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Pan African Mother: Fight for Life Before and During COVID-19 | Afro
Despite this, and despite the historic inequities that have contributed to this, Pan African mothers are fighting for
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Africa: Some Progress, But Africans Still Live With All Forms of Malnutrition - Global Nutrition Report
There is over 200 million undernourished people in the African continent, and with the novel coronavirus sweeping countries, the urgency to address their food and health systems increases as undernourished people have weak immune systems leaving them vulnerable and exposed to
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Most US States Fall Short Of Recommended Testing Levels | Afro
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Joe Biden’s Plan for Empowering Black America
In a news release, the campaign noted that Biden “knows we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based
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The Trifecta of Black Disempowerment: Poverty, Pollution, and the Pandemic
The Trifecta of Black Disempowerment: Poverty, Pollution, and the Pandemic
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Spraying disinfectants can be 'harmful': WHO
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Kenya coronavirus: 830 cases; TZ, Somali borders shut, curfew extended
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Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across the Continent Exceed 81 Thousand
South Africa has the most reported cases – 14,355, with deaths numbering
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Liberia: Health Officials Test for COVID-19
As Liberia's prepares for total lockdown in coming days, health authorities here have gone to test their specimens for the novel coronavirus, aimed at rallying the public to report for mass
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Human rights group: Hungry Zimbabwe refugees forced out by Botswana
GABORONE—A human rights group said hundreds of refugees from Zimbabwe are being forced back home from neighboring Botswana and the refugees haven’t had access to food during COVID-19 restrictions in
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Why falling vulture population can cause health crisis
Scientists warn that without the birds, human beings risk contracting zoonotic diseases such as rabies, Middle East Respiratory Sydrome Coronavirus (MERS-COV), anthrax and a host of other diseases that are transferable to humans by
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Uganda Registers 248 COVID-19 Cases
The health ministry on Monday confirmed twenty one new COVID-19 cases bringing the total of cases in Uganda to
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Justice ministry slams Observer
The Ministry of Justice has slammed the Jamaica Observer for aspects of a story published on Wednesday, May 20, headlined 'Sexual savagery', and reporting on the number of children falling victim to sex crimes since March when restrictions were put in place to stem the spread of
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Africa: 0.22% Rise, 57,545 Active Cases Across the Continent
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Burundi Expels WHO Officials
Burundi has expelled four officials from the World Health Organization (WHO), declaring them persona non grata and ordering them to leave the country by Friday, a leaked memo from the country’s foreign ministry
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Six additional COVID-19 cases in Jamaica
Jamaica recorded six new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing to 517 the number of confirmed
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Ghana coronavirus: 5,735 cases, prez fact-checked on testing ‘record’
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Mauritania reopens mosques after lull in virus infections
Mosques in Mauritania reopened after a week of no new coronavirus cases were
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Human rights group: Hungry Zimbabwe refugees forced out by Botswana
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Kenya coronavirus: 715 cases, Kenyatta joins summit of EAC leaders
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Nigeria coronavirus: 6,677 cases; northern governors express concerns
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Patient Zero: Thomas Eric Duncan and the Ebola Crisis in West Africa and the United States
In the following article Dr. Clarence Spigner, Professor of Public Health at the University of Washington, Seattle, describes the life of the first patient to die of Ebola on U.S. soil and the larger crisis of Ebola in West Africa.  He views it as a consequence of a long history of
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Nigeria: Coronavirus - Who Calls for Funding Amidst New U.S. Threat
The World Health Organization on Monday urged countries to continue funding the agency, saying it will initiate an independent review into its handling of the coronavirus pandemic "at the earliest appropriate
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In Africa schools are closed but learning goes on
Globally, school closures due to COVID-19 have affected 1.29 billion students in 186 countries, which is 73.8 per cent of the world’s student population, according to the UN Education Science and Cultural Organization
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Ethiopia: City Struggles to Stay Vigilant As COVID-19 Cases Rise
Weeks after the law came into effect, the Addis Abeba Police Commission in an abrupt move last Wednesday started apprehending people in order to ensure strict observance of the regulation among
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Africa: I Beat COVID-19, You Too Can-Says WHO Staff
On 19 April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Nigeria confirmed the first case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as one staff member in the field tested
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J'can health expert praises WHO boss
THE opening speech by World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus at the 73rd World Health Assembly's virtual meeting on Monday has been lauded by one local public health expert as “the most brilliant watershed speech by any WHO director
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