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Before George Floyd In Minnesota, There Was Michael Brown In Missouri
His death shined a bright light on the chasm between law enforcement and black residents and made Ferguson the site of violent clashes between police and
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South Africa: S. Africans Protest Police Brutality Against Poor Under Lockdown
The police watchdog is investigating at least 10 deaths at the hand of law enforcement under a coronavirus lockdown
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'We won't forget and we won't forgive' - Sudan protesters rally one year after bloody crackdown
Khartoum – Sudanese protesters took to the streets of Khartoum on Wednesday, angrily demanding justice for scores of pro-democracy demonstrators killed a year ago in a bloody
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‘Coming home is like mi reach heaven’ - Kingston airport refining protocols
SINGING THE praises of airport staff and health officials after emerging from the arrival halls of the Norman Manley International Airport yesterday, Norma Kelly returned to Jamaica with a new lease on life and a sense of
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Cameroon: Security Arrests People Without Masks as COVID-19 Cases Increase
Police in Cameroon have detained several hundred people for not wearing face masks in public, as COVID-19 cases in the central African state continue to
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Somalia: Covid19 Slowing Fight Against Terrorism-Amisom
The Head of the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM), Ambassador Francisco Madeira, on Thursday reported on the progress Somalia has made in economic recovery, inclusive politics, and security through containing terrorism, dialogue and reconciliation, state building, reconstruction and
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Sudan: Community Leader's Murder Sparks Chaos in West Darfur
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Hunger strike - Prisoners protest death of fellow inmate after altercation with warders
The authorities are trying to reduce tension at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre where prisoners have gone on a hunger strike in protest of the death of an inmate during an altercation with correctional officers last Saturday. The...
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Africa: Coronavirus Exposes 'Brutal Inequality' of Townships
The coronavirus is hitting South Africa's mainly black townships harder than areas that were once the exclusive preserve of white people, according to new data that highlights the lasting impact of apartheid-era housing
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Mozambique: Macomia - Terrorists Fall Into Army Ambush
Maputo — Some of the terrorists who attacked and briefly occupied the town of Macomia, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado on 28 May, fell into an ambush mounted by the defence and security forces at the Nova Zambezia village last Friday, according to a report in the independent
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Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on people living with diabetes
The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on many individuals, communities, systems and countries the world over. With over one million cases of COVID–19 having been recorded around the world, health systems are undisputedly overwhelmed. Unfortunately, Zimbabwe has not been spared by the wrath of this
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Soldiers on operation during which Bogle was killed, reassigned; weapons confiscated
Civil/military cooperation and media officer for the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Major Basil Jarrett, says the JDF members who were present during the joint police-military operation in August Town, St Andrew when Susan Bogle, a disabled woman, was shot and killed last week, have been reassigned
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Burkina Faso: Credibly Investigate Apparent Executions
Nairobi — Burkina Faso authorities should credibly and independently investigate alleged extrajudicial executions of 12 men detained by gendarmes on May 11, 2020 during a counterterrorism operation near the eastern town of Fada N'Gourma, Human Rights Watch said
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At least 580 civilians killed this year in central Mali - UN
Unrest in central Mali, plagued by jihadist attacks and inter-community violence, has killed 580 civilians so far this year, the United Nations said on
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Mother relives painful event after losing two sons
AFTER THE alleged brutal slaying of her two sons 10 years ago during the so-called Tivoli incursion, Marjorie Williams is struggling to erase from her thoughts nightmarish flashbacks that remind her of the horrific
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Egypt says 19 suspected militants killed in restive Sinai
Egypt's military said on Saturday it killed 19 suspected militants in targeted ground and air operations as part of its battle to quell a long-running insurgency in north
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‘Cancel Columbus Day’ has Twitter mocking the colonizer as statues come tumbling down
According to CBS Boston, in Boston’s North end, a Christopher Columbus statue was beheaded, leading to the statue’s removal on Wednesday and a statement from Mayor Marty Walsh, saying there will be conversation surrounding the “historical meaning” of the incident and whether it will ever go back
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Algeria's prominent dissident released
One of Algeria’s prominent figure for the protest movement, Karim Tabbour was released Thursday, his lawyer Abdelghani Badi told
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Over 160 people killed in Ethiopia protests over singer's murder | News24
Police confirm at least 166 deaths in violent protests over killing of popular Oromo singer Haacaaluu Hundeessa.
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Mozambique: Peace Is Under Threat Again, Warns Nyusi
[AIM] Maputo -Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi declared in Maputo on Thursday that peace is once again threatened, this time by acts of armed violence perpetrated by terrorists and the enemies of progress.
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South Africa: C19 People's Coalition Calls for 'Independent' Probe Into Collins Khosa's Death
An alliance of social movements, trade unions and community organisations has demanded that the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) be held accountable for the death of Collins
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Nigeria: Mass Terror Trials Test Nigeria's Criminal Justice System
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George Floyd protests spread across US; embassies in Africa react
Protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody spread around the United States on Friday, as his case renewed anger over others involving African Americans, police and race
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Mozambique: Price Cuts Will Cost EDM 15 Million Dollars
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This Day In History- June 19
2007: A car bomb strikes near the revered Shiite Khillani mosque in Baghdad, killing at least 78 people and wounding more than 200, the same day about 10,000 US soldiers launch an offensive against al-Qaeda in Iraq north-east of Baghdad, killing at least 22
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(1965) Bayard Rustin, “From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement”
Bayard Rustin, a co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942 had become by the 1960s an experienced civil rights and peace activist.  During much of that decade he was a close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King.  In this address originally printed in Commentary, Rustin argues that the
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Houston passes budget that increases police funding, amid calls to ‘Defund’
After six hours of discussion and consideration of several proposed amendments, the Houston City Council today approved Mayor Sylvester Turner’s proposed $5.1 billion operating budget for the fiscal year beginning July
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Burundi: Nkurunziza Leaves a Mixed Legacy
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died of a heart attack aged 55 according to an official statement released on Tuesday, has left behind a mixed
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Africa: Joint Forces Arrest 122 Infiltrators Heading to Libya to Work As Mercenaries
[SNA] Genina -The Sudanese security forces arrested, Sunday, tens of inviduals who were on their way to Libya to work as mercenaries.
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Vendors victims again - Rae Rae Market burnt to ground
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