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Uganda: What Zedriga Brings On Board As Bobi Wine's Deputy
"Ours is not going to be the politics of praise and favour; it will be politics of a service, inclusiveness and humanity," Dr Lina Zedriga Waru Abuku said after being unveiled as People Power deputy principal by Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, last
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Uganda: Truckers At Mirama Hills Border Post 'Overwhelm' Authorities
The Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Mr George Bakunda, said the government of Rwanda has put in place stringent measures against the truckers entering into the country which has in turn paralysed movement at the
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Kenya: Panic in Cabinet Over Looming Changes as Kenyatta Charts Legacy
The stage is set for the formation of a government of national unity as President Uhuru Kenyatta races against time to implement his legacy projects -- the Big Four
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'Sorry': Tia Mowry-Hardrict Compares Her Brother Tahj Mowry’s Features to Her Daughter’s, Fans Dish Their Opinions
Mowry-Hardrict, who has three siblings in Tamera Mowry-Housley, Tahj Mowry, and Tavior Mowry, compared Cairo Hardrict to Tahj in an Instagram
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EARVIN “MAGIC” JOHNSON’S EQUITRUST FUNDS OVER $100 MILLION IN PPP LOANS FOR MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES | Afro
May 18, 2020 (New York, NY) — Earvin “Magic” Johnson, majority owner of EquiTrust, the nation’s largest minority-owned insurance company, announced a $100 million partnership with MBE Capital Partners (MBECP), the largest certified minority-owned asset-based lender, and the National Action Network
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Rwanda: Basketball League to Resume September 4
The local basketball governing body (Ferwaba) has decided September 4 as the day the BK Basketball National League season will
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South Sudan: Improving Access to COVID-19 Treatment in South Sudan
To provide supportive treatment for severe and critical COVID-19 patients, the World Health Organization (WHO), working with the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Medical Corps (IMC) has supported the Ministry of Health to upgrade and equip the Dr John Garang Infectious Diseases Unit
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Tunisia: Erray Discusses Issues of Common Interest With His French Counterpart
The two ministers stressed the strong Tunisian-French relations and both countries' willingness to further foster them, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign
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Rwanda's Most-Wanted Genocide Suspect Felicien Kabuga Arrested in France
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Nigeria: Coronavirus - Nigeria Records 338 New Cases, Total Nears 6,000
Nigeria, on Sunday, recorded 338 new cases of COVID-19 as the total number of cases inched closer to
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Rwanda: Lawyers Protest Refusal By Ugandan Court to Recognise Rwanda Law Practice Diploma
The Ugandan high court recently ruled that a person who obtains a post graduate diploma in legal practice from Rwanda is not eligible to enroll as an advocate in Uganda, sparking criticism from the Rwanda Law
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South Sudan: First COVID-19 Death Reported
South Sudan health officials announced the country’s first death from COVID-19 on Friday, with a top health official describing the deceased as a 51-year old "high-profile South
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Tanzania: COVID-19 - Cross Border Spread On Spotlight As Kenya Closes Tanzania, Somali Borders
Dar es Salaam — Efforts by individual countries in the East Africa region to tackle the spread of the novel coronavirus across borders yesterday saw Kenya ban the movement of pedestrians and passenger s in and out of the
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Guyanese animator spotlights brain drain in YouTube series
A Guyanese Ohio University graduate is using animation to bring awareness to the social issues surrounding brain drain in an effort to encourage people to stay and return to assist in building their home
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Uganda: All Truck Drivers in Uganda to Be Tested for COVID-19
As part of the new measures, transport or logistic companies will have to test all their drivers within the country and then adopt and implement the new "Truck Driver Journey Management System" Mobile application for easier
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US autoworkers return, while possible vaccine shows promise
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S. for the first time in nearly two months Monday in one of the biggest steps yet to restart American industry, while an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus yielded encouraging results in a small and
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Kenya: Kitui Family Recounts How Kin Was Killed By Gunmen Linked to Felicien Kabuga
Mr Benjamin Mbiti Kalili was a telecommunications expert who had been seconded by United Nations to the Arusha based International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda genocide which was trying the genocide suspects to help in tracking Mr
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Uganda: Total-Tullow Oil Sales Deal Awaits Cabinet Approval
Last month's French oil giant Total E&P acquisition of Anglo-Irish Tullow assets awaits Cabinet approval before it can be endorsed by government, the Ministry of Energy has
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Mozambique: Aicaju Warns of Declining Cashew Processing
Maputo — The Mozambican Association of Cashew Industries (AICAJU) has warned that less than 35,000 tonnes of cashew nuts will be processed in Mozambican factories this year, which is more than 33 per cent less than the 52,000 tonnes processed last
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Uganda: Uproar As COVID-19 Fund Asks Workers to Donate Shs10, 000 Each
A section of formal workers on Sunday took to social media to air their disgust after the National Response Covid-19 Fund made an appeal asking them to donate Shs10, 000 each, to compliment government's efforts in the fight against
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Rwanda: Genocide Survivors Want Kabuga Tried in Rwanda
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Africa: Some Progress, But Africans Still Live With All Forms of Malnutrition - Global Nutrition Report
There is over 200 million undernourished people in the African continent, and with the novel coronavirus sweeping countries, the urgency to address their food and health systems increases as undernourished people have weak immune systems leaving them vulnerable and exposed to
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Namibia: Bosses Fight Job Cut Ban
Two organisations representing Namibian employers have launched a High Court case against the president, the government and trade unions to have the suspension of parts of the Labour Act during Namibia's Covid-19 state of emergency declared
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East Africa: COVID-19 Leaves Region in $2.3 Billion Debt Hole in Three Months
East African countries have borrowed nearly $2.3 billion new loans in less than three months since reporting the first Covid-19 positive case, adding to the region's mounting debts at a time of shrinking tax
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Ghana's COVID-19 Recovery Rises to 1,745 ... Case Counts Stand At 5,735
Per the GHS situation update, 3,906 of the 5,735 cases were from enhanced contact tracing, 1,714 from general surveillance, and 115 from mandatory quarantine cases at Tamale and
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Liberia: Health Officials Test for COVID-19
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Kenya: Ministries Explain Sh8.1 Billion Suspect Allocations
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