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At least 812 health workers have, so far, tested positive for COVID-19 in Nigeria, the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has
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Kevin Hart Surprises 'ALL IN Challenge' Winner With Phone Call About Having a Role In His Upcoming Film
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(1896) Booker T. Washington, “Address to the Harvard Alumni Dinner"
One year after his Atlanta Compromise Speech 40-year-old Booker T. Washington was on his way to becoming the most influential African American in the United States.  One example of that growing influence was the invitation from the Harvard Alumni to speak at their annual dinner in Cambridge while
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Africans Are Concerned About Ills of Social Media but Oppose Government Restrictions
Governments and public health officials have used Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media to reach large numbers of people, quickly and efficiently, with information on how to stay healthy and limit the
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East Africa: First Person - The Struggle to Protect Human Rights in East Africa During the Pandemic
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in East Africa, the UN Human Rights regional office, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been contributing to the COVID-19 response of UN country teams in the region, by ensuring that human rights protection for vulnerable people is included in their
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Lockdown: Here's how members of the public can now report allegations of wrongdoing by cops
In line with the Collins Khosa judgment handed down by the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, the South African Police Service (SAPS) has added extra capacity its National Service Complaints Centre to enable the public to report allegations of wrongdoing by police officers during the
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Rwanda Changes Tack on HIV Amidst COVID-19 Outbreak
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Zimbabwe: Mudzuri Calls Trigger Happy Mwonzora to Order Over Continued Recall of MPs
Top MDC politician Elias Mudzuri has called Douglas Mwonzora to order, telling the reinstated MDC-T secretary general to stop recalling more opposition MPs from parliament, adding this defeated the overall objective of the party to hold government to
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South Africa: COVID-19 - Bank Accused of Freezing Asylum Seekers' Accounts During Lockdown
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Congo-Kinshasa: WHO Director-General Praises Bravery of Health Workers During Visit to Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Following Fatal Attacks on Ebola Responders
Calls for improved security to support Ebola response and end outbreak
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Africa: Three Nigerian Writers Shortlisted for AKO Caine Prize
The Caine Prize is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, but published in the English
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Uganda: COVID-19 Update - Nigeria Reopens Places of Worship, Uganda Schools Stay Shut
Some governments across the African continent are cautiously coming out of Covid-19 lockdown, such as Nigeria, which on Tuesday reopened churches and mosques, with social distancing restrictions in
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Nigeria: Buhari to Adesina - I'll Stand By You As I Did in 2015 Despite Your PDP-Govt Role
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria will stand solidly behind Akinwumi Adesina in his bid to get re-elected as President of the African Development Bank
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Nigeria: President Buhari to AfDB President, Adesina: "I'll Stand by You"
State House — President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria will stand solidly behind Dr Akinwumi Adesina in his bid to get re-elected as President of the African Development Bank
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Zimbabwe: 2014 MDC-T National Council Backing Chamisa Illegal - Mwonzora
Reinstated MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has dismissed a reconvened 2014 MDC-T National Council meeting held at the party's headquarters Thursday as "illegal" in the unfolding political drama that seems to be ripping the main opposition
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Zimbabwe: Late Opening of Cotton Market Affects Farmers
Some cotton farmers have expressed concern over the late start of the marketing season as Government is yet to announce the producer price for this
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Namibia: Outright Calls for Scrapping of Sodomy Law
The day celebrates diversity, raises awareness of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTQ+) people and is this year being celebrated under the theme, 'Breaking the Silence', according to the United Nations Development Programme
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Cameroon: Govt Opens Schools Amid COVID-19 Spike
Speaking on Cameroon state media CRTV on Sunday, Cameroon prime minister Joseph Dion Ngute said president Paul Biya ordered schools that he closed last March 17 as part of measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus to reopen on June 1st because 3, 630 of the 6, 380 COVID-19 patients in the
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Namibia: Treason Trial Damages Claims Fall On Appeal
Overturning two judgements delivered in the Windhoek High Court in December 2017 and October 2018, respectively, the appeal court found that in the treason trial the prosecution had sufficient evidence at its disposal for it to believe in the guilt of former high treason accused Kennedy Simasiku
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Kenya: State Plans to Expand Coronavirus Testing Process
Health Cabinet Secretary (CS) Mutahi Kagwe Monday appealed for equitable access to Covid-19 tools as the government moves to set up laboratories at border
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Tanzania Reopens Colleges, Sports Activities As COVID-19 Numbers Drop
Dar es Salaam — University students will return to their respective colleges on June 1, 2020 as the number of Covid-19 cases drops in Tanzania, President John Magufuli announced on Thursday, 21 May
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Congo-Kinshasa: DRC - 200,000 People Flee Attacks On Villages and Health Care Centers in Ituri Province
Nearly 200,000 people fled their homes in the last two months as violence escalated in Ituri province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
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Rugger Prescod looks to the future
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U.S. Bank and the Vikings Kick Off $1 Million Effort to Enhance Minnesota's Places to Play
U.S. Bank and the Minnesota Vikings are teaming up to invest $1 million over the next three years with U.S. Bank Places to Play, an effort to make Minnesota an even greater place to live, raise a family and create lifelong
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Rwanda: Govt Deploys Robots in COVID-19 Fight
Launched on Tuesday, May 19 at the Kanyinya COVID-19 Treatment Centre by the Ministry of Health with support from the United Nations Development Programme, the five high-tech robots can perform a number of tasks related to COVID-19 management, including mass temperature screening, delivering food
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Malawi: HRDC, Church and Society Heightens Pressure On Mutharika to Stop Attacking Judges
Church and Society Program of the CCAP Synod of Livingstonia and firebrand Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) have, separately, faulted President Peter Mutharika for his continued attacks on the judiciary, particularly targeting the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal for upholding the
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Zimbabwe: Cotton Farmers Seek US Dollar Payments
Several Zimbabwean cotton farmers are increasingly worried over the continued depreciation of the domestic currency and want to be partly paid in US dollars during the next marketing season, a survey by Business Weekly has
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Libya: 'Alarming' Military Build-Up Underway in Libya, As COVID-19 Heightens Insecurity
The civil war in Libya is in danger of intensifying as foreign intervention grows and the spectre of the COVID-19 pandemic adds to a deepening sense of insecurity, the head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) told the Security Council on
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