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Meet 'Mama Beijing', the Tanzanian woman who chaired the historic Beijing conference on women in 1995 - Face2Face Africa

The historic fourth UN World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China, in 1995 was chaired by Ms. Gertrude Mongellaof Tanzania who to this day is called 'Mama Beijing' in her home country for being instrumental during deliberations at the conference. Mongella was born in September 1945, a month

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UN ready to promote ‘win-win solution’ for Blue Nile dam project | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

The United Nations stands ready to support Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in efforts to resolve their decade-long disagreement over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), senior officials told the Security Council on Thursday. NEW YORK, USA, July 09, 2021,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-UN Special

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Stop Asian Hate: Atlanta shootings igniting renewed calls to end violence

By: Alyssa Wilson For months, after increased attacks on Asians across the United States, many have called for an end to Asian hate and the shootings in Atlanta amplified those calls. In March 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council

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Earth Today | A cry for fairness, solidarity to address the climate crisis

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES have laid out what for many is a solid case for ‘solidarity, fairness and prosperity’ in the response to a changing climate, ahead of the upcoming Glasgow talks set for November. The ‘case’ is reflected in the recent position...

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Inside Enda, the first company in Africa to make professional running shoes - Face2Face Africa

Navalayo “Nava” Osembo, a lawyer and accountant, had her dream job working for United Nations but she decided to leave all that behind to start Africa’s first high-performance athletic shoes manufacturing company, Enda, in her home country Kenya. It is a decision she does not regret making, she

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Africa: What UN Needs Is a Cease-Fire Inside Its Own Security Council

[IPS] United Nations -- With more than 20,000 civilians killed last year in conflicts in 10 countries -- including Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated his call for a "global

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More than 300 attempting to reach Europe rescued in Mediterranean | Africanews

The UN has criticized Libya and the European Union for their search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, saying that current practices deprive migrants of their rights and dignity, if not take their lives

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Milwaukee Restart Grants Are Assisting Local Businesses As they Recover from COVID-19 Financial Impacts - Milwaukee Community Journal

Businesses in Every Part of the City Have Qualified for Grants of Up To $15,000 The City of Milwaukee’s Restart grants, which provide financial support for local small businesses impacted by COVID-19, are now being distributed. A total of about $4-million is expected to go to more than 400

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

India Lists Priorities As United Nations Security Council President

NEW YORK — As India is gearing up to assume the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), India hopes to keep the spotlight on the Secretary-General’s report on the Islamic State (IS) terrorists. The rolling presidency means India has the power to decide the agenda for

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Anderson, Marian

Anderson, Marian, 1897–1993, American contralto, b. Philadelphia. She was the first African American to be named a permanent member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, as well as the first to perform at the White House. Anderson first sang in Philadelphia church choirs, then studied with Giuseppe

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Africa: Racism At the UN - Practice What You Preach

[IPS] United Nations -- When two recent staff surveys, one in Geneva and the other in New York, revealed widespread racism at the United Nations, it triggered the obvious question: why shouldn't the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) probe these charges?

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Governor Issues Proclamation Designating International Day for the World’s Indigenous People

The United Nations created the annual commemorative day as a UN Resolution in 1994 and strengthened the resolution in 2007 with the creation of the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People” social contract.

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Ethiopia: UN - Deaths From Starvation Reported in Tigray

[VOA] New York -- The United Nations humanitarian chief warned Tuesday that the 1984 famine that killed more than 1 million Ethiopians could occur again if aid access to that country's northern Tigray region is not quickly improved, scaled up and properly funded.

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Why is Taiwan excluded from the WHO?

