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A Nigeria Railways Corporation official said the train departs Ibadan for Lagos at 8am daily with a return trip scheduled at 4pm.

The Lagos-Ibadan expressway is notorious for heavy trucks and traffic gridlocks that can stretch for several kilometres.

The Lagos-Ibadan line is the first part of a new 2,733km Lagos-Kano standard gauge line. The total cost of the project was valued at $11.117bn.

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For most, the year 2020 has been the most trying year of our lives. The…

The post Is It Worth It? Adding up the Cost of Escalating Violence appeared first on Houston Forward Times.

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By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times The conference room on the sixth floor of the Renasant Bank office in downtown Birmingham overlooks City Hall, Linn Park, the Jefferson County Courthouse, and the Boutwell Auditorium, as well parts of the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex. Inside the conference room, bank executive Tracey Morant Adams—regal, calm, and professional […]

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WESTERN BUREAU: SPEAKING AGAINST the background of an increase in the number of persons returning positive COVID-19 tests in the parish of Westmoreland, Savanna-la-Mar’s Mayor Bertel Moore, who is also the chairman of the Westmoreland Municipal...

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On Tuesday, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an executive order to invest $50 million in new bond funding to advance the goals of creating or preserving 20,000 affordable homes by 2026. The order also dedicates City-controlled public sources to the production and preservation of affordable housing. In 2019, Bottoms released her One Atlanta Housing Affordability Action Plan—a roadmap to increase […]

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FLORIDA, United States (CMC) - Strategies for the quick recovery of Caribbean economies from the devastation wrought by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will be discussed by regional and global stakeholders at a virtual forum on Friday.The event is being hosted by the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), and the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC).

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The number of people forced to flee their homes passed 80 million in 2020, the UN refugee agency said in a report released Wednesday in Geneva.

According to UNHCR’s Mid-Year Trends report on forced displacement, the figure includes 45.7 million internally displaced people (IDPs), 29.6 million refugees and others forcibly displaced outside their country, and 4.2 million asylum seekers.

The report said persecution, conflict, and human rights violations were the main factors forcing people to flee.

Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Somalia and Yemen all contributed to driving new displacements in the first half of 2020.

“We are now surpassing another bleak milestone that will continue to grow unless world leaders stop wars”, said Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

The Sahel region, which is battling a brutal militant insurgency has also seen fresh displacement according to the report.

The UNHCR said plans to resettle refugees were affected by the outbreak of the coronavirus. 

The report adds that at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic in April, 168 countries and regions fully or partially closed their borders, with 90 countries and regions making no exception for people seeking asylum.

As a result, only 17,400 refugees were resettled in the first six months of 2020, half the figure of 2019.

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Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland are emerging as the leading contenders to be nominated... View Article

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[Nairobi News] The Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) on Tuesday rewarded three athletes with a five-day vacation in recognition of their impressive returns at the 2020 London Marathon.

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