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Kenya: Restore Girls' Menstrual Dignity
65 per cent of women cannot afford sanitary towels
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Bartlett warns against sterile treatment of tourists
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has urged Jamaica’s hotel staff and other hospitality stakeholders not to lose their good-naturedness in trying to mitigate against the spread of
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Rwanda: Activists Urge Collective Effort to Ease Access to Sanitary Pads
In an effort to make sanitary pads more affordable and accessible, the Government removed Value Added Tax on the products in December
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Ghana coronavirus: 15,473 cases; arrests over failure to wear masks
June 25: 15,473 cases; mask arrests, apex court ruling
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
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Guyanese helping and benefiting from Richmond Hill pantry
Every Saturday over 1,600 Guyanese and other immigrants leave the Calvary’s Mission Food Pantry (CMFP) in Richmond Hill, Queens in New York feeling relieved that their week’s groceries have been taken care
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
LETTERS: Coronavirus is not a gender-blind disease
The World Health Organisation recognises the need to include women in outbreaks preparedness and response such as the global Covid-19 policy spaces but other than the disaggregation of the disease burden by gender, response measures have not addressed the gendered
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Source: Business Daily
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Africa: What About Africa's Small, Medium Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
In some of these countries we're seeing an increase in cases and in others, new cases remain stable from week to week, indicating we need to remain vigilant to stop the spread of COVID-19," Moeti
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Source: allAfrica.com
Africa: Homophobia Is Un-African & Must End
LGBT+ people existed freely in Africa before colonialism brought discrimination to the continent
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Algeria: Lockdown Lifting - Economic Activity Resumes in Two Phases From June 7
Algiers — Economic, commercial and service activities will resume, in two phases, from Sunday 7 June 2020, under the lockdown lifting plan set by the government, the Prime Minister's office said in
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Source: allAfrica.com
Frontline Healers East Oakland Collective ‘Protectors of the Last Frontier’ Extend Food Service During COVID-19 Pandemic | Post News Group
Oakland has experienced high rates of displacement and gentrification of Black neighborhoods, and deep East Oakland is where the largest population of Black residents
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Now, more than ever, America must make water a human right | Bernie Sanders and Brenda Lawrence
The solution is not more privatization – it is for Congress to end decades of neglect and immediately invest billions into our public water systems so that we can finally guarantee clean drinking water to
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How Muslims marked Idd-ul- Fitr
Normally, there would be gatherings in mosques for Idd-ul-Fitr prayer services and meeting friends and families for
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Digicel Foundation pumps $42m in humanitarian project
DIGICEL FOUNDATION has announced a significant investment in Jamaica’s response to the COVID-19 crisis with the launch of its $42-million islandwide humanitarian project, Operation SAFE, (Sanitising, Advocating, Feeding, and Enabling) in the fight against
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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BOOKS: Stella Nyanzi tells of prison life in collection of poems
While incarcerated in Luzira Maximum Security Prison in Kampala, she wrote the collection No Roses from My Mouth: Poems from
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Source: The East African
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Netanyahu lashes out at graft charges
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at a Jerusalem court Sunday for the start of his long-delayed corruption trial, rejecting the "ludicrous" charges against him and declaring he was facing the hearing "with my head held
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Relief to prisons in the Central African Republic as Covid-19 kits arrive
As part of the fight against the spread of COVID-19, Ngaragba prison received on Friday June 12, a batch of protective and hygiene materials and equipment, for the benefit of detainees and staff, from MINUSCA and
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
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Should you fly yet?
Your risk of infection directly corresponds to your dose of exposure, which is determined by your duration of time exposed and the amount of virus-contaminated droplets in the
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Sierra Leone prez eases virus restrictions, places of worship remain closed
June 23: Lockdown restrictions eased
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What does Phase 1 easing of restrictions mean?
As North Carolina starts the process of easing the COVID-19 restrictions we are hearing from Dr. Mandy Cohen, the state health director, that this state is flattening the
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Mozambique: Pandemic Costs 39,500 Mozambican Jobs
Maputo — In Mozambique, the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown at least 39,500 workers out of their jobs, according to Labour and Social Security Minister Margarida
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The faithful may gather as govt opens up places of worship, with Level 3 restrictions in place
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) has decided that places of worship may resume services, but under strict
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Africa: COVID-19 - New FAJ Report Shows Virus Has Deeply Infected the Media Industry
The reports shows that African governments' programmes to respond to the economic impact of the pandemic have had a "negative" impact on the media sector and lacked proper support of media
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Kenya closes Tanzania, Somalia borders- VIDEO
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday ordered the closure of borders with Tanzania and Somalia as cross-border Covid-19 infections continued to
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D.C. Mayor Announces Phase Two of Coronavirus Reopening to Begin Monday
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Friday that phase two of the city's reopening plan amid the coronavirus pandemic will begin
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Kenya: Mombasa Hotels Take Up Measures to Survive Pandemic
Nairobi — Mombasa based Reef Hotel has now moved to offer free accommodation in the facility till end of June in order to survive the coronavirus
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Botswana coronavirus: govt prioritizes data amid stay away campaign
Total confirmed cases = 35 (new cases
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The Quora Digest website and the tenticles of racist propaganda
Instead, it was my discovery that many similar racists questions, posed by equally obnoxious White provocateurs could be found in the website’s dark alleys and
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Brazil coronavirus toll hits 50,000
Brazil registered its 50,000th death from the coronavirus outbreak on Sunday, underlining Latin America's desperate struggle to contain the disease, as Europe's gradual emergence from lockdown was marked by Spain reopening its
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Team boss Lefevere fears coronavirus outbreak in peloton
The WorldTour is due to return on Aug. 1 with the Strade Bianche one-day event in Tuscany but racing will resume before that with Lefevere’s team involved in the inaugural Belgian Grote Prijs Vermac one-day race in Rotselaar on July
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