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An estimated 1,800 newspapers closed between 2004 and 2018 after the number of people buying print editions dropped, and now during the pandemic, it appears most small publications – especially minority-based ones – will be phased out
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Africa: Migrant Lives at Risk as Rescues on Mediterranean Sea Come to Halt
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Spike Lee releases short film as 'love letter' to New York during COVID-19
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Africa's Young People Get Boost From New Partnership
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Rwanda: Banks Comfort Distressed Clients With Special Products
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Rwanda: How Government Plans to Revive Mining Sector
Mining is one of the sectors that have been affected, with falling prices for different types of mineral commodities across different
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South Africa: Faf Still Has Key Proteas Role to Play After Captaincy
Playing without the captaincy could allow Faf du Plessis to have even more of an influence on young players in the Proteas
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The Strange 'Kawasaki-like Disease' Attacking Children
A new detailed analysis just released from the hub of Italy’s Covid-19 outbreak found 10 cases of a Kawasaki disease-like illness in children, adding to reports of about 90 similar cases from New York and
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Africa's 100+ coronavirus cases: Uganda, Benin, Chad among new entrants
The World Health Organization Africa regional head warns that a spike likely to result in the wake of improved and increased
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Burundi sacks WHO officials ahead of May 20 polls
Burundi is kicking out the World Health Organization’s top official in the country just days before the presidential election and after the WHO raised concerns about crowded political
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Report: Structural racism — from segregated housing to limited job opportunities — responsible for high rate of COVID-19 deaths among African Americans
Long-established elements of structural racism, from substandard housing to mass incarceration to limited job opportunities, are responsible for the disproportionate toll COVID-19 is taking on African Americans in Chicago and elsewhere, a new paper from the Chicago Urban League argues.The
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Still Unbroken: Acknowledging African-American Community Leaders during COVID-19
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Nigeria coronavirus: 4,641 cases, Bauchi lockdown, Madagascar syrup
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Octavia Spencer: 'It's Okay to be Anxious' During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across the Continent Exceed 78 Thousand
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Coronavirus in Africa: 81,608 cases; 2,708 deaths; 31,122 recoveries
There are now more than over 80,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the
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Eight surprises in House Democrats' $3T coronavirus relief bill
House Democrats on Tuesday released their latest proposal for coronavirus relief — a massive package designed largely to press reluctant GOP leaders in the Senate and White House to get moving on another infusion of emergency
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RwandAir, the national carrier, is set to start ferrying commercial freight from the Chinese city of Guangzhou to Kigali, starting this week, the airline announced on
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Rwanda: Govt to Scale Up Interventions to Accelerate Technology, Innovation
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Trump began sprinkling the term “Obamagate” into his public statements last week after his attorney general decided to drop charges against Trump’s first national security adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who had already twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI regarding his phone
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West Africa: Food Insecurity in West Africa Could Leave 43 million at Risk as Coronavirus Hits
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Analysis | The playbook is familiar as first-time candidate with military record gives GOP a shot at House seat
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