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Africa: COVID-19 Recovery Is a Chance to Improve the African Food System
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, the African food system was
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Ghana: Teachers Won't Go Back to Classrooms Unless... - GNAT
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) says its members will not go back to the classroom to teach unless government accede to their proposals of ensuring maximum safety of staff and learners in line with COVID-19
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Africa: Why Africa Can't Afford Further Delay On AfCFTA - Afreximbank
The devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Africa's economy has shown that the continent can ill-afford a further delay in the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), panelists in a web conference on Africa's economic recovery, post-COVID-19, said on
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Mali
Most of Mali, in West Africa, lies in the Sahara. A landlocked country four-fifths the size of Alaska, it is bordered by Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, and the Côte dIvoire. The only fertile area is in the south, where the Niger and Senegal rivers provide water for
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Latin America named virus epicentre
The World Health Organization declared Latin America "a new epicentre" of the coronavirus pandemic as President Donald Trump ramped up pressure on state and local governments to speed up the reopening of the reeling American
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Africa: At Least 80 Million Children Under One at Risk of Diseases Such as Diphtheria, Measles and Polio as COVID-19 Disrupts Routine Vaccination Efforts, Warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF
This stark warning comes from the World Health Organization, UNICEF and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance ahead of the Global Vaccine Summit on 4 June, at which world leaders will come together to help maintain immunization programmes and mitigate the impact of the pandemic in lower-income
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Covid-19 may never go away
Speaking at a briefing on Wednesday, WHO emergencies director Dr Mike Ryan warned against trying to predict when the virus would
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Uganda: 'Agriculture Will Revive Our Economy After COVID-19'
Our plan is to distribute between 2 million and 3 million kilograms of additional maize seed targeting districts in Eastern, Northern and parts of central regions whose rainy season goes up to
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Uganda: How Uganda is Tackling Mental Challenges of COVID-19 Lockdown
Focusing on the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) pillar, there are many highlights and lessons of Uganda's frontline service providers fighting coronavirus
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Kenya: National, County Governments to Wage Joint War on COVID-19
County governments have been fully co-opted in the fight against Covid-19 in a raft of new measures agreed upon in a meeting convened Wednesday by President Uhuru Kenyatta at State
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Cameroon: COVID-19 - Journalists Trained On Risk Reporting
Over 20 media practitioners from both the private and public media in the Littoral region have been trained on "Risk Communication" with focus on the Covid-19
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Nigeria: Dapo Abiodun Ogun Now Looking Good With Focused, Qualitative Governance
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Female docs run things
The only male doctors listed as parish medical officers of health are Dr Andre McIntosh and Stephen Figueroa in Kingston and St Andrew; Dr D'Oyen Smith in St Thomas, and Dr Kaushal Singh in
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Newswire: Black unemployment was 16.7 percent in April
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the jobless rate for the blacks was 16.7 percent in April, a giant leap backward from 6.7 percent in March, as the Covid-19 pandemic caused nonfarm employment to fall by 20.5 million jobs last
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“Face Masks: To Use or Not To Use…That is the Question!”
During the 1918 global flu epidemic, medical personnel routinely adopted masks to protect themselves, and many cities required them in
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Still Unbroken: Acknowledging African-American Community Leaders during COVID-19
Black leaders, along with state and city officials have largely been the heroes to assume the responsibility of protecting their constituents from both the virus and federal
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Unions, activists call for Cape Town Covid-19 clinical trial to be stopped
In May, the Cape Town-based clinical research organisation, TASK, began a clinical trial to see if a common TB shot — the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine normally given to newborns — could help protect hospital workers from developing serious
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A future of redesigned public, working spaces
Architectural Association of Kenya(AAK) president Mugure Njendu said post-Covid, major changes must be made within private and public buildings to create spaces that enable people to observe social distancing to deter new Covid-19
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New Yorkers Said ‘F**k The Police,’ So The Police Rioted
NEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers over the last few days have taken to the streets in all five boroughs, setting cop cars aflame, braving beatings by batons and suffering pepper spray to the eyes, all so they can scream an urgent message for all the world to hear: Fuck the
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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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Ramona Hood's Career: From Receptionist to FedEx Division CEO
When Ramona Hood achieved her milestone appointment as president and CEO of FedEx’s Custom Critical after a three-decade career with the company, the accomplished executive never fathomed she would lead the division in the throes of
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FULL TEXT | Ramaphosa unveils Covid-19 hotspots, dos and don'ts under Level 3 lockdown
South Africa will be moving to Alert Level 3 of the lockdown on June 1, but the coronavirus will get much worse, before it gets better, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in an address to the nation on Sunday
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L.A. DIGEST: Baron Davis to host virtual panel discussions
LOS ANGELES — Former NBA all star Baron Davis will host panel discussions on creating wealth and opportunity for the next generation of young entrepreneurs on Big Summit’s social media channels every Monday at 6:30
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Africa: Together, African Countries Have Enough to Fight COVID-19
Africa can mount a stronger COVID-19 response strategy by using regional trade blocs to coordinate, consolidate, and connect resources across the
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Newly Unemployed? Understanding Your Health Insurance Options
With millions of people nationwide filing for unemployment since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals and families across the country are suddenly finding themselves without health insurance at a precarious
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Hotels will bear heavy responsibility for well-being of employees
Following is the third in a series of excerpts from the document titled 'Resilience: COVID-19 Ministry of Tourism health and safety protocols for the tourism industry 2020' dealing with the responsibility of hotels for the well-being of their
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Africa: COVID-19 - Tests for Traditional Herb Artemisia Begin
"It is the first study in which scientists are investigating the function of these plant substances in connection with COVID-19," the head of the study, Peter Seeberger, said in an interview with
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Rights doctors express dismay over lockdown extension
HUMAN rights doctors have lashed out at government for extending the national lockdown in the absence of evidence for such
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ONGÍNYO: Hits and misses in pandemic fight
Mass testing for Covid-19 kicked off in China with all residents required to produce proof of residence, and valid visas for foreigners which entitled them to testing catered for by their monthly contribution towards the government medical
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