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Strict EU asylum rules push people across Channel | Africanews

Europe’s increasingly strict asylum rules, growing xenophobia, and the hostile treatment of migrants is pushing them north toward the United Kingdom.

Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

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MDC Alliance legislator for Harare West, Joanna Mamombe and two party youth activists - Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova - reported missing from Wednesday, have been found with injuries from beatings by suspected state security

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Nigeria: Senate Passes U.S.$2.8 Billion Supplementary Budget

[Premium Times] President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, wrote to the National Assembly seeking the consideration of the supplementary budget, a day after it was approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

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Protesters Call Attention to Deaths of Two More Black Men | Afro

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Coronavirus may kill unicorns: High-value tech startups could see blows to valuations

Unicorns are seeing their valuations sliced, some by 40%, as tracked by European company

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Rice, Susan Elizabeth (1964- )

Susan Rice is the current National Security Advisor for the Barack Obama Administration. She is the first African American, the third woman, and the second youngest person to hold the position. Prior to being selected by President Obama for the post, Rice served as a key foreign policy advisor

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Source: Black Past

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(1861) Alexander H. Stephens, “Cornerstone Speech”

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Name at birth: Anna Mae Bullock

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US wants strict conditions on coronavirus aid for 'countries like Zimbabwe'

The United States has expressed its misgivings about a US$7 million grant the World Bank extended to Zimbabwe to help fight the coronavirus

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Ex-Ethiopian minister jailed 6 years for corruption

May 8: Simon jailed 6 years

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Malawi re-run: opposition candidate wins, unseating Mutharika

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Liberia /l aɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə/ ( listen), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to its north and Ivory Coast to its east. It covers an area of 111,369 square kilometers (43,000 sq mi) and has a population of

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(1879) John Mercer Langston, “The Exodus: The Causes Which Led The Colored People of the South to Leave Their Homes – The Lesson

? In 1879 an unanticipated migration of nearly seven thousand African Americans from Mississippi and Louisiana to Kansas prompted a debate among national black leaders. Frederick Douglass thought it unwise that black women and men would leave the South. John Mercer Langston disagreed. As in this

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Nigeria hub: over 15,500 virus cases in June, eased lockdown etc.

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Premier League Teams Show Support For Black Lives Matter With New Jerseys

During their return to play, clubs will be showing their support to the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, and some will be donning their support for the Black Lives Matter

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Africa: Cobalt Is Critical to the Renewable Energy Transition. How Can We Minimize Its Social and Environmental Cost?

Amnesty International has published two major reports on human rights and environmental issues associated with cobalt mining and launched an initiative that challenged the electric vehicle industry to produce a battery with a completely clean human rights record for all its

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Nearly 200 killed and injured in Afghanistan’s deadliest day of 2020

Mourners at a funeral and babies at a maternity ward were among the nearly 200 killed and injured Tuesday in militant attacks in

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: For His Times and Ours

In the article below Hilary Burrage, Executive Chair of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation, a United Kingdom (UK)-based non-profit organisation, describes the composer and how she came to regard and preserve his work and

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No reason why SA should stop selling arms to Turkey - Mapisa-Nqakula

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said nothing prevents South Africa from exporting arms to Turkey, despite reports that it might be used in conflicts in countries like

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The World's Anti-Slavery Convention

The Worlds Anti-Slavery Convention convenes in London, England.

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This Man Is Bringing World’s First African And Caribbean Rum To The United States

Now one man is introducing a new kind of rum to the world with the first rum that blends African and Caribbean cultures, and he’s bringing it to the United

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Jealisse Andrea Tovar Velásquez (born 3 September 1993) simply known as Andrea Tovar, is a Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Colombia

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Soul Singer Randy Hall is on a Hot Streak with New Solo Single "A New Way of Love" Following Vault Hit with Late Jazz Legend Miles Davis

Randy Hall has enjoyed international chart-topping success with his solo single “How Do You Want Your Love” (co-composed with Kevin Toney, founding keyboardist of Donald Byrd’s Blackbyrds band) which vaulted over superstars such as Charlie Wilson and Usher to hit the top of the U.K. Soul Chart and

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(1966) Robert F. Kennedy, “Day of Affirmation Address"

On June 7, 1966, New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy became one of the first major American politicians to take a public stand against South African Apartheid when he delivered an address to the National Union of South African Students in New York City. His address appears

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1966

National name: Al Jumhuriyah al Jazairiyah ad Dimuqratiyah ash Shabiyah

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Dressing While Black: Self-Censoring To Pass In White Spaces

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Apple Music to launch its 1st radio show in Africa

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UK Taxpayers Have Been Paying Compensation to Slave Owners for More than 180 Years Until 2015

Many decades after slavery was abolished in Britain, U.K. taxpayers have paid compensation for slave traders up to

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Castel Malawi offers employees post devaluation bail-out package - Malawi News Network

Giant alcoholic beverages producer Castel Malawi has responded to the recent 44% devaluation of the kwacha by offering its employees the 15% on the Cost-of-Living Adjustment (Cola) and a once-off shopping voucher worth K150,000 for its 620 strong workforce effective 1 December 2023. In an internal

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BET Awards 2020: Gospel Nominees Announced!

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