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[The Point] The Gambia government's total expenditure in the first nine months of 2020 increased by 13 per cent compared with its expenditure in the same period in 2019, spending close to D2 billion more of taxpayers' monies.
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The Omrie Golley Story: Return of the Kabbah administration – Major setbacks for peace
Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2021: The Armed forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) coup of May 1997 was short lived. With the assistance of ECOMOG troops, the militia known as the Kamajors, and the support of the sub region and the international community, the late
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Non-compliance attract sanctions: AU - The Zimbabwe Independent
AFRICAN Union member states last week converged in the tourist city of Victoria Falls to discuss public service issues as they commemorated the 8th session of the Africa Public Service Day. Senior business reporter Melody Chikono spoke to AU Commission Representative, Ambassador Osman Keh Kamara
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Bartlett calls for suppliers to increase production to meet demand
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett is calling for local suppliers to increase their production of goods and services to match the increasing demand from the industry. “If we aren't able to supply on that demand, we're going to have...
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Royal African Company
Chartered in 1672, the Royal African Company was a royally chartered company which had a legally based monopoly on English trade to West Africa until 1698. The monopoly specifically extended through five thousand miles of the western coast from Cape Sallee (in contemporary Morocco) to the Cape of
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K1 Trillion Reserve Bank transactions was debt restructuring - RBM
Experts at the country’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM), say that the bank legitimately wired the K1 trillion in a single day in June last year to various local commercial banks as part of debt restructuring process. Media reports published over the weekend indicated the June
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Source: Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi
Africa: Rohr - I'll Make Eagles Champions of Africa Again
Super Eagles Coach Gernot Rohr said he made sacrifices in his new contract with Nigeria in order to guide the country to a fourth Africa Cup of Nations
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Africa: Preserving the Independence of the African Development Bank for an Economic Transformation Across the Continent with and by its Young People
We, the youth of the African continent, as integral participants of the civil society and the economic world, working in our respective countries or from the diaspora, hereby assert our deep attachment to the independence of the African Development Bank, a major player in the growth of the
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Netflix to spend $100M to help Black business
The New York Times reported today that Netflix, which has $5B in its cash reserves will place 2 percent of its holdings with financial institutions that loan to Black
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Child malaria spikes in Sierra Leone as parents fear coronavirus | Africanews
Doctors in a rural Sierra Leone hospital may be accustomed to treating severely ill infants, but they recently admitted one of the worst cases they had ever
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Costs of fuel gone up in Sierra Leone amid fears of rising inflation
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2021: In a press release issued on Thursday 1st July, 2021 by the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA) it was announced that the PRA in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Oil Marketing Companies
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Black-owned Heritage Coffee Lounge, from co-owner of Soiree in Dallas, opening in DeSoto - Texas Metro News
The shop opening in the Shops at Wintergreen will offer signature spiked coffee, cocktails and food, including vegan options. By Tyler Carter An upscale coffee shop, Heritage Coffee Lounge, is coming to DeSoto. Tara McDaniel, a Dallas native who co-owns Soiree Coffee Bar in Trinity Groves, said the
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Sierra Leone announces Covid-19 vaccine roll-out plans  
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday held a meeting with development partners and the diplomatic community in the country to talk about the successes of Sierra Leone in the fight against COVID-19, and his government’s plan to roll out vaccination throughout
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
President Bio is determined to guarantee press freedom in Sierra Leone
SL Ministry of Information: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 July 2020: Guaranteeing press freedom, promoting and protecting the rights of journalists, giving oxygen of  publicity to the voices of reasoning, and making the country compete with other civilized democratic nations, His Excellency President
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Coronavirus in Africa: 216,775 cases; 5,852 deaths; 98,686 recoveries
There are now more than over 200,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the
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Potential Misuse of Opportunity Zones in Major Cities Being Investigated - Black Enterprise
Democrats say Opportunity Zones are being misused to help the wealthy to get richer rather than benefiting residents who live in low-income areas
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Holloway, Anne Forrester (1941- 2006)
Anne Forrester Holloway was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Mali on November 6, 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. She was the first African American woman to hold that
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Zimbabwe: EU Contributes U.S.$41m to Zim's Health Development Fund
The European Union (EU) has provided fresh funds amounting to US$41 million as additional funding to the country's Health Development Fund
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In Dec. 2013, Madagascar held its presidential and parliamentary elections. The presidential elections were a run-off between the top two candidates of an earlier round, Jean Louis Robinson and Hery Rajaonarimampianina. Rajaonarimampianina won the runoff, receiving 54% of the
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Sierra Leone announces new measures to curb Covid-19 third wave as infection rises
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2021: Sierra Leone has recorded 269 new cases of Covid-19 infections in the last five days. Yesterday Saturday 19th June 2021, seventy-one new cases of Covid-19 infections were recorded in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 4,702. Last
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone Association of Journalists condemned for accepting gifts from President Bio
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 May 2021: The President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) and his executives have come under serious fire on social media, after receiving large consignment of cooking items, including 40 bags of rice, 50 gallons of cooking oil, 10 bags of
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Tunisia-UNDP - Will to Diversify Cooperation in Economic and Social Rights Field
Tunis/Tunisia — Minister of Human Rights, Relations with Constitutional Authorities and Civil Society Ayachi Hammami expressed, on Wednesday, the Ministry's willingness to strengthen cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Tunisia to include other areas related to the
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Source: allAfrica.com
Sierra Leonean Allieu Mucktarru Kallay urges Africans in the USA to vote for Biden-Harris
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 November 2020: Tomorrow Tuesday, November 3, the American people will go to the polls to choose a new president in a high-stakes election where every vote counts, including that of immigrant citizens from Africa. One of the men who have been working around-the-clock to
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Jordan, Mosina H. (1943- )
In 1995, career Foreign Service Officer Mosina H. Jordan was nominated by President Bill Clinton to serve as ambassador to the Central African Republic (CAR). After U.S. Senate confirmation she arrived in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic and presented her credentials on November
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Rwanda: Govt Deploys Robots in COVID-19 Fight
Launched on Tuesday, May 19 at the Kanyinya COVID-19 Treatment Centre by the Ministry of Health with support from the United Nations Development Programme, the five high-tech robots can perform a number of tasks related to COVID-19 management, including mass temperature screening, delivering food
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Africa: How Can Countries Continue to Combat Malaria During a Pandemic?
[African Arguments] With medical disruptions due to COVID-19 likely to kill more people in Africa than the disease itself, two countries provide interesting lessons.
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Africa: After COVID-19, African Women Must Get Back to Better Jobs
As market women breathe a collective sigh of relief in Ghana, the first country to ease COVID 19–related movement restrictions, evidence of the new normal is everywhere: in mask-wearing, social distancing, and varying days for the sale of different
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New and innovative book uses Sierra Leonean culture to help children learn to read
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 August 2021: After the success of her first book, 'Adama Loves Akara,' Vickie Remoe has written 'A Print for Ami,' the second book in a children's series that promotes African culture and early reading. While the first book focused on short /a/ vowel sounds, book two
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Namibia: Outright Calls for Scrapping of Sodomy Law
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We need to build a different Africa – says Mo Ibrahim
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2021: 2021 Ibrahim Governance Weekend concluded last week with a rallying call from Mo Ibrahim to use the Covid pandemic response to build a more self-reliant Africa. Discussing the impact of COVID-19 on Africa, the 2021 Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW) heard that
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