leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, a moderate 20-term veteran. His appearance, along with supportive words at a separate news conference by Pelosi, D-Calif., were a noteworthy contrast to occasional clashes Ocasio-Cortez has had with party leaders.
Ocasio-Cortez, 30, is a freshman who has made her mark as one of Congress’ most insistent and outspoken progressives. Those speaking up included the three other “squad” members — Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
No Republicans spoke on the House floor. A Yoho spokesman emailed a statement in which the lawmaker said “no one was accosted, bullied, or attacked” during what he called a brief policy discussion.
Yoho, one of Congress’ most conservative lawmakers, said Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t have the “right to inflate, talk about my family, or give an account that did not happen for political gain. The fact still remains, I am not going to apologize for something I didn’t say.”
In a separate appearance, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., defended Yoho, 65, who will retire in January.
“When someone apologizes they should be forgiven,” McCarthy said. He added later, “I just think in a new world, in a new age, we now determine whether we accept when someone says ‘I’m sorry’ if it’s a good enough apology.”
But Bread for the World, a nonpartisan Christian group that combats hunger, suggested it was reconsidering Yoho’s continued membership on its board. Asked about his status, the organization said his recent behavior “does not reflect the values of respect and compassion that Jesus calls on us to exhibit.” They said they have asked to speak to him “before we determine any further action.”
Pelosi herself weighed in a separate news conference.
“It’s a manifestation of attitude in our society really. I can tell you that firsthand, they’ve called me names for at least 20 years of leadership, 18 years of leadership,” Pelosi said of Republicans.
Pelosi, who has five children, recounted that during a debate years ago on women’s reproductive health, GOP lawmakers “said, on the floor of the House, Nancy Pelosi think she knows more about having babies than the Pope.”
In an encounter Monday witnessed by a reporter from The Hill, Yoho berated Ocasio-Cortez on the House steps for saying that some of the increased crime during the coronavirus pandemic could be traced to rising unemployment and poverty.
Ocasio-Cortez described it on the House floor Thursday. She said Yoho put his finger in her face and called her disgusting, crazy and dangerous.
She also told the House that in front of reporters, he called her, “and I quote, a fucking bitch.” That matched The Hill’s version of what Yoho had said. Ocasio-Cortez was not there for that remark.
Ocasio-Cortez said Yoho’s references to his wife and daughters as he explained his actions during brief remarks Wednesday actually underscored the problem.
“Having a daughter does not make a man decent. Having a wife does not make a decent man. Treating people with dignity and respect makes a decent man,” she said. She added that a decent man apologizes “not to save face, not to win a vote. He apologizes, and genuinely, to repair and acknowledge the harm done, so that we can all move on.”
Her voice trembled slightly as she said that her father, “thankfully,” was no longer alive to see Yoho’s treatment of her. But she said her mother saw it, “And I am here because I have to show my parents that I am their daughter, and that they did not raise me to accept abuse from men.”
Other Democrats recalled their own experiences, taunted House Republicans’ overwhelmingly white male membership and warned that the numbers of women lawmakers will only grow. Eighty-eight House Democrats and 13 Republicans are women.
“We’re not going away,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. “There is going to be more power in the hands of women across this country.”
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AP reporter Elana Schor contributed from New York.
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Surge of Federal Agents Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
MICHAEL TARM
Protesters walk through chemical irritants dispersed by federal agents at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Following a larger Black Lives Matter Rally, several hundred demonstrators faced off against federal officers at the courthouse. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump offered few details when he announced this week that the government will dispatch hundreds of extra federal agents to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, to fight an uptick in violent crime.
The absence of a clear, publicly available plan has left city leaders, residents and even federal agencies to speculate about exactly what will happen and when. Here’s a look at what’s known so far:
Q: WHAT DO TRUMP AND OTHER FEDERAL OFFICIALS SAY?
A: Trump said hundreds of agents will be drawn from the Justice Department, which includes the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The number of agents involved is not clear. Attorney General Bill Barr suggested at one point that around 200 new agents could end up in Chicago.
A Justice Department press release said Chicago would receive 100 new federal investigators. It also said 100 officers from the U.S. Marshal’s Service and 100 from the Homeland Security Department would be reassigned to the Chicago portion of a crime-fighting effort known as Operation Legend, which was launched last month in Kansas City, Missouri. Many of those agents are already based in and around Chicago. The release said Albuquerque would get more than 25 new federal investigators.
On Thursday, the Justice Department said it also planned to send agents to Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee in coming weeks.
Q: IS THIS DEPLOYMENT SIMILAR TO THE ONE INVOLVING PORTLAND, OREGON?
A: It doesn’t seem so. Federal agents wearing camouflage without clear identification hit the streets in Portland to protect federal property amid demonstrations against police brutality. Some of the agents were accused of beating unarmed protesters, even throwing some into unmarked vehicles.
For now, the plan for Chicago and Albuquerque does not seem to include federal agents engaging with protesters. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Barr both said the mission in Chicago and Albuquerque would differ from the mission in Portland.
Q: WHAT’S TRUMP’S MOTIVATION?
A: That’s not entirely clear. He said Wednesday he wanted to quell what he called “a shocking explosion of shootings, killings, murders and heinous crimes of violence.” He added: “This bloodshed will end.”
But he didn’t shy away from trying to score political points. He blamed Democrats who lead cities like Chicago and Albuquerque for the spikes in violence.
The federal intervention seems to be part of a campaign strategy to claim the mantle of law-and-order president. His administration last week also resumed federal executions after a 17-year hiatus, potentially providing Trump further grounds for the claim.
Democrats have accused the president of trying to distract attention from his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Q: WHERE WILL THE AGENTS COME FROM?
A: It’s not clear yet. But the number of agents and their agencies will be telling. If more agents come from the ATF, that suggests the government’s focus is on solving gun crimes. More agents from the DEA would indicate an emphasis on trafficking, cartels and drug-dealing street gangs.
It also isn’t clear how many agents will be assigned to U.S. attorney’s offices to help investigate gun crimes and gang conspiracies that underpin much of the violence.
Q: IS THIS PART OF AN EXISTING PROGRAM?
A: Yes. The Trump administration announced July 8 that it was sending more than 200 agents to Kansas City, Missouri, under Operation Legend, which was named after 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was fatally shot while sleeping in a Kansas City apartment last month.
The agents in Kansas City were to investigate homicides, shootings and violent crime in cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, officials said.
“Operation Legend has no relationship whatsoever to protests, marches and demonstrations,” Don Ledford, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office for the western district of Missouri, said earlier this week.
Q: HAS THIS HAPPENED BEFORE?
A: Yes. For decades, administrations have dispatched extra federal agents to cities during surges of violence, natural disasters and other crises.
In December, the Trump administration launched a crime-fighting initiative called Operation Relentless Pursuit, which boosted federal resources for seven cities. It also committed more than $70 million in federal grants to hire new officers and purchase new equipment, among other things.
Q: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE THIS TIME?
A: An obvious difference is that agents are being sent during historic protests over police brutality. The deployments are also happening amid criticism that the Trump administration is already being too heavy handed.
If the administration dispatches hundreds of agents at a time, that is far greater than previous deployments.
