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Southern Company Gas donates $1 million to Morehouse School of Medicine for health equity
This contribution is a part of the $50 million commitment from Southern Company and its subsidiaries to historically black colleges and universities
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Sudan: Corona Virus Infection Cases Rise to (2728)
Khartoum — The Federal Ministry of Health announced the registration of (137) new cases of infection with Corona virus, in addition to
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Angola: COVID-19 - Angola With Two More Positive Cases
Luanda — Angola registered, last Wednesday, two more positive cases of covid-19, bringing to 73 the number of people infected with the
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A world redrawn: Egypt historian Khaled Fahmy sees rising surveillance state
State surveillance is on the rise globally as governments such as Egypt's take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic, warns exiled historian and intellectual Khaled
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Indian govt to decide fate of IPL, not cricket board - minister
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India’s sports minister today said any decision to allow the Indian Premier League to go ahead this year would be taken by the government, not the Indian cricket board, and would be based on how well the country has contained the novel
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Angola: Public Calamity Situation Already in Force
Luanda — After 60 days of social confinement under the Presidential Decree on the State of Emergency, Angola is observing, as of Tuesday, a Public Calamity Situation, with new rules to overcome the coronavirus
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Mercy Hospital unveils $20m COVID-19 testing, treatment facility
The St. Joseph Mercy Hospital (SJMH)  has launched a brand new COVID-19 testing and treatment facility at the St. Paul Retreat Centre at Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast
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Area cities resume residential parking tickets
LOS ANGELES — As businesses slowly reopen under special COVID-19 county guidelines, several cities in Southeast Los Angeles County have restored street sweeping parking enforcement, ordered trash placed in plastic bags and opened drive-through coronavirus testing
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Angola: COVID-19 - Angola Reports Eight Symptomatic Infections
Luanda — Of the 60 positive cases of covid-19 registered in Angola, eight have begun to present a new clinical condition in recent days, announced Friday here, the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco
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Webb, Wellington E. (1941- )
Wellington Webb was born in Chicago in 1941.  He came to Denver at a very early age and before entering politics he was a forklift operator. Webb’s public service career began in 1972 when he was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives. In 1977, he was selected by President James Carter to
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African Leader Rips China’s Racism: ‘As If The Black Person Is Carrying The Covid-19!’ – Free Press of Jacksonville
Maximus Ogbonna, president of the Association of Nigerian Community in China, told the South China Morning Press that the new policies put in place to address and curb the blatant racial discrimination has already fallen well short of the desire effects and offered a bleak outlook for Africans in
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County OKs Plan To Begin Reopening
Having met criteria for reopening faster, Sacramento officials said the County’s Public Health Order, which mandates sheltering-in-place and restricts non-essential activities, would be amended “on or before May
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State To Begin Next Reopening Phase Despite Testing Issues | The Oklahoma Eagle
The state remains on track to begin the next phase of business reopenings later this week even as hospitalization numbers spiked Wednesday and health officials worked to resolve testing accessibility
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Mann, Dorothy Holland
Dorothy Holland Mann, a native of Annandale, Virginia, wasthe first woman and first African-American to head Region X of the United States Public Health Service (which includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho andAlaska) when she was appointed to the position in 1979 by Dr. Julius Richmond, theAssistant
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Angola: COVID-19 - Angola Reports Third Death
Luanda — Angola reported the third death from covid-19 in the country since the first case of the disease was detected in March this
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FIRST TAKE: A semblance of normalcy beckons at Level 3, but SA’s biggest problems remain
President Cyril Ramaphosa gave weary and irritable South Africans something to look forward to when, on Sunday evening, he announced that the country will move to Level 3 of the lockdown on 1 June – but, as always, the devil is bound to lurk in the
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Poll: US Believers See Message of Change From God in Virus | Afro
The poll found that 31% of Americans who believe in God feel strongly that the virus is a sign of God telling humanity to change, with the same number feeling that
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Mau Mau (1952-1960)
The Mau Mau Uprising, a revolt against colonial rule in Kenya, lasted from 1952 through 1960 and helped to hasten Kenya’s independence. Issues like the expulsion of Kikuyu tenants from settler farms, loss of land to white settlers, poverty, and lack of true political representation for Africans
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Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was one of the most iconic singers of his generation. Born on August 29, 1958, he was the eighth of ten children born to Joseph Walter and Katherine Esther. At the age of 5, he became the lead singer of his family band named “Jackson 5” which included him and his four
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WHO warns against rush to reopen economies
AS several countries ease into relaxing the strict measures taken to contain the dreaded novel coronavirus outbreak, top officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) are urging extreme caution, warning that the volatility of the virus could result in a second peak, long before a second
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The African entrepreneur and COVID-19: Where do we go from here?
Ernest Armah is the Country Manager of enpact e.V. enpact e.V is a global non-profit organization founded in 2013 to empower entrepreneurs, ecosystems and international
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Tax on business transfers likely to stifle economy
One such change, introduced in the recently enacted Tax Laws Amendments Act, 2020, may adversely affect ongoing business transactions as well as prospective deals even after the Covid-19 crisis
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Congress Slams CDC For 'Lazy' Report On Coronavirus Deaths By Race, Ethnicity
Members of Congress have called a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report on the racial and ethnic deaths related to the
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Give virus victims decent burials: Experts - VIDEO
But the nature and sheer scale of the current coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic now brought a number of questions with regard to how the government has handled burials of victims, with experts now condemning the Health Ministry for violating the dignity of the
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Lawmakers, advocates frustrated with lack of comprehensive COVID-19 racial data
As The Hill reports, 10 states have still haven’t released racial data on their coronavirus deaths, according to the COVID Tracking Project and the Antiracist Research & Policy
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Kenya: KNUT, UASU Want Schools to Remain Shut Until September
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu) are proposing schools to remain closed until September
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Mauritius: How Mauritius' Unique Political Culture Helped It Beat COVID-19
The World Health Organisation (WHO) had estimated that Mauritius had the highest risk of exposure in Africa and would have the second highest rate of
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State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
The California Department of Public Health today announced the most recent statistics on
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Poll: US Believers See Message Of Change From God in Virus
The poll found that 31% of Americans who believe in God feel strongly that the virus is a sign of God telling humanity to change, with the same number feeling that
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