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COVID-19 Update

As of June 17, 2020 at 10:20 AM Alabama had 26,914 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 784 deaths

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Apple Begins To Reclose Stores As Coronavirus Cases Spike

And now, Apple has decided to close its stores once again as coronavirus cases begin to rise across the United States after it peaked in many cities back in

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During the Coronavirus quarantine of the past few months, Tory Lanez is one of the few artists who kept his name buzzing on social media whether it was from his Quarantine Radio show or just dropping new

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It was an emotional ceremony as many speakers referenced the violent death of Mr. Floyd at the hands, or should I say knee, of a Minneapolis police

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In some surveys Africans hold the same negative stereotypes about African Americans as white Americans and look down on some aspects of the black American way their way of life, like their reliance on charity, assisted housing programmes, food stamps and generally lower social

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COVID-19 Infection rates among young people in the South and West drastically increases | The Atlanta Voice

The major thrust of new coronavirus cases in the United States is in the South and West, where officials say more young people are ignoring social distancing measures and testing

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AU launches online platform for Covid-19 supplies

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Uhuru pledges to respect term limit in 2022

President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged Thursday that he will respect the Constitution’s limit of two terms in the nation’s top

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Lawmakers Use Protest Momentum to Push State Racial Reforms | Afro

They are prompting “very real conversations I didn’t think the country has ever really had because none of them are comfortable,” said Sydney Kamlager, a member of the Legislative Black Caucus in the California state

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South Africa has the continent's highest Covid-19 cases. And it has another pandemic

The three women were among the latest victims in a surge of violence against women in South Africa which the country’s president has described as

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Juneteenth Marks Day Last Enslaved People Freed

The next year, former slaves started celebrating Juneteenth in Galveston, and it eventually reached other

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Tufton issues warning to Jamaicans disobeying COVID-19 rules

Of the 12 new cases yesterday, nine people had come into the island since June 1, with three being contacts of a person who had recently returned to the

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States failed to get absentee ballots to thousands of voters in recent primary elections, signaling problems for November | The Atlanta Voice

Miller and Sheth are among tens of thousands of voters who didn’t get their requested absentee ballots in recent primaries, including in the battleground states of Georgia and

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Australia coach Langer backs board cuts despite losing Hick

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia head coach Justin Langer has defended the board’s decision to lay off staff despite losing batting coach Graeme Hick from his coaching

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South Rupununi grappling with flooding and COVID-19 apprehensions

The seasonal floods in the Rupununi region during the annual rainy season have continuously been affecting region 9, which in extreme cases had adversely affected many

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COVID DRUG HOPE

Jamaican scientist Dr Henry Lowe says he and a team of fellow researchers have found that a flavonoid they had isolated from the cannabis plant five years ago has the potential to mitigate against COVID-19, and the development has attracted the attention and support of the United States National

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MANYARA: Cooking gas VAT risks making Kenya’s disease burden

Cooking gas VAT risks making Kenya’s disease burden worse

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New COVID-19 cases continue to drop in Black neighborhoods | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The number of new COVID-19 cases continue to drop in Black neighborhoods as Chicago moves closer to Phase 4 of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to reopen the

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GB Energy-Texaco donates $1m to PSOJ's COVID-19 fund

GB Energy-Texaco Jamaica recently donated $1 million to the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica's (PSOJ) COVID-19 Response Fund, which was established to assist vulnerable citizens affected by the coronavirus

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Alabama Power Foundation grant makes ‘virtual learning’ a reality for rural Greene County students

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced Alabama schools to close their traditional classrooms in March, Corey Jones said it hit his students in rural Greene County doubly

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Almost half of Region One COVID-19 cases are teachers

Almost half of the persons who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Moruca sub-district, in Region One (Barama-Waini), are teachers and the Ministry of Education yesterday ordered all schools there shuttered until the spread of the virus is

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In South Africa, 2019 world best restaurant 'heats up' for post virus ops

A tiny beach restaurant in South Africa shot to fame last year when it was voted the world’s best eating house for unique

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DRC goes on with Grand Inga dam project

Despite the coronavirus challenge in the country, the Democratic Republic of Congo is moving ahead with plans to sell the Grand Inga dam project to the

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Only 40.7% of Greene County households have completed the Census Greene County’s Census response rate lags behind state and national rates

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Haiti nears 5,000-mark in COVID-19 cases

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Haiti continued to record more cases of novel coronavirus infections yesterday, with the authorities saying that the total had reached just shy of 5,000 cases since the first case was detected on March 19 this

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Ramaphosa warns of more job losses in South Africa

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Covid-19: Zimbabwe health minister charged over kit scam

Zimbabwe’s Health minister was on Saturday released on bail, a day after he was arrested over allegations of corruption after the government bought $60 million worth of medical equipment from an unregistered

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WATCH: Stars gather for online festival to combat hunger in Amazon rainforest | Afro

More than a million Brazilians have been diagnosed with COVID-19, many of them indigenous people in the Amazon

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Covid-19: South Africa's death toll rises to 1 877, as cases increase to 92 681

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AMHVoices: Police, army cannot deny daylight atrocities

IF denials by the Zimbabwe National Army and the Zimbabwe Republic Police are to be taken for truth, our country has certainly become a dangerous place to live and invest in, where marauding bogus army and police officers can do things at will, cause suffering to the people even in broad daylight

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First Black Astronaut to walk in space visits Greene County schools

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