Madagascar’s Andry Rajeolina Re-Elected President In Boycotted Poll

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Madagascar’s Andry Rajeolina Re-Elected President In Boycotted Poll

The opposition has not yet indicated if it will formally contest the result and has not called for more street demonstrations.

Incumbent Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina, greets supporters as he attends the first meeting of his electoral campaign, in Antananarivo, on October 10, 2023. – Andry Rajeolina, 49, was re-elected president of Madagascar in the first round of a vote that ten opposition candidates had called for to boycott. 

 

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has won re-election in the first round of a ballot boycotted by nearly all opposition candidates in the Indian Ocean island nation, the election commission said Saturday.

Rajoelina won 58.95 percent of the votes cast in the November 16 presidential election, according to the results presented by the poll body which need to be validated by the Constitutional Court.

Turnout was just over 46 percent, down on the previous presidential election in 2018, which the election commission blamed on “ambient political climate” and “manipulation of opinion”.

“The Malagasy people have chosen the path of continuity and stability”, the 49-year-old Rajoelina said after the results were announced.

Rajoelina first came to power in 2009 following a mutiny that ousted former president Marc Ravalomanana. He then skipped the following elections only to make a winning comeback in 2018.

The 11 million voters had to choose between Rajeolina and 12 other candidates. Ten of the incumbent’s rivals refused to campaign and urged voters to shun the ballot, branding it a farce.

Rajoelina, a former mayor of the capital Antananarivo, is accused by rivals of corruption, greed, and turning a blind eye to the pillage of the country’s natural resources, including its precious rosewood forests.

“What results? What election?” was the joint opposition response to a request for comment on Rajeolina’s victory.

“We will not recognise the results of this illegitimate election, riddled with irregularities, and we decline all responsibility for the political and social instability that could ensue”, the opponents warned.

‘Worrying Anomalies’ –

The opposition has not yet indicated if it will formally contest the result and has not called for more street demonstrations.

In the weeks leading up to the vote, the opposition — including two former presidents — led near-daily, largely unauthorised protests that were regularly dispersed by police using tear gas.

Madagascar has been in turmoil since media reports in June revealed Rajoelina had acquired French nationality in 2014.

Under local law, the president should have lost his Madagascan nationality, and with it, the ability to lead the country, his opponents said.

Opposition candidates complained of an “institutional coup” in favour of the incumbent, accusing government of working to reappoint Rajoelina.

They called for the electoral process to be suspended and for the international community to intervene.

Eight countries and organisations including the European Union and the United States expressed concern about the “disproportionate use of force” to disperse opposition demonstrations.

The opposition has denounced irregularities, including closed polling stations, a lack of ballot boxes and the use of state resources by Rajoelina for his campaign.

One of the two opponents who formally remained in the race, Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko, also denounced “worrying anomalies” which he said “raise legitimate questions about the validity of the results”.

The election took place “in regular and transparent conditions”, Arsene Dama, the president of the national electoral commission, said on Saturday.

Dama’s impartiality has been questioned by the opposition.

Source: Channel TV

FIFA Opens Disciplinary Procedures After Brazil-Argentina Brawl

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FIFA Opens Disciplinary Procedures After Brazil-Argentina Brawl

Tuesday's match in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium, which title holders Argentina won 1-0, was postponed for around 30 minutes after rival fans began battling before the opening shot.

Fans of Argentina clash with Brazilian police before the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup South American qualification football match between Brazil and Argentina at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 21, 2023. 

 

FIFA on Friday confirmed disciplinary proceedings have been opened into the football federations of Brazil and Argentina after a brawl delayed the start of a 2026 World Cup qualifying match.

Tuesday's match in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium, which title holders Argentina won 1-0, was postponed for around thirty minutes after rival fans began battling before the opening shot.

The famous stadium slipped into mayhem, as players attempted to no end to get fans to stop the conflict. Argentina skipper Lionel Messi drove his group back to the changing area, returning solely after the savagery had been controlled.

Police retaliated the skirmish with twirly doos, leaving a few fans with bloodied faces and different wounds.

"FIFA can affirm that its Disciplinary Board of trustees has opened procedures against the Brazilian Football Association (CBF) and the Argentinian Football Association (AFA)," world football's overseeing body said in an explanation.

Brazil face sanctions for "likely breaks of as section 17" of FIFA's disciplinary code, which manages request and security at matches.

Argentina, who caused the Brazilians' very first home loss in fitting the bill for a World Cup, face sanctions for the "swarm unsettling influence" and "deferred start off".

The two groups risk fines as well as global home coordinates with incomplete or absolute conclusion of their stadium, the two most normal authorizations.

Argentina are on top of the South American World Cup qualifying standings with 15 points from six games.

