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[Monitor] A recently released report by Afrobarometer pours cold water on the much-talked about media-only political campaign for Uganda's 2021 General Election.
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Kenya: Mombasa on Alert as Covid-19 Cases Rise
[Nation] A two-year-old child from Kwale County succumbed to the Covid-19 delta variant as health authorities in the Coast region remain alert over a surge of the lethal Indian virus.
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Source: allAfrica.com
Uganda: Banks Record Shs685b in Non-Performing Loans
Commercial banks recorded about Shs685.7b in non-performing loans for the period ended December 31, 2019, according to details compiled from annual performance
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Majority of PEP students placed at preferred high schools
Eighty per cent of the 39,689 grade-six students exiting the primary-school system have been placed in one of their preferred high schools. 
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Despite dispute, Ethiopia to fill dam from July
Ethiopia says it will start filling the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in July, after Sudan rejected a request for a partial agreement without
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Orisha is not evil! – advocates call for recognition of faith's role in emancipation - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
ORISHA priest Michael Osouna believes the time has come for the Orisha faith to be given the recognition it deserves, since it was the spirit of the orishas that guided the Haitians to revolt in 1804, triggering the movement to free African slaves across the world, decades later. Osouna said t
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UNDP warns of drop in human development post COVID-19
UNITED NATIONS — Global human development – which can be measured as a combination of the world's education, health and living standards — could decline this year for the first time since the concept was introduced in 1990, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has
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BODO: New tone in IMF’s appraisal of Kenya monetary health
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Haiti racing to rebuild schools destroyed in earthquake - Barbados Today
SOURCE: AFP – Haiti is struggling to send children back to class amid the devastation of the earthquake last month that killed more than 2,200 people and destroyed tens of thousands of buildings, including many schools. It is a logistical and humanitarian challenge in the disaster-prone country
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America declares to Trump: ‘You’re fired’ | New Pittsburgh Courier
Black Votes Push Biden Over the Top in Contentious Election by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia After days of post-Election Day counting, Democrat Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump to become the nation’s 46th commander-in-chief. With all eyes
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Acute Malnutrition Surging Among Haitian Children, UNICEF Warns
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Cases of life-threatening malnutrition are expected to more than double among young Haitian children this year, due to COVID-19, gang violence and extreme weather associated with climate change, the U.N. children's fund UNICEF said today. Haiti, the poorest country in the
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Uganda: Will Budget Theme Meet Citizens' Expectations?
IMF indicates that the immediate fiscal policy response to the Covid-19 pandemic should account for the particular nature of the health crisis that the global economy faces, one that affects supply, demand, and confidence while being timely, temporary, and targeted across all levels of
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JTA happy with PEP placement method
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Owen Speid, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association, says the organisation is satisfied with the methodology used by the Government for students' Primary Exit Profile
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Uganda Records 10,000 Covid Cases in 10 Days
[Monitor] Up to 69 per cent of the new 15,248 Covid-19 cases detected countrywide were reported in the last 10 days, Daily Monitor has established.
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UK salutes Jamaica on climate change work
THE United Kingdom Government has publicly commended Jamaica for its work on the international stage to curb the impacts of climate change, calling the country 'a bastion of climate ambition'.
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Americans' familiarity with Juneteenth still limited - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… . The picture looked different among African-American respondents, where 37 per cent … only 18 per cent of African-Americans - said that they were …
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Nigeria: UNICEF - 122 Million Nigerians At Risk of Contracting Tropical Diseases
[This Day] The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has said about 122 million Nigerians currently face the risk of being infected by one form of prevalent tropical disease or the other. The agency lamented that the country faced possible reversal of the fragile gain made
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Apple & Nike Release Their 2021 Pride Edition Apple Watch Loops
Both Apple and Nike have dropped their annual Pride-edition Apple Watch loops to support the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia.
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No more nightmares for Jamaican DREAMers - 3,000 with roots to island no longer in limbo
Approximately 3,000 Jamaicans who are beneficiaries of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Donald Trump administration cannot end the programme that was instituted by executive order by then
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Africa: Nigeria Has Third Most Developed Internet Ecosystem in Africa - Report
[Premium Times] "Internet Exchange Points (IXP) are critical to improving internet access and lowering connectivity costs in the continent," the report states.
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Sudan: Staple Food Prices Continue to Increase in Sudan
Khartoum — Because of the continuing economic crisis in Sudan and Covid-19 containment measures, staple food prices continued to increase more rapidly than normal last month, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs stated in its latest Situation
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Nigeria: 10 Years After UNEP Report, Ogoniland Remains Heavily Contaminated - Report
Nearly 10 years after a clean-up was urged for areas polluted by Shell and other oil companies in the Niger Delta, work has begun on only 11 per cent of planned sites while vast areas remain heavily contaminated, according to a new investigation by four
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Kenya: Most Severely Ill Covid-19 Patients Unvaccinated
[Nation] Almost 90 per cent of severely ill Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the country share one thing -- they are unvaccinated.
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Uganda: Covid-19 - Ray of Hope As Positivity Rate, Cases Drop
[Monitor] The government has reported a significant decline in the reported numbers of Covid-19 infections in the last seven days stretching June 21-27.
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Nigeria: CBN Denies Plan to Nationalise Unity Bank
[This Day] The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday described as "fake news," a media report that it was considering nationalising Unity Bank Plc.
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Uganda: Year Ender - How Coronavirus Brought Economy to Its Knees
[Monitor] When the first case of coronavirus was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019, it was too early to ell that this virus would bring the global economy to a standstill. A few months later, the coronavirus victims increased to millions of people.
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Nigeria: Price of Bread May Increase By 30% in Abuja - Bakers
[Premium Times] Bakers lament high cost of raw materials for bread production
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Uganda: Era Seeks to Grow Electricity Access to 60 Percent
[Monitor] Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) will in the next five years seek to increase access to electricity from 22 per cent to 60 per cent.
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Cameroon: Secondary Education - FCFA 400 Billion for Quality Training
[Cameroon Tribune] Minister Nalova Lyonga while defending the draft budget on November 29, 2021, said it will be used for the realization of four programmes.
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