In 2017, for instance, the administration dispatched around 20 extra ATF agents to Chicago to help address gun violence months after the president tweeted that, “If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on … I will send in the Feds!” The new agents joined around 35 ATF agents already based in the city.
Q: IS TRUMP RIGHT THAT VIOLENT CRIME IS OUT OF CONTROL?
A: It’s true that violent crime has jumped in some cities in the wake of protests and as stay-at-home orders eased. Chicago’s homicide rate is up 51%, with 414 killings this year compared to 275 over the same period last year, according to police department data.
But crime overall is down in most U.S. cities. In Chicago, criminal sexual assaults have fallen 19% and thefts 26% so far this year compared to the same period last year.
Q: HOW HAVE CITIES REACTED?
A: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot sounded alarmed in recent weeks as the Trump administration raised the prospect of more aggressive federal intervention.
But since this week’s announcement about sending additional federal agents, she’s struck a cautiously optimistic chord, saying she was encouraged that the U.S. attorney’s office would supervise at least some of the agents.
If those agents work in partnership with existing federal efforts to curb violence, “not trying to play police in our streets, then that’s something different,” she said.
She also said that if there are “steps out of line,” she will “take the president to court.”
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Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Jill Colvin in Washington, Don Babwin and Kathleen Foody in Chicago and Margaret Stafford in Kansas City also contributed to this report.
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Portland Standoff with US Agents Ongoing After Mayor Gassed
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
In this image made from video released by Karina Brown, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, right, stands at a fence guarding a federal courthouse as tear gas drifts by early July 23, 2020, in Portland Oregon, during another night of protest against the presence of federal agents sent by President Donald Trump to quell unrest in the city. (Karina Brown via AP)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The tense standoff between demonstrators and federal police dispatched to Portland, Oregon, dragged on Thursday after the city’s mayor was tear-gassed by U.S. government agents as he made an appearance outside a federal courthouse during raucous protests.
Mayor Ted Wheeler and hundreds of others Wednesday night were objecting to the presence of federal police sent by President Donald Trump, who labeled the demonstrators as “agitators & anarchists” after Wheeler was gassed.
Also, late Thursday a federal judge specifically blocked federal agents from arresting or using physical force against journalists and legal observers at the ongoing Portland protests. The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
U.S. Judge Michael Simon previously ruled that journalists and legal observers are exempt from police orders requiring protesters to disperse once an unlawful assembly has been declared. Federal lawyers had said that journalists should have to leave when ordered.
“This order is a victory for the rule of law,” Jann Carson, ACLU of Oregon’s interim executive director, said in a statement.
A freelance photographer covering the protests for The Associated Press submitted an affidavit that he was beaten with batons, chemical irritants and hit with rubber bullets this week.
The ACLU lawsuit is one of several filed in response to law enforcement actions during the protests. The state of Oregon is seeking an order limiting federal agents’ arrest powers during the demonstrations.
On Wednesday night Wheeler, a Democrat, appeared slightly dazed and coughed and said it was the first time he’d been tear-gassed.
He put on a pair of goggles someone handed him and drank water but did not leave his spot at the front of the raging demonstration — with protesters lighting a large fire between protective fencing and the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse amid the pop-pop-pop sounds of the federal agents deploying tear gas and stun grenades into the crowd.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the agents knew Wheeler, a 57-year-old sixth-generation Oregonian and longtime politician, was among those in crowd when they used the tear gas.
Earlier in the night, Wheeler was mostly jeered by protesters as he tried to rally the demonstrators who have clashed nightly with federal agents. But they briefly applauded when he shouted “Black Lives Matter” and pumped his fist in the air.
Trump in his tweet attempted to ridicule Wheeler, calling him the “Radical Left Mayor of Portland, who last night was booed & shouted out of existence by the agitators & anarchists.”
Wheeler has opposed federal agents’ presence in Oregon’s largest city but has also faced harsh criticism from the protesters, who yelled and swore at him.
Ignoring the pushback, Wheeler told those out gathered outside the courthouse that he wanted to “thank the thousands of you who have come out to oppose the Trump administration’s occupation of this city.”
The Justice Department’s inspector general said Thursday it will conduct a review of the conduct of federal agents who responded to unrest in Portland and in Washington, D.C., after concerns emerged from members of Congress and the public.
Wheeler has been accused by critics including city council members of not reining in local police who used tear gas multiple times on protesters before federal agents arrived early this month in response to nearly two months of nightly protests since George Floyd was killed. And city business leaders have condemned Wheeler for not bringing the situation under control before the agents showed up.
On Thursday, City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, the first Black woman elected to that role, said the arrival of federal agents had reignited protests that had been starting to die down after weeks.
“The reason why we have thousands of people on the street every night is because Portlanders are not going to set back when they see an injustice happening. They’re going to come and they’re going to stand on a line,” said Hardesty.
Hardesty also apologized for saying Wednesday that she believed police officers were setting fires to justify violence against protesters.
Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf denied that federal agents were inflaming the situation in Portland. He told “CBS This Morning” that Wheeler legitimized criminality in the city by going to the front of the crowd of demonstrators where the fires were lit and that people were trying to pull down a fence erected to shield the federal courthouse.
Wheeler did not participate in lighting any of the fires or attempting to tear down the fence and was surrounded by his security team when he was gassed.
Earlier, protesters held signs saying “Tear Gas Ted” in a reference to Wheeler and his leadership of the Portland Police Bureau, which used the substance on protesters before federal agents arrived in the city in early July. As Wheeler left the protest zone about 12:40 a.m. Thursday, one person shouted that he should be there “every single night.”
Less than an hour later, police said the crowd threw Molotov cocktails, lit fires in a park and in trash cans and released hundreds of gallons of water from fire hydrants. The police bureau in response declared that there was a riot at the site and threatened to use tear gas but officers never did and made no arrests.
Wheeler’s appearance in the protest zone came hours after state attorneys for Oregon urged a judge to issue a restraining order against agents deployed to tamp down on the protests.
The arguments came in a lawsuit filed by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, who accused federal agents of arresting protesters without probable cause, whisking them away in unmarked cars and using excessive force. Federal authorities have disputed those allegations.
The lawsuit is part of the growing criticism of Trump’s order that sent the federal agents to Portland and pending orders for them to head to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, to fight rising crime.
The court hearing focused on the actions of the more than 100 federal agents responding to protests outside the Portland courthouse.
The motion asks U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman to command agents from the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol, Federal Protective Service and U.S. Marshals Service to immediately stop detaining protesters without probable cause, identify themselves and their agency before arresting anyone, and explain why an arrest is taking place.
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Jobless Claims Rise As Cutoff of Extra $600 Benefit Nears
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Motorists take part in a caravan protest in front of Senator John Kennedy's office at the Hale Boggs Federal Building asking for the extension of the $600 in unemployment benefits to people out of work because of the coronavirus in New Orleans, La. Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (Max Becherer/The Advocate via AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation got another dose of bad economic news Thursday as the number of laid-off workers seeking jobless benefits rose for the first time since late March, intensifying concerns the resurgent coronavirus is stalling or even reversing the economic recovery.
