Sixty-eight-year-old man succumbs to COVID-19

South Africa: Swazi Editor Flees to South Africa, Wanted in False News Investigation

In the early morning of February 25, 2020, police in the Manzini region of Swaziland raided the home of Zweli Martin Dlamini, the editor of the privately owned news website Swaziland News, and arrested him, according to media reports and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ via messaging

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Kenya coronavirus: 715 cases, Kenyatta joins summit of EAC leaders

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Bridgetown, Barbados (1828- )

Bridgetown is the capital and commercial center of Barbados. It is also the islands only city. In 2014 more than 110,000 people called Bridgetown home. It is the cultural, political, and economic heart of this Caribbean island nation of 284,664

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Burundi Expels WHO Officials

Burundi has expelled four officials from the World Health Organization (WHO), declaring them persona non grata and ordering them to leave the country by Friday, a leaked memo from the country’s foreign ministry

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african heritage in the caribbean

The game Warri is a board game belonging to an ancient family of pit and pebble games which originated in Africa.The game originated in the Sudan and spread to western Africa from which it travelled to the Caribbean in the 17th century. It is one of the most interesting examples of African heritage

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African American Captures British General

African American Captures British General Prescott: African Americans continued to serve in the colonial militias, and some, like Prince, an African American man in Lieutenant Colonel Bartons Rhode island army, showed great daring and bravery. Early in August 1777, Colonel Barton conceived a plan

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Alternate Care Site Opens at Convention Center | Afro

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to plague the area without flattening of the curve, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was pleased to showcase the alternative care site to support the nation’s capital’s battle against the novel coronavirus at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, on the Atlantic Ocean in West Africa, is half the size of Illinois. Guinea, in the north and east, and Liberia, in the south, are its neighbors. Mangrove swamps lie along the coast, with wooded hills and a plateau in the interior. The eastern region is

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Kenya: Curfew and Travel Rules Set for Review

The government plans to review security measures put in place to control the spread of Covid-19 this

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Haynes, Ulric St. Clair, Jr. (1931- )

The sole child of immigrants from the Barbados, Ulric St. Clair Haynes Jr. was born June 8, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York. Haynes attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating cum laude in 1952, and then earned a law degree at Yale University four years later. Haynes worked briefly as an

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Zimbabwe 'decrees' mask wearing amid lockdown extension

The government of Zimbabwe has officially made the wearing of masks compulsory in public places to combat the spread of

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African diaspora in the Americas

The African diaspora in the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas with predominantly African ancestry. Most are descendants of people enslaved and transferred from Africa to the Americas by Europeans, to work in their colonies, mostly in mines and plantations as slaves, between

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West, Allen (1961- )

In 2010, retired lieutenant colonel Allen West became the first black Republican to represent Florida in Congress since Rep. Josiah T. Walls, who served during Reconstruction. Congressman West was born on February 7, 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia to Herman and Elizabeth West. His father was a career

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Uganda: COVID-19 Disrupts 2021 Elections Plan

All planned Election Commission (EC) activities between March and May 2020, including elections for Special Interest Groups (SIG), have been suspended until further

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Pan African Mother: Fight for Life Before and During COVID-19 | Afro

Despite this, and despite the historic inequities that have contributed to this, Pan African mothers are fighting for

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Zimbabwe female opposition politicians abducted, assaulted, abandoned

Three female opposition members were this week abducted leading to an outcry and diplomatic concerns raised by the United States, United Kingdom and

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AG appoints black woman as lead prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery case

The Georgia attorney general on Monday appointed a black female prosecutor to oversee the case of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old African-American man who was shot dead by two white men while he was reportedly out jogging on February

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Cameroon: COVID-19 Brings Out Government's Ugly Side

The message of national solidarity around the Covid-19 pandemic seems to have been lost in

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Taylor, Ruth Carol (1931- )

Journalist and nurse Ruth Carol Taylor became the first African American airline flight attendant in the United States when she joined Mohawk Airlines in 1958. While she is most commonly known for her achievement in the airline industry, she spent much of her career as an activist for minority and

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Nigeria coronavirus: 5,445 cases, govt explains returnees quarantine bills

May 16: 5,445 cases, govt on evacuees expenses

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Burundi sacks WHO officials ahead of May 20 polls

Burundi is kicking out the World Health Organization’s top official in the country just days before the presidential election and after the WHO raised concerns about crowded political

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A Brief History of Ghana Since Independence

Date of Independence: March 6,1957

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slave trade

according to historian, Philip D. Curtin, between 1640 and 1807 some 387,000 Africans were brought to Barbados as victims of the slave trade.

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Nigeria: Clearing Backlog of Surgeries Will Take 11 Months After COVID-19 - Report

The CovidSurg Collaborative has projected that, based on a 12-week period of peak disruption to hospital services due to COVID-19, it will take 11 months to clear the backlog of surgeries that have been

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The doctors who cried wolf and other commentary

Science desk: The Docs Who Cried Wolf

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caribbean integration

This day markst the 26th anniversary of the Treaty of Chaguramas which was signed in Trinidad, July 4, 1973 to establish the Caribbean Community and Common Market - CARICOM. It was the result of a 15 year effort to fulfil the hope of regional integration which began with the establishment of the

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(1879) John Mercer Langston, “The Exodus: The Causes Which Led The Colored People of the South to Leave Their Homes – The Lesson

? In 1879 an unanticipated migration of nearly seven thousand African Americans from Mississippi and Louisiana to Kansas prompted a debate among national black leaders. Frederick Douglass thought it unwise that black women and men would leave the South. John Mercer Langston disagreed. As in this

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Britton, Theodore R., Jr. (1925- )

Ambassador Theodore Roosevelt Britton, Jr. was born on October 17, 1925 in North Augusta, South Carolina. In 1936, he and his family migrated to New York City, New York. Britton was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps out of high school soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Although he was unaware

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South Africa: Beds, Cases and Discharges - Gauteng's Latest Hospital Numbers

As the country's attention turns from flattening the curve through a lockdown to the preparedness of health systems, the latest statistics released by the Gauteng government show 58 people are currently hospitalised in public and private facilities across the

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Fauci Warns: More Death, Econ Damage If US Reopens Too Fast | Afro

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press

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