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By Gwendolyn J. BrantleySpecial to Texas Metro News It was an opportunity to salute educators as the African American Education Archives and History Program inducted and enshrined nine outstanding educators at the 2023 Bobbie L. Lang Hall of Fame Luncheon and Induction Ceremony, held recently. This year’s honorees were Alene Baker, Dr. Lew Blackburn, S. […]
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Abiy's government and the regional one run by the Tigray People's Liberation Front each consider the other illegitimate.
\t There was no immediate word from the three AU envoys, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe. AU spokeswoman Ebba Kalondo did not say whether they can meet with TPLF leaders, something Abiy's office has rejected.
\"``Not possible,'' senior Ethiopian official Redwan Hussein said in a message to the AP. ``\"Above all, TPLF leadership is still at large.'' He called reports that the TPLF had appointed an envoy to discuss an immediate cease-fire with the international community ``masquerading.''
\t Fighting reportedly remained well outside the Tigray capital of Mekele, a densely populated city of a half-million people who have been warned by the Ethiopian government that they will be shown ``no mercy'' if they don't distance themselves from the region's leaders.
\t Tigray has been almost entirely cut off from the outside world since Nov. 4, when Abiy announced a military offensive in response to a TPLF attack on a federal army base.
That makes it difficult to verify claims about the fighting, but humanitarians have said at least hundreds of people have been killed.
\t The fighting threatens to destabilize Ethiopia, which has been described as the linchpin of the strategic Horn of Africa.
\t With transport links cut, food and other supplies are running out in Tigray, home to 6 million people, and the United Nations has asked for immediate and unimpeded access for aid.
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Shown is Vice President-elect Kamala Harris; former Atlanta First Lady Valerie Richardson Jackson; democratic activist Stacey Abrams by Chuck Richardson There is something magical about a fearless, intelligent, incorruptible black woman. A woman willing to [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Prairie View A&M University has announced a $40,000 donation from Sacramento’s Cameron Champ Foundation and Chevron Corporation to establish two scholarship funds for student-athletes on its Men’s and Women’s Golf Teams. The donation to the Historic Black College and University follows the historic conclusion of the pandemic-delayed 2020 Masters Tournament, where […]
Nanette Alexander-Thomas, MD is the Medical Director of Ambulatory Care at Brookdale University Medical Center (BUMC) where she supervises the clinical care of a bustling ambulatory program with over 150,000 visits/year, as well as Occupational Health Services.
The white Oregon man charged in the slaying of Aidan Ellison claims he shot the 19-year-old Black teen in the chest in self-defense after Ellison punched
[New Times] The Government is set to kick off the exercise of placing citizens in their respective Ubudehe categories on Friday, December 4, The New Times has learned.
The Texila American University (TAU) is hoping to provide a service for both patients on the East Bank Demerara and students at the university with the development of a hospital on its Providence campus.
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A Force to Be Reckoned With
Caroline Esinam Adzogble is a twenty-eight-year-old woman from Ghana who can now boast about being the youngest woman — in not only Ghana but in all of Africa to an accredited international college, Potters International College .
The inspirational entrepreneur began establishing the educational institutional — which is based in Accra, Ghana on African soil, at the young age of twenty-two. And she was still an undergrad student at college studying business administration and computer science when she initially launched the school in 2012 as an IT training institution.
A Business Mogul Under 30
Also an accomplished business coach in her own right, Adzogble aimed to create an establishment where both working professionals and students could undergo training programs to obtain work in the field of tech.
The education mogul has been quoted as saying, “I am on the quest to uplift Education within Africa and beyond, to make education the most accessible and affordable to students located in over 146 countries.”
Indeed, as Adzogble is also the founder of the International African Education Summit (IAES Africa) , an international 360 student and agent recruitment company connecting students, agents and institutions across 43 countries. In addition to running several other businesses, this tireless and empowered young woman is also the president and co-founder of Caroline University as she continues to be a global advocate for education via her executive activities at Mercy Heart — a foundation which enables deserving students to study abroad tuition-free by way of scholarship grants.
No Sign of Slowing Down
If you can imagine it, the Ghanaian beauty has even more ventures — which include Admission in 30 Minutes, Everyday Travels and Tours, and Caroline Technology Solutions.
And to top it all off, Caroline Esinam Adzogble is also the CEO of a major business conglomerate originating from West Africa, Ghana, the Caroline Group. One of the largest in the education sector across the region.
Next year will mark a century since Albert Einstein accepted his Nobel Prize in physics for the theories that fundamentally changed the way we understand our universe and what we as human beings can accomplish [...]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2020: Sierra Leone’s most widely read online newspaper - the Sierra Leone Telegraph, has been nominated to receive the 2020 National Entertainment Award in Sierra Leone, in recognition of its outstanding contribution to bringing the news to the people of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Telegraph is now in its…
DETROIT – “Posterity! You will never know how much it costs the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good ...
[New Times] A combination of mismanagement and financial constraints characterized by overly relying on tuition fees for funding have been cited as the major cause of closure of local private universities.
Some call it a plague. Yoav Motro calls it a war. The enemies are huge armies of desert locusts destroying farm and grazing lands across nine East African countries. In Ethiopia alone, the locusts have [...]
by Curtis Weathers - President-elect Joe Biden is moving swiftly to fill cabinet positions in his administration. My interest, of course, is who he will select as the new Secretary of Education. Biden and his advisers have been getting both solicited and unsolicited advice from numerous people and organizations (including yours truly) about who might […]
Motheo Koitsiwe became the first African man to receive a Ph.D. in African indigenous astronomy from North-West University (NWU).
