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Saluting Houston mothers on the front line
HOUSTON – As the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, many of our bravest souls are out there fighting the good fight trying to help save lives, keep the economy going and flatten the
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Uganda: Nation Pardons 180 Rwandan Prisoners
"The relationship between Uganda and Rwanda is beyond normal state to state
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Source: allAfrica.com
Cameroon: Govt Efforts On Bringing Back Trapped Citizens - Some 139 Cameroonians Return From Dubai
Within the framework of the operation to repatriate Cameroonians blocked abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic, 139 of them got to the Yaounde-Nsimalen International Airport on Saturday, May 9, 2020 on board a special Ethiopian Airlines plane from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, information
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Source: allAfrica.com
Coronavirus in Africa: 78,280 cases; 2,624 deaths; 29,245 recoveries
There are now more than over 70,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
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Rwanda: Inside Rwanda's Rwf186bn Economic Recovery Fund
The fund will support businesses through loan restructuring for the tourism sector specifically hotels, providing working capital for businesses most affected by COVID-19 to keep them operational and avoid lay-offs as well as loan guarantee for SMEs and
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Source: allAfrica.com
Rwanda: Govt to Scale Up Interventions to Accelerate Technology, Innovation
The Government has set out a series of actions and plans that it will implement to accelerate technology and innovation in the country amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic, or
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Source: allAfrica.com
Africa: Lessons in Explaining Viruses to the Public - Rely On the Science
One specific challenge with our healthcare system strengthening efforts in Kenya is that many patients preferred to receive care from herbalists and found it convenient to consult
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Angola: COVID-19 - Hoji-Ya-Henda District to Face Health Fence
Luanda — With the increase of local transmission cases of covid-19 from 16 to 18 in the latest 24 hours, the Multisectoral Commission is working to put under sanitary fence the district of Hoyi-Ya-Henda in the municipality of Cazenga, assured last Sunday the Minister of Health, Sílvia
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Source: allAfrica.com
Robert F. Smith - Investor, Philanthropist
Born in Colorado to two parents with PhDs, Mr. Smith trained as an engineer at Cornell University, earning his BS in Chemical
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TV Host & Entrepreneur Publishes her 2nd Book on Tools to Handle COVID-19 & makes it available for $1.00, this week only
LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, May 15, 2020 / EINPresswire.com / -- TV & radio host, author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Jennifer K. Hill, wrote and published her second book " 101 Spiritual Tools for Uncertain Times " during the height of the COVID-19
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How Is COVID-19 Coronavirus Testing Really Going? What You Need To Know
Although this may sound like an ad for standardized test scores, it is presumably referring COVID-19 coronavirus testing, claiming that the U.S. is leading the world in such
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Alternate Care Site Opens at Convention Center | Afro
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to plague the area without flattening of the curve, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was pleased to showcase the alternative care site to support the nation’s capital’s battle against the novel coronavirus at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in
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Mother of Ahmaud Arbery says 'I have a sense of hope'
(ABC NEWS) — The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old African American whose slaying has prompted protests in Georgia, said on Monday that the arrest of a white father and son in the killing has given her “a sense of hope” that justice will be
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DRC - Zambia border re-opens
The Democratic Republic of Congo announced Thursday the partial reopening for pedestrians, a border post with Zambia.This followed a day’s demonstration against this preventive measure taken in response to the Covid-19
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
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Zimbabwe: Internet Access a Human Right - Misa
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zimbabwe has launched a campaign urging the telecommunications regulator to reduce internet charges, saying recent increases in data violate fundamental human rights to access
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Tucker Carlson, Journalist Zaid Jilani Think Focusing On One Group’s Suffering From Coronavirus Over Others Is Wrong
Fox News host Tucker Carlson told viewers Monday that media personalities like CNN’s Don Lemon are equating the coronavirus with racism, leaving us “paranoid and
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Nigeria: Alarm Bells As COVID-19 Cripples Poultry, Fish Farming Biz
Farmers lament losses, experts warn of food shortage
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Kenya: Boost for Local Farmers as Food Security Platform Ujuzikilimo Partners With Venture Capital Firm
Nairobi — Local small scale farmers are set will benefit for Sh18million worth of technical support as part of a social-economic recovery initiative by an agricultural technology solutions
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Utah US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate Urges a Navy Veteran in Utah with Mesothelioma to Not Put Off Compensation Because of COVID19-But to Call Attorney Erik Karst of KVO to Begin the Process
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA, May 12, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Utah US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate is appealing to a Navy Veteran in Utah who has just been diagnosed with mesothelioma or their family to not waste time on Internet nonsense about 'free' mesothelioma publications because
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Eritrea officially virus-free with 100% recoveries, zero deaths
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Rwanda: Beach Volleyball - Rwanda Again to Host World Tour
Rwanda will host the 2020 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour star 2, both in men and women categories, later this year on the shores of Lake Kivu in Rubavu
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Georgianna Glose, a Nun and Activist for the Poor, Dies at 73
If you passed Georgianna Glose on the streets of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, you might have known her as that renegade nun, the one who left her convent to live among the poor and then blew a whistle on sexual abuse in the Catholic
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Author discusses book on Jackson State shootings of 1970
Eleven days later, (white) employees of the Jackson, Miss., police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol opened fire on a protest outside a women's dormitory at historically black Jackson State College (now
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Angola: New State of Emergency in Force
Luanda — A new 15-day state of emergency period going until May 25 has taken effect as from 00:00 am on Monday, as part of the measures put in place to contain the expansion of the covid-19 pandemic in the
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Africa: Coronavirus - African Football 'Must Wait,' CAF President Says
While some European leagues are set to resume, CAF president Ahmad Ahmad told DW he wants the outbreak under control first before competitions
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Africa: Archaeology Shows How Ancient African Societies Managed Pandemics
About 76 infant burial sites at an abandoned settlement that now forms part of the Mapungubwe World Heritage site in the Limpopo Valley of South Africa suggest a pandemic hit the people living there after 1000
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