How State has been fighting to stop tobacco use in Kenya

Angola: Luanda Amends Rules to Remove Vehicles

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Administrative Commission of the City of Luanda (CACL) this Wednesday released new rules for the removal of vehicles, for administrative transgression, on public roads.

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Pakistan Prime Minister Calls for Public Hangings, Chemical Castration of Rapists

A week after two headline-grabbing reports of sexual violence in Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan said rapists should be handed down the most severe punishments ...

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HBCU Students for Biden and Black Students for Biden: ‘Four More Years of Trump Means Death for Many African Americans’ - Voice and Viewpoint

“We can’t continue to live in fear with the police’s militarization and where Black lives don’t matter. If we don’t change the face of what democracy looks like in this country, there will be no more democracy.' By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Just how crucial will

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Sherene Golding Campbell feels no pressure as she enters Senate - Former PM’s daughter says she will give it her best shot

Attorney-at-law Sherene Golding Campbell has taken her place in the Upper House of Jamaica’s Parliament at a historic time for the legislature, which currently has the highest number of women sitting at any one time. Although the daughter of...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

30m households to gain from smart farming plan

The deal through Microsoft’s 4Afrika initiative will support Agra’s digital transformation targeting households across 11 countries by 2021 though their grantees.

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Source: Business Daily

HORIE: How Japan is helping ease Kenya’s healthcare burden

Kemri formed partnerships with various Japanese universities to enhance their research capacity.

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Akathisia Awareness can Reduce Suicide

Adverse drug effects are a leading cause of patient harm and death CHICAGO, IL, US, September 19, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- September is Suicide Prevention Month, and September 20th is designated International Akathisia Awareness Day by the …

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Rosa Parks' Detroit Home on Display in Naples | Africanews

It sure looks out of place, standing in the central courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples. This is the house where U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks took refuge after her historic bus

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

'Black-ish' to air its first-ever animated episode - TheGrio

The exciting first-ever animated episode of the award-winning ABC series Black-ish is set to debut less than 30 days before... View Article The post 'Black-ish' to air its first-ever animated episode appeared first on TheGrio.

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Migrant women undergo forced surgeries in US

HOUSTON, United States (AP) - Sitting across from her lawyer at an immigration detention centre in rural Georgia, Mileidy Cardentey Fernandez unbuttoned her jail jumpsuit to show the scars on her abdomen. There were three small, circular marks.

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

TSL Q3 volumes in sharp plunge

BY FIDELITY MHLANGA LISTED diversified concern Tobacco Sales Limited (TSL) suffered a sharp volumes decline across its subsidiaries during the third quarter ended July 2020 mainly due to reduced tobacco quantities this season. Expectations were that national tobacco volumes would have been between

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Africa: UN Tourism Body Picks Kenya, Morocco to Represent Africa

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya and Morocco have been appointed by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation to represent the Africa Technical Committee on Tourism Online Education.

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Source: allAfrica.com

South Africa: Some TB Patients Still Required to Take Pills in Front of Witnesses

[spotlight] Completing the six months of treatment for standard drug-susceptible tuberculosis (DS-TB) can be hard. Apart from side effects associated with the medicines, people may feel better after a month or two and be tempted to stop taking the treatment. Maintaining treatment adherence is even

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East Africa: IGAD Forecasts Very Heavy Rainfall for Ethiopia, Somalia in Mid-September

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has advised all stakeholders to take appropriate measures to prevent risks due to the expected heavy rains in Ethiopia and Somalia in the middle of September, 2020.

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Polio vaccine in the crossfire of misinformation

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AFP) - As scientists around the world rush to find a vaccine to stem the spread of COVID-19, another deadly disease - polio - has become the latest target of misinformation campaigns online.The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrated the announcement on August 25 that Africa

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Return of students causes big COVID spike

INDIANA, United States (AP) - Just two weeks after students started returning to Ball State University last month, the surrounding county had become Indiana's coronavirus epicentre.'Out of nearly 600 students tested for the virus, more than half have been positive. Dozens of infections have been

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Mafia boss swallows guard's finger in jail fight

ROME, Italy (AFP) - A Sicilian mafia boss serving a life sentence bit off and swallowed a prison guard's finger during an altercation, an Italian news report said Tuesday.Giuseppe Fanara, 60, who is serving a life sentence at Rome's Rebibbia prison, attacked seven guards in June when they came to

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

New Jersey law seeks to stem pollution in minority areas - Black News Channel

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Friday a measure giving state regulators power to deny development permits to businesses whose operations pollute predominantly Black and other minority communities. Murphy, a Democrat, cast the legislation in

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Russia’s Covid Vaccine Candidate Sputnik V to Have Clinical Trials in India - L.A. Focus Newspaper

Sputnik V, the Russian vaccine candidate for Covid-19, will undergo phase-III clinical trials in India. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in the southern city of Hyderabad, has partnered with the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund, to conduct

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Beware Of The Master Baiter

The Trump Administration is looking for a race war to secure a re-election. And if they can’t get it by baiting us, they will create it. Do NOT take the bait.

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Source: NewsOne

Shares at NSE rally to hit daily high point this year

Foreign investors, who have been net sellers for the better part of the year, accounted for Sh3.4 billion, or 90.4 percent, of the total shares purchased on bourse.

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Source: Business Daily

Sunday Brew — September 20, 2020

Bunting should lead PNPNOW that the dust has settled, the Opposition People's National Party should stop its masquerading and elect Peter Bunting as its president.

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

YouTube tutorials helped me fix my furniture enterprise

Sara Reeves travelled to Kenya from Australia frequently between 2006 and 2012 in pursuit of her career in tourism.

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Source: Business Daily

African Voice newspaper hits 19 - African Voice Newspaper

Readers laud great strides of Britain’s N0. 1 African newspaper By Emmanuel Urhiofe - Britain’s N0.1 African newspaper, African Voice, is celebrating 19 years of readership, with its teeming admirers describing the bourgeoning tabloid as a consistent, courageous and poignant voice of the African

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Source: African Voice Newspaper - African news from a British perspective

Grocery shops need help to weather Covid storm

A recent survey of hundreds of shopkeepers across Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and Tanzania showed that these entrepreneurs face a wide array of challenges.

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Source: Business Daily

Namibia Exits State of Emergency

[Namibian] Windhoek -- THE government has decided not to extend the state of emergency which was implemented six months ago to curb the impact of the novel coronavirus.

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Rwanda: Urban Experts Discuss City Wellbeing Post-Covid-19

[New Times] The novel coronavirus has changed the way we live in cities. Roads are no longer bustling with the working class and corporate buildings are near empty because most people are working from home. Chat rooms are the new convention centres.

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California tourism industry pushes for safe, responsible travel - Black Voice News

In summary California tourism businesses recognized the imperative to provide a safe environment. Here’s what they’ve done to make travel safer: By Gene Zanger, Special to CalMatters Gene Zanger is a partner in Casa de Fruta and on the board of Visit California, where he serves as vice chairman of

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Pakistan Prime Minister Calls for Public Hangings, Chemical Castration of Rapists - L.A. Focus Newspaper

A week after two headline-grabbing reports of sexual violence in Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan said rapists should be handed down the most severe punishments - either public hanging or chemical castration. In atelevision interview, Khan said themotorway rape casehad shaken the nation and that

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

US Coast Guard offloads millions in drugs seized in Caribbean Sea

MIAMI, United States (CMC) - The United States Coast Guard says that crew members from its Cutter Harriet Lane have offloaded about 12,100 pounds of cocaine and about 5,759 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated US$216 million, seized in drug interdictions in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific

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