And an extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits, provided by the federal government on top of whatever assistance states provide, is set to expire July 31, though this is the last week recipients will get the extra funds. It is the last major source of economic help from the $2 trillion relief package that Congress approved in March. A small business lending program and one-time $1,200 payment have largely run their course.
With the count of U.S. infections passing 4 million and the aid ending, nearly 30 million unemployed people could struggle to pay rent, utilities or other bills, and economists worry that overall consumer spending will drop, adding another economic blow.
“I’m going to be broke,” said Melissa Bennett, who was laid off from her job at a vacation time-share in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. “I’ll be broke-broke. I want to go to work, I want health insurance, I want a 401K. I want a life; I have no life right now.”
Without the extra unemployment benefits, Bennett will receive just $200 a week, and she’ll have to decide whether to pay her mortgage or her utilities first.
More than 1.4 million people applied for jobless benefits last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, up from 1.3 million the previous week. That is the first increase since March and 18th straight week that it has topped 1 million. Before the pandemic, applications had never exceeded 700,000. An additional 975,000 people applied for aid under a separate program that has made self-employed and gig workers eligible for the first time.
The news sent stocks slumping on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 recording its worst loss in nearly four weeks. Uncertainty across markets helped gold touch its highest price in nearly nine years.
The weakening of the labor market has raised fears the economy will shed jobs again in July, after two sharp hiring gains in May and June.
Analysts say the economy can’t improve until authorities can control the spread of the virus, a need that is complicating the reopening of businesses and schools.
Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary of health and a member of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, even suggested another shutdown might be necessary. He noted that nearly universal mask-wearing, sharp restrictions on restaurant occupancy and shutting down bars were nearly as effective in controlling the virus as another shutdown of all nonessential businesses.
“Now, if you don’t do that, and people don’t achieve those goals, particularly mask-wearing, there may be no alternative,” Giroir said on MSNBC.
Congress is negotiating another aid package that could extend the extra unemployment support, though likely at less than $600. With the extra $600, roughly two-thirds of the unemployed are receiving more than they earned at their former jobs, research has shown. Republicans argue that it’s discouraging people from returning to work.
On Thursday, Senate Republicans unveiled a $1 trillion package that would replace the $600 with an amount that would bring a laid-off worker’s jobless benefits to 70% of their previous income. Both parties have agreed on another $1,200 stimulus check.
Democrats in the House approved a $3 trillion package last month that would extend the $600 through January. Given the limited time available, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged a bill dealing with jobless benefits and aid to schools be considered next week. Democrats say the Republican plans are not enough.
The economic woes come as outbreaks worsen, particularly in the South and West. Florida officials reported 173 new virus deaths Thursday, a daily high that brings the overall number to more than 5,500. With cases surging, President Donald Trump scrapped plans for a Republican National Convention celebration in the state.
California saw a record 157 new deaths, raising its toll to 8,027. An additional 89 deaths in Arizona pushed its total to 3,000, with over 1,000 deaths reported in the past 15 days.
Desperate to stop the spread of the virus and its resulting economic impact, more states are adding or broadening mask requirements. A new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research says three out of four Americans, including a majority of Republicans, favor requiring people to wear face coverings outside their homes.
In a small step toward normalcy, many Americans eagerly welcomed baseball’s opening day, which arrived four months late.
In contrast to the U.S., the outlook has brightened for some other major economies. Europe is forecast to rebound next year after it managed to shrink its coronavirus caseload. Unemployment in the 19 countries that use the euro has remained contained, reflecting aggressive government efforts to keep workers on payrolls.
China has become the first major economy to grow since the start of the pandemic. Economists say China will likely recover relatively fast because of the Communist Party’s move to impose early and intensive anti-disease measures.
In the U.S., applications for unemployment benefits declined in many states hard hit by the virus, including Texas, Florida, Georgia and Arizona. But claims rose in other states seeing increases, including Louisiana, California and Tennessee.
The U.S. government said the total number of people receiving jobless benefits fell 1.1 million, to 16.2 million. It’s a hopeful sign that even as layoffs remain high, some companies are recalling workers. Yet that figure is still roughly 10 times what it was before the pandemic.
Unemployment aid accounted for 6% of all U.S. income in May, a greater share than even Social Security. Economists say it’s one reason why retail spending rebounded as quickly as it did in May and June.
The end of the added benefit coincides with the expiration of a federal moratorium on evictions Saturday. Without it, about 22 million people are at risk of losing their federally subsidized housing.
“It’s scary, it’s really scary,” said Victorita Raaen, 46, who was laid off in March from her job as a light and sound technician in Boise, Idaho.
The extra payments helped her build a thin financial cushion, but once it goes away, things will get significantly tighter. She figures she can live on ramen, hot dogs and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a while but might not be able to pay for gas.
“I want to go back to work,” she said. “I’d rather go back than sitting here earning unemployment.”
Real-time measures of the economy suggest companies are pulling back on hiring and more small businesses are closing permanently. Credit card spending has been stuck at about 10% below year-ago levels for nearly a month, according to JPMorgan Chase, after having risen steadily from mid-April to mid-June.
Data from the consumer-review website Yelp, which tracks millions of small businesses, shows more such companies are permanently shutting down. Nearly 73,000 small businesses have closed for good since the pandemic intensified in March, up 28% from mid-June.
“Every time a business closes, that makes the recovery longer and harder, so that worries me,” said Ernie Tedeschi, an economist at the investment bank Evercore ISI.
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Associated Press writers Matt Sedensky in Philadelphia; Michelle Liu in Columbia, South Carolina; Lindsay Whitehurst in Boise, Idaho, and Rebecca Santana in New Orleans contributed to this report.
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Federal Review: Alabama Inmates Subjected to Excessive Force
By KIM CHANDLER
FILE - Sandy Ray, holds photos of her son, Steven Davis, during a news conference at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery on Dec. 4, 2019. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday, July 23, 2020 that it believes Alabama’s prisons for men are unconstitutional because inmates are subjected to excessive force at the hands of prison staff. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, file)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama prisons have a pattern of using excessive force against male inmates, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in an investigation released Thursday, as it again accused the state of keeping prisoners in unconstitutional conditions.
In its report, the Justice Department detailed a chilling litany of incidents, including a prison guard beating a handcuffed prisoner in a medical unit while shouting, “I am the reaper of death, now say my name!” as the prisoner begged the officer to kill him. It is the second time within 18 months that the Justice Department has accused Alabama of housing male inmates in unconstitutional conditions in a prison system considered one of the most understaffed and violent in the country.
“Our investigation found reasonable cause to believe that there is a pattern or practice of using excessive force against prisoners in Alabama’s prisons for men,” Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil Rights Division said in a statement. Dreiband said the Justice Department hopes to work with Alabama to resolve the department’s concerns.
In findings sent to the state, federal investigators wrote that officers have beaten handcuffed or restrained prisoners, excessive force is sometimes used as retribution, the state prison system fails to investigate incidents and the violence is so common that some officers consider it normal.
“Ultimately, Alabama does not properly prevent and address unconstitutional uses of force in its prisons, fostering a culture where unlawful uses of force are common,” the report read.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement that her administration remains hopeful that they will reach a resolution to all of the department’s allegations.
