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[Daily Maverick] Whether it is due to youth, herd immunity or a lack of data, Africa's low death rate from the coronavirus puzzles researchers.
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Source: allAfrica.com
Taxman gets nod to collect Sh1.2bn from bulk SMS firm
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has been allowed to collect tax amounting to Sh1.18 billion from a digital betting firm arising from unpaid taxes over a period of four years.
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NYC Jogger Calls Incident Where Woman Threw Bottle And Used Racial Slurs A 'Hate Crime'
Tiffany Johnson, the Queens jogger who was attacked by a woman who threw a bottle at her while screaming racial slurs, is speaking out about the shocking
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September 16: Nelson Mandela Spoke at Saudi Arabian Cultural Conference Today in 2002
By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Trevor Samson/AFP for Getty Images Nelson Mandela, a South African-born anti-Apartheid activist, national government leader, and Nobel laureate was regarded by many across the world as a shining example of what a lifetime of genuinely fulfilled greatness is. Born
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Corruption in Africa: The necessity for stringent accountability
guest column:Anadi Arnold Sululu I WAS following social media postings in the past few weeks, where cases of corruption allegations in South Africa and Zimbabwe, among other African countries, were exploding. It jolted me to revisit a chapter on corruption in an unfinished book which I am currently
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Then & Now: 26 Photos Show How 2020 Has Changed The World As We Know It
Photographers returned to scenes they photographed before 2020. This multimedia project highlights contrasting images, reminding us of a way of life that once was.
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G40 kingpins scoff at extradition threat
BY EVERSON MUSHAVA SELF-EXILED Zanu PF G40 kingpins Saviour Kasukuwere and Walter Mzembi yesterday scoffed at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s threat to have them extradited from South Africa for prosecution. They said they would invoke international laws to block the planned extradition. The two
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Home at last
by GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVA THE three Ghanaian football players who had been stranded in Chiredzi for about six months finally flew back home yesterday following the intervention of Zifa and Footballers Union of Zimbabwe (FUZ). The trio spent the greater part of the year holed up in Chiredzi after Zifa
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Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Regional Committee of the WHO European Region
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Meet the celebrated artist behind ‘Ethiopia’, the first Pan-African American work of art - African American News Today - EIN News
… of an emerging African-American society while delivering … self-image for African Americans through her sculptoral … revolutionary works of the African-American experience, Ethiopia Awakening … and self-confidence of African Americans with global trends, …
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DRC: First bodies recovered after mining accident kills 50 | Africanews
About 50 people are feared dead after an artisanal gold mine flooded in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential
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Activity heavy on the radar on day of historical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season | New York Carib News
Today is the historical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season! Two active systems in the Atlantic on each side of Florida, tropical storms Paulette and Rene are on the radar from the National Hurricane Center. Fortunately, they don’t threaten land.
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Africa: Ethiopia is Africa's Wobbly Giant
Opinion - The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has demonstrated its resourcefulness, resilience and dominance in the Horn of Africa. Despite numerous challenges facing it, be it the stories about its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the diplomatic row over it with Egypt, which have
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Chadwick Boseman laid to rest near his South Carolina hometown - Face2Face Africa
Chadwick Boseman was buried near his South Carolina hometown six days after he died, according to a death certificate obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The 43-year-old Black Panther star was laid to rest on September 3 in Belton, South Carolina, at the Welfare Baptist Church
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IMF approves $1 billion in funds for Angola, adds $765 million to program | Africanews
The International Monetary Fund said it had authorised an immediate $1 billion disbursement to Angola under an existing programme on Wednesday, and raised its overall access to funding by $765 million to help it contend with the coronavirus
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George Floyd’s death: The ‘old pirate has robbed I’ again - African American News Today - EIN News
Spread the loveBy Sir Hilary Beckles Martin Luther King Jr, when he felt he could not breathe, went to Jamaica. When the threats to his life were constant and closing in around his neck, he took this measure to maintain his life. His visits to Jamaica’s north coast filled his lungs with the
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Nigeria gov't under fire for sentencing 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy - Face2Face Africa
It has emerged that on the same day 22-year-old Nigerian musician Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death in the northern state of Kano for blasphemy, a 13-year-old boy was also given 10 years in prison with menial labor for blasphemy. Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State
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ACC reacts to allegations of corruption in Sierra Leone parliament
Patrick Sandi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 September 2020: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) notes public reactions and rightful concerns on allegations of corruption within the House of Parliament in Sierra Leone, emanating from the 2019 Perceptions Survey Report commissioned in April, 2020, by
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Ethiopia: U. S.-Ethiopia Relations Take A Wrong Turn
Guest Column - The Trump administration's decision to suspend and delay development assistance to Ethiopia over the filling of the new Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) is misguided and shortsighted. The move will undermine Washington's relations and influence in one of Africa's most significant states.
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Target on Her Back: Black Lives Matters’ Melina Abdullah is a Woman in the Crosshairs - L.A. Focus Newspaper
Stephen Oduntan, Staff On a sunny mid-August afternoon, Black Lives Matter activist Dr. Melina Abdullah arrived at the Hall of Justice building, in downtown Los Angeles, to lead a peaceful protest that called for District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s resignation. Wearing a black T-shirt with “Legalize
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Mixed-race Congolese women sue Belgium for separating them from their families - Face2Face Africa
Five mixed-race Congolese women have sued the Belgian government for forcefully separating them from their families when the European country administered Congo as a territory. The women – all in their 70s – said they were taken from their families and put in Catholic missions in the then Belgian
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Abdool Karim: SA heading to low level Covid-19 transmission threshold, but second wave threat remains | News24
South Africa is on its way to reaching the threshold of a country with a low level of Covid-19 transmission.
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Africa: Fear of More Coronavirus-Like Pandemics As Land Rights 'Under Siege'
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Researchers say securing the lands of indigenous people can help protect biodiversity and lower the risk of future outbreaks of diseases such as COVID-19
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Louisville agrees to pay family of Breonna Taylor several million dollars in settlement - Face2Face Africa
The city of Louisville will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed six months after the 26-year-old EMT was killed by police. Taylor was with her boyfriend Kenneth Walker when she was shot by three Louisville police officers who broke into her
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Don’t Pooh-Pooh This: Zoo Helps Hippos Swim with the Fishes - L.A. Focus Newspaper
VALENCIA, Spain -Caretakers at a Spanish zoo have come up with a way for its hippos to feel more at home by creating a pool that includes a variety of fish found in the species' native habitat in Africa. The staff at the Bioparc Valencia Zoo celebrated the completion of that project in its Kitum
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Mkhize: About 12 million people in SA may have contracted Covid-19 | News24
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Africa: Ice Loss On Africa's Highest Peak Prompts Star Climber Will Gadd to Reconsider His Sport
[UNEP] World-renowned adventurer Will Gadd is having a rethink about his ice-climbing career and carbon footprint after discovering that his planned ascent of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro was no longer possible due to the extensive shrinking of its glaciers.
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How Banks Are Hindering Black Entrepreneurial Progress
Although there is a rise in Black-owned businesses, there is still a major disparity when Black entrepreneurship rates are compared to white business ownership. And while there are many factors that can be attributed to this commercial banks play a huge role.
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