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Canadian Queen’s Counsel reviewing Payara plan - Stabroek News
Canadian Queen’s Counsel Alison Redford has been hired to review plans for ExxonMobil’s third proposed oil well, Payara. The article Canadian Queen’s Counsel reviewing Payara plan appeared first on Stabroek News.
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PNP's dangerous dozen
To suggest to any woman set to represent the party that gave Jamaica its first, and only woman prime minister - Portia Simpson Miller - that she is being nominated as a token by the People's National Party (PNP) is like a declaration of war.
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Mixed reactions in Namibia over rejected Germany reparations offer | Africanews
Reactions are pouring in Namibia over the government's rejection of a 10 million euros genocide reparations offer from
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'Apologise or face the courts' - Mpofu to Ramaphosa on behalf of families of slain Marikana workers | News24
During his campaign for the ANC presidency, Ramaphosa apologised for the manner in which the massacre unfolded.
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Jamaican Sarah Cooper gets Netflix special - Stabroek News
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican-born author and comedian Sarah Cooper has landed herself a varitey special on Netflix, the American technology and media services provider and production company. The article Jamaican Sarah Cooper gets Netflix special appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Where does Kamala Harris’s toughness come from? The two indomitable women who raised her.
… , to a working-class African-American neighborhood in Berkeley, Calif … and her sister to African-American culture. LaBrie’s … museums featuring exhibits about African-American artists and other … them, except for her, African-American. “Ideologically, most of …
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NUL’s Annual Report Shows Blacks in Pandemic’s Grip
The National Urban League's 2020 State of Black America report, "Unmasked," which matches the nationwide mood for serious introspection and exposing the human toll and economic devastation of the global pandemic, focuses on delving into data behind COVID-19's impact on the African American
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Rev. Al Sharpton Shares A Personal Invitation To Join The Commitment March In Washington D.C.
The goal is to protect our civil rights and right to vote.
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Paul David Spradley to lead Dollar Bank’s diversity efforts | New Pittsburgh Courier
The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that President and CEO, Jim McQuade, recently announced that Dollar Bank has completed the search that began earlier this year and hired Paul David … Continued
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Families Face Peril as Unemployment Benefit Expires
By Edgar Mendez Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit milwaukeenns.org. Kristina Smith lost her job in the printing industry and has
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Signed, sealed, delivered
Members of the Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association of Jamaica (CBFFAJ) recently rallied to support their colleague custom broker Patrice Henry-Burford (second right) to access urgent medical care in the United States.
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Tunisia: Saied Meets Female Farm Workers On Women's Day On Visit to Jendouba's Mraïdeya
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- On National Women's Day, President Kais Saied made Thursday a dawn visit to Mraïdeya, delegation of Bousselem (governorate of Jendouba) where he met with locals, notably female farm workers.
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Energy minister Chasi fired
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has booted out Energy Minister Fortune Chasi who he said his actions as a government Minister had become “incompatible with his expectations.” BY MOSES MATENGA Mnangagwa did not specify Chasi’s wrongdoings but the Mazowe South Member of Parliament has had protracted
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Will those who make peaceful evolutions impossible make violent revolutions inevitable?
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2020: Alpha Conde, the president of Guinea (Photo) recently received an endorsement from his RPG governing party to run for the 3rd time in the forthcoming Presidential elections. This was a man who spent a big chunk of his adult life opposing
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Algerian Journalist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
[DW] Khaled Drareni was charged after covering a pro-deomcracy protest in March. Journalism groups have condemned the detention and have demanded his release.
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Barbados says goodbye to former Prime Minister Owen Arthur
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Barbadians Friday said a tearful goodbye to their former prime minister, Professor Owen Seymour Arthur, following a two-hour State funeral service at his hometown St Peter's Parish Church, more than two weeks after he died from heart complications at the Queen Elizabeth
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Cardi B Wants Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez To Run For President
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Congo marks 60 years of independence | Africanews
The Republic of Congo has commemorated its 60th anniversary of
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Victims' Families Await Compensation From Sudan 22 Years After US Embassy Bombings
For Edith Bartley, the terror attacks that struck U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania 22 years ago will never fade away. She lost her father and her brother in the bombing of the embassy in Nairobi, and she continues to speak out on behalf of the families of victims.  "It's about
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Reforms, what reforms?
Stir The Pot :Paidamoyo Muzulu LAST week Zimbabwe was in a sort of frenzy politically. Political activists and the embattled President Emmerson Mnangagwa government were all concerned about the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s special envoys that were coming to hear and find more on the
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US polls: Indian-Americans launch campaign to mobilise support for Biden-Harris - African American News Today - EIN News
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Rwanda: Legal Scholars, Civil Society, Join Surrogacy Court Battle
[New Times] Nyarugenge Intermediate Court on Thursday heard the appeal case of a family that is seeking the right to have birth by surrogacy, after a lower court - Kicukiro Primary Court - in June ruled to block the procedure.
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Why is fair housing still a distant journey for Black America? | The Crusader Newspaper Group
By Charlene Crowell Public pressure to restore a key HUD rule has united civil rights, public and private sector stakeholders in a swelling and nearly daily drumbeat of concern calling for fair housing to be supported and HUD’s replacement rule to be rescinded. On July 23 the rule known as
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Judge reversed Hylton’s conviction, sentence - Case for breach of anti-corruption law lost in the system awaiting retrial
Member of Parliament for St Andrew Western Anthony Hylton had both his conviction and sentence for two breaches of Jamaica’s anti-corruption law reversed by a judge in 2011, court documents have revealed. Just over three years after the reversal,...
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MSNBC's Velshi to Booker: Trump Only Attacks You Because You're Black
MSNBC has fully immersed itself into the Democratic Party, and has made no attempt to hide it. During Thursday’s All In, guest host Ali Velshi explicitly pitched DNC talking points about race and mail-in voting to Senator Cory Booker
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Sunshine Series moves to England
The scheduled Sunshine Girls’ three-Test home series against rivals England Roses has been moved to the United Kingdom. President of Netball Jamaica (NJ), Tricia Robinson, told The Sunday Gleaner that the previously agreed November date for the...
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South Africa eases up restrictions after low COVID cases | Africanews
South Africa announced on Saturday it will move to alert level 2 after a drop in the rate of new confirmed coronavirus
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Egypt Mulls Law to Protect Women's Identities As Metoo Movement Escalates
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Sierra Leone’s minister of lands – Sandy in the news again for all the wrong reasons
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2020: Sierra Leone’s most controversial minister of lands – Dr Denis Sandy, is in the news once again after he was seen in a video last month talking about voodoo men trying to cast a spell on his ability to perform his job. The video which went viral on social…
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