Brazil's third loss of qualifying, in the mean time, leaves the five-time title holders in 6th spot with seven focuses from six games.

Police Officer Who Killed George Floyd Stabbed In Prison

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Police Officer Who Killed George Floyd Stabbed In Prison

The US Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed an assault to AFP.

 George Floyd, Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

 

Derek Chauvin, the US police officer whose murder of George Floyd sparked massive racial justice protests in 2020, was stabbed in prison on Friday, the New York Times reported citing unnamed sources.

Chauvin knelt on the 46-year-old Black man’s neck for more than nine minutes on a Minneapolis street despite the dying man’s pleas.

Floyd’s cries of “I can’t breathe” were a rallying call for demonstrators domestically and abroad who took to the streets in the killing’s aftermath.

The US Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed an assault to AFP without naming the person wounded.

“An incarcerated individual was assaulted at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Tucson,” in the southwestern state of Arizona, it said in a statement.

“Responding employees initiated life-saving measures for one incarcerated individual,” the statement said, adding that the wounded individual was sent to a local hospital “for further treatment and evaluation.”

Chauvin survived the attack, according to a New York Times source.

Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in 2021, and sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison.

The incident was caught on video — providing a drastically different version of events than the initial police news release, which simply stated “officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress.”

A Justice Department probe into the Minneapolis police, the findings of which were published in June 2023, said that officers in the department routinely resorted to violent and racist practices, “including unjustified deadly force.”

The city of Minneapolis, in the midwestern state of Minnesota, also settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Floyd family, agreeing to pay his relatives $27 million.

– 2020 protests –

Chauvin appealed his second-degree murder conviction, which was rejected by the US Supreme Court earlier this month.

“At the end of the day, the whole trial, including sentencing, was a sham,” he said from prison in a recent documentary.

But at his sentencing hearing, he spoke little, “due to some additional legal matters at hand.”

“I do want to give my condolences to the Floyd family,” he added.

Otherwise he remained expressionless, as he did during the trial, even when witnesses gave damning testimony against him.

Chauvin’s lawyer Eric Nelson had said his client “exuded a calm and professional demeanor” in his interactions with Floyd, and sought to convince the jury that the ex-cop only applied a hold that was authorized and consistent with his training.

But the prosecution successfully argued that Chauvin had used excessive force — not only with Floyd, but with others he arrested during his 19-year career on the force.

Prior to the trial the prosecution dug up several examples of his “modus operandi,” including the case of Zoya Code, a young Black woman arrested by Chauvin in 2017.

“Even though the female was not physically resisting in any way, Chauvin kneeled on her body, using his body weight to pin her to the ground,” the prosecution said.

But the Floyd case was from the beginning a bigger story than individual accounts of injustice, helping galvanize huge protests and a reckoning on racism and policing in the United States and internationally.

The reverberations are still playing out in the United States today, with debates over racism still roiling politics and schools.

– Paper trail –

After the murder, colleagues later sketched a portrait of Chauvin as a silent, rigid workaholic who often patrolled the city’s more difficult neighborhoods.

His commitment to the job earned him four medals throughout his career. But he also racked up 22 internal complaints and investigations, according to a public record scrubbed of all details.

Only one of these numerous complaints, filed by a white woman whom he had violently pulled from her car in 2007 for speeding, in front of her crying infant, was followed by a letter of reprimand.

Source: Channel TV 

Davido's helper, Isreal DMW, declares marriage crash

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Davido's helper, Isreal DMW, declares marriage crash

Davido's Coordinated operations Supervisor, Isreal Afeare, prominently known as Isreal DMW, has shared insight about the finish of his union with his significant other, Sheila, in an Instagram post on Saturday.

In his itemized account, Isreal DMW uncovered that Sheila left their home on August 8, 2023, notwithstanding his significant help since their marriage.

Israel likewise nitty gritty demonstrations of liberality, for example, offering monetary help, overhauling her telephone, and enjoying shopping binges for her.

In spite of these endeavors, he portrayed a change in Sheila's conduct after their wedding, where she looked to force norms on him, accepting she had accomplished status as a conspicuous figure on Instagram.

Moreover, Isreal DMW brought up that wedding somebody from a Christian foundation and being a virgin didn't guarantee harmony for his situation.

 He featured that his better half blamed him for being a captive to his chief, Davido.

He said, "Wedding a woman since you met her during evangelism as a virgin, a minister's girl, an individual from similar Champs House of prayer church, probably won't ensure anything harmony by any means. Try not to be excessively enthusiastic or fast to trust individuals. Individuals can change whenever.

"Individuals can be extremely selfish and misleading. I met Sheila on February 19, 2022. We became companions, which later became cozy.

