Somalia: Suicide Bomber Kills 7 in Somali Capital

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Uganda, Kenya Picked for FAO Forest Restoration Project

Use of the module will also be piloted in Kenya and Uganda, as well as Cambodia, Myanmar and the respective government institutions in 2020-2021," said FAO in a new report titled The State of the World's Forests 2020, released in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme

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Africa: Migration Is a Safety Net During Climate Change Disasters

Climate threats are currently high across much of Africa, with floods, droughts and the biggest locust outbreak in

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Africa: COVID-19 - AU Hails 'African Jewel' As Continental Medical Supplies Platform Is Launched

African leaders have lauded the launch of the continent's first medical supplies platform as the "jewel in the crown of Pan-African

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Grenada finalising five-year project with Jamaican's help

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Investing in mental healthcare will impact socio-economic development – says president Bio

Addressing Ministers of Government, Development Partners, Staff of the Hospital, and guests of the occasion, president Bio spoke about the importance of investing in mental

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Somalia: Upper House of Parliament Now Wants a Joint Meeting Between President Farmajo and Regional States Over Election Plans

The Somalia Upper House of Parliament Speaker Abdi Hashi, and standing committee of the house held an impromptu meeting over election

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Congo-Kinshasa: Women Hit As Congo Faces Triple Threat of Coronavirus, Ebola and Measles

As measles, coronavirus and Ebola hit the Democratic Republic of Congo, women face stigma and delayed sexual health treatment

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Africa: Unctad - African Countries Should Use Official Development Assistance to Diversify Their Economies

A key recommendation of a recent report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which deals with trade, investment, and development issues, is for official development assistance to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to be channeled to the productive

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A Marxist Scholar Analyzes the American Legal System

In the following article Professor Malik Simba, an historian at California State University, Fresno describes his professional and personal odyssey that led to the writing of his book, Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: From the Colonial Background through the Ascendancy of Barack Obama

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Africa: UN Security Council Elections Reveal Divisions in Africa

You can't have Africa Free Trade and not have a politically stable continent, which is why it was important for South Africa to ensure it got support for Kenya at the Security

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Rwanda's Most Wanted Genocide Fugitive Arrested in France

Rwanda genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga was on Saturday arrested in Paris region, the French justice ministry and the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

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Brigety II, Reuben Earl (1973– )

Reuben Earl Brigety II is a naval officer, educator, international humanitarian specialist, and diplomat. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on September 7, 1973, to Dr. Barbara and Dr. Rueben Brigety Sr. In 1965 his father became the first African American to graduate from the University of

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U.S. Department of State Background Note

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Times of unprecedented crisis present unique opportunities for unprecedented action – Op-ed

Emerging evidence from the ILO on the impact of COVID-19 suggests that women’s economic and productive lives will be affected

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Africa Day and Its Discontent

Founded in 1963, the aim of the Organization of Africa Unity, the precursor of Africa Union (AU) was to safeguard the interests and independence of all African states, encourage the continent's development, and settle disputes among member

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UK vaccine summit calls for freely available virus vaccine | The Atlanta Voice

A vaccine summit hosted by Britain on Thursday raised billions of dollars to immunize children in developing countries as experts wrestled with the difficult question of how any potential vaccine against the new coronavirus might be distributed globally — and

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Rwanda tests peacekeepers in South Sudan

Rwanda’s second coronavirus victim, Enid Mbabazi, was a peacekeeper with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan

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Source: The East African

South Sudan: First War, Now COVID-19 Threatens South Sudanese in Crowded Camp

Nairobi — Two people have tested positive in a crowded South Sudanese camp housing 30,000 people

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Kenya beats Djibouti to non-permanent UN Security Council seat

June 18: Kenya beats Djibouti for non-permanent UNSC seat

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Ethiopia fights for vibrancy as economy takes Covid hit

For the past three years, Ethiopia was the talk of town, with leading institutions terming it one of Africa’s fastest rising

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Source: The East African

Rwanda: COVID-19 - Rwanda Donates Medical Kits to Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan

The Government of Rwanda has donated testing medical kits to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) as part of its response to the Covid-19

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Cameroon: Clinic Helps Victims Traumatized by Separatist Conflict

The ongoing separatist conflict in Cameroon’s western regions has created a growing humanitarian emergency that has affected close to two million

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Rwanda: French Court Rules Félicien Kabuga Be Tried in Tanzania

A French court on Wednesday, June 3, ruled that suspected genocide mastermind Félicien Kabuga be transferred, from France to the custody of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (RMICT), for

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Moose, George E. (1944 - )

Ambassador George E. Moose’s career in international diplomacy resulted from his spending a college summer in the 1960s building a three-room schoolhouse in Tanzania. The high point of that career came in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan nominated him to be U.S. Ambassador to Benin and later

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Queries raised over Kabuga's Kenya link

For many years believed to have been hiding in Kenya, Kabuga, born in 1935 in Muniga, Rwanda, is said to have been one of the perpetrators of the genocide against the Tutsi, in which more than a million people were

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Civil rights movements

Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s.[citation needed] In many situations they have been characterized by nonviolent protests, or have taken the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change

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How Felicien Kabuga exploited State impunity

At some point, former Attorney-General Amos Wako and Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko were taken to task by a Kenyan court to explain why it was unable to trace whoever was running Mr Kabuga’s business

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Burundi: Ramaphosa Sends Condolences to the People of Burundi After President's Passing

African Union (AU) chair President Cyril Ramaphosa has sent condolences to the people of Burundi after the passing of their outgoing president, Pierre

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