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JAMAICANS WILL this year get the chance to hike nine kilometres through the forests of Seville Heritage Park in St Ann, as the Forestry Department hosts another Forest Trek. Forest Trek 2024, to be staged on Saturday, March 16, sees the Forestry...

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A vaccine summit hosted by Britain on Thursday raised billions of dollars to immunize children in developing countries as experts wrestled with the difficult question of how any potential vaccine against the new coronavirus might be distributed globally — and

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After 26 years on the run, on May 16, French authorities revealed that genocide architect Felicien Kabuga had been arrested in

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The police chief called on Nigerians to join in efforts to tackle rape and other sexual violence by ensuring prompt report of cases and working with the police to apprehend the

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Kenya, Djibouti split regional votes for non-permanent UNSC seat

Kenya and Djibouti will later today know which of them will take Africa’s non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security

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Swarms of locusts devastate parts of northern Kenya

The branches on trees around Kenya’s northern town of Lodwar have been stripped bare of leaves, bending downwards under the weight of voracious young

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Source: The East African

Fauset, Crystal Bird (1894–1965)

Crystal Bird Fauset, the first African-American female state legislators in the United States, was born on June 27, 1894 in Princess Anne, Maryland. She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts but spent most of her adult and political life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between 1914 and 1918 Fauset worked

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Source: Black Past

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Africa: Unprecedented Crisis Presents Unique Opportunities for Unprecedented Action - Machel, Okonjo-Iweala, Songwe, Ramos

There is no way Africa can face this food crisis without empowering rural women, in particular rural women’s associations, in the response to

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Africa: COVID-19 - Caring for Care Workers

This 'invisible' work contributes over US$10.8 trillion a year to the global economy, and before COVID-19, women and girls provided 12.5 billion hours of free care work every

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Source: allAfrica.com

Cameroon Human Rights Commission - Reforms for Better Protection, Promotion

The Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Justice on June 27 defended before the Committee on Constitutional Laws major changes undertaken to better empower the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: One in Two Children Suffer Violence Each Year - Report

A new report has shown that one out of two children aged 2-17 years experience some form of violence globally each

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Source: allAfrica.com

Tensions as DRC, Zambia border dispute escalate [Morning Call]

We start off by revisiting an issue that nearly put the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC and Zambia in conflict last

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Bello, Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu (1910-1966)

Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu Bello was the Sardauna of Sokoto and leader of Nigeria’s northern region during the last years of British rule and early independence. He was brutally murdered at his home during a 1966 coup détat, one in a series of events characterizing Nigeria’s political

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How Felicien Kabuga exploited State impunity

At some point, former Attorney-General Amos Wako and Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko were taken to task by a Kenyan court to explain why it was unable to trace whoever was running Mr Kabuga’s business

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Africa's coronavirus cases pass 100,000; deaths at 3,098

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This Day in History — July 1

2004: Saddam Hussein appears in Iraqi court for the first time, scoffing at charges of war crimes and

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Tunisia: International Day of Family Remittances - Ifad Calls for Remittance Service Providers to Be Declared Essential Businesses in Times of Crisis

Tunis/Tunisia — With the significant decline in money sent home by migrants due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) called on June 16, for governments across the world to declare remittance service providers essential

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Health organisations say children under one at risk of diseases amid COVID-19

GENEVA, Switzerland (CMC) — Several health organisations are warning that children under the age of one in the Caribbean are at risk of contracting diseases like diphtheria, measles and polio because the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting life-saving immunisation

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Todman, Terence A. (1926-2014)

Named Career Ambassador, a title equivalent to a four-star general, U.S. ambassador to six different countries, Terence A. Todman was an outstanding diplomat in the service of the United States. He challenged the racial prejudice he encountered at the State Department, paving the way for hiring of

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Africa: Communique of AU Bureau of Assembly of Heads of State and Government On Renaissance Dam

Addis Ababa — The Extraordinary African Union (AU) Bureau of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government Vide-Teleconference Meeting, held on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, (GERD) issued on June 26, 2020 the following

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The Colonial Names of African States

After decolonization, state boundaries in Africa remained remarkably stable, but the colonial names of African states often changed. Explore a list of current African countries according to their former colonial names, with explanations of border changes and amalgamations of

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Covid-19: AU hails 'African jewel' as continental medical supplies platform launched

African leaders have lauded the launch of the continent's first medical supplies platform as the "jewel in the crown of Pan-African

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Pulpit to presidency: Malawi's new president takes office

June 28: Chakwera, Chilima sworn in

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Africa: Periods in a Pandemic - Women and Girls in Low-Income Settlements Need More Support

What is becoming apparent, through studies and conversations with other academics in the menstrual health and hygiene field, is that the measures taken to slow the spread of COVID-19 may have made things worse for women and girls in low-income

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Africa: COVID-19 in Africa - As Cases Rise Along With Economic Hardship, Countries Grapple With Safely Easing Lockdowns

Some four months after the first COVID-19 case in Africa was reported in Egypt, countries on the continent are beginning to ease public health and social measures, such as lockdowns and curfews, imposed to curb the spread of the

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Kenya: When Genocide Fugitive Kabuga Ran Businesses in Kenya

At some point, former Attorney-General Amos Wako and Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko were taken to task by a Kenyan court to explain why it was unable to trace whoever was running Mr Kabuga's business

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(1948) Harry S. Truman, “Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights”

By 1947 the question of black civil rights in the South had become a national issue when a committee President Harry S. Truman appointed to study the issue called for legislation which among other things would to protect voting rights for Southern blacks and provide federal protection against

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UNHCR launches $186mn crisis appeal for Sahel region

The United Nations Refugee Agency has launched a $186 dollar crisis appeal for the Sahel

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Zim poet appointed Unesco affiliate

INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED poet and writer, Mbizo Chirasha has received a major boost in his artistic career after he was accepted as a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco)-Rila affiliate artist, joining an esteemed team of other international creatives on

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Human trafficking victims destined for Trinidad & Tobago rescued

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuela’s Navy yesterday broke up three human trafficking camps on the country’s Orinoco Delta and rescued 79 people, including 25 minors, whom they said were being trafficked to criminal gangs in

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