Uganda: Hoima, Soroti Now Cities As MPs Rise to 531

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High-ranking JCF and JDF officers given authorisation to access real-time interception communications | N

Parliament last night approved an order tabled by National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang to amend The Interception of Communications Act, giving authorisation to a cadre of designated high-ranking officers of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Tufton points doctors to CARICOM - Out-of-work physicians in waiting room as minister reviews hiring gaps

The more than 100 doctors currently unable to secure jobs in the public health sector have been urged by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton to explore private practice domestically or seek employment at other hospitals across the...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Uganda: Kayunga Gets Shs24 Billion for Piped Water Project

[Monitor] Residents of the newly created Busaana Town Council in Kayunga District are breathing a sigh of relief after the government secured funds to extend piped water to their area.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Fire them all! - SBAJ calls for clean sweep at SCJ

Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) Holdings has received a scathing rebuke from Hugh Johnson, president of the Small Business Association of Jamaica, who has called for the firing of the entire board after the handover of 2,400 acres of Holland Estate...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ziyambi taunts MDC abductees

“Police still want to interrogate them over violating the lockdown rules, and if they have a complaint on allegations of abductions, then government can look into that,” Ziyambi

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Africa COVID-19 stats: 643,679 cases; 13,989 deaths; 332,789 recoveries | Africanews

There are now more than over 590,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the

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

Uganda: Manufacturers Demand Radical Economic Reforms

Speaking during an online discussion, early this week, Mr Richard Mubiru, the Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA) economic policy committee board member, said manufacturers are working at an optimum of about 30 per cent, which calls for radical revival

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Source: allAfrica.com

William J. Durham: Black Civil Rights Activist and Attorney in Texas

William J. Durham was a black civil-rights activist and attorney. Durham was born on a farm near Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, Texas, in 1896. After completing one semester at Emporia State College in Kansas, he served in the United States Army in France during World War I, after which he

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Source: Black Then

China’s UnionPay inks deal with Kenyan firm

China’s UnionPay International (UPI), has partnered with Kenya’s iPay to enable its cardholders to access about 8,000 online merchants across Africa.

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Source: Business Daily

Twitter hacking spree alarms experts - TechCentral

The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts, is drawing questions about the platform's security.

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Source: TechCentral

Petition To Rename Rochester Airport After Frederick Douglass Is Going Viral

The famous abolitionist lived in the Northeastern town.

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Minister paves way for digital radio in South Africa - TechCentral

Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has published a policy direction to industry regulator Icasa, asking it to fast-track the licensing of digital radio broadcasting services in South Africa.

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Source: TechCentral

Former diplomat dies in squalor

FORMER Zimbabwean deputy ambassador to Tanzania in the 1980s, Stanley Chabvepi, died last week and was buried over the weekend at his rural home in Mufuka village under Chief Marozva in Bikita. He was 68. BY GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVA Chabvepi, who was now a project co-co-ordinator for Bikita People

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Brace for more pain: ED

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his proposal to tighten COVID-19 measures on Harare and Bulawayo would worsen the country’s economic challenges and called on Zimbabweans to brace up for more suffering. BY MOSES MATENGA Zimbabwe is facing its worst crisis in a decade with its currency

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Court awards US$16 000 to police shooting victim

HIGH Court judge Justice Edith Mushore has said the duty of police is to protect innocent civilians in a non-partisan manner. BY MOSES MATENGA Justice Mushore made the remarks while handing down judgment in a matter in which she awarded a Chitungwiza resident, Loveness Chiriseri, US$16 788 in

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Who's Who In Black Relaunches with New Website | Money | The Michigan Chronicle

DETROIT – Who’s Who In Black, a Real Times Media subsidiary, announces a new initiative to build a dedicated online community of African American professionals. The new initiative recognizes the growing need to provide African American professionals of various backgrounds the opportunity to connect

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

National Lotteries Commission's refusal to provide beneficiary lists would not 'withstand constitutional scrutiny', MPs told | News24

The National Lotteries Commission's lists of beneficiaries are one step closer to coming under public scrutiny.

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Court to hear arguments tomorrow in latest Guyana election case

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire says she will begin hearing arguments on Friday in the case filed by a private citizen seeking to prevent the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from receiving a report from Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield, regarding the

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

South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Thursday 16 July

For all the latest news in South Africa, be sure to check out what’s making headlines on Thursday 16 July.

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

Liberia: 'Silence Sends Wrong Signal' - Catholic Diocese On Lack of Response From Govt, Church in Attack On Opposition in Grand Gedeh

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Catholic Diocese of Cape Palmas, whose pastoral and administrative jurisdiction cover the five counties of the southeast of Liberia, has expressed grave concerns about the incident of intimidation and threats of violence by some residents of Zwedru, Grand Gedeh

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Source: allAfrica.com

Hutchinson hangs tough

Under-pressure minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries William 'JC' Hutchinson has scoffed at calls for his resignation despite whispers in government circles that he has found himself in hot water with his boss, Prime Minister Andrew

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

Canada joins US in demanding early release of Guyana's election results

OTTAWA, Canada (CMC) - Canada said yesterday it would join its partners in the international community in calling on Guyana to ensure the results of the disputed March 2 regional and general elections are released immediately.'Canada strongly regrets the extended delay in declaring election results

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

Judge Sends Black Teen To Juvenile Detention Center For Missing Online Homework

A 15-year-old Michigan teen was incarcerated after a judge ruled she violated her probation by not completing her online coursework.

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Source: Black America Web

CJ could rule Sunday on latest challenge to elections results - Stabroek News

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire will commence hearing arguments at 2pm tomorrow and possibly rule on Sunday in the challenge seeking to block the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from declaring the winner of the March 2nd

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

NSE listing fees drop to 6-year low as firms exit

Last year’s earnings marked the third straight year of dropping revenue from the annual listing fees even as the NSE struggled to attract new listings on the bourse.

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Source: Business Daily

200,000 tablets for students

The Government, through the Ministry of Education, has entered into contractual arrangements for the delivery of 200,000 tablet computers for

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Port of Seattle Commission To Establish Task Force On Port Policing And Civil Rights - The Seattle Medium

The Port of Seattle Commission approved the establishment of a task force on Port policing and civil rights, which will lead a comprehensive assessment of the Port of Seattle Police

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

Asheville, N. C., Approves Steps Toward Reparations For Black Residents : Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice : NPR

"The blood capital that we have banked to spend today to fight for significant change came ... not from our allies but from Black men, women and children who died," said Councilman Keith Young.

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Source: Stories About Black History

St Elizabeth farmer charged with wounding, assault with intent to rape

Thirty-five-year-old Davian Palmer, otherwise called ‘Punky’, a farmer of Bueno Vista district in St Elizabeth, has surrendered to the police and was subsequently charged with unlawful wounding, burglary, and assault with intent to rape...

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