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Leaders of Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt agree Addis Ababa will not start filling its Nile dam before reaching an accord.
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Jihadists linked to the Islamic State have attacked a UN base and overrun a humanitarian hub in northeastern Nigeria, trapping 25 aid workers, security and humanitarian sources said.
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Burundi's Nkurunziza leaves a mixed legacy
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UN chief deplores lack of multilateral solutions on 75th anniversary
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday deplored the lack of multilateral solutions to global challenges as he opened a summit for the world body's 75th anniversary.'No one wants a world government, but we must work together to improve world governance,' Guterres said
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Senegalese allege racism in Diack corruption verdict | Africanews
Senegal and the sporting world has been shaken after the former head of the world athletics body, Lamine Diack, was found guilty of corruption by a Paris
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Clifton R. Wharton, one of the first African-Americans to hold a professional position in the U.S. State Department, was born in 1899 in Baltimore, Maryland. Described as a “scholastic marvel,” Wharton attended English High School in Boston, Massachusetts, skipped college and was
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UN peacekeeper killed in Central African Republic attack | News24
Militiamen have killed a United Nations peacekeeper from Rwanda and injured two others in an ambush on a convoy in northwest Central African Republic, the UN has said.
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Tanzania Exports to Uganda Surges By 25 Per Cent
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Nigeria: UN, Germany, Unveil Plans to End Nigeria's Illegal Wildlife Trade
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Central Africa: UN, Aid Agencies Cite Unprecedented Humanitarian Needs in Sahel
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John F. Hicks is a diplomat and global educator who served as a United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN). A native of Goldsboro, North Carolina, Hicks was born in 1949. Hicks holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Morehouse College, a diploma and master’s degree from Johns
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Open letter to Prime Minister Mia Mottley & the citizens of CARICOM | New York Carib News
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Namibia: President, Venaani Mourn Kerina
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Ali urges UN to strengthen solidarity to tackle COVID - Stabroek News
President Irfaan Ali yesterday urged the United Nations to strengthen solidarity to address the COVID-19 pandemic and commit to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The article Ali urges UN to strengthen solidarity to tackle COVID appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Check It Out: UN inquiry into U.S. police brutality | New Pittsburgh Courier
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David Walker's Appeal
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Central African Republic rejects conclusions of UN experts' report | Africanews
Central African authorities on Wednesday rejected a U.N. expert report denouncing "violations of international humanitarian law" by Central African military and Russian instructors supporting them against rebels trying to overthrow President Faustin Archange Touadéra.
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Foreign minister reports progress in Shiprider talks with US
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Goode, Malvin Russell (1908–1995)
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Somalia's PM Mohamed Hussein Roble has accused the country's president of "obstructing" an investigation into the fate of an intelligence agent whose disappearance sparked an outcry.
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