 "She let me know she would just lose her virginity to the man that would wed her since her Ugep, Cross River, mother, who's presently 41, had prior hitched two distinct men, with two children, prior to wedding her dad and that she was past due at 21 for marriage.

conditions. I quickly redesigned her unkept circumstance by giving her 300k and supplanting her worn out telephone of under 60k with another iPhone 12 Pro Max of 860k in under about fourteen days.

 "I later likewise supplanted the 12 Pro Max with a brand 14 Master Max of 1.2m that she uses to kill. I did a great deal of looking for her.

 "Gotten her garments and sacks, including costly human hairs she's utilizing without laying down with her then. I later proposed, and she completely acknowledged. We later did a legitimate prologue to customary and white weddings in Benin City.

"Sheila quickly different by showing her credible self after our wedding and needing to set guidelines for me. She currently felt she was blown as Juju's better half, completely checked on Instagram, with additional devotees from her prior striving 3k followers when I met her.

"A completely sapa young lady I met with only 2,700 in her record. I have never lifted my hands on her quickly. I don't beat ladies by any means. I regard them to such an extent. Minimal cash for her upkeep was 100k. She presently awakens to let me know that I determine respect in asking my oga, that I am completely a slave, and that I am shaming her via online entertainment.

"I had before taken her to show same oga interestingly before we married when we were in Abuja Transcorp Hilton, and oga asked her straight forward in the event that she was prepared for marriage, and she completely replied by saying OK and oga promptly gave her 500k for broadcast appointment. Oga was completely present in Benin for my wedding, in the wake of dropping a 140m show appearance. Oga,"

Audit Into Sex Abuse In Spain To Be Ready Next Month – Catholic Church

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Audit Into Sex Abuse In Spain To Be Ready Next Month – Catholic Church

The audit was originally expected to be delivered within a year but was delayed.

Spanish Ombudsman Angel Gabilondo, right, delivers to the Speaker of the Spanish Congress Francina Armengol, left, the Ombudsman’s report on allegations of sexual abuse in the Spanish Catholic Church 

 

Spain’s Catholic Church said Friday it will receive an audit it ordered into child sexual abuse by members of the clergy on December 15, after an independent commission estimated over 200,000 victims.

The Church in February 2022 tasked private law firm Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo with an audit into past and present sexual abuse by clergy, teachers and others.

The move was labelled as a “smokescreen” by a victim’s association which have long accused it of stonewalling and denial.

Unlike in other nations like France, Ireland and the United States, in Spain — a traditionally Catholic country that has become highly secular — clerical abuse allegations are only now gaining traction.

The audit was originally expected to be delivered within a year but was delayed.

The law firm will now deliver the report on December 15, the secretary general of the Spanish Bishops Conference, Francisco Garcia Magan, told a news conference, but he did not say when it would be made public.

Last month Spain’s first independent probe into the issue estimated that over 200,000 minors had been sexually abused in the country of around 39 million people by Roman Catholic clergy since 1940.

The report did not give a specific figure, but said a poll of over 8,000 people found some 0.6 percent of Spain’s adult population said they had suffered sexual abuse by members of the clergy when they were still children.

The percentage rises to 1.13 percent — or over 400,000 people — when including abuse by lay members, according to the results of the probe which was led by Spain’s national ombudsman.

In a message posted to social media after the report’s publication, Cardinal Juan Jose Omella, president of the Episcopal Conference, said the Church was aware of 1,125 cases of sexual abuse.

Omella on Monday rejected  “the dubious reliability of the results” of the independent probe and called for “an exhaustive and impartial examination of the data” that was used for what he called  “malicious purposes”.

The independent commission recommended the creation of a state compensation fund for victims, an idea supported by Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

But Spain’s Catholic Church has ruled out taking part in such a fund if it is set up exclusively to compensate victims clerical abuse, and not all minors who are victims of sexual abuse in any setting.

To do so would be “discrimination”, said Omella.

The Spanish Bishops Conference said Friday it would draw up a “comprehensive reparation plan for the victims” that will apply even if the statute of limitations for the abuse has expired or the perpetrator has died. It gave no further details.

Source: Channel TV

Everton: Guardiola Says He Would Stay If Man City Face Sanction

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Everton: Guardiola Says He Would Stay If Man City Face Sanction

The Toffees were docked 10 points for breaking rules over a three-year period, while City are awaiting a ruling after being charged in February with 115 breaches of financial rules. The club denies all the charges.

Manchester City’s Spanish manager Pep Guardiola attends the English FA Cup fourth round football match between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, northwest England, on January 27, 2023. 

