He was best known for his 1987 hit song "Yé ké yé ké", which reached number-one in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, and Spain. His album, "Akwaba Beach", was the best-selling African record of its time. On 16 October 2001, Kanté was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
On 22 May 2020, Kanté died at a hospital in Conakry from a chronic disease, at the age of 70.
Anatoliy Matviyenko
Anatoliy Matviyenko (22 March 1953 – 22 May 2020) was an Ukrainian politician. He was born in Bershad, Vinnytsia Oblast. He was Governor of the Vinnytsia Oblast from 1996 to 1998. He was a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 1990 to 1994, 1998 to 2005, 2006 to 2007 and again from 2014 until his death.
He was an activist of Komsomol (LKSMU) and by 1985 became a secretary of the Central Committee of LKSMU. In 1989-91 Matviyenko became the first secretary of the Ukrainian Komsomol and became a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Matviyenko died on 22 May 2020 in Kiev, at the age of 67.
Luigi Simoni
Luigi "Gigi" Simoni (22 January 1939 – 22 May 2020) was an Italian football player and manager. He was born near Bologna, Italy.
He played for A.S.D. Mantova F.C., S.S.C. Napoli, Torino F.C., Juventus F.C., Brescia Calcio and Genoa C.F.C.. His playing career lasted from 1959 to 1974. He was known for managing Napoli and Inter Milano. His managing career lasted from 1974 to 2012.
Simoni died at his home on 22 May 2020 in Pisa, Italy from stroke-related problems, aged 81.
Giulio Savelli
Giulio Savelli (27 September 1941 – 12 May 2020) was an Italian politician and publisher. He was born in Rome. Savelli was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a member of Forza Italia. He was a deputy from 1996 and 2001.
Savelli died on 12 May 2020 in Rome at the age of 78.
Eddsworld
Eddsworld is a cartoon series made by Edd Gould. The characters are Edd, Tom, Matt, and Tord.
2014 United States Senate election in Iowa
The 2014 United States Senate election in Iowa took place in Iowa on November 4, 2014. In it, Republican State Senator Joni Ernst faced off Democrat Bruce Baley. Ernst won the election with 52.1% of the vote to Baley's 43.8%.
Baley's campaign raised slightly more money than Ernst's. His campaign also spent a lot more of that money, spending $10 million, while Ernst's spent $6.6 million.
Three televised debates were set to occur, one in Des Moines, one in Davenport and one in Sioux City.
State Senator Joni Ernst ran in the primaries. She won all but eight of the counties in Iowa in the primaries, and 56.1% of the vote.
C.E.O. Mark Jacobs ran in the primaries. He won just one county in North Iowa, and 16.8% of the vote.
Radio host Sam Clovis ran in the primaries. He won seven counties in Northwest Iowa, and 18.0% of the vote.
Congressman Steve King decided against running.
Matthew Whitaker, an attorney, ran, but did not win any counties, and carried just 7.5% of the vote.
Ventenac-Cabardès
Ventenac-Cabardès is a commune of 959 people (2017). It is in the region Occitanie in the Aude department in the south of France.
Lowndes County, Georgia
Lowndes County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, 109,233 people lived there. The county seat is Valdosta.
Coronado, California
Coronado is a city in San Diego County, California.
Cook County, Georgia
Cook County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, 17,212 people lived there. The county seat is Adel.
Adel, Georgia
Adel is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the county seat of Cook County.
Argyle, Georgia
Argyle is a town in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is in Clinch County.
Dawson County, Georgia
Dawson County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, 22,330 people lived there. The county seat is Dawsonville.
Dawsonville, Georgia
Dawsonville is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the county seat of Dawson County.
Woodsfield, Ohio
Woodsfield is a village in Ohio in the United States. It is the county seat of Monroe County.
Evans County, Georgia
Evans County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, 11,000 people lived there. The county seat is Claxton.
Rain on Me (Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande song)
"Rain on Me" is a song by American singers Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande. It was released on May 22, 2020, as the second single from Gaga’s sixth studio album, "Chromatica". It was written by the singers with Rami Yacoub, Nija Charles, Alexander Ridha, and its producers, BloodPop, Tchami, and BURNS.
On June 1, 2020, it was announced that the song entered at number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The song became Gaga’s fifth number-one single in the US and Grande’s fourth. Grande became the first artist with four songs on the Hot 100 to enter at the top, passing Justin Bieber, Drake, and Mariah Carey, who have three each. It became Gaga's second number-one entrance after "Born This Way" in 2011. The song is also the only female collaboration to enter at number one in the US.
Cyclone Amphan
Super Cyclonic Storm Amphan was a very powerful tropical cyclone that caused a lot of damage in East India and Bangladesh in May 2020. It caused over US$13 billion dollars of damage and killed a total of 118 people. It was the strongest cyclone to hit the Ganges Delta since Cyclone Sidr in 2007.
It formed on the 16 May in the Bay of Bengal and tracked into the Ganges Delta before dissipating on the 21 May.
Simone Budde
Simone Budde (born 2 January 1979) is a German water polo player. She was part of the Germany women's national water polo team at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships, 2007 World Aquatics Championships, and 2009 World Aquatics Championships.
Cyclone Kyarr
Super Cyclonic Storm Kyarr was a powerful tropical cyclone that was the first super cyclonic storm since 2007. The storm moved across the Arabian Sea and affected Western India, Arabia, and Somalia. Nobody was killed from the storm, as it never tracked over land.
2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season is an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The North Indian Ocean cyclone season has no real bounds, but cyclones usually form between April and November, with the highest amount of storms in May and October.
There has been one tropical cyclone so far in the season, Cyclone Amphan. It was a the strongest cyclone since 2007.
Tetraoxygen
Tetraoxygen (O), or oxozone, is a molecule made up of four oxygen atoms. It does not exist in nature anywhere and can only be made under extreme conditions in a lab. The molecule was first created in a lab in 2001.
June Almeida
June Dalziel Almedia (5 October 1930 – 1 December 2007) was a Scottish virologist. She had very good skills in electron microscopy. During the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak, her research was used to help beat the virus.
William Lyon (general)
William Lyon (March 9, 1923 – May 22, 2020) was a major general of the United States Air Force. He was Commander of the United States Air Force Reserve Command. As chief of Air Force Reserve, Lyon was the principal adviser on Reserve matters to the Air Force Chief of Staff. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
Lyon died on May 22, 2020 in Coto de Caza, California at the age of 97.
Coto de Caza, California
Coto de Caza (meaning "hunting preserve" in Spanish) is a census-designated place (CDP) and guard-gated private community in Orange County, California. The population was 14,799 at the 2017 census.
Hana Kimura
Kimura was trained at Wrestle-1's Professional Wrestling University.
She debuted on March 30, 2016 against Reika Saiki in a losing effort for Wrestle-1. The pair wrestled against each many times throughout 2016 for Wrestle-1.
Kimura killed herself by swallowing hydrogen sulfide on May 23, 2020, at the age of 22.
Syed Fazal Agha