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NSE lags African peers on pandemic impact
The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) lags regional peers in local currency returns this year.
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Equity applies brakes on expansion after Mara flop
Equity Group Holdings (EGH) has halted its cross-border expansion bid after the failed acquisition of four banks in Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique last
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UN says opioids are the drugs doing the most harm worldwide
The total number of deaths due to opioid use disorders went up 71 per cent in 2018, with a 92 per cent increase among women compared with 63 per cent among men.
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Africa: Build Back Better: Women at the Centre of Decision-Making
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JTA happy with PEP placement method
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Owen Speid, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association, says the organisation is satisfied with the methodology used by the Government for students' Primary Exit Profile
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
As COVID-19 cases surge in US, rural areas seeing jump too
While much of the focus of concerns that the United States is experiencing a dangerous second wave has been on big Sunbelt states that are reporting thousands of new cases a day — like Texas and Florida — the worrying trend is also happening in places like Kansas, where livestock outnumber
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Rwanda: Remittances to Rwanda Plummet By 16% in March
[New Times] There has been an unprecedented decline in the flow of remittances to Rwanda - a vibrant source of money for a section of Rwandan- just as cases of coronavirus surge worldwide and the country grapples with the pandemic.
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COVID-19: Governor Abbott issues executive order to contain spread
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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
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'A hot mess'
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Uganda: World Bank Gives Uganda Shs1 Trillion to Fight COVID-19
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Treasury cuts 6kg gas cylinders 84pc on tighter budget
The State has cut the number of cooking gas cylinders under its subsidy scheme by 84 percent even as the project is set to resume next month.
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Bartlett warns against sterile treatment of tourists
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Teachers, parents resist schools reopening
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How to rid E.Africa of locusts? Serve them in a kebab
Eat them, poison them, and use scent to drive them to cannibalism - as a second wave of locusts threatens to devour East Africa’s crops, scientists in a Nairobi lab are experimenting with novel ways to kill
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Shirley optimistic about Dolla Financial's purpose
It may even seem like a minor job for the elder statesman of finance, former executive director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission, and top executive of leading Jamaica financial institution, National Commercial Bank for 35 years, yet it is anything but
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Rwanda: How Government Will Fund 2020/21 Budget Amidst Financial Constraints
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Children are lagging and COVID-19 harming AIDS care
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Study: Only 0.5% of Harris County contracts go to Black-owned businesses - DefenderNetwork.com
Commissioner Rodney Ellis released the following statement regarding the Harris County Commissioners Court commissioned minority and women-owned business disparity study: As our nation grapples with its long history of systemic racism and inequality, we must look at all systems of
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Grace Beyond Borders receives $1,000 and mask donation | The Crusader Newspaper Group
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Teachers, parents resist schools reopening - NewsDay Zimbabwe
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Mississippi set to remove Confederate emblem from its flag
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Money in circulation increases by Sh3.2 billion in March
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200, 000 tablets for students
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Africa: Day 4 Recap | Resiliency in Action - Sustaining Regional and Bilateral Trade Post-COVID
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Honey Bun Foundation, trainers to assist SMEs with COVID-19 road map
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