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Harare, Zimbabwe (1890- )
Harare (formerly known as “Fort Salisbury” or “Salisbury”) is the largest city in Zimbabwe with a population of 1.6 million. It serves as Zimbabwe’s seat of government and Zimbabwe’s commercial and industrial center.  The city is located in Northern Zimbabwe in the region of
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In the study, a large and carefully-designed trial, injections every two months of cabotegravir stopped seven out 10 (69 per cent) more HIV infections than what has been up till now, state-of-the-art PrEP, namely a daily dose of the pill formerly known as
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Coronavirus in Africa: 78,280 cases; 2,624 deaths; 29,245 recoveries
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Dennis Brutus
Dennis Brutus , in full Dennis Vincent Brutus (born November 28, 1924, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia [now Harare, Zimbabwe]—died December 26, 2009, Cape Town, South Africa), poet whose works centre on his sufferings and those of his fellow blacks in South
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Ethiopia
On Sept. 12, 1974, Haile Selassie was deposed, the constitution suspended, and Ethiopia proclaimed a Socialist state under a collective military dictatorship called the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), also known as the Derg. U.S. aid stopped, and Cuban and Soviet aid
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Southern Africa: DRC, Zambia Seek SADC Intervention On Border Conflict
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Larry Aubry: Reflections on a Purposeful Life
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Young, Andrew (1932 - )
Andrew Young, Jr., came into prominence as a civil rights activist and close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the modern civil rights movement in the United States.  Young worked with various organizations early in the movement, but his civil rights work was largely done with the
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No home, no hope ... It’s a dog’s life
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South Africa: The Continued Threat of Coal Mining At the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site
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Africa: Econet, Delta in Africa's Top 250 Companies in 2020
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African Nobel Prize Winners
25 Nobel Laureates have been born in Africa. Of those, 10 have been from South Africa, and another six were born in Egypt. The other countries to have produced a Nobel Laureate are (French) Algeria, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Morocco, and Nigeria. Scroll down for a full list of
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(1862) John S. Rock, “A Deep and Cruel Prejudice”
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Jan
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1862
Madame C.J. Walker
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Dixon, Julian (1934-2000)
Born in Washington, D.C. on August 8, 1934, Julian Dixon represented part of Los Angeles in the U.S. House of Representatives for twenty-two years. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1957 to 1960, Dixon attended California State University, Los Angeles. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1962 and
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Aug
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1934
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Zimbabwe: British Govt Petitioned to Revoke Mangwana Citizenship, Deport Family
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