“I am as committed as ever to improving prison safety through necessary infrastructure investment, increased correctional staffing, comprehensive mental-health care services, and effective rehabilitation programs, among other items,” the Republican governor said.
The report noted that at least two inmates died at the end of 2019 after use of force by officers.
Steven Davis died in October 2019 after an altercation with corrections officers at William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility. The department said at the time that Davis rushed the officers with a makeshift weapon.
In an apparent reference to the incident, the report said other inmates said “correctional officers continued to strike the prisoner after he dropped any weapons and posed no threat.” The report said an autopsy listed 16 distinct injuries to the prisoner’s head and neck — including multiple skull fractures— in addition to multiple fractured ribs and bleeding around a kidney
Davis’ mother last year showed a state task force a photograph of her son’s battered face.
“This is my son,” Sandy Ray said as she held his photo. “He is beaten beyond recognition. I had to have a closed casket because of what they had done to him. No one, not even a dog, deserves this.”
The 28-page Justice Department report listed other examples of violence by staff after reviewing files and visiting several state prisons. The Justice Department said those included:
— In December 2018, a correctional officer brutally punched, kicked and struck a handcuffed prisoner with an expandable baton in the Ventress medical unit. During the beating, four nurses heard the officer yell something to the effect of, “I am the reaper of death, now say my name!” and the prisoner begged to die.
— In September 2019, a lieutenant at Ventress prison lifted a handcuffed inmate off the ground and slammed him on a concrete floor several times, knocking him unconscious.
— In February 2019, a sergeant at Elmore prison beat two handcuffed prisoners, suspected of retrieving contraband, striking one prisoner with a collapsible baton approximately 19 times on his head, legs, arms, back and body. The sergeant who assaulted the prisoners later filed a false report about the incident. The sergeant and two correctional officers pleaded guilty in federal court.
The announcement comes more than a year after the Justice Department released a scathing report that said male inmates face excessive inmate-on-inmate violence and sexual abuse in facilities that are not sanitary, safe or secure. The department is in negotiations with the state in an attempt to reach an agreement.
The findings released Thursday were the continuation of the investigation first launched in 2016.
“What does it take to get fired?” said Rep. Chris England, a Tuscaloosa lawmaker who has called for the new leadership at the state Department of Corrections. “Our whole system of corrections and pardons and paroles has got to be the worst in the country.”
Advocacy groups said the findings reflect concerns they have been expressing for years. Charlotte Morrison of the Equal Justice Initiative said they hear “every week” from inmates, parents and sometimes staff concerned about abuses.
“We’ve been asserting that the prisons need serious reform, and most of the time the state responds with cosmetic changes, but these problems are much deeper than that and that is what this report details,” Morrison said.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
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ANDREW MLANGENI WILL BE MISSED BY NEIGHBOURS IN DUBE COMMUNITY
Neighbours, friends and family of the struggle stalwart went to his Dube home in Soweto to pay their last respects.
Kgomotso Modise
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JOHANNESBURG – The family of struggle veteran and the remaining Rivonia trialist Andrew Mlangeni have admired his love for the community.
Mlangeni died at the One Military Hospital in Thaba Tshwane on Wednesday morning after a lengthy illness. He was 95.
Neighbours, friends and family of the struggle stalwart went to his Dube home in Soweto on Wednesday to pay their last respects.
Mlangeni’s family welcomed members of the community who came to comfort them.
His nephew, Billy said his uncle would be sorely missed by the community.
He said the family and the entire nation had lost a gem.
Billy said Mlangeni would try to celebrate the birthdays of pensioners around Dube with them.
Mlangeni’s nephew said his uncle was also an active member of the community who would actively participate in fighting problems faced by the people of Dube, such as electricity supply.
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MK COUNCIL CALLS ON ANC, SOCIETY TO FOLLOW IN FOOTSTEPS OF ANDREW MLANGENI
The council said Andrew Mlangeni had died at a time when the economy was on the brink of collapse due to state corruption and the global economic crises which had been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
FILE: Anti-Apartheid campaigner and former political prisoner Andrew Mlangeni at an event in Cannes. Picture: AFP
Nthakoana Ngatane
Eyewitness News
JOHANNESBURG – The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) National Council said while Andrew Mlangeni was never shy to call out those who wronged the African National Congress (ANC), he left the party in a precarious state of disunity.
Mlangeni died early on Wednesday morning, after being admitted to the One Military hospital on Tuesday.
The MK council hailed him for his immense contribution to the ANC during the fight against the racist apartheid regime but, it said, the movement now needed to desperately renew, rebuild and reunite itself.
The council said the late stalwart always called for unity. Its spokesperson Greg Nthatisi said: “It a clarion call for all the membership of the movement and society to learn all the best lessons.”
Nthatisi said Mlangeni maintained his morality to defend the ANC even from its own.
“Nate Mlangeni would never stop at anything to attend to any call out misdemeanours or corruption by any member of the organisation, irrespective of the position that person occupied.”
The council said Mlangeni had died at a time when the economy was on the brink of collapse due to state corruption and the global economic crises which had been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
It has called upon all to unite behind the principles that Mlangeni selflessly fought for – such as never standing back from making uncomfortable decisions for the benefit of society.
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Coronavirus: How South Africa and Rwanda Are Coping Without Tourists
22 July 2020
BBC World Service
With its game parks, beaches and historic sites, Africa attracts a huge number of foreign tourists but numbers are sharply down because of the coronavirus outbreak, writes Larry Madowo.
Maria Maile has been cooking lunches and hosting overnight guests at her home in South Africa's coastal city of Cape Town since her first three guests checked in nearly 22 years ago.
She lives there with her daughter and three grandchildren, but the spare room has been available to book - until that is the coronavirus outbreak shut down South Africa, and her business, in March.
"Guests are not coming in so the only income I'm getting is the social grant from the government," she told me from her home in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township.
"I fear for myself as well because I'm 70. I need the money, but my health comes first," she added.
Ms Maile's predicament underscores how the pandemic has crippled Africa's tourism industry, depleted much needed foreign exchange earnings and left millions out of work.
But this raises a dilemma: open up too fast and foreign tourists could bring a new outbreak of Covid-19; remain closed for too long and more livelihoods will be lost and there might be little left to salvage.
"To say the impact of the crisis has been devastating is an understatement," said Naledi Khabo, CEO of Africa Tourism Association.
"I don't think tourism will ever look like it did before."
Africa received 71.2 million tourists in 2019 and the sector employed nearly 25 million people, according to the UN's World Tourism Organization.
Travel and tourism contribute 9% to the continent's economy but global movement restrictions and virus-induced travel anxiety have kept most people in Europe and North America at home as the summer holiday season begins.
African countries have already lost nearly $55bn (£43bn) in revenues so far, according to the African Union.
"Psychologically, people don't necessarily feel safe enough to travel and even then, unemployment numbers are going up so disposable income isn't where it needs to be any more," said Eche Emole, who runs the events and travel company Afropolitan Group.
He has already cancelled planned tour group trips to Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Ghana. And now major end-of-year events in Accra, which attracted nearly 100,000 people in 2019, could be next.
"The goal right now is to stay alive. Whatever else you lose; you can always get it back," Mr Emole said.
