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Africa: News Alert - UNSC Members Set to Take GERD Vote This Afternoon
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -The 15 member states of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) are set to take a vote this afternoon on whether to hold an open virtual meeting on matters concerning the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Addis Standard has learnt.
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Source: allAfrica.com
Africa: U.S. Sets Sanctions Against International Criminal Court
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Somalia, Eswatini, Togo, others elected veeps of 75th UN Gen. Assembly
Somali has been elected Vice President of the 75th session of the United Nationals General Assembly, UNGA which will run for the year 2020
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
Gambia's justice minister resigns | Africanews
Gambia’s renowned justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou, who established a probe to investigate abuses under the country’s ex-dictator and spearheaded the international defence of Myanmar’s Rohingya, has resigned, the government said
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
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Africa: Unctad - African Countries Should Use Official Development Assistance to Diversify Their Economies
A key recommendation of a recent report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which deals with trade, investment, and development issues, is for official development assistance to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to be channeled to the productive
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Sudan reels from drug shortages as virus spreads
As it battles mounting cases of coronavirus, Sudan is grappling with acute medicine shortages at a time of economic woes largely blamed on the policies of ousted president Omar
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Source: The East African
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - UN Agency Seeks $182m for Families in North-East Nigeria
The UN agency disclosed this in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES by its national communications officer, Kelechi Onyemaobi, on Wednesday
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Source: allAfrica.com
Malawi re-run: opposition candidate wins, unseating Mutharika
June 27: Chakwera declared winner
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Africa: News Alert - UNSC Members Set to Take GERD Vote This Afternoon
Addis Abeba — The 15 member states of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) are set to take a vote this afternoon on whether to hold an open virtual meeting on matters concerning the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Addis Standard has
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Source: allAfrica.com
Africa: The COVID - 19 Pandemic Shows Us Just How Much Women May Be Left Behind
As the precautional measure of social distancing find more people working from home, let us reflect on these five possible ways that may help ensure that women and girls are not being left behind as the world sets itself to deal with a humanitarian crisis that we just may never have thought
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Source: allAfrica.com
Africa: COVID-19 - AU Hails 'African Jewel' As Continental Medical Supplies Platform Is Launched
African leaders have lauded the launch of the continent's first medical supplies platform as the "jewel in the crown of Pan-African
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'There is an urgent need for justice' - Mali teen urges UN to protect children in war zones
United Nations, US – A 15-year-old Malian girl on Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to protect children in war zones, lest they suffer
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Business confidence in South Africa drops to record low
South African business confidence plunged to the lowest level in 45 years due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, with companies even more pessimistic now than when disinvestment from the country over its apartheid policies started gaining momentum more than three decades
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Bicycle to the 'economic rescue' of man in Kenya [Morning Call] | Africanews
Wednesday June 3 2020 was World Bicycle Day. Its history dates back to April 2018, when the United Nations General Assembly declared June 3 as International World Bicycle Day, acknowledging the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle, which has been in use for two centuries. As you may
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
COVID dictionary: A - Z of words that accompanied the coronavirus
Contact-tracing: the process of identifying and testing people who have been exposed to a contagious disease like the
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
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St. George’s is the capital of Grenada, an island nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The city has an estimated population of 4,300 people in a nation of 105,897 people (2012). St. George’s is positioned on the island’s southern coast on a small peninsula that has a shallow exterior bay
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Djibouti: Kenya, Djibouti Set for Run-Off Vote in Contest for UNSC Membership
Nairobi — Africa will know its third non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2021-2022 after Thursday's run-off vote by the United Nations General Assembly to elect new temporary
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Source: allAfrica.com
One in 97 people around the world forced from their homes in
War, violence and other humanitarian emergencies forced about 79.5 million people out of their homes in 2019—almost double the number of people displaced a decade ago—according to a report by United Nations High Commission for
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Source: The East African
Rwanda: French Court Rules Félicien Kabuga Be Tried in Tanzania
A French court on Wednesday, June 3, ruled that suspected genocide mastermind Félicien Kabuga be transferred, from France to the custody of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (RMICT), for
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Source: allAfrica.com
Alert over renewed desert locust swarms heading into West Africa
Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture has warned that desert locusts remain a threat in three counties as the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) cautions that the swarms could soon find their way to West
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Source: The East African
Zim poet appointed Unesco affiliate
INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED poet and writer, Mbizo Chirasha has received a major boost in his artistic career after he was accepted as a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco)-Rila affiliate artist, joining an esteemed team of other international creatives on
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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
BILL VAUGHAN'S TASTY CLIPS: Mary J. Blige witnesses horrors in new film ‘Body Cam’
Nat Wolff (“Paper Towns,” “The Fault in Our Stars,” and the upcoming CBS All Access adaptation of “Stephen King’s The Stand”), Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose (“The Quad,” “Little Fires Everywhere,” “The Princess and the Frog”), and former New York police officer turned go-to character actor
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Earth Today | UNEP partners to reduce freshwater stress
IN A move to reduce the stress on freshwater resources in the Caribbean, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and its partners are to implement a new multimillion-US-dollar project with a focus on wastewater management in the
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Rwanda’s move to stop illegal mineral imports
Rwanda has launched a new mineral export certificate to curb allegations of smuggling of precious metals from the Democratic Republic of
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Source: The East African
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UN horrified about mass graves discovery in Libya
The United Nations expressed its horror Thursday after discovering mass graves in Libya in an area that fell last week to forces of Fayez el Sarraj, who have been at war for more than a year against forces of Khalifa
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Apple acquires virtual reality firm NextVR
Apple confirmed it acquired NextVR, a start-up that provides sports and other content for virtual-reality
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UN calls for 'efforts' against DRC natural resource trafficking
The UN Security Council called Thursday for "sustained efforts" in preventing the illegal trade of natural resources from the DR Congo, as gold in particular fuels conflict between armed groups in the
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Source: The East African
England series in CWI best interests, says Bishop
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Well-respected television broadcaster, Ian Bishop, believes it would be in the best financial interests of Cricket West Indies and regional players, to take up the England and Wales Cricket Board’s offer of the three-Test series in the United Kingdom this
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