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Shattered Dreams: Couple Nabbed for Duping Job Seekers Of US$135k With Promises of Overseas Jobs

In a shocking case of fraudulent job placements, a couple has been apprehended by the Zimbabwe Republic Police for allegedly duping job seekers of a staggering amount totaling USD 134,552.

Sitshengisiwe Ndlovu, 46, and Alison Unami, 30, stand accused of orchestrating an elaborate scheme, posing as agents of an undisclosed company offering lucrative job opportunities abroad.

The alleged scam unfolded between August 2022 and May 2023, during which the suspects targeted hopeful individuals seeking employment in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

Promising swift processing within three weeks upon payment of a fee amounting to USD 4,000, the couple engaged victims through WhatsApp, conducting interviews and creating an air of authenticity. However, as the waiting period expired, the suspects would provide excuses, leaving their victims in a state of uncertainty and financial loss.

The intricate web of deceit began to unravel on May 3rd, 2023 when a vigilant complainant alerted the authorities. Acting swiftly, the police in Bulawayo arrested Alison Unami while she was loading belongings into a vehicle, presumably preparing to vacate their known office premises. Shortly after, Sitshengisiwe Ndlovu was apprehended at the Bulawayo Police Station, where she had gone to visit her husband.

Couple Nabbed for Duping Job Seekers Of US$135k With Promises of Overseas Jobs/Handcuffed Hands (Image Credit: Vesnaandjic/iStock)

Authorities confirmed a staggering total of 46 victims who had fallen prey to the scam, with losses amounting to USD 134,552. The victims, lured by the promise of employment opportunities abroad, now find themselves not only defrauded but also emotionally and financially devastated.

The Police have urged citizens to remain cautious and…

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DOYLESTOWN, PA — In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against the Central Bucks School District, a middle school teacher is claiming that district administrators began retaliating against him last year for advocating for a transgender student who was being harassed and bullied.

In March 2022, the teacher, Andrew Burgess, filed a complaint at the behest of a transgender student and his family with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) after he said administrators failed to address repeated harassment by classmates.

In his suit, Burgess said the district responded by suspending him in May and informing him that his employment status was under review. He was then reassigned from Lenape Middle School, where he had taught since 2006, to Unami Middle School just days before the start of the 2022-23 school year.

Burgess said new assignment included switching him from teaching eighth grade to seventh, new course material, and an increase in the number of students in his classes.

Burgess said in the suit that he also opposed apparent efforts to censor teachers’ classroom library materials that dealt with LGBTQ+ themes. He expressed his concerns to district leaders multiple times, and, when his building principal sought to meet individually with teachers who maintained a classroom library in March 2022, Burgess, who is a union leader, suggested that the principal instead held a group meeting with teachers on the issue.

“When a struggling student came to me, I did what we should want any teacher to do. I advocated for that student, as I had for numerous students in the past,” Burgess said. “That’s why teachers get into this work, to support, guide, and nurture our students.

The lawsuit states that the district has violated both the First Amendment and Title IX, by…

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Hornets fans, there’s a storm that I really hope never leaves Charlotte. The storm I speak of brings guidance, advice, maturity, and leadership to our very young team. What storm is this that I speak of? It’s none other than T$unami Papi, aka Kelly Oubre!

With an organization like the Hornets, it seems as though we always talk about things the team needs, and half the time, our needs are already here. In this particular case, we always talk about when we have a team full of young talent, we need a young veteran that can be a leader, mentor, and friend for these young guys. We have always seemed to get veterans on the team to mix with the youth, but not always the young vets that can relate to the young players.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe that veterans on a team of youth are a good thing. There’s something about having a guy that’s a few years older than the rookies and sophomores, that have been in the league for a few years, that can help develop those guys into key parts of the team. In an interview Kelly had post-game, he spoke of Kai Jones needing to get on the court, make mistakes, and learn from them. He talked about Kai getting to figure out what parts of his game to perfect, as well as other aspects that he needs to work on improving.

I mention this because Kelly has grown and matured on this team. He speaks like a vet, like a coach, and like a player that has “been there and done that.” Kelly has point-blank said he wants to remain a Hornet.

In my last post, I mentioned some of the free agents we will have at the end of the…

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Anita Wills Author of Minqua Unami Okehocking & The Down River Nations returns to her Chester County Hometown in May

I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people’s dream died there. It was a beautiful dream . . . the nation’s hoop is broken and scattered.”

— ― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks

CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES, March 26, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Author Anita Wills will be signing copies of her book Minqua Unami Okehocking & The Down River Nations in Chester and Lancaster Counties. The signings will take place in West Chester Coatesville and Lancaster at various locations. Minqua Unami Okehocking & The Down River Nations is the Authors 7th book and details her afro/indigenous and how Colonial Laws redesignated Natives and those of mixed race to Mulatto Colored Negro and Black. It is a historically accurate book that deals with issues of Colonial Laws that Affect Communities of Color to this day.

Ms. Wills was born and raised in Chester County and grew up Berks County before moving to California. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was her mothers oral history that sparked the desire to prove the history by researching and documenting their family lines. The project took over 30 years and went back to Africa, Europe and South America. In Westmoreland County Virginia she connected her lines to Mary Bowden a Mulatto Indentured Servant to George Washington’s father and brother. Mary Bowden was born on February 20, 1730 (her birth was recorded in the Courthouse), Her father was William Monroe Junior and her mother was Mary Monroe. They entered into a marriage the year before Mary Bowden was born without knowing it was illegal. Mary was taken to court…

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Background

The electoral process is a multi-stakeholder engagement process, and for the success of any election, each stakeholder, including civil society organizations (CSOs), in addition to the electoral management bodies (EMBs), has a crucial role to play. One of the major roles of civil society organizations is voter education.

