World Refugee Day 2021: Five things you need to know

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World Refugee Day 2021: Five things you need to know

World Refugee Day shines a light on the rights, needs and dreams of refugees, helping to mobilise resources to aid refugees.

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The United Nations has hailed the arrest of a wanted Rwandan genocide suspect, Felicien Kabuga, who appeared before a Paris court under heavy police protection on

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Annan, Kofi A. (1938-- )

Kofi Atta Annan, born on 8 April 1938 in Kumasi, Ghana, served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) between 1997 and 2007. As a young man, Annan finished his undergraduate studies in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1961. He then completed his

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Somalia, situated in the Horn of Africa, lies along the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. It is bounded by Djibouti in the northwest, Ethiopia in the west, and Kenya in the southwest. In area it is slightly smaller than Texas. Generally arid and barren, Somalia has two chief rivers, the Shebelle

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Amatore, Michele (1826?-1883)

As a six-year-old boy named Quetto, Michele Amatorewitnessed his village of Commi in the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudandecimated by Egyptian soldiers and their leaders who profited from the slavetrade. The oldest of four children, hisfather was a village chief named Bolingia; his mother was

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Instability and conflict with Sudan over oil plagued South Sudan since independence. Sudan launched air attacks into South Sudan, the north accused the south of arming militants in the north, and both accused each other of inciting a border war. Tension between the two nations peaked in early 2012

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Maynor, Dorothy Leigh (1910–1996)

Dorothy Leigh Maynor was an international concert soprano, founder of the Harlem School of the Arts, the first African American to sing at an American president’s inauguration (Harry S. Truman’s, on January 20, 1949), the first African-American artist to perform at Constitution Hall, the first

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Zimbabwe: WFP to Introduce E-Vouchers for 224,000 Urban Dwellers

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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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Colombia has the second largest African descendant population in Latin America. According to the census of 2005, the government estimates that Afro-descendants make up 10.6% of the total population. This is 16% down from the government's previous estimations in 2002, which put the total

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On August 5, 1999 President William Clinton appointed Gregory Lee Johnson U.S. Ambassador to Swaziland. He served in that post from November 16, 1999 to October 18, 2001. Johnson began his career in the Foreign Service in 1968 and has served in Vietnam (1968-1971). His next posts were in Japan

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Lewis, John R. (1940- )

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Holder, Eric H. (1951- )

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Jones, Richard Lee (1893-1975)

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