Zambia health minister arrested for alleged graft

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Mayor Tom Reid issued an order requiring businesses to make masks mandatory in response to the growing number of COVID-19 cases throughout the

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A fiscal reckoning is looming for South Africa

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Vodafone, MTN share client data with Ghana to help with coronavirus contact tracing

Vodafone and MTN’s Ghanaian units are allowed to share subscriber data with the government to help it track down the contacts of coronavirus cases, a high court in Accra ruled

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Vaz confident BPO sector will rebound despite COVID-19 losses

Meanwhile, the Government minister said the sector could still return to its pre-COVID-19 growth trajectory of 5,000 to 6,000 jobs per year, with adherence to training, promotion, policy, and health guidelines, as well as if new business can be secured, while also scaling up existing

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

Byo Zanu PF youths complain over COVID-19 fund

ZANU PF youth from Bulawayo have complained over the “turning of COVID-19 relief funds into loans” with stringent conditions to access the

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

BET Awards '20: Beyoncé Receives Humanitarian Award; Tributes To Kobe Bryant And Little Richard

New York, NY – (June 25, 2020) – Today BET Networks announces new additions to the line-up of the 20th Annual BET Awards, honoring prolific activists in the Black community and recognizing those who unfortunately left us in

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Two pandemics — COVID-19, systemic racism — hold the power to determine our future | The Atlanta Voice

We all did well for a while with social distancing and working together as a society to avoid getting or unintentionally spreading

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Audit: US Sent $1.4B in Virus Relief Payments to Dead People

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 1.1 million coronavirus relief payments totaling some $1.4 billion went to dead people, a government watchdog reported

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‘The ostrich syndrome must end’

What is apparent, given the situation obtaining on the ground, is that the government has in practice dollarised, but insists the local currency is “the currency of choice”, a far cry from

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

In China's 'Little Africa', a struggle to get back to business after lockdown

Mohammed has spent several weeks sleeping in his cramped trading booth in one of Guangzhou's export centres after being kicked out of his apartment and forced into quarantine in April, but the Tanzanian trader says he is content to be in

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Mukuhlani reflects on difficult year

Despite enduring arguably the worst year in its history, Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has ironically emerged stronger and ready to take the game to the next

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

House Leaders Demand Details on PPP Small-Business Loan Program

As the remaining days dwindle for small businesses to apply for loans through the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), both banks and federal officials are being challenged by several House leaders to explain how the $670 billion program intended to aid the nation’s small businesses has

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Covid-19: Cape Town principals call on Ramaphosa to close schools

Principals, teachers, and parents plan to picket in Cape Town on Thursday against the "premature reopening of schools" which they say is compromising the safety of pupils during the Covid-19

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AMHVoices: Ruling party covering up corruption

THE number of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Cabinet ministers who are alleged to have misused funds donated towards coronavirus worth millions of dollars is a cause for

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Stacy Brown-Philpot Leaves As TaskRabbit CEO, Reportedly Will Help Run SoftBank's New $100 Million Fund

Among a handful of powerful black women in Silicon Valley, Stacy Brown-Philpot is exiting as CEO of TaskRabbit Inc. to help run the $100 million Opportunity Growth Fund backed by

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New Prairie View AD looks forward to taking on challenge of The Hill

Dr. Donald Reed, a longtime senior athletic administrator at the University of Buffalo, has a huge task ahead as he assumes control as the new athletic director at Prairie View A&M University this

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EDITORIAL: Address parents’ worries

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California Reaches Grim Milestone in COVID-19 Deaths as State Reopens

In the Bay Area, including Santa Cruz County, the number of coronavirus cases now tops

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COVID-19: Safari sector records US$100 million loss

ZIMBABWE’S safari sector has lost revenue of nearly US$100 million due to the outbreak of the COVID-19, a new report has

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

'Not fit for animals' - Nigeria police rescue 300 workers locked in a factory

About 300 rice processing workers who were forced to work during the coronavirus lockdown in northern Kano, Nigeria have been rescued by the

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Teachers, parents resist schools reopening

Teachers and parents in Marondera have said there was no need for the reopening of schools in the wake of COVID-19

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Covid-19: Tshwane bus services suspended, depots closed after positive case

The City of Tshwane had to temporarily suspend its bus operations and close its depots on Friday following a positive Covid-19

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Chamisa MPs snub Khupe

MDC Alliance legislators yesterday snubbed a meeting called by MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe, with less than 20 turning up at the Harvest

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

COVID-19 blamed for one-year construction delay for MoBay bypass

MONTEGO BAY, St James — The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been blamed for pushing back, by a year, the start of construction on the highly anticipated US$22-million Montego Bay bypass

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House Leaders Demand Details on PPP Small-Business Loan Program | The Crusader Newspaper Group

As the remaining days dwindle for small businesses to apply for loans through the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), both banks and federal officials are being challenged by several House leaders to explain how the $670 billion program intended to aid the nation’s small businesses has

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

3,300 workers regain jobs in BPO sector

A total of 3,300 employees in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector have regained their jobs, which were lost as a result of the impact of the coronavirus

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Kendall And Kylie Jenner Deny Accusations Of Halting Payments To Factory Workers, The Public Demands Receipts

According to Teen Vogue, earlier this week Kendall and Kylie Jenner were called out by Instagram fashion justice account, Diet Prada for reportedly stopping payments to the factory that produces their collaborative fashion line, Kendall

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Blame Tsvangirai for your woes: Zanu PF to warring MDC factions

Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has told the MDC to blame its founding leader the late Morgan Tsvangirai for the chaos in the opposition

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Black Workers More Likely to Face Retaliation for Raising Coronavirus Concerns

A survey by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) about working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that corporate America has treated Black workers categorically worse than White workers during the

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