 

Pep Guardiola says he would stay at Manchester City even if the club are found guilty of breaching Premier League financial rules and relegated to third-tier League One as a punishment.

City’s fate has been brought back into sharp focus following Everton’s 10-point deduction last week, which plunged them into the relegation zone.

The Toffees were docked 10 points for breaking rules over a three-year period, while City are awaiting a ruling after being charged in February with 115 breaches of financial rules. The club denies all the charges.

City were banned for two years from UEFA competitions in February 2020 by European football’s governing body for “serious financial fair play breaches”, but the sanction was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport later that year.

Guardiola was asked on Friday whether any potential punishment would make him consider his position but he pledged his loyalty in the champions.

“I will answer when I have the sentence,” he said. “You are questioning like we have been punished. And in the moment we are innocent until guilt is proven. I know the people want it. I know, I feel it. I will wait.

“Wait and see and after the sentence has been done we will come here and explain it. But absolutely I will not consider my future (if) it depends (on) being here or being in League One. Absolutely.

“There is more chance to stay if we are in League One than if we were in the Champions League.”

Guardiola, whose team host Liverpool on Saturday, hinted that plenty of people in the football world would like to see City harshly punished.

“When you read (what is said) then we should be relegated, relegated, relegated, yeah, of course, but nobody knows exactly,” he said.

“All the people who say that didn’t read the statements, don’t know exactly what happened — not even myself. I didn’t read all the breaches, I didn’t read our defence.

“But wait. What I said a month ago — OK, if we’ve done something wrong we’ll be punished. But wait — we can defend ourselves can’t we?”

The City boss insisted City’s case was “completely different” from the one involving Everton.

“I want to say the case for Everton, and I don’t know what happened, but only I know from the lawyers and people at my club… is that they are completely different cases,” he said. “That’s why you cannot compare because every case is completely different.”

Source: Channel TV

Dyche 'Stunned' By Everton's 10-Point Deduction

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Dyche 'Stunned' By Everton's 10-Point Deduction

The exceptional discipline, the greatest focuses punishment in Premier league history, leaves Everton nineteenth in the table and two focuses from safety.

Everton fans applaud their players after the English Premier League football match between West Ham United and Everton at the London Stadium, in London on October 29, 2023. Everton won the game 1-0. 

 

Everton boss Sean Dyche said he was shocked by the “unjust” 10-point penalty deduction that plunged his side into the Premier League relegation zone.

Dyche's club were hit with the sensation authorize last week after they surpassed misfortunes allowed under the Premier Leagues's financial rule.

The remarkable discipline, the greatest focuses punishment in Premier league history, leaves Everton nineteenth in the table and two focuses from wellbeing.

Everton have reported their goal to pursue and, in his most memorable public remarks since the decision, Dyche said the deduction was brutal.

"I think like everybody in these parts, we're stunned. Apparently the rush of commotion from that point forward, it seemed like the vast majority in football, around football are stunned," Dyche told columnists on Friday.

"Its immensity, unbalanced is a word that has been utilized by the club, so clearly we will feel a piece distressed by that."

The Premier league alluded Everton, who have posted misfortunes for five back to back years, to an autonomous commission in Spring for the break of its productivity and supportability rules.

Clubs are permitted to lose a most extreme £105 million ($132 million) more than a three-year time frame however Everton surpassed that by £19.5 million in the three seasons finishing in 2021/22.

Subsequent to saving Everton from transfer last season, Dyche had would have liked to supervise an ascent to mid-table decency for the chronic underachievers this term.

They had gained great headway towards that desire, winning three of their beyond five associations games preceding the deduction.

Dyche, whose side host Manchester United on Sunday, promised the punishment wouldn't crash his main goal to resuscitate Everton.

"The concentration since I arrived has been figuring things out on the pitch, getting the group to win, getting the group to feel unique, the exhibitions to appear as something else," he said.

"We were clearly on the right lines for that and conveying solid exhibitions I felt. This has quite recently given us a push in reverse to then come advances once more.

"The occupation hasn't changed for me. It's simply made it a smidgen more troublesome in the ongoing conditions until the allure obviously."

Everton fans were supposed to challenge the decision by March to Premier league central command on Friday night.

What's more, while they anticipate fresh insight about the allure, Dyche is certain Everton's crew have the person to adapt to the blow.

"It changes the perspective yet it doesn't change what we're doing," he said. "It upgrades what we're doing, as a matter of fact. It simply implies we must go more enthusiastically for longer and more grounded," he said.

"It's been more about pull together than anything. The gathering have been excellent in themselves I should say… all the senior young men especially energizing saying 'What will be will be, how about we continue ahead with it' type thing.

"So I feel that has been the reasonable message from me to the players and from them to one another — we should take on the following test."