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Letter to the Editor: Vacant Lot | Afro

A vacant lot that is growing into a jungle is being overlooked by the city because the supposed owners are not made to care for it and the Brooklyn Homes crew of grounds keepers refuse to cut more then a walking path along the south side of it allowing the north side of the lot to become

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Ship worker loses baby - Uncertainty over whether distressed pregnant woman from Adventure needed help earlier

As there was celebration that 1,044 Jamaican nationals were being landed at the historic Falmouth Port in Trelawny after being stranded for two months at sea, tragedy was unfolding as a 10-week pregnant woman who was a worker on the Adventure of the Seas cruise ship lost her

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Spike Lee releases short film as 'love letter' to New York during COVID-19

(Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty

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Source: theGrio

Liberia: A Call Coming a Bit Too Late - COVID-19 Voluntary Testing Should Have Started Started With the President, Long Ago

On Sunday, May 17, the Minister of Health, Dr. Wilhemina Jallah flunked by the Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francis Kateh, followed by the WHO Representative to Liberia Peter Clement, Dr. Desmond William head of US Center for Disease Control (CDC) in West Africa and Liberia and USAID Resident

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Source: allAfrica.com

Opening encounter - Stabroek News

The fact that last week’s first meeting between Presidents Ali and Santokhi has come this early in both their tenures is the best possible beginning for bilateral relations between Guyana and Suriname under two new political

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Kenya: Ministers Call for Stronger Women Leadership in COVID-19 Fight

Africa's female Foreign Affairs ministers ask AU to mainstream gender in its Covid-19 strategies

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: Cobalt Is Critical to the Renewable Energy Transition. How Can We Minimize Its Social and Environmental Cost?

Amnesty International has published two major reports on human rights and environmental issues associated with cobalt mining and launched an initiative that challenged the electric vehicle industry to produce a battery with a completely clean human rights record for all its

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Source: allAfrica.com

Angola: Minister Calls for Full Participation in Retrieval of Values

Luanda — The minister of Territory Administration and State Reform said Monday in Luanda that the success of the National Moral and Civic Values Retrieval Programme requires the involvement of all

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: Agroecology - a Contribution to Food Security?

Interview - World Food Day on 16 October calls for global solidarity to help all populations, and especially the most vulnerable, to recover from COVID-19. We asked Marieta Sakalian, a food systems and biodiversity expert with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), why agroecology is

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Source: allAfrica.com

Calling out the injustice of the justice system

Police officers and White vigilantes have been basically given the freedom to rein terrorist attacks on Black individuals, Black families, Black communities, and Black businesses, as revealed in The New York Times and CBS

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Black Female Business Owner Launches First #SaveYourBottles Campaign - The New York Beacon

By Joséphine Li It's no secret that the beauty industry produces tons of waste—there are over one million single-use plastic bottles sold every minute. Thankfully, there are still ways to live more sustainably, that is what makes it click for Pamela booker, CEO of Koils

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

Opinion: We Want Your Recyclables – Not Your Trash!

As a premier recycling hauler in Northern California, California Waste Solutions has continued to invest in new practices, sustain solid waste diversion and material sales in the face of China’s new

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Kabuga likely to be tried in Tanzania

Felicien Kabuga, 84, one of the last key fugitives wanted over the genocide, was arrested at his home outside Paris on Saturday after living for years under a false

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Risking It All For A Fade: Barbers Are Providing “Underground Cuts” Due To COVID-19 Shutdown

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Source: Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture

Tea body’s fate sealed as new regulations sent to AG office

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Mom, we’re home! - Portmore woman anticipates emotional reunion with three sons after COVID-19 adventure on the seas

CONROY STERLING begged his mom, Joan Spence, not to break down and cry as he, twin Conrad, and adopted brother Rohan were repatriated to the island aboard the Adventure of the Seas cruise ship on Tuesday

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ponta do Ouro: 10km from KwaZulu-Natal and years away from 2020

The 1960s and 1970s are alive and well in the seaside paradise just across the border in Mozambique. Take a step back in time...

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Takes Coronavirus Test On Live TV

Much has been said about the uncomfortable testing method for the Coronavirus but with the pandemic continuing to rage throughout the world, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo decided to show just how quick and easy the test can

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Source: Black America Web

‘Pets help us stave off corona loneliness’

‘Pets help us stave off corona

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Source: Business Daily

South Sudan coronavirus: prez writes to, prays for VP, infected comrades

May 18 : South Sudan VP, Defense Minister infected

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

South Africa: COVID-19 - the State Cannot Save Us

South Africa's biomedical response has been exemplary, but it has failed to mobilise social movements essential for tackling public health

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Source: allAfrica.com

#JamaicaTogether Promo | Lloyd B. Smith

COVID-19 has taught us that even though we have to keep our distance as individuals, we must be together in spirit and in love and cooperation with Government, authorities, communities, and healthcare professionals. I want to urge Jamaicans to remember you are either a part of the problem or the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Despite Risks, Trump Says He’s Taking Hydroxychloroquine

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he is taking a malaria drug to protect against the coronavirus, despite warnings from his own government that it should only be administered for COVID-19 in a hospital or research setting due to potentially fatal side

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Source: Black America Web

Uganda: Our Manifesto Plan Now At 77 Percent - NRM

Government has said it has so far implemented 77.9 per cent of its manifesto in the last four years and that the remaining threshold will be completed before the next General

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Source: allAfrica.com

Help Protect the Environment with These Tips for Better Device Handling and Disposal

This encourages consumers to develop a mindset of replacing their electronic devices every few

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Source: Brothers on Sports

European investors threaten Brazil divestment over deforestation

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Seven major European investment firms told Reuters they will divest from beef producers, grains traders and even government bonds in Brazil if they do not see progress in resolving the surging destruction of the Amazon

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Mattapan residents want voice in Boston State process

ARCHITECT’S RENDERING

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Source: The Bay State Banner

City Hall, Facilities to Close Friday, July 3, To Observe Independence Day Holiday; Trash Service Not Affected | The Oklahoma Eagle

City Hall and other City facilities will be closed Friday, July 3, to observe the Independence Day holiday – since July 4 will be

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Mbiyu Koinange: Bundle of contrasts of Jomo’s friend

They would later meet in England where Kenyatta had taken the fight for Kenya’s independence, and Koinange, the first Kenyan to get a master’s degree, had gone for further

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Ethiopia coronavirus: 306 cases, how about 100 cases hit in a week

May 16: Cases pass 300 mark

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

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