Long way to recovery
Tanzania and Tunisia, famous for their game parks and beaches respectively, are the only major African countries that have reopened international borders and are welcoming foreign tourists.
Morocco and Mauritius, both popular destinations, have ended national lockdowns but foreign visitors are not yet allowed in.
Kenya, Seychelles and Rwanda will resume international passenger flights on 1 August but with restrictions and visitors will have to test negative for coronavirus.
"Our rough estimate is that tourism revenues in 2020 will shrink by between 50 and 70%," Clare Akamanzi, chief executive officer of the Rwanda Development Board, said in an emailed statement.
"However, this will depend on what happens in the last few months of the year after the reopening of the airports."
The tiny East African nation, where mountain gorillas are a major tourist attraction, reported its highest annual growth in tourism in 2019, attracting 1.63 million visitors and earning $498m.
Ms Akamanzi said recovery might take "12 to 18 months depending on how the Covid-19 situation evolves".
South Africa, the country hardest hit by Covid-19 on the continent, may not play host to foreign tourists at all in 2020.
"I don't foresee any international tourism happening within this calendar year," said Sisa Ntshona, chief executive officer of South Africa Tourism.
He expects that it may take two to three years to return to 2019 levels of 10.2 million tourists that visited the southern African nation.
Targeting the diaspora
Many South Africans were spooked after a widely shared news story at the beginning of the pandemic falsely claimed that Cape Town's high numbers of coronavirus infections were caused by foreign tourists.
But Enver Duminy, CEO of Cape Town Tourism, said the first cases of Covid-19 were more likely imported by South Africans who had travelled abroad.
The agency has been researching how badly "the Mother City" has been affected as much visited attractions like Table Mountain remain largely empty.
"About 83% of businesses indicated that they would not survive longer than six months under the current lockdown conditions with 56% of businesses not having a recovery plan in place," Mr Duminy said in a statement to the BBC.
Few in the African tourism business want to predict the future because the virus is so volatile. But they know it will be different.
"Covid-19 has shone a light on issues that have previously existed - digitization; the need to shift traditional marketing efforts to target new diverse audiences especially the diaspora market; making intra-Africa travel easier via visas, air connectivity; and regional collaboration between destinations," Ms Khabo said.
Namibia, Kenya and Rwanda are among nations adapting to a work-from-home era with virtual tours to appeal to a younger population.
"Rwanda will continue to position itself as a high value, low volume eco-tourism destination which we believe corresponds to the current trends that we are seeing today as tourists book their trips.
"Secluded outdoor spaces are the new normal and Rwanda has plenty of that," Ms Akamanzi said.
Tourists at hotels, resorts and other properties on the continent may see less human contact as the experience evolves in an age of social distancing.
"What's going to change fundamentally is the behaviour pattern of the tourists. This is going to be about safety and confidence and trust. And the less interaction they have with people, the safer they will feel," noted Mr Ntshona.
The Radisson Hotel Group, which has 45 hotels and more than 5,000 employees in Africa, has already seen the inevitable effect on headcount.
"We really have focused on perhaps reducing hours, temporary layoffs or cutting costs in other parts of our business rather than taking very difficult decisions with our teams," said Radisson executive Tim Cordon.
Like the rest of the industry, he believes domestic tourism will be first to recover as countries gradually ease lockdowns.
As a result, Ms Maile in Khayelitsha could until next year be serving lunches to South African visitors rather than the usual tourists from Paris and beyond.
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Malawi: Kagame to Visit Malawi to Hold Bilateral Talks With Chakwera
22 JULY 2020
Nyasa Times (Leeds)
By Paul Chamdimba Nkhoma
Rwandan President Paul Kagame is due to arrive in Malawi on August 11 2020 for a two-day official visit in what would be viewed as a show of confidence from international leaders, Nyasa Times has learnt.
According to an officials at Foreign Affairs ministry, President Lazarus Chakwera and First Lady Monica Chakwera will host the Rwandan leader and his wife "on a 2 days state visit beginning on the 11th of August, 2020 at New State House in Lilongwe. "
The Malawi and Rwandan leader are expected to hold bilateral talks.
Kagame last visited Malawi in 2007 when Bingu wa Mutharika was president and inaugurated a 3.3km road named after him.
Chakwera, who won the June 23 fresh presidential election, recently said he had spoken sto Kagame "as part of my quest to forge strategic partnerships towards the strengthening of Capable Democratic Developmental States across the Great Rift Valley."
He said the aim is "to leverage the bounties of our natural and human resources for the shared prosperity of our peoples."
Kagame is revered for stopping Rwanda's genocide and engineering what admirers call an economic miracle.
In 2000, Kagame inherited a country that had been torn apart by genocide. But he has rebuilt the country to a stable, prosperous, unified and, in large part, reconciled.
Social services, such as education, healthcare, housing and livestock are provided to the needy, with no distinction of ethnicity or region of origin - two forms of discrimination that characterised the governments leading up to the genocide against the Tutsi, which Kagame, as leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), brought to an end.
But his critics see a despot who crushes all opposition and rules through fear.
Chakwera, on his part is advancing a mantra of clearing the rubble that has put Malawi into ruins under the previous regime of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
Read the original article on Nyasa Times.
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Trump Announces Plan to Send Federal Law Enforcement to Chicago, Albuquerque
The president says the initiative is necessary to counter violent crime, but local leaders say it’s “unacceptable” and political.
By CAITLIN OPRYSKO
07/22/2020 06:28 PM EDT
President Donald Trump announced plans on Wednesday to surge federal law enforcement units to Chicago and Albuquerque, the latest instance of domestic intervention by the federal government, over the objections of state and local leaders, in cities that have recently been rocked by unrest and violence.
The initiative, dubbed “Operation Legend” in memory of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed last month in Kansas City, Mo., will send “hundreds of skilled law enforcement officers” from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Department of Homeland Security to both cities “ to help drive down violent crime,” Trump said from the White House.
Around 200 federal agents have already been deployed to Kansas City, Attorney General William Barr said, adding that a “comparable number of agents” would be sent to Chicago to “augment” the city’s existing task forces. The Justice Department will send an additional 35 agents to Albuquerque, he said.
Trump also used the occasion to rebuke the Democratic leaders of cities such as Minneapolis, Philadelphia and New York, where he linked a recent spike in violent crime to calls for drastic police reforms, including pushes to defund police departments and redirect more money toward social services.
He cast the decision as a reluctant choice, though he has threatened to intervene in America’s largest cities since mass protests over systemic racism and police violence first broke out in Minneapolis at the end of May.
“Frankly, we have no choice but to get involved,” he said.
“We must remember that the job of policing the neighborhood falls on the shoulders of local elected leadership,” Trump said on Wednesday, joined by the loved ones of victims of gun violence. “Never forget that. When they abdicate their duty, the results are catastrophic.”
“Americans must hold their city leaders accountable,” he went on, a demand he said entails insisting “that community officials fully support, fully back and fully fund their local police departments.”
Barr and acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf took pains to differentiate Operation Legend from the deployment of federal officers currently taking place in Portland, Ore. Local officials and even former DHS secretaries have denounced the tactics used by those agents, who are part of a DHS-led “Rapid Deployment Force,” according to a recent court filing.
