Madagascar: A Higher-Yield Rice Variety Moves Madagascar Further On the Path to Self-Sufficiency

Zimbabwe: Vendors Selling Underweight Maize Meal Packs

And now buyers of roller meal find they are getting around 9kg, or even less in some cases, as vendors carefully open the bag and scoop out a portion before selling the rest in the resealed

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Guyanese helping and benefiting from Richmond Hill pantry

Every Saturday over 1,600 Guyanese and other immigrants leave the Calvary’s Mission Food Pantry (CMFP) in Richmond Hill, Queens in New York feeling relieved that their week’s groceries have been taken care

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Africa: Seven Ways We Are Making Ourselves Sick (And How We Can Stop)

The World Health Organization attributes 23 per cent of all deaths to unhealthy environments; and this year, the top five risks cited in the World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report were all related to the

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Liberia: U.S.$9 Million of Food Distributions U.S.$30 Million to Be Used On Administrative and Operational Cost, Commerce Minister Discloses

Capitol Hill — Commerce Minister Wilson Tarpeh has presented to the Liberian senate a working plan for the distribution of the government's food

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Corentyne man crushed to death by tractor

A Corentyne man yesterday died yesterday after he was pinned under a tractor, which toppled while he was operating it in the Number 72 Village, Upper Corentyne

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Liberia: Winners' Chapel Church Strengthens Liberia's Efforts to Fight Coronavirus

Monrovia — As part of efforts to strengthen the fight against the deadly coronavirus that is ravaging not only Liberia but the entire world, the Winners' Chapel in Liberia has donated 100 bags of rice and 1,000 nose masks to the Executive Committee on

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Somalia: AMISOM Donates Food for Eid

Kenyan officers serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Wednesday donated food packages to vulnerable families in Dhobley and Kismayo ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitri celebrations to mark the end of the holy month of

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President Trump Tweets Out White Power Message, Black Republican Senator Tim Scott Expresses Dismay

Dr. Gathe, who serves as the co-director of the COVID-19 Dedicated Care Unit at the United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC), said he got a call one day from Dr. Varon, and they began discussing patients they had recently seen that had been getting sick with this unusual new

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Temporary Isolation Can Be The Opportunity To Permanently Transform Your Weight And Health

As you combine foods, Rosen adds that “monitoring blood glucose is the key to weight gain vs. weight loss; good health vs. poor

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Rwanda: Rwamagana Leaders' School Reaches Out to Citizens

Rwamagana Leaders' School, a secondary school in the Eastern Province has undertaken a commendable initiative of supporting the community during the Covid-19 pandemic

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Uganda: Why Busoga Farmers Stopped Growing Cotton

Prince Emmanuel Babalanda, the deputy prime minister of Bugabula Chiefdom, on Monday said the cotton industry was "killed" by the privatisation policy when government started paying farmers through

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Two wounded after shooting at Corentyne Father’s Day celebration

Two Corentyne men were wounded on Sunday evening after they were attacked by four men armed with a shotgun and pieces of wood at Friendship

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COVID-19 recovery — My personal battle from a positive to a negative result

A few days after my call with Rep. Reynolds, I received a call on my cell phone from U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on Wednesday, March

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Kenya: Safi Organics Turns Farm Waste into Black Gold and Poor Farmers into Entrepreneurs

"This is the kind of impact we would like to deliver to smallholder farmers across the African continent," says Joyce Kamande, one of 25 African entrepreneurs who spent six weeks at Oklahoma State University last year as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a flagship programme of the

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St kitts and nevis

Current government officials

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Green Legacy: Ethiopia's 5 billion tree seedlings project kicks off

Ethiopia’s plan to plant 5 billion tree seedlings this year as part of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s reforestation initiative has taken

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Somalia

National name: Soomaaliya

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Equatorial guinea

National name: Républica de Guinea Ecuatorial

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Geography of Nigeria

Population: 152,217,341 (July 2010

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Uncle Ben’s Brand To Get Overhaul After Aunt Jemima Backlash Over Racial Stereotypes

Following news that the Quaker Oats Company will be changing the name and packaging of its Aunt Jemima products because of its stereotypical imaging, Mars, Incorporated, which is behind the Uncle Ben’s rice brand will follow suit by “evolving” its brand identity, according to a press release on the

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COVID-19 — My Personal Battle from a Positive to a Negative Result

A few days after my call with Rep. Reynolds, I received a call on my cell phone from U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on Wednesday, March

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Nigeria: Amidst Lockdown Ease, Nigeria's Weekly COVID-19 Cases Reduce, Recoveries Double

As Nigerians continue to experience the nationwide ease in lockdown announced by President Muhammadu Buhari, the country recorded a 16 per cent drop in coronavirus cases last week compared to the previous week, an analysis of data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control

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Kenya: Fears for Kenya's Urban Food Supply As Floods Drown Rice

Rice is a staple food in Kenya's urban areas, but with floods destroying young crops in recent weeks and imports restricted by the COVID-19 pandemic, stocks may run short

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Burkina faso

Ethnicity/race: Mossi (over 40%), Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani

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Former cop who placed knee on Black woman's neck booked for misconduct (video)

Dr. Gathe, who serves as the co-director of the COVID-19 Dedicated Care Unit at the United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC), said he got a call one day from Dr. Varon, and they began discussing patients they had recently seen that had been getting sick with this unusual new

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Swaziland

Current government officials

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Zimbabwe: COVID-19 - Residents Red Flag Over Truck Drivers, Illegal Cross Border Traders

Mutare residents say truck drivers and illegal cross-border traders posed the biggest risk of transiting coronavirus among city dwellers because of their continued movements across into neighbouring

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Togo

Togolese Republic

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African-American history

African-American history is the part of American history that looks at the African-American or Black American ethnic groups in the United States. Most African Americans are the descendants of Africans forcibly brought to and held captive in the United States from 1555 to 1865. Blacks from the

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Liberia: Unity Party Survives On Cummings' Pocket

-Rep. Gray

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