In the context of the Kurdistan region, several elections have been held since 1992. While these elections have regularly and periodically been held, are generally considered credible by national and international observers, there are certain concerns remain about the transparency and integrity of the electoral process, including low voter turnout, which highlights the need for more emphasis on voter education.

Voter education is the process of informing and educating voters on various aspects of the elections, enabling and empowering them to make informed decisions during the electoral process. Moreover, giving voters the right information at the right time is key to a successful election. Therefore, educating voters on their rights and responsibilities in the electoral process is crucial. Voter education campaigns can help increase voter turnout and encourage voters to make informed decisions. These campaigns can be more effective if conducted through collaboration between the EMB and other relevant stakeholders, such as civil society organizations.

With the aim of thoroughly examining the electoral challenges in the Kurdistan Region and recommending measures to overcome such challenges through workshops in collaboration with civil society organizations, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Office of Electoral Assistance (OEA), in coordination with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), planned a series of workshops to create a platform for CSOs to discuss various electoral themes, including electoral integrity, voter registration, strategies for voter education, and empowering citizens to make informed voting decisions. The first workshop was held from March 14-15 in Sulamaniyah,…

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Alex O’Donnel, the chief executive officer of Umami Finance, has reportedly traded his holdings in $UMAMI tokens. A conversation on the platform’s discord channel indicates that the team of Umami Labs LLC has resigned because of the action made by the founder of the project. The treasury assets of the protocol are presently secure as well as in the team’s control.

Alex O’Donnell Reportedly Trades His Holdings in UMAMI Token, Leading to a Value Decline

The team has a strategy to take the protocol to a DAO system and decentralization. In this way, the treasury assets of the protocol are in the multi-sig’s control and the Umami DAO as well as the token holders’ direction would be now followed in this respect. The team has a strategy to step ahead with a decentralized autonomous organization structure. Hence, the vaults will be released as scheduled with the use of the Umami token.

At present, the control of the cost code base as well as the vault products is retained by Umami DAO. Umami Finance is known as a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. The platform provides yield vaults. These products provide risk-hedged and real profits on the crypto assets including Ether (ETH), Bitcoin (BTC), and USDC. As noted on the official website of the protocol, its yield vaults can be used to gain risk-hedged as well as sustainable crypto yields.

The Token Price Recovers from $7 to $13

The project is categorized among the top players involved in developing risk-neutral vault related to GLP. GLP is the liquidity token of a derivative protocol named GMX. The token of the protocol has witnessed a vertical decline of more than 50% in its value. The present value of the token is $13 which has…

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Baghdad: At least two people were killed and 10 injured in a series of Iranian missile strikes that targeted, on Monday, the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdish party in the Koysanjak district of Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Iran launched strikes with drones and missiles, targeting centres of terrorist parties in the northern region of Iraq, Iranian Fars News Agency reported.

The headquarters of Iranian Kurdish opposition parties, including “Komala” and the Iranian Communist Party, was also bombed by a drone.

Tariq al-Haidari, mayor of Koysanjaq in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, told AFP that five Iranian missiles targeted a building used by the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran.

On Monday, the United Nations Mission in Iraq, “UNAMI”, condemned the Iranian bombing that targeted areas in the Kurdistan region, calling on the Iraqi and Iranian sides to dialogue on “security concerns”.

“We condemn the renewed Iranian attacks with missiles and drones on the Kurdistan region, which violate Iraqi sovereignty,” the mission said in a statement while stressing “Iraq should not be used as an arena for settling scores, and its territorial integrity must be respected.”

We condemn renewed Iranian missile and drone attacks on KR, which violate Iraqi sovereignty. Iraq should not be used as an arena to settle scores and its territorial integrity must be respected. Dialogue between Iraq and Iran over mutual security concerns is the only way forward.

— UNAMI (@UNIraq) November 14, 2022

Since the death of the 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, on September 16 and the outbreak of protest in Iran, the Revolutionary Guards have launched several attacks on the bases of the Iranian Kurdish opposition in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, which Iran accuses of fomenting protest.

In September 2022, the Revolutionary Guard confirmed in a statement the continuation of its operations in…

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The Armed Forces of Iraq They announced a curfew in all provinces of the country from tonight until further notice. The decision by the Iraqi Executive came after massive demonstrations in favor of the Shiite cleric Muqtada Al Sadr, who announced that he would definitively withdraw from politics.

Following the religious leader’s announcement, tens of thousands of Al Sadr supporters took to the streets and stormed the Presidential Palace and the Government Palace, in the fortified Green Zone of Baghdad, the capital of the Arab country. According to the AFP agency, medical sources of Iraq they reported that at least two people died and 22 were injured.

Al Sadr supporters in the pool of the Republican Palace in Baghdad.

UNAMI (United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq) called on all protesters to leave Baghdad’s Green Zone, the area of ​​the city where the main government buildings are located, as well as the embassies of major foreign powers. “Today’s events show an extremely dangerous situation,” the Mission said in a note.

“We call on everyone to remain calm, cooperate with the security forces and avoid actions that could trigger an unstoppable chain of events,” said UNAMI, which extended the request to all political actors to lower tension and restore dialogue. “Iraqis cannot be held hostage to an unpredictable and unsustainable situation. “The survival of the (Iraqi) state is at stake”he concluded.

Source: (Euronews)

Background

Iraq He has been experiencing a political paralysis for almost a year. The parties in Parliament were not able to form alliances to appoint a president, a prime minister and a government. The proposals of Al Sadr (whose formation was the winner in the elections) were boycotted by the so-called Coordination Framework, an alliance of parties close to Iran. This already tense situation has worsened in recent weeks.

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