J’can wanted in the US for setting man on fire held in dramatic capture

Death and destruction as floods rain havoc across EA

Already, Lake Victoria, which is shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, has hit the highest water levels in over 50 years, at 13.45 metres, causing widespread flooding in many

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Source: The East African

MDC Alliance councillors in stands scam

MDC Alliance councillors at Mutare City Council have been implicated in a scam involving residential stands after they allocated themselves land that only new councillors were supposed to benefit

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

PrideInn and Swiss Hotels set to open

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Source: Business Daily

Tanzania's Firebrand Tundu Lissu

Since Magufuli was elected in 2015, Lissu has made it his job to fearlessly challenge the autocratic leader - and more than a dozen bullet wounds were not enough to shut him

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Source: allAfrica.com

Govt needs to respect media rights

WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over from his long-time mentor, the late Robert Mugabe in November 2017, one of the noticeable things was his approach to the media, he was more accessible, willing to engage and sought them out at every opportunity to sell his message of

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Cherokee Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

An Act Providing for the Abolition of Slavery in the Cherokee

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Source: Black Past

Burundi: A Perfect Storm Is Brewing in Burundi

While most of the world tries to slow the spread and limit the death toll of Covid-19, Burundi is expelling health

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Source: allAfrica.com

Mliswa savages government

Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) yesterday savaged the government for allowing minority sports to resume activity, while keeping the majority disciplines which earn the country money on

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

COVID-19 delays April inflation stats

THE Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZimStat) says it has delayed the publication of last month’s inflation figures due to the COVID-19-induced lockdown that crippled the data collection

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

East Africa: Death and Destruction as Floods Rain Havoc Across East Africa

Already, Lake Victoria, which is shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, has hit the highest water levels in over 50 years, at 13.45 metres, causing widespread flooding in many

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Source: allAfrica.com

Gunmen kill 21 in fresh northwest Nigeria attacks

Armed gangs have killed 21 people in the latest bloody assaults on villages in restive northwest Nigeria, police

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Source: https://www.news24.com

EDITORIAL: Synchronise gas plans

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Source: Business Daily

We must confront the pushback against social distancing

Trinidad and Tobago’s decision to begin a phased re-opening of parts of the country’s business sector following a period of ‘lockdown’ and outcomes which appear to suggest that significantly restricting the movement of people for a period may have impacted positively on the country’s status insofar

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (1816- )

Emanuel A.M.E. Church is the oldest black A.M.E. Church in the South and contains the oldest black congregation south of Baltimore, Maryland. The church’s early roots emerged out of slavery in a shared legacy with Charleston (South Carolina) Methodist Episcopal Church in 1791. Due to disputes over

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Mpilo Hospital bans visitors

MPILO Central Hospital in Bulawayo has imposed an indefinite ban on patients’ visits after recording four COVID-19 cases in a single day early this

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

SADC to help Mozambique fight off insurgents [Morning Call]

Mozambique is top priority for Southern African leaders under the auspices of the

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

Eddie N. Moore, Jr.

Eddie N. Moore, Jr. is President and Chief Executive Officer at Norfolk State University. Prior to his appointment as President of Norfolk State University, he served as President of St. Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, VA (2011-2012) and Virginia State University in Petersburg, VA

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Source: Savoy Network

Rwanda: UN Prosecutor Says Telephone, Financial Data Led to Kabuga Arrest

Serge Brammertz, the Chief Prosecutor of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (RMICT), has said his team of investigators in collaboration with other organs relied on telephone and financial data, among others, to eventually arrest Félicien Kabuga this past

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Source: allAfrica.com

FirstCaribbean reports big loss due to COVID

(Jamaica Gleaner) CIBC First Caribbean Interna-tional Bank, which operates in Jamaica and throughout the region, recorded a net loss of US$110 million for the April second quarter, due to the impact of COVID-19 on its

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Ghana: 30 Health Workers in Ashanti Region Contract COVID-19 - -GHS

Kumasi — Thirty health workers in the Ashanti region have contracted the COVID-19 disease, according to the Ashanti Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service's updated report, as at May

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Source: allAfrica.com

AMHVoices: Escalating Zim water crisis: A call for action

COMMUNITY Water Alliance has been observing and assessing water delivery within local

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Somalia: Govt Airlifts Medical Supplies to COVID-19-Hit Towns

Officials from Somalia's health ministry have delivered much needed medical supplies to Galkayo and Afmadow towns in the regions of Lower Jubba and Mudug

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Source: allAfrica.com

African Union Commission Condemns Murder of George Floyd in the U.S.A

Addis Ababa — The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat has strongly condemned the murder of George Floyd that occurred in the United States of America at the hands of law enforcement officers, and wishes to extend his deepest condolences to his family and loved

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Source: allAfrica.com

Nigeria

Nigerias election commission postponed for six weeks presidential elections scheduled for Feb. 14 after the military said it could not protect voters in the northeast from Boko Haram. Some questioned if the decision was influenced by President Jonathan, whose victory was by no means

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Kenya: Union Mobilises Journalists for Support to Colleagues Affected By the COVID-19 Crisis

In recent weeks, nearly all media houses in Kenya have either applied pay cuts or suspended certain work benefits temporarily, leaving dozens of journalists jobless or with a substantial financial

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Source: allAfrica.com

Angolan Students in Italy Call for More Support

Rome — Representatives of Angolan student associations in Italy Monday called for a review or exemption of fees charged by consular

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rwanda: Genocide Survivors Protest Reinstatement of Tainted Rwandan Bishop By UK Anglican Church

Ibuka, the umbrella organisation of Genocide survivors associations, has protested the decision by the Church of England to reinstate Jonathan Ruhumuliza, a Rwandan bishop accused of complicity in the 1994 Genocide against the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ivorian schools reopen after virus shutdown

Thousands of children in face masks flocked back to school in Ivory Coast on Monday after the country became one of the first in West Africa to restart lessons after a two-month coronavirus

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

Rwanda: Kabuga Arrest Puts UK's Attitude Back in the Spotlight

Andrew Mitchell, a British Conservative Party politician and former secretary of state for international development, is among the voices now again urging legal authorities in his country to act on five genocide perpetrators living in the UK, "not in hiding but in plain

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uganda: Truck Drivers - Haunted Essential Workers

From these, several youths and women used to eke out a living, with many of their clients being truck drivers from Kenya, Tanzania and other countries who would offload their cargo at the container depots in the

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Source: allAfrica.com

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