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Ward Dene is the only district whose boundaries remain unchanged after the city’s renaming and redrawing process.

. Much of the rhetoric around smuggling trades and insurgency operates from the assumption that an enemy of the state is any other enemy of the state’s friend. If rebels are trying to overthrow the state and traffickers are trying to avoid it, then surely they must be in business together to achieve their shared ends. That logic, however, doesn’t hold up too much upon careful scrutiny. If rebels and traffickers both want to avoid state attention, then hooking up with the state’s o...

Mal Gormley Second Congregational Church pastor Char Corbett on Zoom. Courtesy photo Like many active churches in the Twin Villages, Second Congregational Church, UCC on Main Street in Newcastle has been hard hit by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March 2020, Second Congo has been closed to the public out of caution for safety and spread. The downsides to closing the building are obvious and painful: The missed opportunities to meet and worship in person, share fellowship and provi...

Mike Nyambuya Retired Major-General Mike Nyambuya, former Energy minister and ex-deputy Speaker of the Senate who was reported to have died is alive and well. There are some sections of the media which reported that the Retired Major-General had passed on after being misled by their sources.Elias Mambo/Zim Morning Post Twitted, “Getting it right…our sources misled us midnight… We have since contacted Nyambuya’s son who said the Rtd Maj general is well… We apologise to our valued reade...

NBA career with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Orlando Magic, Toronto Raptors, and now Los Angeles Clippers. He’s a shooting threat and consistent defensive presence. Off the court, Ibaka hasn’t said “I do” yet, but he’s been in relationships with some talented women. Hedisa Visapa During the 2011 NBA lockout, Ibaka returned to Spain and signed a two-month contract with Real Madrid. During that time, he had a relationship with Spanish model Hedisa Visapa. The fling fizzled out once Ibak...

By Ian Ramjohn on December 10, 2020 Expanding Wikipedia’s coverage of African topics By Ian Ramjohn on December 10, 2020 Expanding Wikipedia’s coverage of African topics Despite being the largest project of its kind in human history with a reach that’s global, Wikipedia’s coverage skews heavily toward articles about the Global North. In much of the rest of the world, coverage can be spotty, and that’s especially true for a topic like politics. This is why a class like Martha Wilfahrt�...