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Even as several reputable international organizations including the United Nations (UN) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) assert that the ongoing coronavirus ‘plague’ could precipitate a global food crisis, Guyana, up until now, continues to flaunt its reputation as the ‘bread basket’ of the
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Oprah Winfrey Donates $12 Million for COVID-19 Relief in Five Cities
Through the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation, the OWN Network boss announced she was donating $12 million to organizations dedicated to helping underserved communities in Chicago, Baltimore; Nashville, Tennessee; Milwaukee; and
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Kenya: Manufacturers Hard Hit as Earnings Drop
You would expect to find him bubbly and dusting his suit to attend a manufacturing industry sales party, now that the Covid-19 pandemic has taken away the cheap imports nightmare that has hurt the sector for
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Passion for cooking fans the flames for baking enterprise
Passion for cooking fans the flames for baking enterprise
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Kenya: Safi Organics Turns Farm Waste into Black Gold and Poor Farmers into Entrepreneurs
"This is the kind of impact we would like to deliver to smallholder farmers across the African continent," says Joyce Kamande, one of 25 African entrepreneurs who spent six weeks at Oklahoma State University last year as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a flagship programme of the
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Zimbabwe: Farmers Urged to De-Stock
Last year, farmers lost over 50 000 cattle to drought and expectations are high that more cattle could be lost this year if farmers do not take heed of advice to climate-proof the sector through different measures such as de-stocking, growing fodder crops, hay baling and conserving
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Challenges of accessing justice in Covid-19 times
While elsewhere in the continent whole justice systems were being shut down, the decision to keep the country’s wheels of justice turning was lauded
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Jenny Jenny reaches out to the blind
MORE THAN 200 members of the Jamaica Society for the Blind (JSB) were given care packages of food and other essential items yesterday amid the COVID-19 pandemic, courtesy of Jenny Jenny
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TRANSPORT HIKE - Shutdown looms as busmen, cabbies demand fare rise
BUS AND taxi operators have threatened to shut down Jamaica’s transport sector next Monday if their demand for a 100 per cent fare increase is not
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Africa: Does Alcohol Have an Undisclosed African Heritage?
From this research I conclude that honey was the most likely catalyst that allowed controlled fermentation to commence at a very early date in Africa, with the weight of probability pointing to southern
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Africa: Inadequate Diets Are Making Populations Vulnerable to COVID-19
Johannesburg — AllAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo spoke with Dr Jane Battersby, an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities, on the need to address malnutrition in all its forms by tackling injustices in food and health
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Mozambique sex workers struggle to survive
Even during the state of emergency, at dusk, the sex workers come out parading as they search for clients
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Uganda's most pierced man speaks out on life, body art
Davis Kizza Kana a.k.a Rasta Kana has 83 piercings on his body making him Uganda’s most pierced
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Radical reforms to boost maize, agricultural sector
The government has embarked on reforms to boost the production of maize, the country’s staple
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Ways technology can boost food security, rev up jobs in Kenya
Along with the economic devastation, including widespread job losses for informal sector daily wage earners and MSMEs accounting for 85 percent of Kenya’s total employment), food insecurity is one of the biggest
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Kazah Temple hosted Opa-Locka distribution
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NFL Lists Colin Kaepernick As 'Retired' on Its Website, Causes Uproar After His Girlfriend Diab Speaks Out
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Oprah Winfrey Donates $12 Million for COVID-19 Relief in Five Cities
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Swaziland Journalist Critical of King Flees, Hides in Forest Five Days
Eugene Dube, the journalist critical of King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland (eSwatini), who was beaten by police and is facing a treason charge hid in a forest for five days as he made his
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