Africa: Violence Against Female MPs Still Rampant in Africa, APU Report Reveals

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Africa: Violence Against Female MPs Still Rampant in Africa, APU Report Reveals

[Nation] An incident in which a Kenyan MP twice slapped his female colleague within the precincts of Parliament in 2019 has been cited among the cases that contributed to increased violence against women parliamentarians in Africa.

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Covid-19 could infect more than 200m in Africa

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Africa: Under COVID-19 Lockdowns, 32 Million Africans Would Be Severely Food Deprived

After an eight-week lockdown, 168 million people would no longer afford the amount of food they were consuming pre-COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa, indicates new International Growth Centre

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Burundi: Poor country wracked by ethnic conflict

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Is African Wildlife Headed for Extinction?

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Kenyatta moves to reassert control of ruling party

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Africa: Rethinking the Concept of African Unity - Why Proper Education Is the First Place to Begin?

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Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most-populous continent (the first being Asia). At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earths total surface area and 20.4% of its total land area.[2] With 1.2 billion[1] people as of 2016, it

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Bureau of Census reports

Bureau of Census report said Black unemployment averaged 9.9 per cent in 1971, compared with a 5.4 per cent rate for whites. The report also said that 31.8 per cent of all Black families were headed by a woman, and increase from the 28 per cent reported in 1970.

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East Africa: COVID-19 Leaves Region in $2.3 Billion Debt Hole in Three Months

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United States population: 131,669,275

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CO2 emissions to drop in 2020

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