In France, clementine producers in Corsica are delighted that Moroccan seasonal workers are able to step in and help save their crops. Overwhelmed by the harvest and a shortage of labor, French farmers do seek services from the North African country every year during harvests.
The Moroccan workers tested for Covid-19 before departure and upon arrival in relation to French Covid-19 guidelines.
\"It was really very, very important to have this labour force now, to be able to collect all these fruits which must not remain on the tree for very long, otherwise we will reach over-ripeness,\" Christophe Fouilleron, Clementine producer said.
Corsica’s farms are suffering from a lack of workers that worries farmers facing real prospects of seeing their crops rotting on trees.
Corsica produces 20,000 to 30,000 tons of clementine annually. Seasonal workers usually sign a contract of three to four months.
900 Moroccan seasonal workers have so far travelled to Franc this year.
The government allowed them to bring in labourers during the pandemic but further directed that they should respect the safety measures.
\"The clementine harvest is not too affected by barrier gestures in the orchard because in fact each worker will be at his post, a little far from each other. Once the worker is working inside the tree, they are rarely on top of each other, so in the end they work normally, but with protective equipment, masks, etc,\" Christophe Fouilleron, Clementine producer said.
In response to the economic crisis of 1973/74 the French government had banned the admissions of seasonal foreign workers.
In 2010, France authorized under exceptional circumstances admissions of seasonal foreign workers.
When Mahmoud Jibril stood in Libya's free elections in 2012 after heading the rebel government that helped overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, many believed that he could unify the country. Libya, which had then just emerged from a brutal conflict, needed to get back on its feet and Jibril's supporters felt he was the right...
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The history GCSE curriculum is set for a Black Lives Matter revamp to teach pupils about the experiences of minorities at key moments in time including Nazi Germany and Tudor England.
In the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minnesota in May, many took to the streets in protest. Others took to social media, posting jokes and videos reenacting the last minutes of the Black man’s life — pinned under the knee of a police officer, gasping for air. Some of the latter were discovered to […]
Proctor & Gamble (P&G) unveiled their new scholarship with the UNCF and CVS aimed at increasing the number of Black women professionals within the field.
[Ghanaian Times] Minority parties contesting this year's election have indicated their readiness to end the 28-year-old duopoly of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) in governance.
By LISA RATHKE Associated Press COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) — St. Michael's College managed to keep coronavirus cases at bay for almost two months this fall with students tested upon arrival and once every three weeks. But in mid-October, cases at the small Vermont school started to climb. The outbreak was linked to an ice rink more than 40 miles (64 kilometers) away. The liberal arts college shifted to all-remote learning and closed the campus to visitors. By November, a total of 76 of the roughly 1,600 students had tested positive, the school said. 'It was very concerning to experience the […]
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miles.edu Miles College is receiving a grant from Alabama Power and its parent, Southern Company, to support the Miles College Empowerment Center for Digital Excellence in Careers and Education (M-Power Center). The gift is part of Southern Company and its subsidiaries’ $50 million HBCU Initiative, a multiyear funding strategy announced in January 2020 that provides HBCU […]
Mauritania marks 60th independence anniversary on Saturday. President Mohamed Ould Cheikh el Ghazouani presided over the event after announcing sharp increases in pensions and salaries in the health and education sectors on Friday night.
\"I pay here, a deserved tribute and express deep appreciation to the heroes of our valiant resistance for the valiant acts of bravery and sacrifice, at the price of their blood, to defend the homeland in the name of its freedom and dignity\", he told the gathering in the capital, Nouakchott.
Health sector workers will benefit from a 30% increase in their salaries and a generalization of their risk premium, the president announced Friday night in a televised speech.
The Mauritanian head of state stressed the efforts made by health workers during the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed 169 lives for some 8,000 cases in in the country.
On education, the president said premiums of teachers have been increased to encourage them to work in remote areas of the country, describing them as a ‘’priority’’.
Pensioners will see their pensions doubled and now paid every month, instead of every three months currently, President Ghazouani added.
The ceremony saw parades by security officers, while locals were present to express their pride for the celebration.
\"It is a proud day for us because it marks the recovery of our freedom. It is a beautiful day that we are happy to celebrate every year\", a resident Fatima Ahmed said.
The Islamic Republic in Northwestern Africa gained its independence from France on November 28, 1960.
Noah Harris is originally from Mississippi.
A company has started selling the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, a leap for the field that could make it much easier for people to learn whether they have dementia. It also raises concern about the accuracy and impact of such life-altering news. Independent experts are leery because key test results have […]
Former NFL player Peyton Manning joins Stephen Curry, professional golfer Phil Mickelson, and former NBA player Charles Barkley for The Match: Champions for Change.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Black university and college graduates who struggle to find internship opportunities, mentors, or employment in major corporate companies across Canada will now receive support through an initiative launched last month by two entrepreneurs – Wayne and Nigela Purboo, who boast Jamaican heritage.
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Over 5,000 internally displaced persons camp near Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria to vote in local government elections.
Residents of the state are for the first time voting to elect officials for 27 local government councils in the state.
Officers say the exercise is being undertaken under covid-19 protocol observations.
\"We are very much enlightened by NOA and other agencies in order to bring a social distancing among the people and the people are very much aware and definitely they respond to the advice\", said Returning officer, Abdulrahman Bulama Ali.
At total of 38 chairmanship candidates, including two university professors are contesting in Saturday’s local elections.
The councils have been run by caretaker committees appointed by the state governors since 2012.
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party told a local newspaper that it had fielded the two professors contesting in the local elections.
Voting began at 8 am local time in 5,012 polling stations in Borno State and is expected to end at 2pm, officials said.
