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Covid-19: How masks reduce virus spread
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Africa: Mobile Money Becomes Lifeline as Telecoms Thrive in COVID-19 Era
Mobile money and data have emerged as the lifeline in revenue growth for African-focused telecoms operators Vodacom Group and Airtel Africa across markets characterised by stiff competition and challenging regulatory
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The minister announced Mombasa has the highest rate of Covid-19 deaths recording 27, followed by Nairobi (20) while Siaya, Bomet and Kiambu have one fatality
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Death of Robert Fuller, Black Man Found Hanging In Tree, Ruled a Suicide
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COVID tapers oil-driven economic growth - Stabroek News
Due to the COVID-19 impact globally, especially on the oil market, Guyana’s projected 2020 growth rate has been revised from 87% to 57%, Governor of the Bank of Guyana Dr Gobind Ganga said on Friday, while also confirming that the non-oil sector is headed to negative
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Coronavirus causes learning losses
“Even before the COVID pandemic, we were already faced with a very serious challenge in education, which is a global learning
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Youth are main virus spreaders - VIDEO
Young people have emerged as superspreaders of the novel coronavirus as Kenya’s confirmed cases approach
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Radio lessons light up Dadaab camp
The situation is even worse for refugee children, most of whom begin school late, and for whom education is also the only hope out of the
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Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are set to drop by up to seven percent in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, but even this dramatic decline -- the sharpest since WWII -- would barely dent long-term global warming, researchers reported
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700 PEP students to repeat
MORE than 700 students who were registered to take the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exam this year stand to repeat grade six in the next school year which begins in September.The bulk of the students 739 missed February's sitting of the Grade 6 Ability Test and subsequently asked to be deferred for
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Kenya: The Sad Short Story of Kenya's Debt Nightmare
Opinion - The major assignment of the Jubilee administration's two Treasury chiefs has been to raise the debt ceiling.
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Nigeria: Report Predicts U.S.$17 Billion Decline in Nigerian Oil Revenue
Nigeria's oil revenue is likely to decline by between 70 per cent and 80 per cent this year, representing between $15 billion and $17 billion, the Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited and a member of President Muhammadu Buhari's Economic Advisory Council, Mr. Bismarck
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Henry calls for more women in farm work programme
LESTER Michael Henry, the newly appointed minister of labour and social security, is calling for more women to get involved in the Seasonal Agriculture Workers Programme (SAWP) between Jamaica and Canada.He made the call on Wednesday during a courtesy call at his office by the Canadian High
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Africa: 20 Percent of Africans Believe They Can't Contract COVID-19 - Report
But as cases increase, a May report by the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC), a public-private partnership initiative on COVID-19 in AU countries, found that certain misconceptions about coronavirus infections exist among
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Nigeria: Report - Nigerians Experience Income Drop After Lockdown
A recent survey carried out by FinMark Trust through the i2i initiative, in partnership with EFInA, reveals that some Nigerian households are beginning to experience reduced income, lower food consumption, and reduced access to financial and health services following the onset of the COVID-19
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NAACP Calls ‘Hate Crime’ Beating By White Men In Iowa Racially Motivated
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Uganda: Workers Feel the Pinch of COVID-19
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Covid-19: Eritrea flattens curve
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Uganda's Fiscal Deficit High, Says World Bank
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Man found hanging in Palmdale committed suicide, attorney says -
PALMDALE — An attorney for the family of a 24-year-old Black man found hanging from a tree near Palmdale City Hall said no evidence has been found to contradict the ruling that his death was a suicide. “I don't have any evidence to suggest that there was a hate crime, there is nothing to indicate
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Rwanda: Justice Minister Vows to Crack Down on Corrupt Officials
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Mother of Ahmaud Arbery says 'I have a sense of hope'
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South Africa mulls return to restrictions, as COVID-19 surges
(AP): Confronted by surging hospitalisations due to COVID-19, South Africa is considering a return to tighter restrictions to combat the disease, which officials say may soon overwhelm the country's health system. President Cyril Ramaphosa has...
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White Woman Offers Apology Cookies After Physically Grabbing 11-Year-Old Girl, Falsely Accusing Her of Stealing Mail
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