The federal agents in Portland have been shown on video clashing violently with protesters there with less-lethal projectiles and tear gas and in some cases snatching individuals from the street in unmarked vehicles. The tactics are the subject of multiple legal challenges, and Portland politicians have demanded that the federal forces be withdrawn from the city.
More than a dozen mayors preemptively signed on to a letter to Barr and Wolf objecting to a potential surge in their own cities and accusing the administration of violating protesters’ constitutional rights and employing “unacceptable and chilling” tactics while abusing federal law enforcement “purely for campaign fodder.” In a similar letter to congressional leadership, the same group asked for hearings on the issue and the inclusion of language in spending bills to block taxpayer money from paying for such operations.
Both of Oregon’s senators and two Portland-area House members on Wednesday asked inspectors general at both the Justice and Homeland Security departments to look into the actions of federal forces in the city.
But leaders in New Mexico and Chicago suggested that they weren’t totally opposed to what the administration announced.
In Chicago, where Mayor Lori Lightfoot had asserted she would not allow a Portland-like force in her city, the mayor boasted that “I’m glad to see the president got the message.”
While she asserted the city would keep a close eye on the officers stationed there, Lightfoot didn’t rule out the potential upside.
“If those agents are here to actually work in partnership on support of gun violence and violent cases, plugging into existing infrastructure federal agents, not trying to play police in our streets, then that’s something different and that may add value,” she told reporters during a news conference, though she added: “It’s too soon to be able to say if this is a value add or not.”
Her hesitant embrace of federal assistance came as her city saw 23 shootings on Tuesday alone, including a mass shooting outside of a funeral home that injured 15.
But the mayor also accused the president of targeting Democratic-led cites to “divert attention” from what she called his “failure” on the coronavirus pandemic, a notion that Trump rejected later on Wednesday.
Gov. Michelle Luhan Grisham of New Mexico, a Democrat, also said she would be monitoring the agents “for potential civil rights violations if and when the federal government sends officers to our state.”
Still, she added: “We would welcome a genuine conversation about community public safety work and fighting violent crime. I hope that is the case.”
The agents that will be detailed under Operation Legend, Barr said on Wednesday, will be “working to solve murders and to take down the violent gangs, and they’ll be working shoulder to shoulder with state and local colleagues.” He too, asserted the rise in crime “is a direct result of the attack on the police forces and the weakening of police forces.”
“This is a different kind of operation, obviously, than the tactical teams we use to defend against riots and mob violence,” he said. “We will continue to confront mob violence,” he added, calling their directive “classic crime fighting.”
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
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DIABETES, HYPERTENSION THE COMMON COMORBIDITIES AMONG COVID-19 DEATHS IN WC
The Western Cape Health Department conducted a comprehensive analysis of the comorbidities associated with COVID-19-related deaths in the province.
Kaylynn Palm
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CAPE TOWN - Diabetes and hypertension remain the leading comorbidities in more than 2,000 deaths of people over the age of 20 in the Western Cape due to COVID-19.
The provincial Health Department conducted a comprehensive analysis of the comorbidities associated with COVID-19 related deaths in the province.
It found that diabetes was a comorbidity in 1,042 of the deaths and hypertension in 1,086 of the deaths.
High blood sugar elevates COVID mortality risk - Study
The department’s Mark van der Heever said that in almost a quarter of these deaths, patients had three or more comorbidities.
“At least 68 died as a result of cardiovascular disease, 277 as a result of chronic pulmonary disease, 35 cancer and 235 from HIV.”
The department added the largest number of deaths were recorded in people over the age of 50.
More than 600 people were over 70 years of age, and more than 500 were between 60 and 69 and 50 to 59.
The department appealed to residents to stay at home as much as possible and to those taking medication to continue doing so.
Diabetic patients were encouraged to access the Pocket Clinic WhatsApp channel to ensure their medications were delivered to their homes.
Patients were encouraged to send ‘Hi’ to 087 240 6122 to ensure medication is delivered to their homes.
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WAVE OF PROMISING STUDY RESULTS RAISE HOPES FOR CORONAVIRUS VACCINES
Whether any of these efforts will result in a vaccine capable of protecting billions of people and ending the global pandemic that has claimed more than 600,000 lives is still far from clear.
Reuters
CHICAGO - Early data from trials of three potential COVID-19 vaccines released on Monday, including a closely-watched candidate from Oxford University, increased confidence that a vaccine can train the immune system to recognise and fight the novel coronavirus without serious side effects.
Whether any of these efforts will result in a vaccine capable of protecting billions of people and ending the global pandemic that has claimed more than 600,000 lives is still far from clear. All will require much larger studies to prove they can safely prevent infection or serious disease.
The vaccine being developed by British drugmaker AstraZeneca along with Oxford University induced an immune response in all study participants who received two doses without any worrisome side effects.
A coronavirus vaccine under development by CanSinoBiologics and China’s military research unit, likewise showed that it appears to be safe and induced an immune response in most of the 508 healthy volunteers who got one dose of the vaccine, researchers reported.
Some 77% of study volunteers experienced side effects like fever or injection site pain, but none considered to be serious.
Both the AstraZeneca and CanSino vaccines use a harmless cold virus known as an adenovirus to carry genetic material from the novel coronavirus into the body. Studies on both vaccines were published in the journal The Lancet.
“Overall, the results of both trials are broadly similar and promising,” Naor Bar-Zeev and William Moss, two vaccine experts from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote in a commentary in The Lancet.
However, the CanSino candidate again showed signs that people who had previously been exposed to the particular adenovirus in its vaccine had a reduced immune response.
The study authors called that “the biggest obstacle” for the vaccine to overcome.
German biotech BioNTech and US drugmaker Pfizer released details from a small study in Germany of a different type of vaccine that uses ribonucleic acid (RNA) - a chemical messenger that contains instructions for making proteins.
The vaccine instructs cells to make proteins that mimic the outer surface of the coronavirus. The body recognizes these virus-like proteins as foreign invaders and can then mount an immune response against the actual virus.
In the not-yet peer-reviewed study of 60 healthy adults, the vaccine-induced virus-neutralising antibodies in those given two doses, a result in-line with a previous early-stage US trial.
The burst of announcements followed publication last week of results of Moderna’s vaccine trial, showing similarly promising early results. Moderna’s vaccine also uses a messenger RNA platform.
“It’s encouraging that all these vaccines seem to induce antibodies in people,” said former World Health Organisation (WHO) assistant director-general Marie-Paule Kieny of the French research institute Inserm. “This proves that the science is moving forward very quickly, which is a good sign.”
‘LONG WAY TO GO’
None of these leading contenders has shown side effects that could sideline their efforts so far, but all must still prove they are safe and effective in trials involving thousands of subjects, including those at high-risk for severe COVID-19, such as the elderly and people with diabetes.
Historically, just 6% of vaccine candidates end up making it to market, often after a years-long testing process. Vaccine makers hope to dramatically compress that timeline through faster trials and by manufacturing at scale even before the products prove successful.
Several manufacturers have US government backing with a goal of having a coronavirus vaccine by year’s end as cases continue to rise at a record pace.
