Nzoia Sugar Company to close for maintenance

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Nzoia Sugar Company to close for maintenance

The company will suspend its operations for eight weeks for routine maintenance from May 19.

Source: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke

Kenya: 80% of Students Missing Virtual Learning Amid School Closures - Study

The survey conducted by Usawa Agenda, a lobby championing equitable access to quality education, indicated only 22 per cent of students interviewed in forty-two counties were accessing online learning resources with those enrolled in private schools being twice as likely to take part in digital

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uhuru appoints ex-Controller of Budget NTSA board chairperson

Former Controller of Budget Agnes Odhiambo has been appointed the chairperson of the board of the National Transport and Safety Authority

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

(1894) William Saunders Scarborough, “The Ethics of the Hawaiian Question,”

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Norbert Rillieux invents the evaporating pan

Norbert Rillieux invents the evaporating pan which revolutionizes the sugar industry.

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Dec

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1846

Youth are main virus spreaders - VIDEO

Young people have emerged as superspreaders of the novel coronavirus as Kenya’s confirmed cases approach

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

Haiti, in the West Indies, occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. About the size of Maryland, Haiti is two-thirds mountainous, with the rest of the country marked by great valleys, extensive plateaus, and small

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National name: Republika yu Burundi

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The effects of Cyclone Claudette in 1979 and of falling world sugar prices in the early 1980s led the government to initiate a vigorous program of agricultural diversification and develop the processing of imported goods for the export market. The country formally broke ties with the British Crown

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Kenya: Panic in Cabinet Over Looming Changes as Kenyatta Charts Legacy

The stage is set for the formation of a government of national unity as President Uhuru Kenyatta races against time to implement his legacy projects -- the Big Four

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National name: República de Cuba

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Black Chemists - African American History

Black scientists, engineers, and inventors have made important contributions to the science of chemistry. Learn about black chemists and chemical engineers and their projects. The focus is on African American

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Teachers cautious on schools’ reopening

Teachers want the national government to streamline the transport sector and provide Covid-19 testing kits to school dispensaries before the partial reopening of schools across the

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National name: République Gabonaise

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U.S. Department of State Background Note

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Events Leading to the Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa (1880 to 1900) was a period of rapid colonization of the African continent by European powers. But it wouldnt have happened except for the particular economic, social, and military evolution Europe was going

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Current government officials

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National name: República de Cabo Verde

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Kenya: Sports Fund Avails Sh30 Million to Cushion Sportspeople in COVID-19 Distress

Nairobi — The Sport, Arts and Social Development Fund has availed Sh30m that will go towards cushioning vulnerable sports people whose income has been hugely affected by the cancellations of sports events occasioned by the COVID-19

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Karoney, NLC chief meet to ease tension

Lands Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney and National Land Commission (NLC) Chairman Gershon Otachi met on Thursday to defuse the tension that has been building between their agencies over the proposed Land Transactions

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Republic of Zambia

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Ministry in struggle to fly back Kenyans stuck abroad

At least 24 Kenyans abroad have died of Covid-19 while 41 are in critical condition in various hospitals across the world, the Foreign Affairs ministry has

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Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)

The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony. The Haitian Revolution, however, was

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The Baptist War (1831-1832)

The Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, was an eleven-day rebellion that mobilized as many as sixty thousand of Jamaica’s three hundred thousand slaves in 1831–1832. It was considered the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean. The name Christmas Rebellion came from the

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U.S. Department of State Background Note

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Radical reforms to boost maize, agricultural sector

The government has embarked on reforms to boost the production of maize, the country’s staple

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National name: Jamhuri ya Kenya

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Zimbabwe: 200,000 From Targeted 1m Vulnerable People to Benefit From Govt's COVID-19 Fund - Minister

Only 201,000 from the initially targeted one million vulnerable citizens will now benefit from the Covid-19 vulnerability assistance fund, Social Welfare Minister Paul Mavima has

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(1838) Sara T. Smith, “Loosening the Bonds of Prejudice”

On May 17, 1838, abolitionist Sara T. Smith addresses the second Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women which was originally scheduled to be held in Pennsylvania Hall. The meeting however was moved when anti-abolitionist mobs, upon learning of the Convention, burned the hall to the ground. The

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May

17

1838

Daniel arap Moi

Daniel arap Moi , in full Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (born 1924, Sacho, Kenya Colony [now Kenya]), Kenyan politician, who held the office of president

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National name: République du Congo

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