Kenya: Top Doctor Contracts Coronavirus

Malawi: MCP-Utm Alliance Distances Itself From Its Purported Diaspora Wing

Malawi Congress Party (MCP), the UTM Party and other partners in Tonse Alliance for the fresh presidential election, has distanced itself from a newly-formed diaspora entity in the United Kingdom that is conducting its political business under the name Tonse Alliance Diaspora

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Nigeria: SGF Lists Nigeria's Challenges to Tackling COVID-19 - SGF

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has identified human resistance to change and stigmatisation as part of the challenges in containing the COVID-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

Iowa State Basketball Player Rasir Bolton Says He Transferred Schools After Former Coach Made a Remark About a Noose

The general public didnt know it then, but when Iowa State guard Rasir Bolton transferred from Penn State last year, it wasnt because he wasnt []

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Joe Biden’s Plan for Empowering Black America

In a news release, the campaign noted that Biden “knows we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based

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Uganda: Kasensero Presents Yet Another Challenge to Uganda's Public Health

Ms Sophia Tageya, a midwife at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital, is currently the team-lead of the COVID-19 response team at Kasensero landing site, located on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kyotera district, Southern

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Across Continent Nears Half Million

[allAfrica] As of July 7, the confirmed cases of COVID-19 from 55 African countries have reached 492,858.

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Guest Editorial: Decisions to reopen will be evaluated at the polls

Those who feel most vulnerable to the novel coronavirus disease—COVID-19 —are moving with extreme caution, while others are ignoring social distancing guidelines and protesting mask-less for business to reopen as

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Parkland expands COVID-19 testing to new locations

Parkland offers COVID-19 testing by appointment only for current Parkland patients who meet the medically necessary criteria with a Parkland

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Ghana health minister tests positive for Covid-19

President Nana Akufo-Addo said the country’s health minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu is in a stable condition after contracting the new

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Kenya: Diamond Reveals What Tanasha Loved Most About Tanzania

[Nairobi News] Tanzanian heartthrob Diamond Platinumz has revealed his favourite topic of discussion with Tanasha Donna whenever his Kenyan ex-girlfriend visited him in Tanzania.

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Are the police special? - JFJ puts pressure on Gov’t to give INDECOM prosecutorial powers

THERE IS growing pressure on the Government to give the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) prosecutorial powers as the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has been blamed for being too slow or ineffective in securing convictions involving the security

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ghana: Rawlings to Address June 4 Anniversary By Virtual Broadcast

Former President Jerry John Rawlings will deliver the keynote address to mark the 41st anniversary of the June 4 uprising on Thursday, June

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rwanda: COVID-19 - Over 50 People Arrested in Musanze While Praying on a Mountain

Officials in Musanze District on Sunday arrested at least 51 people for breaching the government directive banning mass gathering and congregating in ungazetted areas to curb the spread of Covid-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

AG says Data Protection Act will need constant review

ATTORNEY General Marlene Malahoo Forte says that the Data Protection Act, which was approved Tuesday by the House of Representatives, must be kept under constant

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NMS picks fresh team to approve buildings

Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has established a new urban planning technical committee to handle building plan approvals.

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No Time to Grieve: How COVID-19 Has Changed Funerals and Mourning – Voice and Viewpoint

The service, handled by Morgan Jones Funeral Home in Sacramento, lasted no more than seven minutes, and the 10 people who attended the burial stayed in their

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Gary Housing Authority and FAITH CDC team up with a Host of Community Partners for COVID-19 Food Relief Initiative | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Thanks to a program through the USDA, the Gary Housing Authority’s (GHA) EnVision Center and FAITH Community Development Center have teamed up to spearhead the COVID-19 Food Relief

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Report: 25% of African Americans Plan On Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine

Despite this fact, a new poll shows many won’t be getting a vaccine once it becomes

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Hemphill, Essex (1957-1995)

Brash, bold, provocative, and edgy. These are just some of the many words that were used to describe the poet and performer Essex Hemphill who was known for his outspoken, direct, and often confrontational poems and articles. Hemphill was also unapologetic about his open homosexuality. The oldest

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Hair weaves made from Chinese prison camp detainees seized

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Challenges of accessing justice in Covid-19 times

While elsewhere in the continent whole justice systems were being shut down, the decision to keep the country’s wheels of justice turning was lauded

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Source: Business Daily

EX-NFL Player Bacarri Rambo Arrested On Rape Charge

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Kenya: Drama as Man Strips Naked to Protest Wife's Removal as MCA

[Nation] There was drama outside the Nairobi County Assembly yesterday after a man stripped down to his inner wear when he got wind that his wife's rival was to be sworn in as a Member of County Assemby (MCA).

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Source: allAfrica.com

TCI's Opposition PNP wants economy reopened

The Opposition Progressive National Party (PNP) in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) has urged the Government there to hastily convene a high-level conference of stakeholders to craft a plan for speedy reopening of the economy, hopefully by the beginning of

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Uganda: Allow Back Non-Contact Sports, Betting

[Monitor] COVID -- 19 remains at large . It is still as dangerous as it is deadly. The need for precautions will never be overestimated. But life has been creeping back from the days of total lockdown to the current partial. Yet certain activities remain under lock and key.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Amid pandemic, Live Nation announces drive-in concert series

NEW YORK (AP) — Tour promoter Live Nation has announced its first-ever drive-in concerts series in the U.S. for July, months after the live music industry has been on lockdown due to the coronavirus

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Source: theGrio

Tanzania: Immediate Measures to Protect the Rights of Prison Detainees

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Uganda Moves to Phased Reopening Amid Rising COVID-19 Cases

Uganda will go ahead with its planned re-opening of the country despite recording more than 150 Covid-19 cases in three days, according to President Yoweri

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Tunisia: Interior Minister Holds Talks With Ambassador of Turkey to Tunisia

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -Interior Minister Hichem Mechichi met on Monday with ambassador of Turkey to Tunisia, Rafik Ali Onaner, who stressed, on this occasion, "the excellence of bilateral relations", commending the measures taken by the Tunisian government to fight against the spread

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Source: allAfrica.com

Civil War Widows' Pension Digitization Project at the National Archives

The National Archives holds 1.28 million case files of pension applications from family members of deceased Civil War Union soldiers. This Inside the Vaults video short follows a team of more than sixty volunteers, led by National Archives staff, which is digitizing the files and placing them

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