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Poll: US Believers See Message of Change From God in Virus | Afro
The poll found that 31% of Americans who believe in God feel strongly that the virus is a sign of God telling humanity to change, with the same number feeling that
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Africa: Ebola, Hydroxychloroquine, COVID-19 – WHO Tackles a World of Health Challenges
Washington, DC — Almost 50 responders from the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners arrived today in Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), along with 3600 doses of Ebola vaccine and 2000 cartridges for lab testing, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told
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Mayor Young Announces Initiative to Help Businesses Safely Reopen | Afro
Mayor Young Selects the Baltimore Development Corporation and Neighborhood Design Center to Lead Design for Distancing: Reopening Baltimore Together, a Tactical Public Health and Business Recovery Initiative Throughout Baltimore City Districts
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Mothers Against Police Brutality | Dallas Weekly
The killings of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Breonna Taylor by police in Louisville, the killings by police in Indiana of Dreasjon “Sean” Reed, McHale Rose, and Ashlynn Lisby, and the killing of Ahmaud Arbery by vigilantes in Georgia remind us in the worst way that deadly police brutality
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Has coronavirus reshaped democratic rights?
There are already signs that some governments are using the crisis to grant themselves more expansive powers than warranted by the health crisis, with insufficient oversight mechanisms, and using their expanded authority to crack down on opposition and tighten their grip on
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California cracks down on rogue bars | Black Voice News
The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is proposing emergency powers to shut down bars and restaurants if they disobey the state’s public health order by serving mojitos and manhattans to patrons in an
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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California
Politics; Obamagate Is Not a Conspiracy Theory.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Those sharing #Obamagate on Twitter would do best to avoid the hysterics we saw from Russian-collusion believers, but they have no reason to ignore the mounting evidence that suggests the Obama administration engaged in serious
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The African entrepreneur and COVID-19: Where do we go from here?
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Now, more than ever, America must make water a human right | Bernie Sanders and Brenda Lawrence
The solution is not more privatization – it is for Congress to end decades of neglect and immediately invest billions into our public water systems so that we can finally guarantee clean drinking water to
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Over Ninety Percent of COVID-19 Victims With Preexisting Medical Conditions Have Died.
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Africa: At Least 80 Million Children Under One at Risk of Diseases Such as Diphtheria, Measles and Polio as COVID-19 Disrupts Routine Vaccination Efforts, Warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF
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State Approves County’s Plan To Allow Limited Opening Of Businesses
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COMMENTARY: Obama’s Popularity Continues to Rise Amid Trump’s Rhetoric | Afro
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South Sudan: First COVID-19 Death Reported
South Sudan health officials announced the country’s first death from COVID-19 on Friday, with a top health official describing the deceased as a 51-year old "high-profile South
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No punishment for Jamaicans who overstayed in US due to COVID-19
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MBUGUA: Shhh! Economy is already reopened
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California Eases Rules For Reopening Dine-In Restaurants, Stores
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Mozambique: Number of Coronavirus Cases Rises to 162
Maputo — Mozambique's National Director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, announced in Maputo on Thursday that, with the diagnosis of a further six cases of the coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease Covid-19, the number of confirmed cases in Mozambique has risen from 156 to
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FULL TEXT | Ramaphosa unveils Covid-19 hotspots, dos and don'ts under Level 3 lockdown
South Africa will be moving to Alert Level 3 of the lockdown on June 1, but the coronavirus will get much worse, before it gets better, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in an address to the nation on Sunday
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