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The $100K New Voices + Target Accelerators Pitch Competition Returns This Friday!

It wouldn't be Black History Month without Black founders securing a bag to help advance and grow their businesses. Thankfully, the New Voices Foundation is all about helping Black women […]

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Analysis - No fewer than 10 presidential elections are planned for 2021 - in Benin, Cape Verde, Chad, The Gambia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, the Republic of the Congo and Zambia. Ethiopia is also having all-important general elections.

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Source: allAfrica.com

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Mozambique: Mozambican Government Tightens Measures Against Covid-19

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government is tightening restrictive measures in an attempt to halt the rapid spread of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

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Source: allAfrica.com

NCB Foundation grants a wish to Lee-Jae Gordon

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Covid-19: Doctor worried over claims untrained nurses are working in ICU wards | News24

The South African Medical Association is concerned about reports that, during the Covid-19 pandemic, medical staff are being employed at care levels they are not trained for.

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Access to COVID vaccine in C'bean a concern | New York Carib News

Expressing concern that regional states may not have equal access to COVID-19 vaccines, Caricom has called for a global summit to address the matter.

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Uganda's Museveni wins sixth term in office | News24

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term in office with 58.6 percent of the vote, in an election disputed by his main rival Bobi Wine who trailed with 34.8 percent.

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Rwanda: Beach Volleyball World Tour Set for June 2021

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MoBay Chamber pleads for Gov't to urgently start bypass

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Nigeria: Agents of Covid-19 Spread

[This Day] By now, many Nigerians who have been living in denial about the existence and reality of COVID-19 should have been convinced to the contrary. If their loved ones have not contacted the disease or even died, they must have heard of someone they know who have also contacted the disease or

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Zimbabwe: Do Not Use Courts to Persecute Govt Critics - Chin'ono

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California hopes 'trusted messengers' alleviate vaccine skepticism among some African Americans - African American News Today - EIN Presswire

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With Lou Williams and Patrick Beverley out, Reggie Jackson gets a start for Clippers | L.A. Focus News

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Oakland University to Offer $2,500 Scholarship for Frontline Workers | Digital Daily | The Michigan Chronicle

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CIF’s Central Coast Section gives OK for high schools to start practices Saturday — with restrictions | L.A. Focus News

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City of Dallas celebrates 39th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Week virtually | Dallas Weekly

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No masks, no physical distance, staff shortage and dirty toilets: MPs get glimpse of Lebombo border post chaos | News24

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Caricom offered access to vaccines through Africa | New York Carib News

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) has been offered access to approved COVID-19 vaccines from a shipment recently secured by the African Union.

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UK advances US$5,4m food assistance – NewsDay Zimbabwe

BY STAFF REPORTER MORE than 100 000 food-insecure people in the urban areas will benefit from the United Kingdom’s pledge of £4 million (US$5,4 million) to help vulnerable families. Recent data revealed that nearly half of Zimbabwe’s population (5,6 million people) might be pushed into hunger by

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Rwanda: Covid-19 - All 2021 Heroes Cup Tournaments Cancelled

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