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Uganda's Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Dies
Uganda's permanent representative to the United Nations, World Trade Organization and other International Organizations in Geneva, Christopher Onyanga Aparr has
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Africa: President Cyril Ramaphosa - Launch of Africa Medical Supplies Platform Media Briefing
Remarks by African Union Chair President Cyril Ramaphosa at the online media briefing to launch the Africa Medical Supplies Platform
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Africa: 'Earth School' Gives Students in Lockdown a Closeup Look At Nature
With the coronavirus pandemic disrupting education worldwide, Earth School sought to bring together compelling and interactive resources for learning about nature and the environment on a single global
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Fresh outbreak of Ebola virus in DRC kills 11 people from 17 recorded cases
Since the discovery of the Ebola virus disease in 1976 in South Sudan (then Sudan) and Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire), there have been recurrent
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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice
Somalia, Eswatini, Togo, others elected veeps of 75th UN Gen. Assembly
Somali has been elected Vice President of the 75th session of the United Nationals General Assembly, UNGA which will run for the year 2020
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Can Mali's IBK solve his country's worsening security situation? [Morning Call]
We begin with what is the latest wave of violence in some troubled parts of
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Caricom conducts survey on COVID-19 impact on food security
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretariat on Monday announced the launch of the second round of the Caribbean COVID-19 Food Security and Livelihoods Impact
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Africa: 4 Countries Win Seats on UN Security Council -5th Goes to Runoff
Four countries were elected to two-year terms on the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday in the first major vote held at the world body amid the coronavirus
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Grenadian Prime Minister killed
Grenadas U.S. educated Prime Minister Maurice Bishop killed in a military coup.
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Africa: COVID-19 - AU Hails 'African Jewel' As Continental Medical Supplies Platform Is 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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'Frivolous and shoddy' -China laughs off lawsuit by Nigerian lawyers over COVID-19 - Face2Face Africa
The Chinese Embassy in Nigeria has dismissed claims by a group of Nigerian lawyers who are demanding compensation for COVID-19, which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan. In a statement, the embassy called the action, 'frivolous and shoddy'. The lawyers say China failed in informing the World Health
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Nandlall criticizes Alexis over report saying PPP appeal likely to fail
Attorney Anil Nandlall today rapped Grenadian Queen’s Counsel, Dr Francis Alexis for remarks attributed to him in today’s Guyana Chronicle that a PPP appeal to the Caribbean Court of Justice over a Guyana Court of Appeal ruling has no “real prospect of
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Rwanda’s move to stop illegal mineral imports
Rwanda has launched a new mineral export certificate to curb allegations of smuggling of precious metals from the Democratic Republic of
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Jabu Mabuza to chair Net1 board
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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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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
Africa: Presidency On the Extraordinary African Union Bureau of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government Video-Teleconference Meeting On the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Communique of the Extraordinary African Union (AU) Bureau of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government video-teleconference meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
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Africa: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Other Global Ills Share Root Causes
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, the international treaties charged with solving two of the biggest problems of the 21st century, were both due to hold make-or-break meetings in
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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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UNEXPECTED RIFT EXPOSED OVER AFRICA SEAT IN U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL – The Wilmington Journal
The Africa seat at the United Nations Security Council was the subject of a heated duel between two African countries who lobbied fiercely for the powerful
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caribbean integration
This day markst the 26th anniversary of the Treaty of Chaguramas which was signed in Trinidad, July 4, 1973 to establish the Caribbean Community and Common Market - CARICOM. It was the result of a 15 year effort to fulfil the hope of regional integration which began with the establishment of the
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Rwanda: UN Prosecutor - Intensify Efforts to Locate Genocide Fugitives
The Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) Serge Brammertz has called for an intensification of efforts in locating and arresting fugitives wanted for their participation in the 1994 Genocide against the
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Holness announces COVID screening for all incoming travellers this month
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that there will be mandatory COVID screening for all passengers arriving in Jamaica this
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Haiti, Jamaica among countries Japanese told to avoid
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Japan has raised its travel alert to level three for 18 more countries and has included Haiti among destinations to be avoided by its citizens, as a result of its increased cases of
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Somalia: UN Calls for Action to Eliminate Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the United Nations envoy to Somalia today called on Somalia's leaders, communities and partners to do more to assist and listen to victims and survivors of conflict-related sexual violence
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Dr Alexis must withdraw his remarks about this case before the CCJ
Yesterday’s Sunday Edition of the Guyana Chronicle’s, lead headline loudly screams, `Dr. Francis Alexis, QC says PPP/C appeal to the CCJ has no real prospect of
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Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark , in full William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927, Dallas, Texas), human rights lawyer and former U.S. attorney general under President Lyndon
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Gambia's justice minister resigns | Africanews
Gambia’s renowned justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou, who established a probe to investigate abuses under the country’s ex-dictator and spearheaded the international defence of Myanmar’s Rohingya, has resigned, the government said
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Africa: Bending the Arc of History Towards Justice
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the Fight Against Systemic Racism and Discrimination
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MTN partners with UN-backed mobile virus tracker set to reach over 600 million in Africa
The United Nations is partnering with Africa-focused wireless carriers including MTN Group and Orange SA on a mobile-data platform that delivers coronavirus-related information around the
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Malawi re-run: opposition candidate wins, unseating Mutharika
June 27: Chakwera declared winner
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