The coronavirus pandemic has shone a spotlight on Taiwan's exclusion from the World Health Organization and ignited a diplomatic row between China and some Western

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Zimbabwe: MDC Reaches Out to United Nations Over Abductions

The Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance has called for a United Nations led investigations into the abduction and torture of three of its

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Uganda Wants People to Leave Flooded Wetlands - and Not Come Back

This year's flooding may have helped their case

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Chad's Storytellers Take COVID Prevention Messages Off the Grid

Traditional storytellers in Chad, known as troubadours, are taking life-saving messages to remote communities in the Sahelian country, as the Government steps up its efforts with the support of the UN to counter the COVID-19

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Asmara, Eritrea (ca. A.D. 1000-- )

Asmara (Asmera) is the largest city and capital of the modern state of Eritrea. It was also the capital of Eritrea when it was a colony under Italian rule. Asmara is located in the highlands of Eritrea on the edge of the Great Rift Valley. With an elevation of 7,628 feet it is one of the highest

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Gangs raid police stations for weapons in Haiti as deadly violence surges - Stabroek News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) - Gangs raided multiple police stations for weapons in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, in deadly attacks over the weekend as violence between armed groups flared, with intense conflict in one southern neighbourhood forcing thousands to

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Central African Republic refugees flee to Cameroon to escape violence | Africanews

About 60,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries over the last few weeks since six powerful rebel groups launched an offensive a few months ago to try and prevent the re-election of President Faustin-Archange Touadera.

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Africa urges UN probe of US 'systemic racism', police violence | New York Carib News

Two years ago President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the UNHRC, the White House said that the decision did not mean that the country would retreat from its stance on human rights — a cause the administration accused the council of

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Nigeria: Buhari Must Establish Reconciliation Commission to Fix Nigeria - Prof Moghalu

[Daily Trust] A former presidential candidate, Prof Kingsley Chinedu Moghalu, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission comprising seven independent members of high reputation and relevant expertise to play key roles that would end the various

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Ali urges UN to strengthen solidarity to tackle COVID - Stabroek News

President Irfaan Ali yesterday urged the United Nations to strengthen solidarity to address the COVID-19 pandemic and commit to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The article Ali urges UN to strengthen solidarity to tackle COVID appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Pressure group starts registering diaspora voters - NewsDay Zimbabwe

BY SILAS NKALA United KINGDOM-BASED Zimbabwean pressure group, MyRight2Vote, led by the dethroned Ntabazinduna Chief Felix Ndiweni has started registering Zimbabweans in the diaspora in an effort to pressure government to allow them to vote in the 2023 general elections. Various pressure groups

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Rwandan govt critic on YouTube sentenced to 15 years | Africanews

She was accused of having, on her YouTube channel "Idamange", accused President Kagame and his government of having set up a dictatorship, of instrumentalizing the 1994 genocide without sufficiently helping the survivors, or of having turned the genocide memorials into tourist attractions.

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Namibia: Shafudah Resigns From Public Service to Join UN

[Namibian] Executive director of finance Ericah Shafudah has opted for early retirement, ending her 22 years of service at the country's treasury.

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Nigeria

On Oct. 1, 1960, Nigeria gained independence, becoming a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and joining the United Nations. Organized as a loose federation of self-governing states, the independent nation faced the overwhelming task of unifying a country with 250 ethnic and linguistic

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Today is World Environment Day

Writing in the Ghana Daily Mail, Mr Prosper Kwame Antwi – a prominent conservationist and biodiversity expert, calls on governments and people of the world in general, and Ghana in particular, to harness and utilise natural resources in a sustainable manner that puts the environment at the heart of

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Montoute: SLP Made It More Difficult For Government To Deal With COVID-19 - St. Lucia Times News

Asserting that in times of crisis a nation needs to move forward with one accord, Gros Islet MP Lenard 'Spider' Montoute declared Sunday night that the opposition Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) made things more difficult for the government to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Montoute, who is also

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Kenya: National Assembly Set to Start Vetting Envoys Nominated By President Kenyatta

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The National Assembly is set to start vetting 15 nominees of President Uhuru Kenyatta for various positions of Ambassador and High Commissioners.

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