Uganda: Museveni Vows to End Cattle Raids in Karamoja

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SA looked at Covid-19 cellphone tracking, but it proved too complex - health dept | News24

The health department has looked at the feasibility of a surveillance system that could track the movement of citizens to help it fight Covid-19, but it didn't work out, an official has revealed to MPLs.

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Somalia: PM Travels to Garowe to Lead State Funeral of Ex-Prime Minister

[Dalsan Radio] Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Kheire has traveled to Garowe, the regional administrative capital of Puntland on Thursday to lead the state funeral for former premier Hassan Abshir Farah who passed away in Ankara Turkey last week where he has been undergoing treatment.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Cable News Anchor Harris Faulkner On Practicing Self-Care While Covering Black Trauma In The News

With the current state of America, it can be challenging to be Black in America and get through watching a news program without feeling overwhelmed, frustrated or disheartened overall. The

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Nigeria: Nunieh - Wike Demands IGP's Investigation Into Attempted Abduction

[Vanguard] Port Harcourt -- Governor Nyesom Wike has urged Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu to investigate Thursday's invasion, by over 50 armed policemen, of the Port Harcourt residence of former Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Acting Managing Director (MD) Joy Nunieh.

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Uganda: Low Oil Prices Keep Power Tariffs At Bay

[Monitor] Despite an increase in all other parameters used in determining electricity, reduced international fuel prices have enabled the regulator to maintain the power tariff as it was the last quarter.

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Source: allAfrica.com

How Rwanda Is Curbing COVID-19 Cases Using Advanced Technology

The COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, pandemic, has caused a global shift causing numerous countries to develop new strategies to protect their citizens and keep their economy from collapsing. While Western…

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Gives a Green Light to Predatory Payday Lenders

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “There is never a good time to enable predatory loans carrying 400% interest rates,” noted Mike Calhoun, President of the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), “but this is the worst possible time. The pain caused by the CFPB gutting the payday rule will be felt most by those who

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Kansas congressman forced to leave committees after charges - Black News Channel

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer/ BNC Contributor TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A freshman Kansas congressman facing felony criminal charges over previously listing a UPS Inc. postal box as his residence on a state voter registration form has been forced to temporarily give up his House committee

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D.M.V. Natives Document ‘City on the Hill’, San Francisco | Afro

By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com While D.M.V. natives Xavier Underwood and Adam Fleishman have seen their fair share of homelessness and gentrification, another major city captured the documentarians’ attention due to its disproportionate wealth and housing gap that would even make

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Nigeria: NDDC Crisis - Nigerians Will Hear More Revelations From Me - Ex-Md Nunieh

[Premium Times] A former managing director of the interim management committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Joi Nunieh, has vowed to make more revelations about the corruption in the agency.

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Town hall on police relations and law enforcement reform - Dallas Examiner

Town hall on police relations and law enforcement reformBy MIKE McGEE The Dallas Examiner Despite the summer heat and the threat of COVID-19 pandemic, local individuals dedicated to law enforcement reform have continued to

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Vaz says Neita-Robertson tweet defamatory, demands apology

Cabinet minister and Member of Parliament for Portland Western Daryl Vaz is demanding an apology from Queen's Counsel Valerie Neita-Robertson for what he described as defamatory statements made about him on her Twitter page.

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Civil Rights Legend Rep. John Lewis Dead At 80 - The Seattle Medium

John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman, has died after a six-month battle with

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

Permanent secretary outlines Market Me contracts

Market Me Jamaica, the company now at the centre of questions surrounding contracts awarded by the health ministry and the relationship between the entity and portfolio minister Dr Christopher Tufton, was awarded two contracts totalling approximately $55 million between December 2016 and June

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BIKO INTERVIEW: Three decades the skies

Peter Maranga since worked for Kenya Air Force, Directorate of Civil Aviation, Air Kenya, and Kenya Airways where he just retired as a pilot after over three decades.

