President Pierre Nkurunziza dies of heart attack at the age of 55yrs
The Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist Majekodunmi Fasheke is known as Majek Fashek died on the 1st of June at the age of 57yrs, this wonderful artisit released his debut album named the Prisone...View MoreThe Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist Majekodunmi Fasheke is known as Majek Fashek died on the 1st of June at the age of 57yrs, this wonderful artisit released his debut album named the Prisoner of Conscience in 1988, featuring a multiple award-winning "Bring down the storm," "Free Mandela" became some of the most popular tunes in his home country.
In a statement from United Nations Secretary-General and Executive Director Vera Songwe of the Economic Commission for Africa, $100 billion is needed for counties of the world to support African count...View MoreIn a statement from United Nations Secretary-General and Executive Director Vera Songwe of the Economic Commission for Africa, $100 billion is needed for counties of the world to support African countries in their needs of fighting COVID19. "The need is $100 billion to provide all the countries with immediate fiscal space to help address the immediate needs of communities in terms of security networks to safeguard the continent's mutual economic prosperity.
In addition, the oil price that accounts for 40% of AfricaN countries exports have halved value, while the other African exports, such as textiles and fresh-cut flowers have plummeted. In the meantime, touristic activity has effectively halted as did the aii, which accounts for up to 38% of some African countries' GDP.
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South Africa
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa dies in Lusikisiki
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born July 21, 1921 He is a South African Zulu SANGOMA (traditional healer). He is renowned as an author of books f...View MoreSouth Africa
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa dies in Lusikisiki
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born July 21, 1921 He is a South African Zulu SANGOMA (traditional healer). He is renowned as an author of books focused on African myths, traditional folklore of Zulu, extraterrestrial experiences and personal interactions with himself. His most recent work is a graphic novel called the Tree of Life Trilogy based on his writings of his most popular book, Indaba My Children. In 2018, he was given a USIBA award by the Department of Arts and Culture of South Africa for his research in Aboriginal Wisdom.
Credo calls himself a sanusi (common spelling isanuse) that is a form of Zulu diviner, HEALER or sangoma . The word originates from a more historical period and is not commonly used except in a conventional setting today. Credo currently resides in Kuruman with his partner, Virginia Mutwa, where they run a hospice clinic.
Credo claimed Africans were forced away from their traditional origins by the great uprising in Johannesburg and the popularization of communism in the black struggle. In fact, unlike most political activists, he advocated a division between white and black in order to maintain black traditional tribal traditions and way of life. In 1976, after being misquoted on Afrikaans radio, students partially burned the cultural village, as they saw the village supporting tribalism and separate development.Parts of the village were again burned in the mid-80s.
After his son's murder by black political "activists," and his village's second burning, Credo moved off Soweto and set up Lotlamoreng, Mahikeng, a culturally touristy village (then known as Bophuthatswana). The Kwa-Khaya Lendaba cultural village in Soweto is currently being restored to free public access and remains open for the general public. It is currently under the control of the development of small cultural villages, each reflecting traditional cultures in the main South African tribal communities. The village guardian is providing tour guides.
Although though the Africans they were expected to portray in many of the sculptures in the Kwa-Khaya Lendaba were obscure, many of them are considered to be symbolic in nature. The predictions of the arrival of HIV / AIDS in South Africa were most notably made. This has been seen in King Khandakhulu's fictional sculptures, which had 200 women. He couldn't satisfy everyone emotionally so they went out and sat down somewhere, exposing them to incurable sexually transmitted infections. The pitfalls on the penis of King Khandakhulu are close to the AIDS unit. Sculpture was created in 1979 3 years before the human immunodeficiency virus was discovered by scientists.
Mozambique
64 Migrants found dead in mozambique truck containers
Officials said on Tuesday that Immigration officers in Mozambique have discovered 64 migrants ' bodies in a shipping container haule...View MoreMozambique
64 Migrants found dead in mozambique truck containers
Officials said on Tuesday that Immigration officers in Mozambique have discovered 64 migrants ' bodies in a shipping container hauled by a truck coming from neighboring Malawi.
Officials in the south-east African nation said the dead were possibly suffocated in the container, the refugees had come from Ethiopia.
In the western province of Tete, some 80 miles northeast of the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border, fourteen other migrants were still alive when the truck was opened and looked into. Immigration officials said sounds had come from inside the container which lead them to open the container.
A government spokesman said a preliminary investigation found that the truck driver, a native Mozambican, had illegal entry from Malawi into the former Portuguese colony.
The case is being investigated by Mozambique's national police and Maputo's immigration, health, and justice ministries.
