Africa: Kagame Urges Leaders to Enact Investment Policies

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Africa: Kagame Urges Leaders to Enact Investment Policies

[New Times] President Paul Kagame on Thursday, August 3, issued a rallying call to fellow African leaders saying that governments must step up and enact enabling investment policies, to be able to attract major impactful investments such as the just-inaugurated Anjia Prefabricated Construction Cement Factory in Muhanga district, Southern Province.

Source: allAfrica.com

This South African Scholar Earned Africa’s First Ph.D. in Indigenous Astronomy

Motheo Koitsiwe became the first African man to receive a Ph.D. in African indigenous astronomy from North-West University (NWU).

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Facebook: Investments in Africa will yield $57bn in economic benefits

Facebook has released findings from a study that outlines in detail how its investments in infrastructure and connectivity across Africa will grow the continent's economy by over $50bn over the next five years.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

D.C. Businessman, Yimaj “Steve” Kalifa, Helps Howard University Fight The Pandemic – Dallas Post Tribune

As an immigrant from Ethiopia, Washington, D.C., businessman Yimaj 'Steve' Kalifa is living the American Dream, having built a personal wealth estimated at $100 million. Now at a time when COVID-19 has struck nearly 38,000 residents of the District and killed more than 900, Kalifa is paying back to

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

Xenophobia rears its ugly head amid a battered and bruised economy

Anti-immigrant groups have staged demonstrations in recent months in Johannesburg, the country's biggest city, and in the capital Pretoria, demanding the mass deportation of foreigners.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

More than 2 million children in Ethiopia's Tigray cut off from humanitarian aid

UNICEF said some 2.3 million minors are struggling to access treatment for malnourishment, critical vaccines, emergency medicines, water and sanitation.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Will and Jada Smith's Westbrook Studios Is Partnering with Nigeria's EbonyLife Studios for Africa-Based TV and Movie Projects

Westbrook Studios, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Will Smith’s production studio are partnering with Nigeria’s EbonyLife Studios for a succession of film and television projects all […]

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Locust swarm devours 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 country grapples with the effects of COVID-19. The desert locustsin the worst invasion in Kenya in 70 years, according to the United Nationshave destroyed huge swaths of

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Facial recognition: African leaders must ensure ‘regulation before rollout,’ says ISS

The Pretoria-based Institute of Security Studies (ISS) is urging leaders of sub-Saharan African countries to ensure regulations are in place before the rollout of facial recognition technology, which many experts see as one of the 'most intrusive forms of surveillance'.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Akon Breaks Ground With Construction On His $6 Billion Smart City

The entertainment mogul Akon announced that his company has begun to break ground on the construction of the $6 billion development project in Senegal.

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COVID-19: Africa secures 270 million vaccine doses

Chairperson of the African Union (AU) President Cyril Ramaphosa said efforts to secure a COVID-19 vaccine for the continent were always collaborative

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

GDP growth in sub-Saharan Africa this year is ‘worst on record’

Despite the IMF providing $16-billion in financing to 33 countries in the region during 2020, more help is still needed, organisation warns.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Continued school closures in Africa may create ‘lost generation’

Two UN bodies urge the continent’s governments to get children back into the classroom. More harm is being done if they stay away.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

DStv launches first original Pan-African lifestyle channel, HONEY

HONEY's line-up includes lifestyle, food and cooking, relationships and weddings, along with reality shows throughout the African continent.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

UK and Kenya move closer to a Fair Trade deal - African Voice Newspaper

The UK has moved a step closer to signing a sixth trade deal in Africa on 3 November 2020, as negotiations on a trade deal are finalised with Kenya. The agreement will ensure all companies operating in Kenya, including British businesses, can continue to benefit from duty-free access as they export

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

COLLINS: A United African States: The Final Frontier of Our Liberation Struggle – The Washington Informer

