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Kenya: Raila Odinga - This Is How We Will Resolve Counties Revenue Standoff

[Nation] The implementation of the new revenue sharing plan should be delayed until more resources are allocated to counties and a win-win deal is reached, Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga now says.

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Tanzania Reopens Colleges, Sports Activities As COVID-19 Numbers Drop

Dar es Salaam — University students will return to their respective colleges on June 1, 2020 as the number of Covid-19 cases drops in Tanzania, President John Magufuli announced on Thursday, 21 May

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Nigeria: At 20.89 Billion Litres, Nigeria's Petrol Imports Hit Six-Year High

In 2016, diesel importation was 4.6 billion litres, indicating a nine per cent slump in two

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Africa: Preventing the Next Pandemic - Zoonotic Diseases and How to Break the Chain of Transmission

Document - Statement by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme

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Truck drivers decry long border wait

Past studies conducted in Kenya found that truck drivers face a higher risk of contracting and spreading viruses, like HIV/Aids, because they are a highly mobile vulnerable group that traverses the country and often spends nights stopped in temporary locations, where exposure is high and testing

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Budget deadlock - Examination of Estimates halted as legal opinion sought on rule breach claim

Solicitor General Marlene Aldred is expected to provide legal guidance to a parliamentary oversight committee that halted its examination of the First Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure yesterday, claiming that it could not proceed until the Government complied with stipulations under the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Media mogul Oliver Clarke dies at 75

Oliver Frederick Clarke, the media mogul who stood at the helm of The Gleaner as chairman and managing director for more than four decades, has

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Rwanda: Inside Rwanda's Rwf186bn Economic Recovery Fund

The fund will support businesses through loan restructuring for the tourism sector specifically hotels, providing working capital for businesses most affected by COVID-19 to keep them operational and avoid lay-offs as well as loan guarantee for SMEs and

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West Africa: Intercommunal Violence, Terrorist Attacks Inflame Tensions in West Africa

[UN News] Intercommunal violence and persistent attacks by extremists, continue to undermine peace and security across West Africa, the UN's top official in the region warned the Security Council on Thursday, calling for sustained engagement with all partners to urgently advance a holistic approach

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EDITORIAL: Gradual reopening of economy only option

At some point, the economy has to reopen -- unless the government intends to cushion everyone from the economic shocks of the virus.

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Source: Business Daily

Ghana: BoG Secures $1bn to Boost Dollar Liquidity ... Maintains Policy Rate At 14.5 Per Cent

The Governor of the BoG, Dr Ernest Addison, who said this in Accra yesterday during the 94th Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) news conference to announce a new policy rate, said the bank had concluded negotiations with the U.S Federal Reserve to that

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PEP delight! - Ten-year-old aces exams to secure place at Calabar High

TEN-YEAR-OLD RICQUAN Wright never sat in a grade-five class at St Michael’s Primary School. He exuded confidence and displayed a brilliant work ethic that propelled his teacher to recommend that he sit the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams, a year...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

United States population: 293,200,000

United States population: 293,200,000. Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1 per cent). Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, President-Emeritus, Morehouse College, named president of Atlanta Board of Education.

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Kenya: Relief for Motorists as Fuel Prices Drop Further

Motorists have a reason to smile to the pump after the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) announced a further drop in the prices of

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East Africa: Headline Inflation Nosedives Across EA

[Daily News] EAST African countries have continually recorded falling inflation rates, with Uganda recording the least headline inflation compared to Kenya and Tanzania for the year ending May 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said.

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CO2 emissions to drop in 2020

Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are set to drop by up to seven percent in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, but even this dramatic decline -- the sharpest since WWII -- would barely dent long-term global warming, researchers reported

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Low-income areas will struggle to contain Covid-19

A s the Covid-19 crisis continues, a new report suggests that it will be hard to control the spread of the virus in low-income

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Only 34% approve Trump’s handling of pandemic: Poll - African American News Today - EIN News

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Rwanda: Govt to Insure More Crops As Farmers Bear Negative Impacts of Floods

Following disasters that continue to destroy farmers' crops and kill domestic animals, the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) has said that it is going to subsidize insurance cost for more crops and livestock so as to cushion farmers against

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Kenya: COVID-19 Death Toll Rises to 50 As Registered Cases Soar to 832

Nairobi — Coronavirus deaths in the country rose to 50 on Saturday, after 5 more patients succumbed to the disease within a period of 24

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Rwanda: Cimerwa Obtains Regulatory Approval to List on Stock Exchange

[New Times] CIMERWA PLC is set to list its shares on the Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE) next week on August 3, the company said in a press release.

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Obama rebukes leaders over Covid-19 response

Former US President Barack Obama on Saturday criticised the response to the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging America, in what was widely regarded as a rare public rebuke of his successor Donald

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Uganda: Banks Meet Over High Interest Rates On Loans

[Monitor] The chief executives of commercial banks have meet this morning to chart a way forward on the Bank of Uganda (BoU) directive to lower interest rates before government caps the interest rate that financial institutions can charge borrowers.

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Eritrea: COVID-19 - Eritrea Flattens Curve in Less Than Two Months

Eritrea on Friday claimed that it had brought the number of coronavirus infections down to zero, becoming the first East African country to win the battle against the deadly disease, at least for

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Auto workers' tenuous return a ray of hope

DETROIT, United States (AP) — Defying a wave of layoffs that has sent the US job market into its worst catastrophe on record, at least one major industry is making a comeback: Tens of thousands of auto workers are returning to factories that have been shuttered since mid-March due to fears of

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Dominica prepared to leave borders closed until December – PM | New York Carib News

The Dominica government says it is prepared to close the island until December even as it announced plans to reopen its borders to international travel in August.

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Radio lessons light up Dadaab camp

The situation is even worse for refugee children, most of whom begin school late, and for whom education is also the only hope out of the

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Some entertainment venues to reopen this weekend

OVER 200 temporary workers are to be recruited by the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development to assist with monitoring public beaches and rivers to reduce the widespread breaches of the protocols for use of these facilities that have been detected.The recruits will join members of

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Uganda: Civil Society to Kampala - We Want Transparency, Not Graft-Laced Debts

The civil society in Uganda is demanding transparency in the spending of Covid-19 loans to avoid loading taxpayers with corruption-fuelled

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Uganda: Adolescents in Eastern Uganda Risk Becoming Obese, New Study Suggests

A study conducted by researchers at the School of Public Health Makerere University, has revealed that adolescents in eastern part of the country consume a lot of fats and oils and thus are at a risk of becoming overweight and obese along the life

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Uganda's Fiscal Deficit High, Says World Bank

[Monitor] The World Bank has expressed concerns over Uganda's rising fiscal deficits now standing at 9 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) for the fiscal year 2020/2021.

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