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2020-04-29: News Headlines

Uhuru Furniture and Collectibles (2020-04-29). Support Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles – Donate to Our GoFundMe So We Can Reopen Stronger. indybay.org WEBINAR: Support Uhuru Furniture – Not the Banks and Wall Street! May 5, 3pm. Register: Zoom tinyurl.com/DefendUhuruFurniture. This pandemic is devastating our Black community! We are infected and dying of Covid-19 at disproportionately higher rates. UF has served the community for 31 years in Oakland, building an independent African economy. Donate GoFundMe uhurufurniture.org…

Andrew Korybko (2020-04-28). The U.S. Wants to "Purchase" Greenland from Denmark. globalresearch.ca The US' plan to leverage economic aid to Greenland for strategic ends is exactly the same thing that it accuses China of doing in Africa, suggesting that its infowar against Beijing's Belt & Road Initiative is driven more by jealousy …

RT (2020-04-28). A cautious reopening, but gatherings still off the cards: How Europe is lifting its lockdown. rt.com Across Europe, leaders have made tentative steps toward easing their countries' coronavirus lockdowns. However, a return to total normality has been all but written off for the year. | The Austrian government announced on Tuesday that the spread of the coronavirus has slowed to a point where restrictions can now be lifted. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said that Austrians may freely leave their homes from May 1, with public gatherings to follow in the near future. Though social distancing rules will still apply, businesses like hairdressers will reopen, followed two weeks later by cafes and restaurants, and…

Alan Macleod (2020-04-27). A Soft Power Ploy? Cuba Continues to Aid the Poorest and Least Influential Nations. mintpressnews.com As the coronavirus pandemic grows worse in many countries, Cuba has answered an urgent South African request for aid, sending 217 medical personnel to the country.

Bill Hackwell (2020-04-27). Cuba's Covid-19 Medical Brigades Are Not Medical Diplomacy: They Are International Solidarity at Its Finest. dissidentvoice.org Cuban Medical Brigade going to Italy (Photo credit: Ismael Francisco Gonzalez) Today the latest medical brigade from Cuba's Henry Reeves contingent arrived in South Africa to join the front lines with those saving lives in the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic. After a 14 day quarantine the 216 member group, made up of family physicians, …

Roger D. Harris (2020-04-27). Trump and Biden Trade Hit Pieces: Distinctions without a Difference. mintpressnews.com This season's sequel to the "Game of Thrones" features reality TV star and the current occupant of the Oval Office versus the former Senator from The narrower the distinctions between Democrats and Republicans, the more vociferous they get in inflating those distinctions as if a distinction were really a difference. As liberation president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere famously observed,…

news.un (2020-04-25). Liberia: Ebola contact tracing lessons inform COVID-19 response. news.un.org Lessons learned during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia six years ago are helping the West African country to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) which is working alongside the World Health Organization (WHO) on surveillance and the coordination of contact tracing.

Staff (2020-04-22). "Frightening Moment": On Earth Day, Kumi Naidoo on Africa's Twin Pandemics of Coronavirus & Hunger. democracynow.org Some 265 million people are expected to face acute hunger as the coronavirus crisis could trigger a second pandemic of hunger. The crisis is projected to disproportionately affect Africa, where there is already widespread hunger. This comes as the World Health Organization estimates the number of COVID-19 cases in Africa could rise to 10 million in the next three to six months. Ten African countries don't have a single ventilator. "This is an extremely terrifying and frightening moment for the people of Africa. … We were already facing a major food crisis — that was before the coronavirus hit," says lifel…

news.un (2020-04-28). As pandemic encroaches on Abyei, tensions rise over disputed territory straddling Sudan, South Sudan. news.un.org Sudan's efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, are delaying the deployment of fresh United Nations police units in Abyei and the border regions between Sudan and South Sudan, the UN's peacekeeping chief told the Security Council on Tuesday…

Scarlet Kim (2020-04-24). They Were Willing to Make the Ultimate Sacrifice for the U.S., but Trump Won't Let Them Become Americans. aclu.org Ange Samma, a 22-year-old green card holder from Burkina Faso, came to the United States seven years ago, when he was still a teenager. After studying electrical engineering at community college, he decided to enlist in the U.S. Army in 2018. He wanted to give back to his adopted country and also hoped joining the military would help him achieve his goal of becoming an electrical engineer. , , Ange currently serves on active duty as a soldier in South Korea. But despite serving this country on a U.S. military base in a foreign country, he still hasn't been able to obtain citizenship through his military servic…

