<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear AFRALO community <div>Apologies that I had to address a different issue before coming back to this. My morals would not just allow me to do any other thing before expressing myself. </div><div>Let me start by Congratulating Mohammed for doing a wonderful job and leading such a diverse community while making lots of progress. </div><div>However, <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">“There is </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">no success without</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> a </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">successor</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">.” </span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Seun is a wonderful successor, He is young, Dynamic and has the quality required to take things to the next level. </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Fatimata, I would also like to thank you for serving this community and I hope you and Mohammed would still be around to do more. </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">I would like to thank a perfect gentleman (Dave) who Nominated me and those who supported my nomination. I would like to accept this nomination and promise that I would continue to serve in the interest of this community if eventually elected just as I would continue to do if things go the other way.</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Thank you.</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Abdulkarim </span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> </span></font></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:40 AM ABDULKARIM AYOPO OLOYEDE <<a href="mailto:oloyede.aa@unilorin.edu.ng">oloyede.aa@unilorin.edu.ng</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Maureen and Cheryl,<div>I have lots of respect for both of you for the wonderful job you have been doing in ICANN however I find it very disrespectful, and insulting to this community that you are trying to interfere in something as sensitive as an election.</div><div>All over the world, it is never acceptable to do this. It is acceptable for you to be part of the mailing list but for God's sake elections are sensitive issues and internal affairs of the community. What both of you have done is the same thing a lot of people from Russia were deported for from the US and we all know what has been going on. My example here is just to let you understand the gravity of what you are doing. I do not believe anyone from this community would be allowed to do same in your own RALO but you think it is acceptable to do this in AFRALO cos we are Africans (as usual). </div><div>I believe as a community we need to address this infringement and I would suggest (and passionately take it up if appointed by this community) to take this up with Empowered community. </div><div>This is not acceptable in any way</div><div>Even if Mohammed has his fact wrong I think Cheryl whom I look up too has gone beyond what I can swallow by disrespecting an entire community by trying to defend her beloved 'daughter' </div><div><br></div><div>Going Forward I seek the permission of the leadership of AFRALO to take this to the Empowered community.</div><div>Thank You </div><div>Abdulkarim</div><div> </div><div>.</div><div> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 1:02 AM Mohamed El Bashir <<a href="mailto:mbashir@mbash.net" target="_blank">mbashir@mbash.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>True, because APRALO has 4 leaders including 2 vice chairs, its a good setup to ensure the diversity.<div><br><div>As AfRALO currently has 3 leaders positions which accommodates both gender/regional diversity, In the future if AfRALO leaders considered expanding the leaders positions this can bring further extra diversity as well.</div><div><br><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div>Kind Regards,</div><div>Mohamed</div></div></div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 30, 2019, at 4:52 PM, Cheryl Langdon-Orr <<a href="mailto:langdonorr@gmail.com" target="_blank">langdonorr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_2646180126622383698gmail-m_3872986861134366304Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Mohamed, for the record the APRALO Leadership team is Both Gender balanced and sub regionally diverse by design.</div><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 1, 2019, 09:10 Mohamed El Bashir <<a href="mailto:mbashir@mbash.net" target="_blank">mbashir@mbash.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>AfRALO is the only RALO that currently has 2 female leaders currently, regardless of the current elections result as AfRALO we have and care about gender diversity beside our own African diversity as well.</div><div><br></div><div>@Daniel : any RALO nomination/election is RALO process not an ALAC process, you can try and intervene in APRALO, NARALO, LACROL or EURALO process and advice them about their nominations. </div><br><div><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div>Kind Regards,</div><div>Mohamed </div><div>AfRALO chair </div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 30, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Nkem Nweke via AFRI-Discuss <<a href="mailto:afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_2646180126622383698gmail-m_3872986861134366304m_8254613180500331373Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">Thanks Maureen for the headup.</span><div id="gmail-m_2646180126622383698gmail-m_3872986861134366304m_8254613180500331373yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556664747391" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_2646180126622383698gmail-m_3872986861134366304m_8254613180500331373yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556665024823" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">@Mohammed. This is just a mild remark and AFRALO election is also ALAC business<br id="gmail-m_2646180126622383698gmail-m_3872986861134366304m_8254613180500331373yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556664702856"><br><br><div id="gmail-m_2646180126622383698gmail-m_3872986861134366304m_8254613180500331373ymail_android_signature"><a id="gmail-m_2646180126622383698gmail-m_3872986861134366304m_8254613180500331373ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 20px"><div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(109,0,246)"><div>On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 9:33 PM, Maureen Hilyard</div><div><<a href="mailto:maureen.hilyard@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">maureen.hilyard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><div 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