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Akuetteh, Cynthia Helen (1948- )
In 2014, Cynthia Akuetteh, career Senior Foreign Service officer, was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as ambassador to Gabon and the island nation of Sao Tomé & Principe. After U.S. Senate confirmation she arrived in Libreville, capital of Gabon, to take up her
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Africa: Deep Dive - Lockdown Gives Dive Operators Time to Rethink Sustainability
The classes cover a range of topics, from marine life to coral reef conservation, and many are free
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US Republicans could be key to resuscitating Caribbean tourism
As Caribbean tourism rebounds, marketers are looking to Republican-leaning Americans to be among the first set of visitors to return to the region’s shores based on an in-depth social sentiment data
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Sagicor Group takes $5b COVID hit
(Jamaica Gleaner) Sagicor Group Jamaica Limited took a $5-billion hit on its investment securities, which led to lower profit in the March
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Victoria, Seychelles (1772- )
Victoria is the capital city of the Republic of Seychelles, a country made up of 115 small islands in the Indian Ocean of which 46 are uninhabited.  It has been the nation’s capital since the country gained its independence in 1976. Victoria is the country’s largest city and the least populous
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Liquid Propane Could Supply Zimbabwe With Fuel – Free Press of Jacksonville
In December, Intergas, in a partnership with Nigerian alternative energy company THLD Group, started preparing autogas for the Zimbabwe
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New leadership for Nubian Square
The organization, formerly Dudley Square Main Streets, coordinates efforts to improve Roxbury’s largest commercial district, now known as Nubian
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President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced plans to help businesses and Kenyans survive the economic storm caused by the coronavirus
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Tennessee Voices, Episode 32: Steven Lewis, curator, National Museum of African American Music
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The suggestion by Quality Incorporations VII Ltd Director Krishna Vaswani is that the Government starts reopening the economy in parishes where there are few cases of the novel
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Uganda: Kampala Captains of Industry Awaken, Show the Way Forward for the Cranes
This time, the business leaders rose and falling just short of proclaiming a new economic order, spelt out how things should be done
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Organized Labor in the 21st Century: The Las Vegas Hotel and Culinary Workers Union Local 226
In February 2008, the Las Vegas Hotel and Culinary Workers Union Local 226 emerged on the national political scene with their high profile endorsement of presidential candidate Barack Obama. The union itself has a much older history that goes back to the late 1940s and is tied to the aspirations of
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Africa: How an Underwater Photo Led to the Discovery of a Tiny New Seahorse Species
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Ghana: COVID-19 Businesses Support Fund Should Spur MSMEs On to Thrive
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday launched a GH¢1 billion COVID-19 Alleviation Business Support Programme to support Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) affected by the coronavirus
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Mauritius Holds Some Rs 1 000 Billion in Foreign Currency, Indicates Finance Minister
The Finance Minister believes that in the context of this unprecedented crisis, this increase in official reserves will enable the country to deal with the economic shock of Covid-19 with more
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Economic distancing: 60 million face extreme poverty - World Bank
The coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences could push as many as 60 million people into extreme
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Did sea farm debacle sink California aquaculture? | Black Voice News
None are harvesting in federal waters, which are more than three miles offshore, and only one mussel farm operates in open sea in California, a well-regarded facility in state waters off Santa
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Jamaica
The Labour Party defeated Manley in 1980 and its capitalist-oriented leader, Edward P. G. Seaga, was elected prime minister. He encouraged private investment and began an austerity program. Like other Caribbean countries, Jamaica was hard-hit by the 1981–1982 recession. Devaluation of the Jamaican
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Kenya: Loans to Kenya in the Last 3 Days Hit Sh133.3bn After AfDB Lends Govt Sh21.9bn
Nairobi — Kenya will receive a €188 million - Sh21.9 billion - loan from African Development Bank to support its efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate the related economic, health and social
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island in the West Indies, 90 mi (145 km) south of Cuba and 100 mi (161 km) west of Haiti. It is a little smaller than Connecticut. The island is made up of coastal lowlands, a limestone plateau, and the Blue Mountains, a group of volcanic hills, in the
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African Americans and Cuba's First Experiment in Tourism: The Joe Louis Commission in Post Revolutionary Havana, 1959-1960
In the article below University of California, Riverside historian Ralph Crowder describes this fascinating but little known attempt by Joe Louis and Fidel Castro to encourage middle class African American tourism to Cuba  in the first year of the new
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Hamilton, Bermuda (1790- )
Hamilton is the capital of the British overseas island territory of Bermuda in the Western Atlantic Ocean. The city had a population of 3,641 people in 2014. Hamilton is located on the northern shore of a deep water harbour on the main island of Bermuda. Most of the people who work in Hamilton do
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Jamaica: Unregulated ambulance services, uncertified emergency technicians could be putting public in danger
(Jamaica Gleaner) Three weeks after a probe revealed that most local private hospitals were unregistered, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that the island’s private ambulance service is operating without oversight, putting members of the public at
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Cabbies steering through rough COVID-19 road
These qualities, she told The Sunday Gleaner, are key ingredients behind her successful enterprise even as many of her male colleagues plying the Waterford to Portmore Mall route in St Catherine are haemorrhaging from a drastic decline in passengers since the COVID-19 pandemic gripped
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Hoteliers back pretesting of tourists
Pitching a working timeline of four to six weeks for the reopening of the tourism industry, the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) says it fully supports the pretesting of
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Rwanda: National Budget - Economic Recovery to Take Lion's Share
The Government has said that it plans to spend the biggest share of the 2020/21 budget on activities that will boost the economy as part of a broader plan to respond to the impact of
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Senegal
Coordinates: 14°N 14°W / 14°N 14°W Senegal (/ˌ s ɛ n ɪ ˈ ɡ ɔː l, -ˈ ɡ ɑː l/  (  listen);[7] [8] French: Sénégal ), officially the Republic of Senegal (French: République du Sénégal [ʁepyblik dy seneɡal]), is a country in West Africa. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania in the north, Mali t
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