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Africa: C-19: Africa's "Wicked Problem"
In this Africa in Fact series of blogs, six of our correspondents across the continent will report over the next twelve weeks on aspects of their governments' policies and
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Namibia: State of The Nation Address by His Excellency Dr. Hage G. Geingob, President of The Republic Of Namibia
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Rwanda: Landslide Aftermath - Smallholder Farmers Appeal for Urgent Support
Nyirakayeye, a smallholder farmer and mother of four from Jenda Sector in Nyabihu says that the losses she incurred are valued at Rwf600,000 which she expected to cash in on the harvest if the season had gone as
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Kenya: Transnational Cartels Dictate What's for Breakfast in Kenya
The trade of substandard foodstuffs is controlled by criminal cartels that run from Kenya with regional links to Uganda, Tanzania and
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Kenya: Poultry Farmers Lobby Want Uganda Chicken Meat Import to Kenya Taxed or Banned
Uganda Revenue Authority has in the past two years charged, Kenyan Chicken meat export a 25 percent of taxes - 18 percent of VAT, 1 percent of Railway development levy and 6 percent Withholding
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Zimbabwean farmers get tech savvy to stay in business
HARARE, Zimbabwe—Quickfresh co-founder Rumbidzai Mbambo makes daily runs supplying fresh produce to her growing list of
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Uganda: World Bank Approves Shs181b Loan to Fight Locusts in Uganda
The World Bank Group has announced that it has approved a USD 48 million (about Shs181 billion) to help Uganda fight the desert locusts
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Nigeria: Seafood Industry Braces Up for Post-COVID Blue Economies
The Norwegian Seafood Council, NSC, has concluded plans to use the Nigeria's seafood industry to reboot the economy and get its workforce up and running again despite the
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OP-ED: Leaders must work together to address the disparities that impact health and wellness amid the COVID-19 pandemic
While the harm of COVID-19 is tragic and impacts everyone, we, as business and community leaders, must do more to reduce the social conditions that contribute to these troubling and unacceptable inequities that have become magnified during this health
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Ways technology can boost food security, rev up jobs in Kenya
Along with the economic devastation, including widespread job losses for informal sector daily wage earners and MSMEs accounting for 85 percent of Kenya’s total employment), food insecurity is one of the biggest
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Africa's farmer presidents – Botswana's Masisi joins Geingob, Buhari, Museveni
May 2020: Botswana president talks farming
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NBA Player Mike Conley Donates $200,000 Towards Coronavirus Relief Efforts
NBA star Mike Conley is focused on providing relief for underserved groups who have been significantly impacted by the public health crisis, The Salt Lake Tribune
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Somalia: Triple Emergencies of COVID-19, Flooding & Locusts Makes Somalia Susceptible to Human Trafficking
Mogadishu — While simultaneously suffering from the coronavirus pandemic, flooding and a locust crisis, Somalia, could well see a rise in the number of people who are susceptible to human
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Africa: Migration Is a Safety Net During Climate Change Disasters
Climate threats are currently high across much of Africa, with floods, droughts and the biggest locust outbreak in
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Zimbabwean Farmers Get Tech Savvy to Stay in Business – Free Press of Jacksonville
HARARE, Zimbabwe—Quickfresh co-founder Rumbidzai Mbambo makes daily runs supplying fresh produce to her growing list of
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Gail Dennise Mathieu, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was appointed United States Ambassador to Niger by President George W. Bush in 2002. She remained in Niamey, the capital until 2005.  In 2007 President Bush appointed her United States Ambassador to Namibia. Between these
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Rwanda: Kagame, Top EU Official Urpilainen Discuss Rwanda-EU Ties
President Paul Kagame Friday held what he described as a "good conversation" with the European Union (EU) Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta
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Africa: Safeguarding Africa's Food Security in the Age of COVID-19
With each climate shock, whether drought, flood or cyclone, farmers suffer directly, while shortages elevate the price of food for
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The virus back to hell: Struggle, Educate, Innovate
Nevertheless, If God is in control of COVID-19, I want her to suspend or cancel the disease transmission in our weak and fragile
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Libya: Conflict and the COVID-19 Pandemic Present a Significant Threat to Life in Libya
In March 2020, humanitarian partners reported a total of 851 access constraints on movement of humanitarian personnel and humanitarian items within and into
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Source: allAfrica.com
Black America speaks. America should listen.
30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in
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Rwanda: EU Offers Rwf55 Billion to Rwanda in COVID-19 Grant
The Government of Rwanda and the European Union (EU) Monday signed a Rwf55 billion grant agreement to support social protection in response to the Covid-19 crisis in the country, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning said in
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Basic Education department taken to court over feeding eligible school children in all grades
Equal Education (EE) and the school governing bodies (SGBs) of two Limpopo schools on Friday launched an urgent court application against the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and provincial education departments to compel the departments to provide meals for
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Celebrating World Environment Day amid COVID-19
The year 2020 witnessed the event being celebrated not only in the background of climate change impacts, but also in the midst of COVID-19, a deadly pandemic that has caused massive human casualties around the
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Kenya: Safi Organics Turns Farm Waste into Black Gold and Poor Farmers into Entrepreneurs
"This is the kind of impact we would like to deliver to smallholder farmers across the African continent," says Joyce Kamande, one of 25 African entrepreneurs who spent six weeks at Oklahoma State University last year as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a flagship programme of the
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Somalia Received $1.9 Billion of Development Assistance in 2019
Somalia received US$ 1.9 billion in official development assistance (ODA) in 2019, comprised of roughly equal volumes of humanitarian (US$ 934 million) and development aid (US$ 924
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Bill Cosby Supports Protestors, Opposes Use of Tactical Gear by Police Officers
While coronavirus does not know boundaries of race, income, or ethnicity, its disproportionate impact on minority communities is unmistakable and points to a deeper crisis of racial disparities in health care that have persisted long before the onset of this
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Uganda: 50 Percent Residents of Kagadi, Kyenjojo Hungry
A report on the immediate impact of Covid-19 lockdown on rural communities shows there is a significant decline in the wellbeing of the people and more of them are missing
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Africa: First U.S. Representative to African Development Bank Supports AfDB President Adesina
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Liberia: IMF Executive Board Approves a U.S.$50 Million Disbursement to Liberia to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic
The pandemic opens a balance of payment need of US$150 million (5.1 percent of GDP) in 2020, which largely arises from a domestic revenue shortfall projected at US$119
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