The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is one of 150 in development globally, but is considered the most advanced. Late-stage trials have begun in Brazil and South Africa and are due to start in the United States, where the infection prevalence is highest.
In its Phase I trial, the vaccine-induced so-called neutralizing antibodies - the kind that stop the virus from infecting cells - in 91% of individuals a month after they got one dose, and in 100% of subjects who got a second dose. These levels were on par with the antibodies produced by people who survived COVID-19 - a key benchmark of potential success.
Oxford researcher Sarah Gilbert said the trial could not determine whether one or two doses would be needed to provide immunity.
The vaccine, known as AZD1222, also induced the body to make T cells - activating a second part of the immune system that experts increasingly believe will be important for a lasting immune response.
Recent studies show that some recovered patients who tested negative for coronavirus antibodies developed T cells in response to their infection. Scientists think both are important aspects of an effective coronavirus vaccine.
Dr Mike Ryan, head of WHO’s emergencies program, said the generation of both T-cell and neutralising antibody responses was positive, adding, “there is a long way to go.”
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OXFORD COVID-19 VACCINE DEVELOPER CAUTIOUS ON 2020 ROLL-OUT
The experimental vaccine produced an immune response in early-stage clinical trials, data showed on Monday, preserving hopes it could be in use by the end of 2020.
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Reuters
LONDON - The University of Oxford’s possible COVID-19 vaccine could be rolled out by the end of the year but there is no certainty, the lead developer of the vaccine said on Tuesday.
The experimental vaccine, which has been licensed to AstraZeneca, produced an immune response in early-stage clinical trials, data showed on Monday, preserving hopes it could be in use by the end of 2020.
“The end of the year target for getting vaccine roll-out, it’s a possibility but there’s absolutely no certainty about that because we need three things to happen,” Sarah Gilbert told BBC Radio.
She said it needed to be shown to work in late-stage trials, there needed to be large quantities manufactured, and regulators had to agree quickly to license it for emergency use before large numbers of people could be vaccinated.
England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and his deputy Jonathan Van-Tam took differing views on the potential timeline.
“The chance of us getting a vaccine before Christmas that actually is highly effective are, in my view, very low,” Whitty told lawmakers.
Van-Tam, however, said he was “cautiously optimistic that we will have some vaccine this side of Christmas.”
The Oxford scientists had eyed a million doses of the potential vaccine to be produced by September.
Although the deal with AstraZeneca has provided manufacturing capacity to do that, the lower prevalence of the novel coronavirus in Britain has complicated the process of proving its efficacy.
Late-stage trials crucial for providing data are under way in Brazil and South Africa and are due to start in the United States also.
There are no approved vaccines yet for COVID-19, but the World Health Organization has said AstraZeneca’s shot is one of the leading candidates.
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Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed Returns Home from a Visit to Eritrea
Photo: Ministry of Information of Eritrea
Borkena
July 19, 2020
Abiy Ahmed and his delegation reportedly returned home on Sunday in the afternoon after two days of a working visit to Eritrea, his first travel outside of Ethiopia since the coronavirus state of emergency.
Eritrea’s Ministry of Information disclosed on Sunday that Abiy held extensive discussion with Eritrean President Isaias Afeworki.
According to the Ministry, the discussion focused on “bilateral relations and regional developments.” It further said that an agreement is reached to strengthen existing multifaceted cooperation between the two countries.
Regional cooperation was also a topic of discussion between the two leaders, and it is said an agreement was reached “to work together to enhance regional cooperation in the Horn of Africa.”
Apart from their discussion, the Eritrean president took Abiy Ahmed and his delegation to a tour of an agricultural development project in the Gash Barka region of Eritrea.
The Ministry of information also disclosed that the two leaders attended the graduation of the 33rd batch of national service trainees at Sawa.
Abiy Ahmed’s visit to Eritrea came following a deadly ethnic cleansing attack in the Oromo region of Ethiopia which raised speculation that his visit had something to do with the security situation in the country.
However, the Press Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister dismissed that his trip is not related to what happened in Ethiopia in the last two weeks, as reported by ESAT.
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Unconfirmed : Eritrean Government to Station Army, Navy in Sudan
Eritrean Chief of staff and Defense Minister, General Filipos Weldeyohanes. Photo : from Tesfa News Net twitter page
Borkena
July 20, 2020
Social Media based Eritrean news source, Eritrean Press, said on Monday that an agreement is on the work between Sudan and Eritrea to station several contingents of the Eritrean army and navy in Sudan.
It was said following Eritrean Defense Chief of Staff, General Filipos W Yohannes, visit to Sudan.
According to the source, the Eritrean army will be based in Kassala which is 20 kilometers from the Eritrea-Sudan border, and the Navy will be in port Sudan.
Also, the source said that a portion of the Sudanese navy will move to Assab Port.
It is unclear why the new military arrangement is needed. Neither Eritrean nor Sudanese government sources confirm the news.
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Egypt Reportedly Working on Military Base in Somaliland
Egypt does not seem to be stopping to toil for getting a military foothold somewhere near Ethiopia. This time it is Somaliland. The news of latest attempt came soon after failure of alleged attempt to distablize Ethiopia internally through the agency of local non-state actors.
Borkena
July 20, 2020
Egypt has approached Somaliland with the aim to set up a military base. A report by Somaliland Standard on Saturday said that an Egyptian delegation has met with Somaliland President, Musa Bihi Abdi. The two sides have discussed the proposal, according to the source.
However, the report did not say if Somaliland has nodded or declined for the Egyptian proposal.  What is known is that the two sides have an agreement “on exchange of high level representation offices in Hargeisa and Cairo.”
If Somaliland accepts the proposal, said the source, it will get recognition from Egypt which it sees as a passport for recognition of a bunch of Arab League Members.
It also sees Egypt’s approach to get a military foothold in Somaliland as a response to Somalia for “siding with Ethiopia” over GERD dispute.
Last month, there was a rumor that Egypt attempted to secure a military base in South Sudan – news that the latter dismissed as a baseless one. South Sudanese Ambassador to Ethiopia, H.E. James P. Morgan, told Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew that “his country will not do anything that would harm Ethiopia.”
Egypt and Ethiopia failed to reach an agreement over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Heavy rain received last week in the country helped start the filling of the dam while the negotiation between the three countries is expected to continue.
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Egypt’s Parliament Approves Military Intervention in Libya
By Thomas Hamamdjian
Africa Report
Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:37
Egypt's Parliament approved on 20 July 2020 military intervention into Libya (AP Photo, File)
As Cairo demonstrates its readiness to intervene in Libya in response to GNA’s announced offensive on Sirte, how much bluff versus reality do these threats contain?
On 18 July, troops from the Fayez al-Sarraj-led Government of National Accord (GNA) set out in the direction of the city of Sirte, located northwest of Libya’s strategic oil crescent, with the objective of taking back control of this area held by the Libyan National Army (LNA) – under the command of General Khalifa Haftar – and mercenaries with ties to the Russian private security firm Wagner Group.
GNA military commanders said that around 200 vehicles are on their way to Sirte from Misrata. As these troops move closer to this strategic city, the likelihood of a confrontation between Libya’s various rival factions and their international backers increases.
