11-13-2020 Informer Edition

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11-13-2020 Informer Edition

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Sudan: U.S. Court Orders Govt to Pay for 1998 Embassy Attacks

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Sudan must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages to some victims of the 1998 attacks on US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam in

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Zimbabwe: 2014 MDC-T National Council Backing Chamisa Illegal - Mwonzora

Reinstated MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has dismissed a reconvened 2014 MDC-T National Council meeting held at the party's headquarters Thursday as "illegal" in the unfolding political drama that seems to be ripping the main opposition

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Jim Beckwourth, Afro-American Pioneer

on this day Jim Beckwourth discovered a path through the Sierra Nevada Mountains that now bear his name. Beckwourth Pass on U.S. Alt 40 between Reno, Nevada and Sacramento, California made overland travel to the gold fields of California possible.

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U.S. Bank and the Vikings Kick Off $1 Million Effort to Enhance Minnesota's Places to Play

U.S. Bank and the Minnesota Vikings are teaming up to invest $1 million over the next three years with U.S. Bank Places to Play, an effort to make Minnesota an even greater place to live, raise a family and create lifelong

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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Nigeria May Use Schools, Hotels As Isolation Centres - Minister

The federal government will consider using schools and hotels as isolation centres for COVID-19 patients if the need arises, an official

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Nigeria: Coronavirus - Nigeria Records 216 New Cases, Total Exceeds 6,000

Nigeria's tally of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country exceeded 6,000 on Monday as 216 newly infected people were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control

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Zimbabwe: Business Sector Studies High Court Ruling

The business sector has said it is still looking into the implications of the recent High Court ruling, which declared unconstitutional a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) exchange control directive 'mutating' money held in foreign currency accounts into Zimbabwe dollar-denominated

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Kenya, Uganda Scramble to Resolve Malaba Border Crisis

Despite an agreement arrived at on Wednesday by government officials from Kenya and Uganda on the process of Covid-19 testing for truckers at the common border, an association for Kenyan truck drivers on Thursday advised its members to suspend services until both governments address stigma and

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East Africa: First Person - The Struggle to Protect Human Rights in East Africa During the Pandemic

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in East Africa, the UN Human Rights regional office, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been contributing to the COVID-19 response of UN country teams in the region, by ensuring that human rights protection for vulnerable people is included in their

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Nigeria: Dope - Nigeria's Paralympic Champion, Esther Onyema, Banned for Four Years

Nigeria's former Paralympic and Commonwealth Games champion, Esther Onyema, 38, has been banned four years by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for committing an anti-doping rule

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Africa: Addressing Africa's Nutrition Challenges By Strengthening Indigenous Crops

The African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) is an international effort to improve nutrition, productivity and climatic adaptability of some of Africa's most important food crops, thus helping to decrease malnutrition and stunting among the continent's most vulnerable population, especially rural

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Meagan Good Regaining Her Color After Unlicensed Aesthetician Gave Her A Product That Lightened Her Skin

That’s what happened to Meagan Good after an unlicensed aesthetician gave her a product to treat a sun damaged mark on her forehead that caused her skin to get lighter, the actress revealed in a classy response to a fan who accused her of bleaching her

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South Africa: Journalist Flees the Country After Police Beatings Over Lockdown Reporting

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the South African authorities to guarantee the freedom and safety of journalists covering the coronavirus epidemic and to punish all those responsible for abuses against reporters, including the newspaper editor who fled to Lesotho last week after repeated

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Miss America, Miss Teen USA and Miss USA Are All Black Women for the First Time

Despite a long history of segregation and racism, America’s top pageants have broken racial barriers in recent

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Nigeria: Reps Urge AfDB Board to Stop Further Harassment of Adesina

The House of Representatives has urged the Board of African Development Bank (AfDB) to halt further harassment of the bank's President, Akinwumi

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Senators clash as Crawford questions whether ship workers are suicidal

Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, was on the defensive as the Opposition criticised the Government over its handling of the

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Rwanda: Govt Deploys Robots in COVID-19 Fight

Launched on Tuesday, May 19 at the Kanyinya COVID-19 Treatment Centre by the Ministry of Health with support from the United Nations Development Programme, the five high-tech robots can perform a number of tasks related to COVID-19 management, including mass temperature screening, delivering food

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Africa: Three Nigerian Writers Shortlisted for AKO Caine Prize

The Caine Prize is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, but published in the English

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Africans Are Concerned About Ills of Social Media but Oppose Government Restrictions

Governments and public health officials have used Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media to reach large numbers of people, quickly and efficiently, with information on how to stay healthy and limit the

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Africa: How Africa's Anti-Suicide Laws Support The Opposite

For instance, in at least eight African countries like Malawi, Nigeria, and Kenya, attempting to commit suicide is against the

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Rwanda Genocide Suspect Felicien Kabuga Appears in Court

Felicien Kabuga was arrested after police tracked him down through his

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South Africa: With Enough Support, People Can Grow Their Own Food

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how impoverished people and the working class suffer when food prices rise and jobs disappear, prompting a renewed interest in working the

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'Star Wars' and diversity could draw more Oscar viewers, film academy president says

Every year, the producers of the Oscar telecast have to please two distinct audiences: the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sitting inside the Dolby Theatre and the nearly 40 million regular moviegoers tuning into the show at

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Zimbabwe: Zim Woman Nabbed in SA Cigarette Smuggling Syndicate

Police in South Africa have arrested five people, including a Zimbabwean woman, for allegedly smuggling cigarettes from Zimbabwe to South

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South Sudan: Could Fresh Tussle for Delegates Roll Back Peace Gains?

Signatories to the South Sudan peace agreement are now split in the middle as President Salva Kiir has managed to pull some opposition parties to his side over the allocation of

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Fields, Green (1840-1914)

Green Fields, former Seattle City employee, early African American resident of the Queen Anne Neighborhood in Seattle, and soldier with the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War, was born a slave in DeSoto, Mississippi, the son of Fannie Jackson and Richard Fields. In 1864 he escaped slavery and

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Nigeria's COVID-19 Cases Exceed 5,000

Nigeria, on Thursday, recorded 193 new cases of COVID-19 as the number of infected people exceeded

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Burundi Goes to the Polls As Authorities Clampdown On Social Media

Social media restricted

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Sudan: Govt Has No Cash to Pay Damages for 1998 Embassy Bombings - Analyst

A Sudanese political analyst says Sudan will have a hard time finding the cash to pay the punitive damages imposed by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and

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