Nigeria: How Incessant Attacks Threaten 2023 Elections

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Nigeria: How Incessant Attacks Threaten 2023 Elections

[Daily Trust] The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday, said the series of attacks on the commission's facilities may undermine its capacity to organise elections and negatively impact the country's electoral processes.

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Nigeria: Gubio Attack - Death Toll Now 81 - Village Head, Six Others Abducted

In Gubio, the governor was also informed that seven persons, including a village head, were abducted by the

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Nigeria: Two Years After, Wike Approves State Burial for Ob Lulu-Briggs

[Vanguard] After two years delay induced by protracted family litigations and later challenges of Covid-19, Governor Nyesom Wike has approved a state burial for Rivers state billionaire and philanthropist, High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs.

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Zimbabwe: PRAZ No Longer Involved in Awarding of Public Tenders - CEO

[New Zimbabwe] The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ) is no longer involved in the awarding of public tenders and the process will now be done by permanent secretaries and other accounting officers in government ministries and parastatals.

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Nigeria: Federal Govt Releases Details of Programme to Employ 774,000 Nigerians

Sometime in October, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, approved a Pilot Special Public Works Programme in the Rural

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Black Lives Matter backs Amazon union push in Alabama

Organizers trying to form the first union at an Amazon warehouse are getting support from another big name: Black Lives... View Article The post Black Lives Matter backs Amazon union push in Alabama appeared first on TheGrio.

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Polls, increased subventions for local gov’t organs among priorities for Dharamlall’s ministry - Stabroek News

Holding local government elections and an increase in subventions being provided to municipalities and Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) have been announced as being among the top priorities of the Ministry of Local Government under the new

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Somalia: Series of Grenade Attacks Shocks Somali Capital

[Shabelle] Details are emerging of a series of attacks waged in eight districts and a neighborhood in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Thursday night.

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LJP to field first MP for three-party list - Stabroek News

The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) will field the first parliamentary representative for the seat awarded to its

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Nigeria: Shasha Crisis - 3,000 People Displaced As Victims Count Losses in Oyo

[Vanguard] FEUDING parties in the crisis that engulfed Shasha area of Ibadan in Akinyele Local Government area at the weekend have begun to count their losses after normalcy returned to the trouble spots.

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Nigeria: Boko Haram Attacks 3 LGs in Borno, Kills At Least 29 Persons

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Africa: Covid-19 Stirs Human Trafficking, UN Warns

[East African] A new report by the UN drug and crimes agency warns that the Covid-19 pandemic could also be contributing to a rise in trafficking of persons.

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San Francisco Proposes Art Installation to Honor Black Lives, History of African Americans | Post News Group

The sculptural figures created in all-black steel with vinyl tubing, each standing four feet high, would surround the empty pedestal where a statue of Francis Scott Key once stood. Key, who wrote the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was a slave owner and abolition

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Mozambique: Son of Businessman Kidnapped in Quelimane

[AIM] Maputo -- Unidentified armed men on Thursday night kidnapped the son of a prominent businessman, Nathoobai, in the central Mozambican city of Quelimane, reports the independent television station STV.

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South Africa: SA Economy - Jobs Blight Worsens

[Daily Maverick] South Africa's official unemployment rate is north of 30% again, while the expanded definition, which includes discouraged job seekers, has climbed beyond 43%, data for the third quarter of 2020 shows. Both are record highs.

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Coast Guard hero Charles W. David Jr rescued 93 crew members in icy water, and then died - Face2Face Africa

Two hundred and thirty-one thousand men and 10,000 women served in the Coast Guardduring World War II. Of these, 1,918 gave their lives in service, and Charles Walter David Jr. was one of them. Born in 1917 and lived in New York, David joined the United States Coast Guard at a time the service

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Jobless Claims Plummet 19% as Donald Trump Dares Congress to Block New Unemployment Benefits – Free Press of Jacksonville

New unemployment claims fell below one million for the first time since March last week, a sign of a national revival after months of COVID-19 related joblessness for tens of millions of Americans. During the [...]

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Barr announces $100M more to combat human trafficking | The Atlanta Voice

U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr says the federal government is awarding more than $100 million in grants to target human trafficking. The money will go to task forces combatting human trafficking, to victim services and victim housing. Barr made the announcement Monday in Atlanta with presidential

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Todd Spitzer Launches New Hate Crimes Unit in Orange County - Los Angeles Sentinel

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer today announced that his office has created a new unit that will focus on hate crimes. The post Todd Spitzer Launches New Hate Crimes Unit in Orange County appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.

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Congo-Kinshasa: Kinshasa Vows Zero Tolerance Over Child Soldiers After U.S. Anti-Trafficking Nod

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) decries use of child solders by army and militias after upgrade in U.S. Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report

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'Grave embarrassment': MPs lay into Ndabeni-Abrahams

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Jamaica launches online resource library on human trafficking

THE Jamaica Office of the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons (ONRTIP) launched its online resource library on Wednesday.The library seeks to provide anti-trafficking stakeholders with relevant and practical knowledge about human trafficking, as well as provide access to relevant research

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The Ministry of Justice, Home Affairs, and National Security, in collaboration with the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force, is currently conducting a nationwide Crime Perception Survey from Nov. 15

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Rwanda: Etincelles Skipper Gikamba Joins Rivals Marines

[New Times] Rwanda Premier League side Marines have signed two players from rivals Etincelles, including the club's now-former skipper Ismael Gikamba.

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Woman sentenced to 15 years for kidnapping, sex trafficking of girl, 14 | News24

Verona Kennedy, 27, was on Friday sentenced by the Cape Town Regional Court for human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

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Alpha Phi Alpha Brother Becomes First African American To Lead The Air Force - Watch The Yard

Alpha Phi Alpha’s very own General Charles Q. Brown Jr. has made history by becoming the U.S. Air Force’s chief of staff making him the first African American to lead a U.S. military service. On Tuseday, the Senate unanimously confirmed the four-star general as the U.S. Air Force’s chief of staff

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Trafficking - Stabroek News

The number of children being trafficked for forced labour and sexual exploitation is increasing, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) latest Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, which was released a little over a week ago on February

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Nigeria: Again, Dangote Demolishes 300 Houses in Nasarawa

[This Day] Again, a subsidiary of Dangote Group, Dangote Sugar Refinery Tunga in Awe Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, has reportedly invaded Ugber with bulldozers, thereby demolishing over 300 houses.

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Georgia unemployment rate rises as economic rebound sputters | The Atlanta Voice

Georgia’s economic recovery from the pandemic sputtered in September, with the unemployment rate raising and employers adding few jobs. The jobless rate rose to 6.4%, up from 5.7% in August. More people flooded back into the labor force, but fewer people reported having jobs. The slowdown means

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