Philip Giraldi (2020-04-28). Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again. thealtworld.com Israel will become much bigger | Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that a good crisis should never be allowed to go to waste. He meant, of course, that a crisis can be exploited to provide cover for other shenanigans involving politicians. It was an observation that was particularly true when one was working for a sexual predator like Bill, who once attacked a "terrorist" pharmaceutical factory in Sudan to divert attention aw…

news.un (2020-04-28). Sudan: Coronavirus could be tipping point for 'untold suffering', Bachelet urges sanctions relief. news.un.org In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government and people of Sudan could experience "untold suffering" unless donors act fast to shore up a country still in transition, the top UN human rights official warned on Tuesday.

news.un (2020-04-24). UN 'fully mobilized' to support the Sudanese people, Security Council hears. news.un.org The "exceptional circumstances" of the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted the peace process in Sudan as well as the drawing down of the United Nations mission there, the head of UN peacekeeping updated the Security Council on Friday.

Germán Gorraiz López (2020-04-28). Paranoia and Hybris Syndrome in Donald Trump. globalresearch.ca Among the "losers of globalization" in the US, in addition to African-Americans and Latinos, indebted university students and white adults over 45 years of age without university studies and with jobs with low added value appear for the first time, …

yenisafak (2020-04-29). Haftar to face backlash in Libya: Experts. yenisafak.com Libya's renegade commander Khalifa Haftar's move to unilaterally declare himself as the ruler of the country is an attempt to cover his recent failures and would further strengthen the UN-recognized government, according to experts.Nebahat Tanriverdi Yasar, a North Africa regional expert, said the recent week marked significant developments.She said UN-recognized Government of National Accord's (GNA) operations in the strategically important Al Watiya airbase dissipated support for Haftar.She went on to say that demonstrations in Sirte city to support Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gadda…

yenisafak (2020-04-29). From hairdressers to beaches – Spain's plan to phase out lockdown. yenisafak.com Spain announced a four-phase plan late on Tuesday to lift one of the toughest coronavirus lockdowns in Europe and return to normality by the end of June.Following are the key points of the plan, which will vary from province to province. Advancing through the stages will depend on factors such as how the rate of infection evolves, the number of intensive care beds available locally and compliance with distancing rules. These targets are yet to be announced.Preparatory Phase 0 (May 4-11)- Hairdressers and other businesses that offer service by appointment can reopen.- Restaurants can offer take-away services.- Pro…

yenisafak (2020-04-29). Riot erupts at coronavirus-hit prison in Sierra Leone. yenisafak.com Smoke billowed from the central prison in Sierra Leone's capital and gunfire could be heard from nearby streets on Wednesday after a riot broke out following the confirmation of a coronavirus case there, a Reuters reporter said.Inmates at Pademba Road Prison had earlier set some buildings on fire in a protest that police and security forces were subsequently able to quell, Information Minister Mohamed Rahman Swaray told reporters."There are casualties, but these are early days. When the dust settles we will be able to give you a more comprehensive account," Swaray said in a video streamed online.The prison was r…

Staff (2020-04-21). Juan González: "Make No Mistake: This Country Is Edging Closer to Neo-Fascist Authoritarianism" democracynow.org We get an update from Democracy Now! co-host Juan González about his mother and wife, who were infected with COVID-19, and discuss how right-wing Trump supporters are brandishing automatic weapons at protests to demand an end to coronavirus shutdowns and are being egged on by the president. "We should make no mistake, that this country is edging closer and closer to neo-fascist authoritarianism," says González, expressing concern these actions will become normalized in the lead-up to a bitter national election in November.

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Support Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles – Donate to Our GoFundMe So We Can Reopen Stronger
Uhuru Furniture and Collectibles | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
WEBINAR: Support Uhuru Furniture – Not the Banks and Wall Street! May 5, 3pm. Register: Zoom tinyurl.com/DefendUhuruFurniture. This pandemic is devastating our Black community! We are infected and dying of Covid-19 at disproportionately higher rates. UF has served the community for 31 years in Oakland, building an independent African economy. Donate GoFundMe uhurufurniture.org…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/29/18832680.php

The U.S. Wants to "Purchase" Greenland from Denmark
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
The US' plan to leverage economic aid to Greenland for strategic ends is exactly the same thing that it accuses China of doing in Africa, suggesting that its infowar against Beijing's Belt & Road Initiative is driven more by jealousy …
globalresearch.ca/us-doing-same-thing-greenland-accuses-china-doing-africa/5711136

