Liberia: Court Hears Testimony That Massaquoi Was Not in Liberia With the RUF

PNP seeks healing

TWO months since delegates of the People's National Party (PNP) elected St Andrew South Member of Parliament and Opposition Leader Mark Golding as the new president of the 82-year-old party efforts are still continuing in earnest to heal internal wounds that have beset the political movement in

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Uganda: Kapchorwa Camp Helps Dust Off Cobwebs in Sevens Cranes

[Monitor] The Rugby Sevens Cranes returned from a seven day camp in Kapchorwa last Saturday with more progress made towards achieving their calendar goals.

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Source: allAfrica.com

People For the American Way Supports Congressional Gold Medal for Officer Eugene Goodman - Milwaukee Community Journal

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to news that members of Congress introduced a bipartisan bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to U.S. Capitol Hill Police Officer Eugene Goodman, the Black officer who diverted a white mob away from the unprotected Senate chambers during the violent

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

Diaspora leaders condemn invasion of US Capitol

JAMAICAN Diaspora leaders in the United States have condemned the January 6 invasion of the US Capitol by riotous mobs attempting to disrupt the certification of the Electoral College victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Nigeria: Lessons in Biden's Appointments of Nigerians

[Vanguard] THE United States President-elect, Joe Biden's appointment of three young Nigerians into his cabinet is replete with lessons, not just for Nigeria, but for the entire African continent. Biden first appointed 39-year-old Adewale Adeyemo, who was the first President of the Obama

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Source: allAfrica.com

I Loved Being A Classroom Teacher. COVID-19 Stole That From Me.

As I write this, our world has been living in a pandemic for over 10 months. This virus has seeped into every aspect of life as we knew it and,…

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Source: The Black Chronicle

MUL Lights the Hoan for MLK Day - Milwaukee Community Journal

MILWAUKEE (Jan. 15, 2021) – The Milwaukee Urban League is pleased to announce our partnership with the Light the Hoan collective. On Jan. 18, 2021, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge will be lit with red, green and black from sunset to 2 A.M. The bridge is used

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

Kenya: Maraga - Chief Justice Who Supported Gender Equality

[Nation] David Kenani Maraga, the Chief Justice who just retired from the Judiciary last week has been described by women rights organisations as a friend to the women's movement and empowerment cause in Kenya.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Cardi B Tapped To Star In Paramount Comedy ‘Assisted Living’

According to Variety, the "WAP" rapper is set to star in the Paramount comedy as the lead character "Amber", a small-time crook who finds herself in over her head when a heist goes wrong. On the run from the cops and her former crew, she struggles to find anywhere to hide. Running out of

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Source: Black America Web

Was the insurrection an inside job? | New Pittsburgh Courier

by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com)—If you watched the disgraceful invasion of the United States Capitol and the horrific destruction that took place on January 6, you observed a legion of limited-intelligence low-life louts. But you’d be mistaken if that’s all you thought of the

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Charles A. “Scotty” McCallum, former UAB president, remembered

By Tyler Greer UAB News Charles A. “Scotty” McCallum, Jr., DMD, M.D., the third president of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a pillar of the community for 70 years, died Saturday. McCallum (1925-2021) became the third president of UAB in April 1987 and served until September 1993. “Our

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Source: The Birmingham Times

'More waves of COVID-19 expected': Ramaphosa's glum outlook for 2021

President Ramaphosa billed 2021 as an 'extremely challenging year' on Monday, and suggested that further COVID-19 waves could engulf SA.

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

Philippines’ Poorest Region Teeters On The Edge of Instability As It Recovers From Civil War

BANGSAMORO AUTONOMOUS REGION, Philippines - A new government in the Philippines' poorest region faces major recent challenges including handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, resolving decades of civil war and increasing economic prosperity. Three years after one of its largest cities was ravaged by

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Source: The Florida Star

Community Calendar: Week of January 17th – Texas Metro News

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Clippers giving opponents 3s to think about | L.A. Focus News

LOS ANGELES — Feel free to blink, even if you miss a Clippers’ 3-pointer, another one is on its way soon. Tyronn Lue’s team is taking plenty of attempts from behind the arc — 41 percent of their shots have come come from long range, in fact. And they’re not missing many of them, bringing […]

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

NAACP To Trump’s Mouthpiece: ‘MLK DAY Is A Day Of Action. Your Action: Shut Up!’

