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[Nation] The coronavirus is reversing decades of progress in poverty eradication, healthcare and education, with effects of the pandemic devastating the most vulnerable and leaving them further behind, a new study has shown.
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Uganda: With Schools Closed, Child Labour On the Rise in Lockdown Uganda
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] As coronavirus curbs keep 15 million children out of school, campaigners fear some may never return to class
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Africa: Beyond Florence Nightingale - How African Nurses Have Decolonised the Profession
[The Conversation Africa] This year - 2020 - marks the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. It's therefore understandable that it's being marked as the year of the nurse and midwife.
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America in Crisis: “I Can’t Breathe”; George Floyd’s Dying Words - My WordPress
By Thelma H. Johnson, Houston Sun Correspondent It has been 21 days, 504 hours, 30,240 minutes since millions of protesters across the United States and around the world took to the streets seeking justice after witnessing the killing of George Floyd, a black man in police custody, by four
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Ghana coronavirus: 24,518 cases; recoveries pass 20,000 | Africanews
Ghana is West Africa’s most impacted nation behind Nigeria, at a point in May 2020, Ghana led the regional case load. June has started with progressive lifting of more virus
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This group is donating wedding gowns to front line health care workers - L.A. Focus Newspaper
Brides Across America has been gifting wedding dresses and even weddings to members of the military and first responders for more than 10 years. But in May, the Massachusetts-based organization launched an initiative to expand its reach to health care
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Death of PM Coulibaly: Abidjan residents express shock | Africanews
Ivorians are mourning the passing of the country’s prime minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly.Days after his death people are still in a state of
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PAHO adopts emergency measures in battle against virus | New York Carib News
The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) says it has undertaken extensive emergency steps in the Americas, including the Caribbean, in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Liz Peek: Democrats beware – Backlash against leftist mob rule growing. Here's what polls show
Repudiation of the cancel culture, the looting of neighborhoods, the defaming of our nation’s history, the destruction of public monuments – is cropping up in big ways and small.
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Somalia: Foreign Trawlers, Illegal Fishing, Staff Shortage Deny Somalia U.S.$300 Million in Revenue
[East African] After sharks are captured off the coast of Somalia, their meat is salted, sun-dried and transported overland to Kismayo for export to Mombasa, Kenya, the main market in East Africa.
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Africa's top virus deaths: Cameroon women's football medic dies | Africanews
The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic across Africa is heading is gone past the 1,000 mark as of April 18, 2020. The casualties cut across age groups. From the death of a 6 year-old in Kenya, older patients in most instances and persons in the youth
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Black Groups Drag FDA Into Lawsuit Over Newport, Kool Other Menthol Cigs - Black Voice News
Seven out of 10 African American youth between ages 12 and 17 who smoke use menthol cigarettes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And, a higher percentage (93 percent) of Black adults who smoke began using menthol cigarettes. That’s more than two times higher than
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South Africa: Popular Disco Musician Patricia Majalisa Dies
[New Zimbabwe] SOUTH African disco queen, Patricia Majalisa has died.
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'Zootie' calls and dating apps: Couples share how they found matches during the pandemic - L.A. Focus Newspaper
When coronavirus first hit in March, the freelance production manager paid about $30 for a three-month premium subscription on the dating app Hinge -- and he figured he'd just keep swiping until that
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Africa: Unite Human, Animal and Environmental Health to Prevent the Next Pandemic - UN Report
[UNEP] Nairobi -- As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take lives and disrupt economies across the world, a new report warns that further outbreaks will emerge unless governments take active measures to prevent other zoonotic diseases from crossing into the human population, and sets out ten
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Somalia: Walz Announces U.S.$56 Million in Federal Funds for Child Care Providers
[Shabelle] Child care provider relief. The Forum News Service's Dana Ferguson reports (via the Bemidji Pioneer): "Thousands of Minnesota child care providers will be eligible for federal grant funds to offset the cost of guarding kids and staff against the coronavirus, Gov. Tim Walz announced
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Global Credit affirms Kenya Re's stable outlook on strong capital, liquidity
Global Credit Ratings (GCR) has affirmed Kenya Reinsurance Corporation (Kenya Re) a national scale financial rating of AA+ with a stable outlook, citing strong capital base and healthy liquidity.
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RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) - Michelle Bolsonaro, the wife of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who is sick with the new coronavirus, said yesterday that she and her two daughters had tested negative for the
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President Donald Trump headed into the hot zone of Miami-Dade County, Florida, on Friday intent on creating an alternate reality as the coronavirus ravages the United States. He wore no mask, showed no sense of remorse about the rushed reopening that has plunged the nation's health care system back
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Are Jews Obligated to Support Reparations for African-Americans? - African American News Today - EIN News
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Southern Africa: SADC and Russia Meet to Discuss Support On COVID-19 Response
[Namibia Economist] The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Russia met this week to discuss the COVID-19 situation in their respective jurisdictions where the Russian government presented a proposal regarding the availability of personal protective equipment and other medical
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'You can't kneel to an organization wishing us dead' – Black cop files complaint against fellow cop over #BLM - Face2Face Africa
An African American police officer in Chicago has filed a complaint against a fellow black officer for taking a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Frederick Collins made the complaint against Carmella Means, who is a 25-year veteran with the Chicago Police Department for kneeling
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Africa: WHO Calls for Equitable Access to Future COVID-19 Vaccines in Africa
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ANC launches discussion document which reimagines SA's economy after Covid-19 | News24
As South Africa edges slowly towards what has been described as a deep recession, it seems the governing party and business are, to some extent, seeing eye-to-eye on proposed solutions to the country's economic woes.
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Former U.S. Marshal Robert Moore of Springfield has long worked to make police departments more representative of the population, and to carry out their duty fairly and respectfully.He serves as chair of the criminal justice committee for Illinois branches of the National Association for the
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