French NGO Nominates Cuban Doctors For Nobel Peace Prize
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-28
French organization Cuba Linda advocated Tuesday to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the Cuban Henry Reeves medical brigades, deployed in more than 20 countries to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Cuban Doctors Head to South Africa to Help Fight COVID-19 | "The international community is witnessing the solidarity of health professionals who leave their own country to provide services and share experiences in other parts of the world, which in the case of the pandemic…
telesurenglish.net/news/French-NGO-Nominates-Cuban-Doctors-For-Nobel-Peace-Prize-20200428-0018.html

BRICS Bank to Allocate $15 Billion to Economic Recovery
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-28
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Tuesday announced that the New Development Bank (NDB) will allocate USD15 billion to economic recovery projects. | RELATED: | The Solution to the Libyan War Must Be Political, Russia Says | "We have decided to create a special credit instrument to finance economic recovery projects in the countries. It is expected t…
telesurenglish.net/news/BRICS-Bank-to-Allocate-15-Billion-to-Economic-Recovery-20200428-0006.html

A cautious reopening, but gatherings still off the cards: How Europe is lifting its lockdown
rt.com | 2020-04-28
Across Europe, leaders have made tentative steps toward easing their countries' coronavirus lockdowns. However, a return to total normality has been all but written off for the year. | The Austrian government announced on Tuesday that the spread of the coronavirus has slowed to a point where restrictions can now be lifted. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said that Austrians may freely leave their homes from May 1, with public gatherings to follow in the near future. Though social distancing rules will still apply, businesses like hairdressers will reopen, followed two weeks later by cafes and restaurants, and…
rt.com/news/487167-europe-coronavirus-lockdown-lifting/

A Soft Power Ploy? Cuba Continues to Aid the Poorest and Least Influential Nations
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-27
As the coronavirus pandemic grows worse in many countries, Cuba has answered an urgent South African request for aid, sending 217 medical personnel to the country.
mintpressnews.com/medical-internationalism-cuba-sends-217-doctors-aid-south-africa-coronavirus/267036/

Cuba's Covid-19 Medical Brigades Are Not Medical Diplomacy: They Are International Solidarity at Its Finest
Bill Hackwell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-27
Cuban Medical Brigade going to Italy (Photo credit: Ismael Francisco Gonzalez) Today the latest medical brigade from Cuba's Henry Reeves contingent arrived in South Africa to join the front lines with those saving lives in the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic. After a 14 day quarantine the 216 member group, made up of family physicians, …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/cubas-covid-19-medical-brigades-are-not-medical-diplomacy-they-are-international-solidarity-at-its-finest/

Trump and Biden Trade Hit Pieces: Distinctions without a Difference
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-27
This season's sequel to the "Game of Thrones" features reality TV star and the current occupant of the Oval Office versus the former Senator from MBNA and two-term VP. It's time to binge-watch dueling hit pieces from the U.S electoral duopoly going at it. | The narrower the distinctions between Democrats and Republicans, the more vociferous they get in inflating those distinctions as if a distinction were really a difference. As liberation president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere famously observed,…
mintpressnews.com/trump-biden-trade-hit-pieces-china/266997/

Liberia: Ebola contact tracing lessons inform COVID-19 response
news.un.org | 2020-04-25
Lessons learned during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia six years ago are helping the West African country to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) which is working alongside the World Health Organization (WHO) on surveillance and the coordination of contact tracing.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062582

They Were Willing to Make the Ultimate Sacrifice for the U.S., but Trump Won't Let Them Become Americans
Scarlet Kim | aclu.org | 2020-04-24
Ange Samma, a 22-year-old green card holder from Burkina Faso, came to the United States seven years ago, when he was still a teenager. After studying electrical engineering at community college, he decided to enlist in the U.S. Army in 2018. He wanted to give back to his adopted country and also hoped joining the military would help him achieve his goal of becoming an electrical engineer. , , Ange currently serves on active duty as a soldier in South Korea. But despite serving this country on a U.S. military base in a foreign country, he still hasn't been able to obtain citizenship through his military servic…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/they-were-willing-to-make-the-ultimate-sacrifice-for-the-u-s-but-trump-wont-let-them-become-americans