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Source: Business Daily

Nigerian state offers cows for guns to halt attacks | News24

Authorities in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state have offered two cows for each gun surrendered to halt bloody attacks by criminal gangs, including cattle rustlers.

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C. T. Vivian dies at age 95, place in history is secure | The Michigan Chronicle

By Bunnie Jackson-Ransom Cordy Tindell Vivian (July 30, 1924 – July 17, 2020)) was an American minister, author, and was a close friend and lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement. Vivian continued to reside in Atlanta, Georgia and founded the C. T. Vivian Leadership

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Nigeria: We Will Deliver 2nd Niger Bridge, Abuja-Kano, Lagos-Shagamu Expressways As Contracted, Julius Berger Assures Reps

[Vanguard] The Managing Director of Nigeria's leading engineering construction company, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, Engr. Dr. Lars Richter has confidently stated that the highly reliable company is "working on a schedule, meeting and exceeding planned construction milestones and will deliver the 2nd

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Source: allAfrica.com

Nigeria: Made-in-Nigeria Gold Arrives, to Boost Foreign Reserves

[This Day] Lagos, Abuja, Warri -- President Muhammadu Buhari's efforts to diversify the country's economy hit another milestone yesterday in Abuja as the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, presented him with a made-in- Nigeria gold bar, signifying the beginning of

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Source: allAfrica.com

ED must heed UN rebuke on human rights abuses

A REPORT by the United Nations special rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, makes for interesting reading. NewsDay Comment Zimbabwe, he noted, was suffering from political polarisation and poor governance while a fragile economy has

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Covid-19 deaths in Gauteng remain 'a great worry', despite recoveries - Masuku | News24

As Gauteng weathers the coronavirus storm, Health MEC Bandile Masuku says the province is expecting recoveries to bypass active cases in the next two to three weeks.

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North Texas Food Bank plans to distribute food to North Texas in efforts to fight COVID-19 | Dallas Weekly

What: DeSoto ISD and DeSoto High School in partnership with the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB), will be distributing kitted food boxes through a low-touch distribution model on Tuesday, July 21. Distribution will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. To receive food, visitors must be in

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Malian PM apologises for “excesses” by security forces against protesters | Africanews

Mali’s prime minister has apologised for “excesses” by security forces who opened fire last week on anti-government protesters, but rejected opposition demands that President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita

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AMHVoices: Refusing reforms: Zanu PF doing itself a disservice

ZANU PF, with Emmerson Mnangagwa as their presidential candidate against any opposition, will struggle to get the votes to secure the party’s victory in the 2023 general elections. By Precious Shumba, Our Reader From the day he came into office after a coup in November 2017, he has failed to

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

UT-Austin will keep some racist symbols, pledges to honor historic Black students - Dallas Examiner

By REESE OXNER The Texas Tribune The University of Texas at Austin is making several changes to address racial issues on campus but will keep its statue of prominent segregationist James Hogg and

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Clifton Boys’ Home rebuilding nears completion - Project faces $10 million funding shortfall

Following delays resulting from the suspension of work in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, financial challenges and difficulties in accessing some building materials, construction of the new Clifton Boys’ Home in Darliston, Westmoreland, is now...

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Nigeria: No Hazard Allowance in the UK, Health Minister Warns Migrating Doctors

[Premium Times] The minister of health, Osagie Ehanire, has warned Nigerian doctors of the dangers of migrating to other countries.

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Learning Impaired: Classrooms To Stay Closed This Fall — The Sacramento Observer

With the rising number of locals testing positive for the coronavirus, Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) officials have decided that its nearly 50,000 students will remain at home rather than return to their campuses. Officials announced on Wednesday that students will continue full

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Lesotho: DCEO to Audit Ministers Living Beyond Their Means

[Lesotho Times] The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences will not hesitate to conduct lifestyle audits on any minister or government official who is seen to live beyond their paygrade, director-general Advocate Mahlomola Manyokole has said.

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