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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The death toll from tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan's West Darfur province climbed to at least 83, including women and children, a doctor's union and aid worker said, as sporadic violence continued Sunday. The ruling sovereign council met Sunday and said security forces would be deployed to the area. The deadly clashes grew out of a fistfight Friday between two people in a camp for displaced people in Genena, the provincial capital. An Arab man was stabbed to death and his family, from the Arab Rizeigat tribe, attacked the […]
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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
Author and investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a staunch crusader against lynching at the turn of the last century, would likely have been included among the hundreds of thousands of people calling for a thorough investigation into recent hanging deaths of two Black men in California and another in New York.
Now more than 150 years later, Los Angeles County called in California state Attorney General Xavier Becerra to keep an eye on the investigation of a Palmdale man found hanging from a tree last week.
Although local authorities have listed suicide as the likely cause of death in both instances, people in California and across the county are demanding more transparency in the investigations of the separate hanging deaths of the African American men.
Activists are also calling on the New York Police Department to conduct a deeper investigation into the death of an unidentified Black man who authorities say died from another apparent suicide.
On Sunday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced that State Attorney General Xavier Becerra will “monitor” the Fuller investigation.
The World Health Organization declared Latin America \"a new epicentre\" of the coronavirus pandemic as President Donald Trump ramped up pressure on state and local governments to speed up the reopening of the reeling American economy.
Surges in infections across much of Central and South America have driven the global case count to nearly 5.2 million, with more than 337,000 deaths, even as hard-hit Europe and the United States cautiously move into a recovery phase.
Unlike in Europe and the United States, where the elderly were hardest-hit, a significant number of deaths in Brazil have been younger people, who are often driven by poverty to work despite the threat of infection.
The pandemic has hammered the American economy and led to calls for an end to virus restrictions, despite the Covid-19 numbers still rising in the United States -- the worst-hit country in the world with 1.6 million infections and 96,000 deaths.
Experts have warned that until a vaccine or treatment is developed for the virus, lockdown measures will persist in some form to prevent new waves of infections, a factor that has put immense pressure on economies.
An attack by terrorists linked to the Islamic State group on a village in northeast Nigeria has killed dozens, security sources and residents said.
Fighters believed to be from the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction shot and ran over residents with vehicles in the assault on the remote village of Felo on Tuesday.
The sources told AFP that the death toll had risen from 59 after 10 more bodies were discovered in the countryside around the herding community.
Emergency workers were seen retrieving bodies as villagers make their return to the scene after the attack.
Northeast Nigeria has been wracked by a decade-long insurgency that has left at least 36,000 dead and displaced some 2 million
\tThe attacks are the latest round of deadly forays by the terrorist group following weeks of sustained counterinsurgency victories recorded by the Nigerian army.
Those who feel most vulnerable to the novel coronavirus disease—COVID-19 —are moving with extreme caution, while others are ignoring social distancing guidelines and protesting mask-less for business to reopen as usual.
Front and center are large groups of mostly White people, and few others, captured by the media protesting in mass with signs and bullhorns outside of statehouses demanding legislators to lift orders and reopen immediately.
Since reports have indicated that African Americans are being impacted disproportionately by COVID-19, do White people ostensibly feel safer?
Is there some misperception that if they —White people—live, work and attend schools in disproportionately White communities, they are less likely to contract a virus that disproportionately impacts and kills Black people who live somewhere else?
, chair of the
Congressional Black Caucus, told reporters not long ago that it is dangerous for COVID-19 to be classified as a Black disease.
The Ministry of Health yesterday announced the deaths of four men as a result of COVID-19.
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