Thousands of people have signed a petition in New York City to rename the block in front of Trump Tower after former President Barack Obama.
A MoveOn petition started by Elizabeth Rowin is calling for the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th streets to be renamed “President Barack H. Obama Avenue
The petition would require President Trump to formally change the address of his Trump Tower building, where his 2020 reelection campaign will be headquartered on the 15th floor. The measure had nearly 4,300 signatures as of Friday morning. “We request the New York City Mayor and City Council do the same by renaming a block of Fifth Avenue after the former president who saved our nation from the Great Recession, achieved too many other accomplishments to list, and whose two terms in office were completely scandal free,” the petition states. A stretch of a freeway in Los Angeles was recently renamed after the former commander in chief. For the street to be renamed, the New York City Council would have to approve the measure and Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) would have to sign off on the name change. The council unanimously voted last month to rename a street after the renowned hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, as well as others after rapper Notorious B.I.G., signer Woody Guthrie and poet Audre Lorde.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/new-york-set-to-rename-street-housing-trump-tower-barack-obama-avenue/
US military has deployed soldiers to Gabon amid fears of violent protests in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo in anticipation of . Donald Trump told Congress on Friday that the first of about 80 troops arrived in Gabon on Wednesday to protect US citizens and diplomatic facilities should violence break out in DRC’s capital Kinshasa Voters in Congo went to the polls on December 30, two years after they were first scheduled to be held, to elect the successor to President Joseph Kabila, who has been in power for 18 years. “The first of these personnel arrived in Gabon on January 2, 2019, with appropriate combat equipment and supported by military aircraft,” Trump’s letter to Congress read.“Additional forces may deploy to Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or the Republic of the Congo, if necessary for these purposes.” “These deployed personnel will remain in the region until the security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo becomes such that their presen
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