As a matter of fact, Cairo, allied with General Haftar, is reviewing a number of military options to counter the advance of forces loyal to the GNA and the latter’s Turkish ally.
According to the Egyptian media outlet Al-Ahram, Egypt’s parliament met on Monday, 20 July to discuss the military situation in Libya. The debate was set “to be followed by a vote to mandate President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to intervene militarily in Libya”.
‘Africa’s strongest army’
During a meeting on 16 July in Cairo between the Egyptian president and Libyan tribal leaders, the latter group asked Sisi to authorise Egypt’s armed forces “to intervene to protect the national security of Libya and Egypt”.
Sisi pledged his support to them on Monday 20 July in Cairo after Egyptian MPs unanimously approved a military intervention in Libya, in accordance with Article 152 of the constitution, which stipulates that “the supreme leader of the [a]rmed [f]orces […] shall not declare war or send the [a]rmed [f]orces outside the state’s borders to undertake fighting missions unless he first seeks the opinion of the National Defence Council and the approval of a two-thirds majority of MPs”.
In a resolution passed on 13 July, Libya’s House of Representatives – located in Tobruk and which backs LNA forces – asked the Egyptian and Libyan armed forces “to work together to guarantee the occupier’s defeat and preserve shared national security in the face of the dangers posed by the Turkish occupation”.
In his meeting with Libyan tribes on Thursday, Sisi said that Egypt has “the strongest army in the region and in Africa”. He also reiterated that “Sirte and Al-Jufra are a red line for Egypt”, but did not elaborate on the scope of a future Egyptian military intervention in Libya.
Fears over an ‘endless war’
President al-Sisi also said that Egypt’s armed forces will continue to “work side by side with the LNA in terms of […] training Libyan army officers […] and providing [eastern] Libyan tribes with weapons”, as most tribes back Haftar’s troops. “But the Egyptian army is a very wise force, and it is not interested in mounting occupation operations,” the president added.
A number of observers are sceptical about the idea of Egypt directly intervening in Libya.
“Turkey announced that it was openly intervening in western Libya in December and January. Over this period of almost nine months, Egypt didn’t intervene to block Turkey,” said Jalel Harchaoui, a political commentator on Libya and research fellow at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague.
“Since the end of May, Wagner Group – closely and enthusiastically assisted by the United Arab Emirates – has carried out the overwhelming majority of work to ensure that the GNA is unable to take control of Sirte.”
MP Hussein Abu Gad, a member of “Mostaqbal Watan”, the parliamentary majority party, told Al-Ahram that Egypt’s military threats do “not necessarily mean that Egypt will send troops to Libya or that Egyptian military forces will participate in any fighting missions on Libya’s [territory]”.
“Egypt knows that if it sends its army to Sirte, it will automatically unleash a war that will have no end in the foreseeable future. The human and financial cost of such a war has the potential to destabilise a government that is already beset by a number of major problems, including the Nile dam dispute, the coronavirus pandemic, a particularly painful economic crisis and the situation in the Sinai, which only continues to worsen,” warns Harchaoui.
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DRC: Under Pressure from the US, Tshisekedi Reshuffles Army
By Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala, in Kinshasa
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Monday, 20 July 2020 10:14
The Congolese head of state, Félix Tshisekedi, has carried out a large but cautious reshuffle within the army. While the highly controversial General John Numbi has been sidelined, other officers under sanctions have been returned to senior positions.
The most significant information to emerge from the many changes made by the Congolese president in the military apparatus is the removal of General John Numbi.
Until then Inspector General of the FARDC, the Congolese armed forces, this Joseph Kabila confidante had been placed under American and European sanctions since 2016.
His absence at the recent meeting of the enlarged high command of the army on 11 July fuelled rumours that had been circulating in certain diplomatic circles for several weeks.
In particular, Numbi is suspected of having played a role in the June 2010 murder of human rights defender Floribert Chebeya, the former president of the NGO La Voix des sans voix, and his driver Fidèle Bazana.
Following this scandal, which had taken on an international dimension, he was dismissed as police chief, before returning to the limelight in 2017, decorated with the Order of National Heroes Kabila-Lumumba.
Regularly suspected of fuelling insecurity in the former Katanga, the province from which he comes, Numbi was replaced as Inspector General of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Gabriel Amisi, known as “Tango Four”, another officer under US and European sanctions for “obstructing the electoral process in the DRC and human rights violations”.
Amisi, too, was a long-time collaborator of the former President and until now was Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence.
His new position will therefore keep him out of the management of military operations. But “Tango Four” has nevertheless been promoted to the rank of “Army General”.
To assist him in the general inspection of the FARDC, Gabriel Amisi will be able to count on another well-known name in the Congolese security apparatus: General Charles Akili, known as “Mundos”, commander of the 33rd military region (South Kivu and Maniema), also under sanctions and cited in several reports of the UN group of experts for his alleged role in the insecurity prevailing in the Beni region.
He too will be kept away from operations on the ground.
Among other significant movements, the appointment of General Jean-Claude Yav to the post of Deputy Chief of Staff alongside Célestin Mbala, who is being maintained in his position as Chief of General Staff, is noteworthy.
As is General Fall Sikabwe Asinda, suspected of serious human rights violations, in the position of Chief of General Staff of the Army.
In March, the latter had gone before a disciplinary board on suspicion of embezzlement of bonuses. Also in the field, General Philémon Yav, nicknamed the Tiger, is leaving Katanga for the north-east and the Kivus.
Félix Tshisekedi has also appointed General Franck Ntumba as the new head of the military house of the head of state, while in military intelligence, it is General Michel Mandiangu who will take the place of Delphin Kahimbi, who died in February in troubled circumstances.
The shadow of Joseph Kabila
Expected for several months, the reshuffle had been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, but also by the need to refine the choice of profiles and maintain a certain balance in a sector believed to be under the influence of his coalition partner, Joseph Kabila.
This reshuffle provides a certain continuity in the military, despite numerous changes in positions. Joseph Kabila’s shadow is still visible, given the functions attributed to several generals who are reputed to be loyal to him.
The removal of John Numbi was, however, welcomed by the US authorities, who have repeatedly implied their support for the departure of the many officers still under sanctions in order to facilitate their cooperation with the new administration.
Will this new set-up, which affects defence zones, military regions, major units, military bases and schools, as well as the Ministry of Defence, where a Secretary General has been appointed, be enough to give impetus to a better governance of national defence
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Aretha Franklin Live Singing Running Out of Fools, 1964
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This Protest Was Held in Downtown Detroit
Abayomi Azikiwe Covering the Demonstration in Solidarity With Palestinians in Gaza, January 8, 2009
MECAWI/Congress of Arab American Organizations' Demonstration Against the Israeli Siege of Gaza, Palestine on January 8, 2009
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Stokely Carmichael in Chicago, 1966
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Huey P. Newton Interview With William F. Buckley, Jan. 23, 1973
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Mamie Smith Recording of "Crazy Blues" Reputed to be the First Blues Record in 1920
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Blues Pioneer Mamie Smith on Film Singing "Lord, Lord, Lord"
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Bessie Smith Singing "You've Got to Give Me Some" From 1928
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