Ralph J. Bunche

Ethiopia: Despite Dispute, Ethiopia to Fill Dam From July

Ethiopia says it will start filling the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in July, after Sudan rejected a request for a partial agreement without

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Source: allAfrica.com

Gary Schools to Conduct Food Distribution Tuesday, May 26th | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The Gary Community School Corporation is committed to making food available to students every Monday through the end of summer

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Davidson Nicol

Davidson Nicol , in full Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol, also called Abioseh Nicol (born Sept. 14, 1924, Freetown, Sierra Leone—died Sept. 20, 1994, Cambridge, Eng.), Sierra Leonean diplomat, physician, medical researcher, and writer whose short stories and poems are among the best to

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Source: Brittanica

Commentary: Old, Sick and Incarcerated

Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served fewer than two years of his more than seven-year

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Uganda: Former Uganda Cranes Captain Jimmy Kirunda Dies

The former star and football captain for the national team Uganda Cranes, Jimmy Kirunda, has passed

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: Why the Next WTO Director-General Should Come From Africa

WITH RESPECT to the credentials of the successor, there appears to be agreement among WTO members that the next Director-General should have a political background as opposed to a technical or diplomatic

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$300m Tivoli bill - Figure set to increase with suits pending; public defender laments continued abuse of young men by cops, soldiers

Compensation payouts for the death and destruction that occurred during the internal security operation to arrest drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke have already cost taxpayers a little over $300 million, a figure that will increase when over two dozen lawsuits filed on behalf of detainees are

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Rapper Desiigner gives his tenants a break on rent during COVID-19

Desiigner joins Xbox Live Sessions with host Rukari Austin to play FAR CRY 5 in New York

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Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel (Theodor Meir Bikel), (born May 2, 1924, Vienna, Austria—died July 21, 2015, Los Angeles, Calif.), Austrian-born character actor. folksinger, and political activist who created the role of Capt. Georg von Trapp (and received a Tony Award nomination) in the original Broadway

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Somalia: AMISOM Troops Repulses Alshabaab Attack

AMISOM Photo / Ilyas Ahmed

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List of African-American neighborhoods

List of African-American neighborhoods - Wikipedia

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A Biography of Marcus Garvey and His Views Defined

No Marcus Garvey biography would be complete without defining the radical views that made him a threat to the status quo. The life story of the Jamaican-born activist starts well before he came to the United States following World War I, when Harlem was an exciting place for African-American

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Kenya, Djibouti split regional votes for non-permanent UNSC seat

Kenya and Djibouti will later today know which of them will take Africa’s non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security

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This Day in History - June 8

1915: Allied forces take Neuville in France from Germans in World War

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Africa: COVID-19 - Jonathan Tasks Africa to Look Inward for Solutions

AS the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, Former President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has tasked African countries to look inward for home grown

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Source: allAfrica.com

Tanzanian councillor moves to block Eala sessions

On May 8, the Sombetini Ward councillor said the move to conduct parliamentary business through virtual meetings was against Eala’s Rules of

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Source: The East African

OBBO: Why an Ethiopia-Egypt war over River Nile dam might be

The quarrel is over the rate at which Ethiopia fills the reservoir behind the dam and its effect on water supplies downstream in Sudan and Egypt—for who the Nile is the primary water

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Source: The East African

Africa: Reparations for Victims Matter As Much As Kabuga's Trial

The arrest on 16 May of Félicien Kabuga, alleged financier of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, has dominated international justice

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Crown says why Sanja Elliott cannot be believed

THE $400-million Manchester Municipal Corporation (MPC) fraud trial ended on Friday, May 15, 2020 with the conviction of main accused 35-year-old Sanja Elliott, the corporation's former deputy superintendent of road and works; his wife, Tasha-gaye Goulbourne-Elliott; two former employees of the

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(1893) Frances E.W. Harper, "Woman's Political Future"

On May 20, 1893, women’s activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper gave this speech before the World’s Congress of Representative Women, meeting in their conference in

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Côte d'Ivoire

Côte dIvoire (also known as the Ivory Coast), in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea, is a little larger than New Mexico. Its neighbors are Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. The country consists of a coastal strip in the south, dense forests in the interior, and savannas in the

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Africa Must Unmute Its Mic As E-Diplomacy Takes Root

Many leading global decision-making gatherings, from national parliaments to the United Nations (UN) Security Council, are being conducted via the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Cameroon: CPJ Joins Call for Cameroonian Government to Account for Samuel Wazizi's Death in Custody

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined nine other human rights and press freedom groups yesterday in a statement calling on the Cameroonian government to allow for an independent probe into the death of journalist Samuel

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Source: allAfrica.com

Angola

U.S. Department of State Background Note

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Shaggy pushes for US visas for Bounty, Beenie

On the heels of last weekend’s titanic clash between dancehall artistes Beenie Man and Bounty Killer that captured the attention of international fans, media outlets, and industry players, there is a push for the two to be reissued with United States visas to promote Jamaican music and

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ethiopia: Nile Dam Talks - A Short Window to Embrace Compromise

On 9 June, Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan resumed talks on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), raising hopes that they can strike a deal before Addis Ababa makes good on its intention to begin impounding water in the dam’s reservoir, with or without an

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Libya

Libya stretches along the northeast coast of Africa between Tunisia and Algeria on the west and Egypt on the east; to the south are the Sudan, Chad, and Niger. It is one-sixth larger than Alaska. Much of the country lies within the Sahara. Along the Mediterranean coast and farther inland is arable

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Jamaica: Shaggy urges US visas for Beenie Man and Bounty Killer

(Jamaica Gleaner) On the heels of last weekend’s titanic clash between dancehall artistes Beenie Man and Bounty Killer that captured the attention of international fans, media outlets, and industry players, there is a push for the two to be reissued with United States visas to promote Jamaican

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Kenya elected to UN Security Council, beating Djibouti

United Nations - Kenya was elected Thursday to the UN Security Council for 2021-2022, defeating Djibouti after first-round voting by the General Assembly failed to choose between the two

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America’s Black Ambassadors: A Historical Snapshot

America’s Black Ambassadors: A HistoricalSnapshot

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