Zimbabwe: Fresh Wave of Farm Grabs Sparks Outrage

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Zimbabwe: Land Distribution - Ex-Zanu-PF Youth Boss Accuses Party of Favouritism, Bribery

Firebrand ex-Zanu PF youth commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu has accused his former party of distributing land to Zimbabweans along party

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Source: allAfrica.com

Milwaukee spiritual leaders host first ever ‘Sit-In for Change’

On Saturday, June 13, 2020, Souls to the Polls, an organization that unites ministers and their congregations in Milwaukee’s central city to strengthen the voting power of the Black community, hosted a “Sit-In for Change,” on the corner of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr., and North

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

McDonald's USA Launches Fund for HBCU Students | Dallas Weekly

Powered by the company’s Black Positively Golden movement, McDonald’s is also furthering its investment in the next generation of women leaders in partnership with ESSENCE Girls

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Small farmers in St Thomas to access some 400 acres of former sugar lands

More than 400 acres of former sugar cane lands in St Thomas will be made available to small farmers in the parish for the growing of cash crops. “We are looking to move certain lands from sugar cane into crash crops. The small farmers...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

IMF forecasts deeper Latin America recession in 2020

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is forecasting a nearly double-digit recession for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020 — a contraction of 9.4 per cent — as the region is dragged down by its two largest economies which continue to suffer from the novel

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

This Day in History — June 26

1998: US President Bill Clinton opens a State visit to China in Tiananmen Square, where a protest movement for democracy was brutally suppressed nine years

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

Kenya, Uganda alert over swarms of locusts

FAO’s May 26 update said the situation in East Africa remains alarming.

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Source: The East African

Why twins are killed among the Antambahoaka people of Madagascar

But in some rural parts of Madagascar, there is an age-old belief that twins are a curse, and raising them brings misfortune or even death to

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

ED files for condonation delay in RTGS case

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has approached the High Court seeking condonation for the late filing of his heads of arguments in a matter in which Free Zimbabwe Congress leader Joseph Busha challenged the introduction of the Real Time Gross Settlement dollar

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

FEAST Food Pantry reaches out across the county during COVID-19 crisis

In Palm Harbor, FEAST Food Pantry has operated for nearly 37 years as a nonprofit distributing food to low-income residents of North Pinellas

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Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com

House Democrats pass sweeping ‘George Floyd’ policing act

The House approved a far-reaching police overhaul from Democrats Thursday, a vote heavy with emotion and symbolism as a divided Congress struggles to address the global outcry over the deaths of George Floyd and other Black

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Vaz confident BPO sector will rebound despite COVID-19 losses

Meanwhile, the Government minister said the sector could still return to its pre-COVID-19 growth trajectory of 5,000 to 6,000 jobs per year, with adherence to training, promotion, policy, and health guidelines, as well as if new business can be secured, while also scaling up existing

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

T.I. to Teach Class On the Business of Trap Music at Atlanta HBCU – Free Press of Jacksonville

Although this is a new lane for T.I., he won’t have to navigate the world of being a college professor

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

The surge was expected - Gauteng health MEC as positive cases rise to 26 156

Gauteng Health MEC Dr Bandile Masuku says the surge of cases in the province was expected after it recorded the second highest number of Covid-19 positive cases in the

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Selective outrage retrogressive to the African plight

Even those in Africa, well, some of them, marched in support of the rights and cries of the Black Lives Matter

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

The Struggle Continues: Could Black Lives Matter Save the Slavery Reparations Movement?

Hey, wouldn’t you just love to see President Donald Trump and his Republican regime locked up in a room forced to listen to The O’Jays song “Ship Ahoy” I bet they’d truly get our point on slavery Reparations you

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Source: Serving Northeast Texas

Court frees Zimbabwe MP, activists accused of faking abduction

A Zimbabwe opposition lawmaker and two activists accused of faking their abduction and torture in May were on Friday freed on bail by a court, their party

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Locust swarm destroys crops in Kenya as millions face hunger

A swarm of desert locusts following a poor harvest season has added to fears about a lack of food for millions in Kenya, as the ...

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Source: South Florida Times

When Daddy becomes the student - Father elated as daughter wins Equal Rights and Justice social-media competition

Like many parents, Joseph Beckford took a relatively non-committal stance to the issue of children’s rights when it was raised by his 11-year-old daughter Kiara, who took an interest in an Instagram contest on the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Life-saving wards to cut infant mortality

After seven years in gestation, a partnership forged between the Ministry of Health and Wellness and the European Union gave birth on Tuesday to the second of four high-dependency units (HDU) that were promised to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

US to offer Zim US$60 million in food aid | Fin24

The US is to offer Zimbabwe US$60 million in food aid and some agricultural goods will be imported duty free.

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Source: https://www.news24.com

I have vultures in my govt — ED

Faced with runaway inflation and persistent rumours to topple him, Mnangagwa yesterday said there were enemies of progress in his government and warned that “their days were

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Vaz stripped of land, enviro portfolio

Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ decision to strip Portland West Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz of the land, environment, and climate-change portfolio has been lauded by a leading environmentalist and public

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

NGC concludes COVID-19 sensitization in the South East region of Sierra Leone

Following a five-day visit to the southeast of Sierra Leone, Hon. Kandeh Yumkella – leader of the national Granf Coalition (NGC) in parliament, has completed his coronavirus disease sensitization

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Health campaign launched for pregnant women

The National Family Planning Board (NFPB) has launched a campaign geared at promoting health-seeking behaviours among pregnant

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Top lawyer leads ‘Moyo must go’ campaign

PROMINENT human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has joined thousands of disgruntled health workers and ordinary citizens in calling for Health minister Obadiah Moyo to be fired from government over alleged incompetence and mishandling of the US$60 million tender for procurement of COVID-19 test

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

L.A. DIGEST: Black Business Association to host Black Music Awards

LOS ANGELES — The Black Business Association will host its annual Black Music Awards at 7 p.m. June 25 on Facebook

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Western Cape High Court rules that lockdown regulations are justified, dismisses application

An application to have the lockdown regulations declared invalid, and the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) declared inconsistent with the Constitution and the Disaster Management Act, was dismissed in the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town on

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Rwanda: Drought-Hit Farmers to Get Solar-Powered Irrigation

[New Times] Farmers who were counting losses due to dry spells for years could start harvesting vegetables- pepper, eggplants and French beans- thanks to a multi-million solar-powered irrigation along Lake Cyohoha in Bugesera District.

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Source: allAfrica.com

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