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Bujumbura, Burundi (1899- )
Bujumbura is Burundi’s capital and largest city. Located on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, it is only a few miles from the frontier with the Democratic Republic of the Congo by boat through Lake
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(1946) W.E. B. DuBois, “Behold the Land”
On October 20, 1946, seventy-eight year old W.E.B DuBois delivered the address at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia South Carolina.  Although this was one of his last major orations, he used the occasion to inspire his audience to continue the struggle for racial
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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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Palestinian state proposed
In early Jan. 2013, President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshal to Cairo. First, Morsi met with each one individually. The objective was to work toward a reconciliation of the two factions, Fatah and Hamas, but according to
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Nigeria: Mass Terror Trials Test Nigeria's Criminal Justice System
Nigeria is expected to conduct a fourth phase of mass trials for Boko Haram suspects currently in military
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These vehicles will significantly improve GPL’s ability to expand and maintain transmission and distribution systems
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Nigeria: Local Content Bill Vital to Preserving Nigeria's Socioeconomic Independence - Hon Idagbo
Hon Idagbo giving the background of the Nigerian Local Content Development and Enforcement Bill (the Bill) which is sponsored by Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, himself (Idagbo) and seven other members of the House of Representatives explained why the nation at this trying time needs this Bill passed into
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Burundi: A Perfect Storm Is Brewing in Burundi
While most of the world tries to slow the spread and limit the death toll of Covid-19, Burundi is expelling health
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Inside Microsoft's (impossible?) mission to go carbon negative
In January, Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative (removing more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits) by 2030 and to spend US$1-billion on a climate investment fund, much of it aimed at bolstering carbon-removal tech, a nascent field with lots of big ideas but only a handful of companies
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Joy, tears in Darfur as International Criminal Court arrests wanted war crimes suspect
Kushayb, a senior Janjaweed commander in the early years of the conflict, was the target of a 2007 ICC arrest warrant on multiple counts including rape, murder and
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Malawi re-run: opposition candidate wins, unseating Mutharika
June 27: Chakwera declared winner
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Queries raised over Kabuga's Kenya link
For many years believed to have been hiding in Kenya, Kabuga, born in 1935 in Muniga, Rwanda, is said to have been one of the perpetrators of the genocide against the Tutsi, in which more than a million people were
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Africa: Minister Blade Nzimande Calls for African Solutions to COVID-19 During Africa Day
The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, assured Africa's scientific community that just as the continent had defeated colonial and racial oppression, so too would it overcome the novel
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Nigeria: Why It's Time for Adults to Accept That Nigerian Teenagers Have a Digital Life
Young people are growing up in an environment ruled by digital devices, the internet and social
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NCEL to launch new online course for principals, vice-principals
The National College for Educational Leadership (NCEL) is now accepting applications for its Virtual Instructional Leadership (VIL) online course that will be launched within
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Rwanda: Kabuga Appears in Court, Hearing Adjourned to May 27
After his interrogation by prosecution on Tuesday, Genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga appeared in a court in the French capital, Paris on Wednesday, May
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Rwanda's Most Wanted Genocide Fugitive Arrested in France
Rwanda genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga was on Saturday arrested in Paris region, the French justice ministry and the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
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Africa: U.S. Executive Order Against Property Of Certain Persons Associated With ICC
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Rwanda: Kabuga Arrest Reignites Calls for UK to Rein in Genocidaires
Andrew Mitchell, a British Conservative Party politician and former secretary of state for international development, is among the voices now again urging legal authorities in his country to act on five genocide perpetrators living in the UK, "not in hiding but in plain
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Arthur Allen Fletcher, “The Father of Affirmative Action”
Arthur Allen Fletcher is known to many as the father of affirmative action.  In the following account historian David Hamilton Golland describes the career of Fletcher, a Republican civil rights activist during the last half of the 20th
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Africa: Cybercrime and COVID-19 – A Concern for Financial Stability During the Pandemic
Cybercrime has long posed a significant risk for financial stability in African countries given limited capacity and attention to managing cyber
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Ethiopia fights for vibrancy as economy takes Covid hit
For the past three years, Ethiopia was the talk of town, with leading institutions terming it one of Africa’s fastest rising
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Africa: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Other Global Ills Share Root Causes
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, the international treaties charged with solving two of the biggest problems of the 21st century, were both due to hold make-or-break meetings in
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Stevie Wonder
Occupation(s) Stevland Hardaway Morris (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins; May 13, 1950),[1] known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy, he is considered to be one of the most critically and commercial
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Africa's coronavirus cases pass 100,000; deaths at 3,098
May 22: Cases pass 100,000 mark
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South Sudan: First War, Now COVID-19 Threatens South Sudanese in Crowded Camp
Nairobi — Two people have tested positive in a crowded South Sudanese camp housing 30,000 people
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Zimbabwe: British Govt Petitioned to Revoke Mangwana Citizenship, Deport Family
Zimbabweans based in the United Kingdom has launched an online petition demanding the deportation of Information ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana's family from the European
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Rwanda: Court to Rule on Genocidaire Kabuga's Extradition on June 3
A French court will rule on genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga's extradition on June 3 after his bail request was denied on May
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Covid-19: AU hails 'African jewel' as continental medical supplies platform 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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