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Africa's Covid-19 caseload nearing 160,000

With the novel coronavirus still in pandemic mode, the African continent has seen a continued growth in the total tally, while Italy, an earlier epicentre of the pandemic in Europe, has begun to partially lift travel bans as its new infections are

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Source: The East African

Africa Day and Its Discontent

Founded in 1963, the aim of the Organization of Africa Unity, the precursor of Africa Union (AU) was to safeguard the interests and independence of all African states, encourage the continent's development, and settle disputes among member

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uganda, Kenya Picked for FAO Forest Restoration Project

Use of the module will also be piloted in Kenya and Uganda, as well as Cambodia, Myanmar and the respective government institutions in 2020-2021," said FAO in a new report titled The State of the World's Forests 2020, released in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: Digital Briefing on USAID's Ongoing Development Priorities and COVID-19 Assistance Response in Africa

Today we are pleased to be joined by Dr. Kenneth Staley, U.S. Agency for International Development, Global Malaria Coordinator and leader of the USAID COVID-19 Task Force, and Mr. Christopher Runyan, USAID Senior Coordinator for the Bureau for

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rwanda: COVID-19 - Mass Testing for Rwandan Peacekeepers in South Sudan

The testing spearheaded by the Ministry of Health started on Tuesday in Malakal where Rwanda Formed Police Unit-One (FPU-1) hybrid contingent of 239 officers, is

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Source: allAfrica.com

Investing in mental healthcare will impact socio-economic development – says president Bio

Addressing Ministers of Government, Development Partners, Staff of the Hospital, and guests of the occasion, president Bio spoke about the importance of investing in mental

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Williams, Franklin Hall (1917-1990)

Longtime civil rights organizer and later U.S. Ambassador, Franklin Hall Williams was born on October 22, 1917, in Flushing, New York. His mother died in 1919. Williams was raised by his maternal grandparents. He graduated from Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1941. After

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Source: Black Past

May

22

1990

Human trafficking victims destined for Trinidad & Tobago rescued

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuela’s Navy yesterday broke up three human trafficking camps on the country’s Orinoco Delta and rescued 79 people, including 25 minors, whom they said were being trafficked to criminal gangs in

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

CARICOM, Canadian public health sector officials to meet | New York Carib News

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Public health officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) are to meet with their counterparts from Canada as the region begins the process of reopening its borders to allow international travel back into the Caribbean, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has

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Source: The New York Carib News

Somalia: New Report Accuses Envoy of Running Down Amisom

The head of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) is fighting off allegations of corruption, mismanagement, harassment and political

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rwanda: Inside the Country's 10 Multi-Billion Dollar Green Projects

Rwanda recently submitted its new national climate plan dubbed "Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)" to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Source: allAfrica.com

How Felicien Kabuga exploited State impunity

At some point, former Attorney-General Amos Wako and Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko were taken to task by a Kenyan court to explain why it was unable to trace whoever was running Mr Kabuga’s business

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

Africa: Unctad - African Countries Should Use Official Development Assistance to Diversify Their Economies

A key recommendation of a recent report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which deals with trade, investment, and development issues, is for official development assistance to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to be channeled to the productive

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Source: allAfrica.com

Tunisia: International Day of Family Remittances - Ifad Calls for Remittance Service Providers to Be Declared Essential Businesses in Times of Crisis

Tunis/Tunisia — With the significant decline in money sent home by migrants due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) called on June 16, for governments across the world to declare remittance service providers essential

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Source: allAfrica.com

Sierra Leone needs $309 million to address COVID-19 impact on the economy – says government

“To alleviate this impact, fund the Quick Action Economic Response Programme, the Health Programme and the Social Impact Programme the Government is seeking: Additional emergency support from the IMF, including one or more of the following

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Africa: 'Earth School' Gives Students in Lockdown a Closeup Look At Nature

With the coronavirus pandemic disrupting education worldwide, Earth School sought to bring together compelling and interactive resources for learning about nature and the environment on a single global

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa's coronavirus cases pass 100,000; deaths at 3,098

May 22: Cases pass 100,000 mark

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Mali

U.S. Department of State Background Note

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Africa: The Budapest Memorandum On Giving Up Nuclear Weapon

On December 5th 1994, the United States, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom, along with China and France in a separate document, signed the now infamous "Budapest Memorandum", the document was supposed to be an assurance to Ukraine that if it acknowledged the non-nuclear proliferation

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rwanda's Most Wanted Genocide Fugitive Arrested in France

Rwanda genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga was on Saturday arrested in Paris region, the French justice ministry and the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

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Source: allAfrica.com

Jones, William B. (1928- )

On July 26, 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated William B. Jones as the United States Ambassador to Haiti. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jones and soon after he took up his post in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Born on May 2, 1928, to Bill and LaVelle Jones in Los Angeles, California, Ambassador Jones grew

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Source: Black Past

Zimbabwe

U.S. Department of State Background Note

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Fauset, Crystal Bird (1894–1965)

Crystal Bird Fauset, the first African-American female state legislators in the United States, was born on June 27, 1894 in Princess Anne, Maryland. She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts but spent most of her adult and political life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between 1914 and 1918 Fauset worked

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Source: Black Past

Mar

27

1965

South Sudan: First War, Now COVID-19 Threatens South Sudanese in Crowded Camp

Nairobi — Two people have tested positive in a crowded South Sudanese camp housing 30,000 people

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Source: allAfrica.com

A Brief Intro and History of Benin, Africa

Benin was the seat of one of the great medieval African kingdoms called Dahomey. Europeans began arriving in the area in the 18th century, as the kingdom of Dahomey was expanding its territory. The Portuguese, the French, and the Dutch established trading posts along the coast

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Source: ThoughtCo

Joy, tears in Darfur as International Criminal Court arrests wanted war crimes suspect

Kushayb, a senior Janjaweed commander in the early years of the conflict, was the target of a 2007 ICC arrest warrant on multiple counts including rape, murder and

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Somalia: Govt Starts Aerial Spraying to Stop Desert Locust Invasion

Young desert locusts that have not yet grown wings jump in the air as they are approached, as a visiting delegation from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) observes them, in the desert near Garowe, in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of

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Source: allAfrica.com

Shaw denies companies leaving Ja due to cannabis regulation lag

Shaw was responding to an article carried by Forbes magazine in May, that said the lack of positive action on the part of the Jamaican Government and the CLA has led to cannabis stakeholders exiting Jamaica, because of the obstacles in the granting of licences for the production and export of

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

James, Makila (1957- )

Makila James is currently serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Swaziland. James was nominated by President Barack Obama early in 2012. Following confirmation by the U.S. Senate on July 31, 2012, James arrived in Mbabane, the capital of Swaziland and presented her credentials to the King of Swaziland

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Source: Black Past

Ethiopia: Commentary - the 2015 Declaration of Principles Is Not a Treaty and Ethiopia Does Not Have Obligations Therefrom

The Normative Status of the 2015 Agreement on the Declaration of Principles

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Source: allAfrica.com

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