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“To alleviate this impact, fund the Quick Action Economic Response Programme, the Health Programme and the Social Impact Programme the Government is seeking: Additional emergency support from the IMF, including one or more of the following
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Eid Mubarak – a clarion call for peace and national reconciliation in Sierra Leone
At its Press Briefing last week my Party, the National Grand Coalition (NGC), drew the attention of the Government and the country as a whole to the pervasive lack and gross miscarriage of justice in our society as a major  contributing factor to the ongoing political tensions which amply re-echo
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Rwanda: COVID-19 - Mass Testing for Rwandan Peacekeepers in South Sudan
The testing spearheaded by the Ministry of Health started on Tuesday in Malakal where Rwanda Formed Police Unit-One (FPU-1) hybrid contingent of 239 officers, is
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Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, is born
Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, Born May 29, 1914 in Mexia, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Science from Wiley College in 1934 and a Master of Science from Atlanta University in 1936. Henry McBay earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1945. McBay served as an Instructor
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29
1914
Sudan reels from drug shortages as virus spreads
As it battles mounting cases of coronavirus, Sudan is grappling with acute medicine shortages at a time of economic woes largely blamed on the policies of ousted president Omar
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Africa: Unprecedented Crisis Presents Unique Opportunities for Unprecedented Action - Machel, Okonjo-Iweala, Songwe, Ramos
There is no way Africa can face this food crisis without empowering rural women, in particular rural women’s associations, in the response to
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Telcos, health ministries partner on a Covid-19 mobile platform
The initiative dubbed Africa Communications Information Platform (ACIP) is based on a partnership between ECA, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), telcos and ministries of
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Africa: News Alert - UNSC Members Set to Take GERD Vote This Afternoon
Addis Abeba — The 15 member states of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) are set to take a vote this afternoon on whether to hold an open virtual meeting on matters concerning the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Addis Standard has
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Mali's opposition drops demand for president to resign in reform plan
Opponents of Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Wednesday sought to end a political crisis by proposing reforms to neuter his authority and hand executive power to a prime minister, although they abandoned a demand for his resignation as a prerequisite for
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Andrew Young born
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1932
Rwanda: Genocide Suspect Appears Before Paris Court
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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AP Interview: Ethiopia to Fill Disputed Dam, Deal or no Deal | Afro
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Bello, Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu (1910-1966)
Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu Bello was the Sardauna of Sokoto and leader of Nigeria’s northern region during the last years of British rule and early independence.  He was brutally murdered at his home during a 1966 coup détat, one in a series of events characterizing Nigeria’s political
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Queries raised over Kabuga's Kenya link
For many years believed to have been hiding in Kenya, Kabuga, born in 1935 in Muniga, Rwanda, is said to have been one of the perpetrators of the genocide against the Tutsi, in which more than a million people were
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Kenya: When Genocide Fugitive Kabuga Ran Businesses in Kenya
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The A. Philip Randolph Institute was founded by and named for labor leader Asa Philip Randolph, who was the longtime president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union. Randolph and his friend and fellow activist Bayard Rustin founded APRI in 1965 after their successful 1963 March on
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Nigeria: Why It's Time for Adults to Accept That Nigerian Teenagers Have a Digital Life
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LETTERS: How to best address the water challenge
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Nigeria: Buhari Nominates Okonjo-Iweala As Nigeria's Candidate for World Trade Organisation's DG Election
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Tensions as DRC, Zambia border dispute escalate [Morning Call]
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Health organisations say children under one at risk of diseases amid COVID-19
GENEVA, Switzerland (CMC) — Several health organisations are warning that children under the age of one in the Caribbean are at risk of contracting diseases like diphtheria, measles and polio because the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting life-saving immunisation
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Africa: Ads 2020 - Africa's Free Trade Area and Integration Will Help Silence the Guns, Say Uneca Chief Vera Songwe and Other Experts
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Swarms of locusts devastate parts of northern Kenya
The branches on trees around Kenya’s northern town of Lodwar have been stripped bare of leaves, bending downwards under the weight of voracious young
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(1946) W.E. B. DuBois, “Behold the Land”
On October 20, 1946, seventy-eight year old W.E.B DuBois delivered the address at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia South Carolina.  Although this was one of his last major orations, he used the occasion to inspire his audience to continue the struggle for racial
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20
1946
Perry, June Carter (1943- )
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