"Frightening Moment": On Earth Day, Kumi Naidoo on Africa's Twin Pandemics of Coronavirus & Hunger
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-22
Some 265 million people are expected to face acute hunger as the coronavirus crisis could trigger a second pandemic of hunger. The crisis is projected to disproportionately affect Africa, where there is already widespread hunger. This comes as the World Health Organization estimates the number of COVID-19 cases in Africa could rise to 10 million in the next three to six months. Ten African countries don't have a single ventilator. "This is an extremely terrifying and frightening moment for the people of Africa. … We were already facing a major food crisis

As pandemic encroaches on Abyei, tensions rise over disputed territory straddling Sudan, South Sudan
news.un.org | 2020-04-28
Sudan's efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, are delaying the deployment of fresh United Nations police units in Abyei and the border regions between Sudan and South Sudan, the UN's peacekeeping chief told the Security Council on Tuesday…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062762

Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-28
Israel will become much bigger | Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that a good crisis should never be allowed to go to waste. He meant, of course, that a crisis can be exploited to provide cover for other shenanigans involving politicians. It was an observation that was particularly true when one was working for a sexual predator like Bill, who once attacked a "terrorist" pharmaceutical factory in Sudan to divert attention aw…
thealtworld.com/philip_giraldi/netanyahu-is-back-yet-again

Sudan: Coronavirus could be tipping point for 'untold suffering', Bachelet urges sanctions relief
news.un.org | 2020-04-28
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government and people of Sudan could experience "untold suffering" unless donors act fast to shore up a country still in transition, the top UN human rights official warned on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062782

UN 'fully mobilized' to support the Sudanese people, Security Council hears
news.un.org | 2020-04-24
The "exceptional circumstances" of the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted the peace process in Sudan as well as the drawing down of the United Nations mission there, the head of UN peacekeeping updated the Security Council on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062602

Paranoia and Hybris Syndrome in Donald Trump
Germán Gorraiz López | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Among the "losers of globalization" in the US, in addition to African-Americans and Latinos, indebted university students and white adults over 45 years of age without university studies and with jobs with low added value appear for the first time, …
globalresearch.ca/paranoia-hubris-syndrome-donald-trump/5711104

Haftar to face backlash in Libya: Experts
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
Libya's renegade commander Khalifa Haftar's move to unilaterally declare himself as the ruler of the country is an attempt to cover his recent failures and would further strengthen the UN-recognized government, according to experts.Nebahat Tanriverdi Yasar, a North Africa regional expert, said the recent week marked significant developments.She said UN-recognized Government of National Accord's (GNA) operations in the strategically important Al Watiya airbase dissipated support for Haftar.She went on to say that demonstrations in Sirte city to support Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gadda…
yenisafak.com/en/world/haftar-to-face-backlash-in-libya-experts-3518232

From hairdressers to beaches – Spain's plan to phase out lockdown
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
Spain announced a four-phase plan late on Tuesday to lift one of the toughest coronavirus lockdowns in Europe and return to normality by the end of June.Following are the key points of the plan, which will vary from province to province. Advancing through the stages will depend on factors such as how the rate of infection evolves, the number of intensive care beds available locally and compliance with distancing rules. These targets are yet to be announced.Preparatory Phase 0 (May 4-11)- Hairdressers and other businesses that offer service by appointment can reopen.- Restaurants can offer take-away services.- Pro…
yenisafak.com/en/world/from-hairdressers-to-beaches–spains-plan-to-phase-out-lockdown-3518228

Riot erupts at coronavirus-hit prison in Sierra Leone
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
Smoke billowed from the central prison in Sierra Leone's capital and gunfire could be heard from nearby streets on Wednesday after a riot broke out following the confirmation of a coronavirus case there, a Reuters reporter said.Inmates at Pademba Road Prison had earlier set some buildings on fire in a protest that police and security forces were subsequently able to quell, Information Minister Mohamed Rahman Swaray told reporters."There are casualties, but these are early days. When the dust settles we will be able to give you a more comprehensive account," Swaray said in a video streamed online.The prison was r…
yenisafak.com/en/world/riot-erupts-at-coronavirus-hit-prison-in-sierra-leone-3518237

Juan González: "Make No Mistake: This Country Is Edging Closer to Neo-Fascist Authoritarianism"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-21
We get an update from Democracy Now! co-host Juan González about his mother and wife, who were infected with COVID-19, and discuss how right-wing Trump supporters are brandishing automatic weapons at protests to demand an end to coronavirus shutdowns and are being egged on by the president. "We should make no mistake, that this country is edging closer and closer to neo-fascist authoritarianism," says González, expressing concern these actions will become normalized in the lead-up to a bitter national election in November.
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/21/juan_gonzalez_coronavirus_update