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Africa: Global Leaders Discuss How Africa Can Achieve Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery
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RITTENBERRY: It’s the moment of reckoning for Kenyan businesses
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Rwanda: CHOGM Investments Not Lost, Govt Reassures
Investment by the government and the private sector in readiness for the Commonwealth Heads of States and Government Meeting which was scheduled for July this year have not been lost or wasted, the foreign ministry has
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Africa Day - No Development Without Peace - Buhari
President Buhari made the remarks in a message to African leaders on Monday to mark the "Africa Day 2020," commemorated by the African Union Commission in collaboration with the World Health Organization
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Uganda: Tumwesigye - Uganda's Tourism Could Be Back On Its Feet By Yearend
The Association of Uganda Tour Operators chief executive, Gloria Tumwesigye, spoke with Bamuturaki Musinguzi on the impact of the coronavirus on Uganda's travel
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Govt says proposed gas-to-shore project ‘well advanced’
Following criticisms by former Petroleum Advisor Jan Mangal about the sloth regarding a proposed natural gas- to-shore project, the government says that it “well advanced” and that there are also plans in the pipeline to engage the Private
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Rwanda: Govt Unveils U.S.$11 Billion Climate Action Plan
Rwanda has become the first African country to submit a new national climate plan, whose implementation requires $11 billion (10.2 trillion), as an essential tool to implement the Paris
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Kenya: Restore Girls' Menstrual Dignity
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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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Africa: At Least 80 Million Children Under One at Risk of Diseases Such as Diphtheria, Measles and Polio as COVID-19 Disrupts Routine Vaccination Efforts, Warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF
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Uganda: Will Budget Theme Meet Citizens' Expectations?
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Mexico’s Leftist Leader Rejects Big Spending to Ease Virus’s Sting
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Uganda's Reputation has Grown - Museveni
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Somalia: UN Agencies Warn Somalia's Gains At Risk From 'Triple Threat'
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Kenya: Metropolitan National Sacco Banks on Reforms to Grow Earnings
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Somalia: Cabinet Appoints the Director-General and Deputy for the Newly Established Independent National Bureau of Statistics
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Africa: Day 4 Recap | Resiliency in Action - Sustaining Regional and Bilateral Trade Post-COVID
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Change Guyana calls on Granger to concede
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