Once again, much of the world has its attention on Black America and the ongoing movement for police reform that, along with the coronavirus pandemic, has dominated the news cycle and social platforms in the ensuing weeks since George Floyd drew his last breath. With several overtures made by

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Source: The Washington Informer

Discovery of 120 000-year-old human footprints excites scientists

Human footprints in what would have been an ancient lake in Saudi Arabia indicate humans were migrating from Africa through Arabian interior.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

In Nairobi, the Rich Form Gangs to Rob the Poor at Gunpoint – Dallas Post Tribune

NAIROBI, Kenya - Wealthy children, using guns, knives or intimidating numbers, are robbing the working poor in the Kayole estate, a struggling neighborhood in Kenya's bustling capital. Usually, robbery and home invasions are seen as crimes of the desperately poor, last resorts of the hungry or the

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Boko Haram Claims It Is Behind Last Week's Kidnapping of Hundreds of Nigerian Schoolboys

Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has taken responsibility for last week's kidnapping of hundreds of schoolboys from a school in north-western Nigeria. Gunmen descended upon […]

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‘Like Touching the Souls of Your Ancestors’: Team of Black scuba Divers Share Experience of Salvaging Sunken Slave Ships

Sunken relics plummet to the ocean floor and are often forgotten for eternity. Occasionally, some resurface, even after thousands of years. And once rediscovered, they […]

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Entrepreneur Says $70K in Products Were Stolen From Shea Butter Biz

Ghanaian-born entrepreneur Charity Dinko reports $70,000 in shea products were stolen from her warehouse in Richmond, Virginia.

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South Africa begins deporting mostly African migrants

The Department of Home Affairs said it had followed "due process," adding that "the affected foreign nationals have already been transferred to Lindela Repatriation Centre.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Biden-Harris campaign releases 'Agenda for African Diaspora' - TheGrio

The campaign for Democratic presidential and vice-presidential nominees Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released an agenda to support the African... View Article The post Biden-Harris campaign releases 'Agenda for African Diaspora' appeared first on TheGrio.

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Vanessa Williams is Making a Difference with Thousands of Black Mayors | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The International Association of Mayors of African Descent is visionary mayors and leaders united for the purpose and vision of establishing the platform in which education, empowerment, and economic development through trust, trade, training, and tourism.

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Kenyan woman entrepreneur turns plastic into bricks 'seven times stronger than concrete' (Watch)

Nzambi Matee, 29, and her team recycle plastic bottle tops, bags, and cooking oil containers into bricks.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Ethiopia conflict: UN rights chief warns ethnically motivated attacks heightens genocide risk

Amnesty International reported on Thursday that scores, possibly hundreds, of civilians were massacred with knives and machetes in a town south of Humera last week.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

WORLD Channel Continues its Celebration of Pride Month with a Film looking at Young LGBT Asylum Seekers | BlackPressUSA

To close out WORLD Channel’s celebration of Pride Month, Director Rodney Evans' documentary Vision Portraits debuts June 30. Best known for his films Brother to Brother (2004) and The Happy Sad (2013), in Vision Portraits, Evans takes viewers on a personal journey as he profiles three blind or

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Study sheds light on what it takes for women to succeed – or not – in science in Africa

This is the first review of its kind that gives an African perspective of the challenges that women in these fields face. They are by no means unique to Africa.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Two African women in final five WTO leadership race

The 25-year-old World Trade Organization has never had a leader who is female or from Africa.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Plans to Unveil a Bust of Marcus Garvey in Ethiopia Revealed

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Now, 81 years after his death, officials in Ethiopia plan to unveil a Bronze Sculpture in Addis Ababa to honor the legacy of the Pan African independence movement architect. According to a news release, the sculpture highlights Ethiopia as a focal point for Pan-Africanists to

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

3D homes and schools are coming to Africa [video]

3D printing is transforming the construction sector and will be deployed in Africa to help build affordable and low-carbon housing and schools.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

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