Kenya: Women MPs Perform Dismally in Infotrak Poll

Africa: 20 Percent of Africans Believe They Can't Contract COVID-19 - Report

But as cases increase, a May report by the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC), a public-private partnership initiative on COVID-19 in AU countries, found that certain misconceptions about coronavirus infections exist among

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Source: allAfrica.com

Nigeria's Economy Will Definitely Go Into Recession - Finance Minister

An assessment by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics indicates that Nigeria's economy will go into a recession at an average of -4.4 per cent, the finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, has

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uganda: Era Cuts Transmission Costs By More Than Half

The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) has slashed Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited's (UETCL) capital, operation and maintenance costs by more than half for the period

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Source: allAfrica.com

Boos for back-to-work order - PM urged not to prejudice task force plan

The high-ranking official has also suggested that the decision might prejudice the proposals of the Economic Recovery Task Force, which is mandated to roll out the road map to firing up

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Kenya: Floods Blamed on Uganda's Policy on Releasing Lake Water

The East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers suggests Uganda may have breached the agreements on how much water to release from Nalubaale dam -- the main outlet of the world's largest freshwater

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Source: allAfrica.com

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

COVID-19 layoffs in US nearly 39 million

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits in the two months since the coronavirus took hold in the US has swelled to nearly 39 million, the Government reported yesterday, even as states from coast to coast gradually reopen their economies and

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

Speid: Teachers are scared to death of re-entering classroom

MONTEGO BAY, St James —President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Owen Speid says the nation's teachers are afraid of re-entering the classroom to facilitate students sitting the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) exit exams in

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

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

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

Courts Optical gives civil servants up to 75% off

Unicomer (Jamaica) Limited says it is giving customers at its Courts Optical stores discounts of up to 65 per cent on select frames and has added a further 10 per cent off for civil

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

Tourists land in Tanzania as hotels, firms and schools resume

Plane loads of tourists aboard Ethiopian, KLM and Turkish airlines are expected to land in Tanzania in the next one week, marking a critical milestone in the on-going re-opening of the country’s economy following nearly two months of

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Source: The East African

Poll: Many Americans won't return to gyms, dining out

Just 42 per cent of those who went to concerts, movies, theatres or sporting events, at least monthly before the outbreak, say they'd do so in the next few weeks if they

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

The gambling nation

The staggering size of the local betting industry has emerged from a leaked spreadsheet of revenue declarations made by gambling firms to the Betting Control and Licensing Board (BCLB) for May 2019, shortly before the government introduced tougher regulations and higher

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

Uganda: Government Should Rescue People From Poverty

Therefore, the question is: What will stimulate demand and eventually boost peoples' decreasing

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Source: allAfrica.com

South African English - Definition and Examples

According to the results of the 2011 census . . ., English is the fourth most widely spoken mother tongue [in South Africa] behind isiZulu, isiXhosa and

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Source: ThoughtCo

Audit pokes hole in Tullow's Sh15bn pay out claim

"This represents less than eight per cent of the gross expenditure – reasonable by industry standards," Tullow Oil Kenya Managing Director Martin Mbogo said in

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

Rwanda: 93% of Rwandans Financially Included, Study Shows

Rwanda's financial inclusion has grown to 93 per cent, according to preliminary findings of a recent Finscope study soon to be

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Source: allAfrica.com

Mozambique: Aicaju Warns of Declining Cashew Processing

Maputo — The Mozambican Association of Cashew Industries (AICAJU) has warned that less than 35,000 tonnes of cashew nuts will be processed in Mozambican factories this year, which is more than 33 per cent less than the 52,000 tonnes processed last

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Source: allAfrica.com

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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Source: allAfrica.com

Recoveries from COVID-19 outnumber new cases of disease

Recoveries from COVID-19 today outnumbered new cases of the disease in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Cameroon: Management of COVID-19 - Screening, Treatment Remain Free

This was underscored during the daily press briefing on Covid-19 in the country on Sunday May 17, as 51 new cases have been

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Source: allAfrica.com

Tanzania inflation stable: report

Cost of living remained low in Tanzania in March despite the economic challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic with the 12-month headline inflation easing to 3.4 per cent from 3.7 per cent in

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Source: The East African

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

Trump lashes out at scientists whose findings contradict him

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — “A Trump enemy statement,” he said of one

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

Ghana: G.O Sports Academy Absorbs Akro Heroes Football Club

Akro Heroes FC, a juvenile and division two football franchise from Somanya in the Eastern region has merged with G.O Sports Academy under an agreement signed between the two

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Source: allAfrica.com

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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Source: allAfrica.com

Rwanda: Nuts and Bolts - Economic Depreciation and Inflation

Conceptually, inflation is a measure of the rate at which the average price of goods and services in an economy increases over some period of

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Source: allAfrica.com

Quit smoking & drinking

SMOKING tobacco has been linked to various respiratory conditions and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as stroke, heart disease and a variety of cancers, as well as other issues like reduced function of the immune

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

Consumer advocate lashes Gov’t over bad gas payout

THE HEAD of one local consumer protection group believes consumers should feel offended by the offer of a $24.5-million compensation package for those who suffered from the purchase of contaminated gas in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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