The driver and another suspect were jailed, officials said.
African-jazz legend from Cameroon, Manu Dibango dies because of coronavirus in Paris, France
The family of the musician, best known for the 1972 hit "Soul Makossa," announced last week on his Facebo...View MoreAfrican-jazz legend from Cameroon, Manu Dibango dies because of coronavirus in Paris, France
The family of the musician, best known for the 1972 hit "Soul Makossa," announced last week on his Facebook page that after contracting the virus, he was admitted to hospital in Paris.
They revealed in FRANCE on Tuesday that the jazz star had passed away, claiming that it had been attributed to coronavirus.
Dibango was very familiar of late South African star Johnny Clegg who died of cancer last year in July. Dibango has also worked with legendary Hugh Masekela.
COVID 19
To understand why the world economy is in grave danger due to the spread of coronavirus, it helps to comprehend one concept which is instinctively obvious and sneakily profound at once.
Exp...View MoreCOVID 19
To understand why the world economy is in grave danger due to the spread of coronavirus, it helps to comprehend one concept which is instinctively obvious and sneakily profound at once.
Expenditure on one person is revenue for another individual. That's what the $ trillion global economy is in a single explanation. The relationship, between spending and profits, consumption and production, is at the core of how a capitalist economy works. This is the base of a perpetual motion mechanism. We buy the things we want and need, and give money in return to the people who made those things, who in turn use that money to buy the things they want and need, and so on and so forth.
What is so profoundly troubling about the virus possible economic ripple effects is that it needs this perpetual motion machine to come to an almost complete halt, for an indeterminate period of time, through large chunks of the economy.
No industrial economy has ever encountered something of this nature. We simply do not know how the economic system can react to the harm that is beginning to happen, nor how difficult or quick it will be to turn it back on again.
Thanks to statistical tables from the global governments, we can appreciate the sheer scale of the economic sectors that appear to be entering a near shut down. The US and most of the world are on the brink of a massive shrinkage of consumer expenditure, which in turn would mean less economic production and lower wages for the people delivering those services.
They also invested $586 billion on leisure facilities (on tickets to sporting events or casino gambling losses). And they invested $1.02 trillion on food and hospitality facilities (restaurant meals and hotel stays, but no grocery stores took home food).
That adds up to $2.1 trillion a year, 14 percent of overall spending on consumption— which seems likely to dry up for at least a few weeks and maybe longer. We don't know how much these numbers of consumption will decrease, and how long it will be by a lot.
And what does such a fall in spending in these big categories mean revenues on the other side of the ledger?
There are a lot of places going to the income from those industries. It directly charges workers for their work. It's for manufacturers. This charges taxes to fund police and school teachers, leases to compensate land owners, and dividends to investors. All of those cash flows are threatened as spending on sales plunge. After all these a new world economic order will rise.
Sudan
Riek Machar was sworn in as first vice president on Saturday, a day after President Salva Kiir dissolved the previous government.
“You have just witnessed the swearing in of the First Vice Pr...View MoreSudan
Riek Machar was sworn in as first vice president on Saturday, a day after President Salva Kiir dissolved the previous government.
“You have just witnessed the swearing in of the First Vice President, and the vice presidents. An event, which many of you had thought, was impossible. This action signifies the official end of the war, and we can now proclaim a new dawn in South Sudan”, President Kiir said.
I want to assure you, we will work collectively to end your long suffering.
Machar said they will all work together to end their long suffering.
“First I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the people of the Republic of South Sudan for attaining peace. I want to assure you, we will work collectively to end your long suffering”, the South Sudanese First Vice President said.
Kiir asked for forgiveness and said he had forgiven his brother Machar, while calling on the people of South Sudan to forgive each other.
This arrangement has fallen apart twice, leading to a conflict that killed nearly 400,000 people.
The world’s youngest nation slid into civil war in 2013. Two years after winning long-fought independence from Sudan, as supporters of Kiir and Machar clashed.
Several attempts at peace failed, including a deal that saw Machar return as vice president in 2016.
He fled the country on foot months later amid fresh gunfire.
Courtesy: africanews.com
Hanau Germany
A 42yrs far right minded man has used his licensed fire arm to racially kill 8people in Hanau Germany. It is believed that he specifically attacked Kurdish people who were in an Ashish ...View MoreHanau Germany
A 42yrs far right minded man has used his licensed fire arm to racially kill 8people in Hanau Germany. It is believed that he specifically attacked Kurdish people who were in an Ashish bar. This murderer has stated in his social media page that he wants non-white people out of Germany, he was later found dead in his house by the security officers.
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