Declaration of Independence adopted

Why digital taxes are the new trade war flashpoint

The two countries agreed on a truce whereby the US would back off from tariffs and France would delay collection of its digital tax to the end of 2020 to allow for renewed efforts to reach a multilateral

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Newswire: Black Lives Matter protesters tear down statue of the U.K.’s leading slave trader

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Sudan: Protest in North Darfur Against Violence in Camps for Displaced

Kabkabiya — People in Kabkabiya locality in North Darfur organised a march to the locality offices yesterday to protest against the continued violence, assassinations, rapes, and beatings in the camps for the

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Source: allAfrica.com

UN calls for 'sustained efforts' against DRC natural resource trafficking

The UN Security Council called on Thursday for "sustained efforts" in preventing the illegal trade of natural resources from the Democratic Republic of Congo, as gold in particular fuels conflict between armed groups in the

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Tunisia: HPR Approves Draft Law On Social and Solidarity Economy

Tunis/Tunisia — The House of People's Representatives (HPR) approved at a plenary session held on Wednesday the draft law on social and solidarity economy with 131 votes for, 0 against and

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Appeal Court to rule tomorrow on GECOM declaration challenge

Guyana’s Court of Appeal is set to rule tomorrow on the challenge that has been mounted to prevent the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) from using the results of the recount from the March 2nd elections to make a final

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The Suez Crisis: Key in the Decolonization of Africa

In 1922 Britain granted Egypt limited independence, ending its protectorate status and creating a sovereign state with Sultan Ahmad Fuad as king. In actuality, however, Egypt only achieved the same rights as British dominion states like Australia, Canada, and South Africa. Egyptian foreign

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Kenya Celebrates Removal of British Queen Victoria Statue

The statue Britain's Queen Victoria outlasted several of statues from before Kenya's independence from Britain in

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Afro-Caribbean

Afro-Caribbeans are Caribbean people who trace at least some of their ancestry to West Africa in the period since Christopher Columbuss arrival in the region in 1492. Other names for this ethnicity include African-Caribbean (especially preferred among the United Kingdom branch of the

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Seven Things To Know About Juneteenth

UPDATED: 3:03 a.m. ET, June 19, 2020

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The Dossier: Dr. Guy Fisher

Born 1947 in the South Bronx, Guy Fisher as a member of The Council, a Harlem-based crime governing

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Panicked investors inundate brokers after Zimbabwe shuts bourse

Stockbrokers in Zimbabwe are struggling to explain to investors what’s happened to their money after the government shut down the stock

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Nandlall says no injunction has been granted against GECOM or CEO, meeting can proceed

60 of 2020 and the amended Order dated the 29th day of May, 2020, in that the GUYANA ELECTIONS COMMISSION has failed to determine a final credible count and or the credibility of the result of the General and Regional Elections held on the 2nd day of March, 2020, as

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EDITORIAL: Finance ministers owe citizens the truth on budgets

Given the unusual circumstances, the Finance ministers struck an optimistic posture, perhaps trying to lift the spirits of a region weighed down by the ripple effects of varying levels of Covid-19 related lockdowns in three of the member

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The Formation of the Union of South Africa

The politicking behind the scenes for the formation of the Union of South Africa allowed the foundations of apartheid to be laid. On May 31, 1910, the Union of South Africa was formed under British dominion. It was exactly eight years after the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging, which had

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Africa: President Ramaphosa Launches the Africa Medical Supplies Platform to Help Fight COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19: African Union Chair, President Ramaphosa launches the Africa Medical Supplies Platform, Africa's Unified Continental response to fight the pandemic

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Pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism is a worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent. Based upon a common fate going back to the Atlantic slave trade, the movement extends beyond continental Africans, with a substantial support base

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The time has come for stronger actions against the recalcitrant APNU+AFC

I believe that many political observers and, more importantly, the Guyanese public feared this outcome from as far back as 2015 (when some decided to cast their vote for the incumbent regime because change was

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West Africa: COVID-19 - ECOWAS Recommends Gradual Re-Opening of Regional Borders

The ECOWAS Ministerial Coordination Committee on Transport, Logistics and Trade has recommended a harmonised and gradual reopening of land, air and sea borders for restoring cross border economic

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Uhuru plays down fears on US-Kenya trade talks

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Bank of England says sorry for slave links as UK faces past

LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has apologized for the slave links some of its past governors had with slavery, as a global anti-racism movement sparked by the death of George Floyd forces many British institutions to confront uncomfortable truths about their

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Zimbabwe suspends mobile money services, claiming 'economic sabotage'

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Rwanda: Expo2020 Postponed Due to COVID-19

The 2020 Rwanda International Trade Fair, Expo2020, has been postponed to December 11-31 due to Covid-19

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Biden Campaign Calls Out Racist Trump Rally To Be Held Where Black People Were Massacred

Trump is returning to the campaign trail on Friday, June 19, in

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Congolese nationalism (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Congolese nationalism of Democratic Republic of the Congo, was also for a time known as Zairian nationalism during the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko. Congolese nationalism persists amongst the people of Democratic Republic of the Congo, in spite of civil war and the lack of a clear definition of what it

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David Granger is without shame in continuing to defy the will of the people

It is clear as daylight on a bright sunny day, that David Granger, in power as a de facto President, with the full support of the police and army under his command, if not in absolute control, is most certainly complicit in an obvious and determined decision of APNU+AFC to remain in government

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UK announces £1.57 Billion investment for Arts and Entertainment Industry – where is Sierra Leone?

Alhaji K. Tarawally: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 July 2020: Britain’s globally renowned arts, culture and heritage industries will receive a world-leading £1.57 billion rescue package to help weather the impact of coronavirus, the UK government announced yesterday. Thousands of companies across

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Sunny Hostin goes viral explaining George Washington's history as a slave owner

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MPs shield toll collections from public scrutiny

MPs shield toll collections from public scrutiny ahead of pay-for-use roads

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Show Me The Money

They provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida north of the St. John’s River and the dividing of it into parcels of not more than 40 acres on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 freed slave families and other Blacks

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