The NAACP did not mince words when outgoing White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted about a hero who embodied love and faith in the pursuit of equality.

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Source: NewsOne

Budget vote controllers must submit 2019 Audit Report Implementation Plan in three weeks

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 January 2021: Vote controllers across Sierra Leone government departments and ministries - officials who are responsible for managing budgets, were told last week by the government’s Financial Secretary - Mr. Sahr Lahai Jusu, that they have got three weeks to submit their

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Here are the last 'COVID-free places' on Earth - including this part of SA

Believe it or not, there is still a handful of places left on this planet that are COVID-free. But you might need some help finding them on a globe...

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

Samsung’s Lee receives 30-month prison term in bribery trial

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court sentenced Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee to two and a half years in prison on Monday, which could delay the group’s ownership restructuring following the death of Lee’s father in October. The ruling also cements a major shift in South

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Pioneer to Minneapolis Sound releases long-awaited solo album -

Jellybean Johnson’s debut album 'Get Experienced' is a nine-song odyssey that crosses genres and expands on the richness of the Minneapolis Sound. Source

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

FBI vetting Guard troops in DC amid fears of insider attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Bread, at the Heart of the Western World’s Diet for Centuries – Free Press of Jacksonville

Bread is an ancient food that became an essential part of the Western world’s diet shortly after men became sedentary. Throughout millennia, bread has undergone many transformations, and bakers are still adapting it to diners’ [...]

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

VW proves resilience, popularity with record passenger car market share

Further cementing its brand claim to being "the peoples' car", Volkswagen Group South Africa has emerged from 2020 as the national new passenger car market leader.

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

Nigeria: NDDC - Akpabio Denies Giving $5 Million Bribe to Malami

[Premium Times] Mr Akpabio, who threatened to file a lawsuit over the report, said people who are uncomfortable with the NDDC forensic audit were behind the bribe story.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Kenya: MPs, Journalists Stuck in Kapedo After Attack By Gunmen

[Nation] Three Members of Parliament, four journalists and several professionals from Turkana South are putting up at a GSU camp in Kapendo after the area was surrounded by heavily armed gunmen who shot and killed senior police officers on Sunday.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Magaba, Siyaso traders defy COVID-19 regulations

BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA BUSINESS has resumed at Mbare’s Magaba home industry with informal traders defying COVID-19 lockdown regulations and going about their usual operations. This is despite that the government recently banned operations of the informal sector, which was classified under non-essential

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Bad roads affecting motorists, businesses in Job Lane, Angels

MOTORISTS and business owners are getting impatient because of the time it is taking to repair bad roads in Angels and Job Lane, both in Spanish Town, St Catherine. The bad road conditions, they say, is causing them to lose money.

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

The ignoble lands minister of Sierra Leone – Dr Sandi has been sacked

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 January 2021: The man many believed could have brought another war to Sierra Leone if he had been allowed to stay in his post as lands minister – Dr Dennis Sandi, has today been sacked in a snap 'covid-19' cabinet reshuffle by the president. Calls for [Read More]

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Zimbabwe: Villagers Living in Fear of Landmines

[The Herald] Villagers in Buhera South are living in fear as landmines and other explosives buried by freedom fighters at different former bases during the liberation war, are being picked up by innocent children herding cattle, more than 40 years after independence.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Inaugural event to celebrate resiliency of Black Americans - Black News Channel

By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The resiliency, culture and heroism of Black Americans and the African diaspora will be the central theme of a virtual event Tuesday that will celebrate the nation's diversity on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. Vice

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

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