Zacca report still on Cabinet agenda

The Barack Obama Page

The Obama Bibliography lists many of the most important published books related to President Barack Obama, his family, the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, and his administration. We at BlackPast.org are paying tribute to this singularly important event in African American history through the

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Sarah Goode

Sarah E. Goode was the owner of a furniture store in Chicago, Illinois. Her claim to fame is that she was the first Black Woman to receive

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Source: Black History Resources

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1885

The science behind Level 3 - Ramaphosa lauds 'diverse and sometimes challenging views'

As President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the downgrade to Level 3 of the national Covid-19 lockdown, he thanked scientists for challenging and pushing the government's response to the global

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Uganda: 50 Percent Residents of Kagadi, Kyenjojo Hungry

A report on the immediate impact of Covid-19 lockdown on rural communities shows there is a significant decline in the wellbeing of the people and more of them are missing

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Source: allAfrica.com

Zambia

Zambia, a landlocked country in south-central Africa, is about one-tenth larger than Texas. It is surrounded by Angola, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia. The country is mostly a plateau that rises to 8,000 ft (2,434 m) in the

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Rwanda: RDB Gets Four New Board Members

A cabinet meeting held virtually on Monday, May 18, and chaired by President Paul Kagame, appointed four new members on the Board of Directors of Rwanda Development Board

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Source: allAfrica.com

Angola: Igape Extends Deadline for Agro-Industrial Firms Tender

Luanda — The Institute of Assets Management and State Participation (IGAPE) has extended to June 23 this year, the deadline for applications to be submitted for the public tender of 12 State-owned agro-industrial

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Source: allAfrica.com

Somalia Received $1.9 Billion of Development Assistance in 2019

Somalia received US$ 1.9 billion in official development assistance (ODA) in 2019, comprised of roughly equal volumes of humanitarian (US$ 934 million) and development aid (US$ 924

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Source: allAfrica.com

Botswana

President: Ian Khama

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

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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Source: allAfrica.com

Brazil coronavirus deaths surge

Brazil saw its highest number of coronavirus deaths yet Tuesday as, more than four months after Covid-19 first emerged in China, the force of the pandemic was beginning to hit hard in Latin

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

Uganda: Jinja Officials Fight for Leadership of New City

The district chairperson, Mr Titus Kisambira, in an interview at the weekend, said the municipal council is misinterpreting the Local Government Act on new

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Source: allAfrica.com

Constantine, Learie (1901-1971)

Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, was an international cricketer, journalist, politician, and lawyer. Constantine was the first person of African/Caribbean ancestry to be invested as a life peer in the United Kingdom. Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1901 he was the son of a plantation

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Source: Black Past

Jul

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1971

Cote divoire

National name: République de Côte dlvoire

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Benin

This West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, between Togo on the west and Nigeria on the east, is about the size of Tennessee. It is bounded by Burkina Faso and Niger on the north. The land consists of a narrow coastal strip that rises to a swampy, forested plateau and then to highlands in the

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

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2011

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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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Veteran St Kitts-Nevis politician, diplomat returns to Opposition

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) – Seven years after he quit the then-ruling St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) to form the People's Labour Party (PLP), Sam Condor has again called it quits and is returning to the now-Opposition

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

Work on Portland leg of highway continuing despite budget cut

THE Portland leg of the Southern Coast Highway Improvement Project is continuing at a fast pace despite a $6.6-billion cut in the amount the Government allocated to spend on the massive road programme this fiscal

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

Jamaicans encouraged to protect country's biodiversity

MINISTER without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Daryl Vaz is calling on Jamaicans to protect the country's biodiversity in order to build long-term environmental

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

Uganda: Justice Kavuma Bounces Back From Retirement, Appointed Aviation Board Chair

President Museveni has appointed former deputy Chief Justice Steven Kavuma as the new board chairman of the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority

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Source: allAfrica.com

Angela Davis Quotes: From the Radical Black Philosopher

Angela Davis, a professor of philosophy, is often associated with the Black Panthers and with the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as with

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Source: ThoughtCo

Family of man killed by police amid protests demands answers | The Atlanta Voice

They questioned the account by police, which released surveillance video they said appeared to show David McAtee firing a gun from the door as officers shot the

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Tunisia: Cabinet Meeting Approves Series of Draft Laws and Decree-Laws

Tunis/Tunisia — The Cabinet meeting held Thursday in Kasbah under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh approved a series of draft laws and

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Source: allAfrica.com

Somalia: Leaders Vow to Hold Elections

Three top Somalia leaders--Prime Minister Hassan Ali Kheyre, Somalia's ambassador to the UN Abubakar Dahir Osman and the Speaker of the Senate, Abdi Hashi Abdullahi--have promised that the country will hold its first universal suffrage elections since 1969, despite current challenges suggesting the

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Source: allAfrica.com

President Bio’s address – thoughts, words and deeds

Claims that the mining sector is set to attract new investors, with various projects completed or in the throes of completion would also have to await the end of COVID-19 to see the effect of the actions

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Long, winding journey to clip Ruto’s wings

This week’s replacement of Dr Ruto’s allies in the Senate was the culmination of a strategy to cut the publicly known political ties between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his

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

Zimbabwe: Govt Seizes Returnees' Passports to Deter Escape From Quarantine

Zimbabwe is withholding travel documents for thousands of returning nationals, following reports that some have escaped from isolation

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Source: allAfrica.com

Iranian oil tanker reaches Venezuela

The first of five tankers carrying much-needed Iranian fuel and oil products entered Venezuelan waters on Saturday, a Venezuelan government official

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

Uganda: Why We Don't Have Government Masks

Daily Monitor understands that all the bidders that have applied for procurement of 33 million masks in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic, have quoted prices above the government

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Source: allAfrica.com

No health minister in Brazil as coronavirus infection spreads

The National Congress had not said anything about the Teich resignation, but the former minister of education during the Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva government and left-wing candidate for president of Brazil in 2018, Fernando Haddad, published a tweet saying: “Who will be the next Health

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Source: South Florida Times

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