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The videoconference Executive Committee Meeting of CAF on June 30, 2020 will discuss the future of the 2020 AWCON amongst other
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Kenyan editors in plea for media, journalists
Kenya’s top editors have called for an urgent meeting of stakeholders to discuss the state of the media in the Covid-19 period and develop joint approaches to solve problems facing the
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Source: The East African
Fraud, bribery, theft… Commonwealth official predicts corruption spike amid COVID-19
Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has warned that corruption is set to increase as countries in the region seek to respond to the COVID-19
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Ivory Trade in Africa
Ivory has been desired since antiquity because its relative softness made it easy to carve into intricate decorative items for the very wealthy.  For the past one hundred years, the ivory trade in Africa has been closely regulated, yet the trade continues to
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UN agency says COVID-19 an opportunity to fix remittance system
ROME, Italy (CMC) — The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says that the COVID-19 pandemic is both a challenge and an opportunity to fix the remittance system in the Caribbean and other
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Africa: President Ramaphosa Launches the Africa Medical Supplies Platform to Help Fight COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19: African Union Chair, President Ramaphosa launches the Africa Medical Supplies Platform, Africa's Unified Continental response to fight the pandemic
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Alfonso I [King] (?- 1543)
Born Nzinga Mbemba, King Alfonso I was the leader of theKongolese people in the early part of the 16th Century.  Mbemba developed a strong trade relationship withthe Portuguese and adopted Catholicism as a result of this relationship. Theinfluence of the Catholic faith reached every aspect of the
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Rwanda: UN Prosecutor to Member States - Intensify Efforts to Locate, Arrest Genocide Fugitives
The Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) Serge Brammertz, has called for greater efforts to locate and arrest fugitives wanted for their role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in
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Coronavirus Lockdowns Increase Poaching in Asia, Africa | Afro
Snares like this one set in southern India’s dense forest have become increasingly common amid the coronavirus pandemic, as people left jobless turn to wildlife to make money and feed their
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Africa Day and Its Discontent
Founded in 1963, the aim of the Organization of Africa Unity, the precursor of Africa Union (AU) was to safeguard the interests and independence of all African states, encourage the continent's development, and settle disputes among member
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African Union: African Journalists Call for the Cessation of Hostilities Against Journalists to Ensure Safe Practice of Journalism in Africa
Dakar — The Pan-African journalists organisation, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), together with national journalists' unions and associations across the continent have today called on the African Union (AU) to make the immediate cessation of targeted hostilities against journalists
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Greenleaf: OWN Network Hit is the Number One Cable Telecast for Women 25-54
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Africa's Achievements and Challenges
On the Commemoration of This Year's Africa Day, He Spoke About Africa's Achievements So Far and the Challenges
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Ethiopia: Nation Urged to Stop China Building Africa Disease Control Centre HQ in Addis Ababa
[Daily Maverick] The Africa CDC headquarters row has also pulled in the US and has become a regional sideshow to the larger and more public spat between Washington and Beijing over the WHO.
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OP-ED: Past Due Time for American Healthcare System to Protect Black Americans
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African Anti-Graft Agencies Move to Halt Movement of Illicit Funds
Anti-graft agencies in Africa have commenced work on a draft protocol designed to halt the movement of illicit funds across the
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Africa: Statement By the Speaker of the Children National Assembly On the Commemoration of the Day of the African Child 2020
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In Haiti, coronavirus spreads in slums, showing challenge for Latin America
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Lazarus Chakwera sworn in as Malawi president
Malawi's opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera was sworn in Sunday as the southern African country's new president after winning the re-run of a hotly disputed
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East Africa: Intra Comesa Trade Vital for Economic Recovery - Report
The report authored by experts Benedict Musengele and Jane Kibiru states: "The relaxation of the free movement of essential goods in the region will enhance their production and boost intra-Comesa trade during this pandemic
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Africa: Commemorative Message By His Excellency Dr. Hage G. Geingob President of the Republic of Namibia, On the Occasion of the 57th Africa Day - the Africa We Want
Fifty-seven years ago, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was formed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the primary aims of encouraging political and economic integration among member states, as well as eradicating colonialism and neo-colonialism from the African
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EDITORIAL: Finance ministers owe citizens the truth on budgets
Given the unusual circumstances, the Finance ministers struck an optimistic posture, perhaps trying to lift the spirits of a region weighed down by the ripple effects of varying levels of Covid-19 related lockdowns in three of the member
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Source: The East African
WHO to hold first virtual assembly
The World Health Assembly, which has been trimmed from the usual three weeks to just two days, Monday and Tuesday, is expected to focus almost solely on Covid-19, which in a matter of months has killed more than 310,000 globally, and infected nearly
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Award-Winning Literary and Scholarly Works by African Americans (to 2013)
The following is a list of major awards won by African Americans for literary, journalistic, and scholarly writing compiled by San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes, Jr.  The list includes all awards earned by these writers for fiction and non fiction.  Links to specific prizes appear
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Public hearing to rename streets named for KKK wizard
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Covid-19: EAC ministers meet to resolve border cargo delays
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Africa: Communique of AU Bureau of Assembly of Heads of State and Government On Renaissance Dam
Addis Ababa — The Extraordinary African Union (AU) Bureau of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government Vide-Teleconference Meeting, held on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, (GERD) issued on June 26, 2020 the following
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