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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Desalegn Boshe, have warned that 80 million Africans risk extreme poverty if the COVID-19 response is not focused on food security, agribusiness and rural
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Source: allAfrica.com
Virginia Black Caucus Says Reopening State Would Treat Black and Brown People Like Pigs
The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus has sent a letter to Gov. Ralph Northam saying the move to reopen Virginia would be treating black and brown people like “guinea pigs for our
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How Is COVID-19 Coronavirus Testing Really Going? What You Need To Know
Although this may sound like an ad for standardized test scores, it is presumably referring COVID-19 coronavirus testing, claiming that the U.S. is leading the world in such
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L.A. County Launches ‘WiFi Finder’ to Reduce Digital Divide During COVID-19.
Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer shared the latest statistics of positive cases and death
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Firm Advocates for Made in Nigeria Clothing
The recently launched e-commerce website will allow new and returning customers view, place and make payment for products
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TV Host & Entrepreneur Publishes her 2nd Book on Tools to Handle COVID-19 & makes it available for $1.00, this week only
LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, May 15, 2020 / EINPresswire.com / -- TV & radio host, author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Jennifer K. Hill, wrote and published her second book " 101 Spiritual Tools for Uncertain Times " during the height of the COVID-19
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Africa: I Beat COVID-19, You Too Can-Says WHO Staff
On 19 April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Nigeria confirmed the first case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as one staff member in the field tested
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Grocery store prices add to ills of burdened minority communities
Grocery store prices continue to rise at a rate not seen in four decades in the metro Atlanta, and for economically challenged Atlantans already paying higher prices for retail food items, keeping food on the table is increasingly more
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Kenya coronavirus: 830 cases; TZ, Somali borders shut, curfew extended
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'Just give me cigarettes': South African survivor of 1918 flu 'soldiers on'
Most people his age have passed on but 116 year-old Fredie Blom of South African is still going
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Rwanda: Inside Rwanda's Rwf186bn Economic Recovery Fund
The fund will support businesses through loan restructuring for the tourism sector specifically hotels, providing working capital for businesses most affected by COVID-19 to keep them operational and avoid lay-offs as well as loan guarantee for SMEs and
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Obama Emerges As Central Figure In 2020 Presidential Race
In recent days, Trump and his allies have aggressively pushed conspiracy theories about Obama designed to fire up the president’s conservative base, taint Biden by association and distract from the glut of grim health and economic news from the coronavirus
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Zimbabwe: Internet Access a Human Right - Misa
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zimbabwe has launched a campaign urging the telecommunications regulator to reduce internet charges, saying recent increases in data violate fundamental human rights to access
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Ethiopia coronavirus: 306 cases, how about 100 cases hit in a week
May 16: Cases pass 300 mark
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Africa: COVID-19 in West Africa - Credible Information As A Vaccine Against Misinformation?
As governments struggle to contain COVID19, public service announcements and communication must focus on making citizens accept that the illness is a reality, giving them the knowledge to prevent and treat the infection and debunking myths and fake stories which impact the effectiveness of the
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Burundi sacks WHO officials ahead of May 20 polls
Burundi is kicking out the World Health Organization’s top official in the country just days before the presidential election and after the WHO raised concerns about crowded political
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'Log Off Now': Reginae Carter Leaves Fans In Stitches After She Does 'Snack' Challenge with a Teddy Bear
The young actress recently put her own spin on the new “fruit snack” challenge circulating around the
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Uganda: Nation Pardons 180 Rwandan Prisoners
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Angola: COVID-19 - Hoji-Ya-Henda District to Face Health Fence
Luanda — With the increase of local transmission cases of covid-19 from 16 to 18 in the latest 24 hours, the Multisectoral Commission is working to put under sanitary fence the district of Hoyi-Ya-Henda in the municipality of Cazenga, assured last Sunday the Minister of Health, Sílvia
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Africa: Harnessing Tech to Employ Last-Mile Tree Planters in a COVID-19 World
The year 2020 started with such optimism and hope for nature-based solutions and environmental social and governance investments were high on the agenda at Davos; the World Economic Forum launched the 1 Trillion Trees campaign, backed by Salesforce; BlackRock's CEO sent an open letter to industry
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Mauritania reopens mosques after lull in virus infections
Mosques in Mauritania reopened after a week of no new coronavirus cases were
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Nigeria: There's 'Urgent Need' to Decongest Nigerian Prisons - CJN Tells Judges
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Muhammad, has written to the chief judges of states on the 'urgent' need to decongest Nigerian prisons due to the coronavirus
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Status of His Dream Today
On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million people, mostly African Americans, gathered at the National Mall for The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. They came to express their discontent with the persistent racism of the nation, particularly that of the southern states where Jim Crow laws
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No new COVID-19 cases in Tunisia - Authorities
*No new Covid-19 cases have been registered in Tunisia for the past five days, the country’s authorities said Friday, after a further easing of the curfew, and the reopening of supermarkets throughout the
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Rwanda: Banks Comfort Distressed Clients With Special Products
For example, in less than two weeks, Bank of Kigali's (BK), "Turikumwe," a special salary loan product, has recorded more than 2,000 online applications and 150 loan
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Coronavirus in Africa: 66,319 cases; 2,344 deaths; 23,143 recoveries
There are now more than over 60,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the
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Africa: Archaeology Shows How Ancient African Societies Managed Pandemics
About 76 infant burial sites at an abandoned settlement that now forms part of the Mapungubwe World Heritage site in the Limpopo Valley of South Africa suggest a pandemic hit the people living there after 1000
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Africa: The Nile That Unites Should Not Divide
Sudan on Tuesday refused to sign agreements that will enable Ethiopia to start filling the waters of its $4.6 billion Renaissance Dam from
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Tanzanian Doctors Sound Alarm Over Hidden Coronavirus Cases
The Tanzanian government's tepid response to COVID-19 and seeming lack of transparency over coronavirus cases is fuelling concern that it is covering up the true extent of the pandemic, according to doctors and health experts in the East African
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