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Kenya: Emirates Skycargo Resumes Scheduled Cargo Flights to Eldoret International Airport
Eldoret — Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates has announced the resumption of its scheduled cargo services to
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Africa: We Looked for South Africa's 'Missing' Plastic Litter. This Is What We Found
A more recent study by Laurent Lebreton and colleagues suggests that 96%-98% of litter from land-based sources washes up within one year of entering the
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Can Tear Gas and Pepper Spray Increase Virus Spread? | Afro
Police departments have used tear gas and pepper spray on protesters in recent weeks, raising concern that the chemical agents could increase the spread of the
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Rwanda: Government Plans to Spend Rwf3.2 Trillion in 2020-2021
The Government is expected to spend Frw3,245.7 billion in 2020-2021 fiscal year, which is Rwf228.7 billion higher than the revised budget estimates of
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Spraying disinfectants can be 'harmful': WHO
In a document on cleaning and disinfecting surfaces as part of the response to the virus, the WHO says spraying can be
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Health+Technology | The value of telehealth
Telemedicine is perhaps one of the most popular forms, but it is only one of many ways that telehealth can be used to ensure continuity of care, especially if a patient is unable to visit
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Happiness might help protect from gastrointestinal distress
Although the vast majority of research on serotonin has centered on its effects in the brain, about 90 percent of this neurotransmitter – a chemical that nerve cells use to communicate with each other – is produced in the gastrointestinal tract, explains study leader Vanessa
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Uganda: Adolescents in Eastern Uganda Risk Becoming Obese, New Study Suggests
A study conducted by researchers at the School of Public Health Makerere University, has revealed that adolescents in eastern part of the country consume a lot of fats and oils and thus are at a risk of becoming overweight and obese along the life
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Southern Company Gas donates $1 million to Morehouse School of Medicine for health equity
This contribution is a part of the $50 million commitment from Southern Company and its subsidiaries to historically black colleges and universities
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Marijuana Use During Pregnancy Linked To Autism
A study published Monday in the journal Nature suggests that there is a link between women who use cannabis during pregnancy and children who are born with autism. 'Women who used cannabis during pregnancy were 1.5 times more likely to …
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‘Our resources have dried up’ - Jamaicans in US finding it harder to send remittances home as pandemic grips country
Barton has an ailing 88-year old mother living in central Jamaica and several siblings who she tries to assist by sending remittances home on a regular
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ATL Federal Reserve President and Jax Partnership Aundra Wallace Zoom In On Nations Economic Recovery – Free Press of Jacksonville
Since February of this year, Covid-19 pandemic has made its way into the homes and businesses of Northeast Florida
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Rwanda: COVID-19 - Mass Testing for Taxi Moto Operators
The Minister of Health; Daniel Ngamije says that the 'taxi moto' riders are picked from different areas and tested in the ongoing effort to ensure no community infections of the virus in the
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Algerians find smartphones are a lockdown essential | Afro
Since the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic, smartphones have become increasingly popular in Algeria, as many people across the country use their time in lockdown to connect with each other and the outside world, new research
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Dingell Makes Case For Biden’s Ability To Address Pandemic And Michigan’s Economy | Digital Daily | The Michigan Chronicle
Two days after Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as his running mate, U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) used an Aug. 13 press call to place attention back … Continued
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ArtsBoston partners in arts and culture reopening survey
In an attempt to arm the arts community with as many tools as possible, ArtsBoston has become the regional partner in the COVID-19 Audience Outlook Monitor (AOM), an international study run by WolfBrown of audience attitudes about returning to the cultural
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Earth Today | Local Green-Blue Enterprise Radar toolkit now available to communities
THE RELEASE of ‘The Local Green-Blue Enterprise (LGE) Radar: A Tool for Community Enterprises’ by the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) is expected to support COVID-19 economic recovery that is fair, environmentally sustainable, low-carbon and
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Study Finds BLM Protests Aren’t To Blame For Spike In COVID-19 Infections
The National Bureau of Economic Research has released a study concluding the protests that followed the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery did not cause an increase in coronavirus infection rates.
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Kenya: Did Kenya Make the Right Move in Importing Drug?
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Wray & Nephew pumps $35m into community bar revival
More than 500 bars in western Jamaica are set to be resuscitated from the COVID-19 slump in fortunes as Campari’s J. Wray and Nephew (JWN) pumps $35 million into a ‘Restart Pack’ initiative aimed at having an islandwide
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Economic recovery after COVID-19
Develop me :Tapiwa Gomo Coronavirus (COVID-19) is the worst crisis the world has experienced since the Second World War. It is also the worst health crisis since the Spanish flu in 1918. The impact of COVID-19 is being felt in different spheres of life. There is no doubt that it has and it will
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Algerians find smartphones are a lockdown essential
Since the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic, smartphones have become increasingly popular in Algeria, as many people across the country use their time in lockdown to connect with each other and the outside world, new research
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Caribbean islands will need to be treated differently after COVID-19
Limited resources and economic diversification in Eastern Caribbean countries, compounded by their small size and remoteness, constrain
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Make a commitment to more family meals –
A study published in the “Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior” funded by the FMI Foundation shows that more frequent family meals are associated with better dietary and family functioning
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Dr. Ernest Everett Just: The father of black scientists
Born in 1883 in Charleston, S.C., Dr. Ernest Everett Just became one of the most prominent American biologists in the last century, specializing in marine
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US firm announces 'positive' phase 1 results for virus vaccine
US biotech firm Moderna reported "positive interim" results on Monday in the first clinical tests of its vaccine against the new coronavirus performed on a small number of
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NIH study links cigarette smoking to higher stroke risk in African Americans
African Americans who smoke are nearly 2.5 times more likely to have a stroke than those who never smoked, while former smokers show a similarly lower risk as never smokers, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of
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Coronavirus crisis is frightening for White folk, scarier still...
CNN Health reported on May 9, “Black Americans represent 13.4% of the U.S. population…but counties with higher Black populations account for more than half of all COVID-19 cases and almost 60% of the
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