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Congo-Kinshasa: Exclusive - Congo Aid Scam Triggers Sector-Wide Alarm
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#Woke The Oklahoma Eagle Editorial: Rethinking Police Departments Sweeps Nation | The Oklahoma Eagle
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Africa: Day of the African Child - Activities Officially Launched in Yaounde
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Chinese miner to acquire Guyana Goldfields Inc for Cdn$323 million
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Holder, Reifer believes players are safe
West Indies captain Jason Holder as well as former head coach, Floyd Reifer, believe the side is safe with the measures taken by England Cricket Board (ECB) for their Three-Test series amid the Novel Coronavirus
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Rwanda: Arsenal Stars Promote Made-in-Rwanda Outfits
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Kenya targets to create 1.7m jobs, jumpstart growth
With an economy battered by coronavirus, locust invasion and floods, Kenya’s Finance Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani on June 11 tabled a Ksh2.79 trillion ($27.9 billion) budget for the 2020/2021 fiscal year that seeks to revive almost every sector of the economy as quickly as possible and still keep
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Playing in empty stadiums will be IPL’s last resort: BCCI
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India cancel tour to Zimbabwe due to coronavirus concerns
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Congo-Kinshasa: Leaked Review Exposes Scale of Aid Corruption and Abuse in Congo
The 70-page draft review - circulated last month to aid officials working in Congo and obtained by The New Humanitarian - looks at everything from corruption within the Ebola response to how women and girls are subjected to sexual
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Yesterday in court – Dr. Blyden lectures Attorney General on the laws of Sierra Leone
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