Zimbabwe: Will the Book Café Ever Rise Again?

Umontuen: 'In Atlanta, 'Black Press Matters' now more than ever' | The Atlanta Voice

What I have found as I covered the protest for Rayshard Brooks on June 13, that it’s pretty easy to see why not only “Black Lives Matter” but “Black Journalists Matter” and “Black Media

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Uganda: Aswa-Lolim Land - the Brewing Conflict Between Acholi, Jonam

An upsurge in wrangles over land between the Jonam and Acholi communities in former Aswa-lolim Game Reserve in GotapwoyoSub-county, Nwoya District, has claimed at least 10 lives and left scores injured in the past one

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Source: allAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: Coup Plot Tensions as Security Forces Seal Major Towns

Harare — Zimbabwe's security forces sealed the country's major cities without notice amid claims of plots to topple President Emmerson

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Source: allAfrica.com

Kenya: Top Officials 'Stole HIV Projects Cash'

From manipulating contracts and tenders, demanding bribes, circumventing procurement regulations, to demanding kickbacks upfront to process their funds, senior government officials, parliamentarians and crooked NGOs misappropriated money in four key World Bank funded projects during President

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Source: allAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: Corruption Dents Zim's Mining Sector Recovery

The mining sector is reeling under the impact of delays in processing of mining certificates, verification of applications, ground inspection, and delays in the settlement of

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: Ramaphosa Launches Platform for COVID-19 Supplies in Africa

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched an online one-stop-shop to address the scarcity and high prices African countries have been confronting in trying to procure critical medical supplies and equipment to fight the Covid-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

Senegal: COVID-19 Creates a Unique Opportunity for an Inclusive and Sustainable Food Policy

Nowadays, the food question is not only a challenge for the government but also for professional agricultural organizations, the private sector and citizens

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Source: allAfrica.com

Forbes listed Nigerian pleads guilty to $11m fraud scheme in US

Obinwanne Okeke popularly referred to as ‘Invictus Obi’ made the plea in a Norfolk Magistrate Court Room 2 in the US district court for Eastern District of

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Zimbabwe: Currency Collapse Forces RBZ to Ditch Forex System

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has announced it will resume a floated foreign currency exchange rate system next Tuesday, which will be conducted on weekly

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ghana's Tourism Minister Encourages Black Americans To Leave United States And ‘Come Home’ - Ghanamma.com

Ghana’s minister of tourism- Barbara Oteng Gyasi has advised or Black people in the diaspora to ‘come home’ to save them from being racially abused

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Source: News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines - Ghanamma.com

In the news: Betty Francisco

The Boston Foundation has announced the appointment of Betty Francisco to its board of

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Michael Jordan’s Big GIVE

Friday, June 12, the basketball icon Michael Jordan and his Jordan Brand committed $100 million

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Songstress Sherri Brown Takes Center Stage, even in Pandemic

Thanks to virtual performances, Brown has been able to salvage some of her plans and still gain

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Trump Team Attempts To Block World Court From Investigating Possible U.S. War Crimes

A new Trump executive order threatening the court’s operations has been condemned by prominent global institutions and individuals as it appears to give cover to human rights abuses committed in the course of U.S. foreign wars while demanding accountability from foreign countries in similar

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Zimbabwe: Families Sleep in Water Lines As Drought Grips Zimbabwe's Bulawayo

The tankers that the city council sends to deliver water every few days are often the residents' only hope for clean

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Source: allAfrica.com

Bolton: Trump moves in office guided by reelection concerns | The Atlanta Voice

President Donald Trump “pleaded” with China’s Xi Jinping during a 2019 summit to help his reelection prospects, according to a scathing new book by former Trump adviser John Bolton that accuses the president of being driven by political calculations when making national security

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Black Sports Icon's Statue Defaced With 'White Lives Matter'

Vandals defaced a statue of Arthur Ashe Wednesday with “White Lives Matter” and “WLM” graffiti in Richmond, Virginia, where the Black tennis icon, humanitarian and civil rights activist grew

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Lester Holt On Talking About Race With Kids, Including His Own

“Nightly News: Kids Edition” is a twice-weekly online program that breaks down major news stories to help children understand what’s happening in the

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Africa: Number of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Across Continent Approaches 280,000

South Africa has the most reported cases – 83,890, with deaths numbering

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Source: allAfrica.com

Gabrielle Union On ‘America’s Got Talent’ Departure And The Need To Hold ‘Bad Apples Accountable’

Appearing on The Daily Social Distancing Show hosted by Trevor Noah on Tuesday (May 16), the actress and entrepreneur said that people in showbiz need to address problematic practices and people, especially now as Black Lives Matter protests have sprung up all across

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Actress Lynn Whitfield Talks 'Greenleaf,' Divorce, and Her Own Journey of Faith (Video)

Since its 2016 premiere, loyal fans have followed the scandals, secrets, and lies within the Greenleaf family and their Memphis megachurch on OWN’s hit series

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MABIOR: Partial execution of Juba peace deal undermining

South Sudan Assistant Minister for Interior Garang M. De Mabior, who resigned from the Transitional Government on June 3, after only four months in office, spoke with Fred

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Source: The East African

Kenya: Take Action Against All Looters of Public Funds

Every so often, the government makes commitments to deal with the vice and at times embarks on a string of arrests of those suspected of stealing from the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Interview: SweepSouth co-founder Alen Ribic

Alen Ribic

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Reshaad Sha resigns as Liquid Telecom SA CEO

Reshaad Sha

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Burundi: New Burundian President Pledges to Champion Unity As He Takes Oath

The new Burundian President, Maj. Gen. Evariste Ndayishimiye was sworn on Thursday for Burundi for a seven-year term in office, following his election on May

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Source: allAfrica.com

Gender-based violence, an unjustifiable brutality: South Africa prez

South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned violence against women and children in the country.This comes after recent spate of murders targeting women and

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Trinidad PM blasts ‘disrespectful’ T&T Chamber CEO

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday launched a scathing attack on T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce CEO Gabriel Faria, saying he had a “disrespectful mouth” and an “acid

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

High data prices? Don't blame Vodacom and MTN

Why, with so many burdensome regulations and compliance requirements that drive up costs in the mobile data sector, does the narrative remain that some “duopoly” between Vodacom and MTN is the source of South Africa’s relatively high data

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Source: TechCentral

If We Don’t Solve Racial Injustice, We’ll Never Solve The Climate Crisis

During Hurricane Katrina, Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, was watching the news, seeing Black people on roofs waving anything they could find to beg the helicopters above to save their

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