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Mali's president agrees to hold dialogue aimed at forming unity government
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Africa: SA Participates in China-Africa Solidarity Summit
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Harrowing Blame Game Over COVID-19 Toll In Nursing Homes | Afro
The Trump administration has been pointing to a segment of the industry — facilities with low federal ratings for infection control — and to some Democratic governors who required nursing homes to take recovering coronavirus
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‘Meals of Love’ Connect Isolated Seniors and Disabled Adults | Afro
This month, as older adults face challenging times, up to 1,000 fresh, restaurant-prepared meals will be safely delivered to the homes of seniors and disabled adults thanks to Meals of
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Africa - COVID-19 Jeopardises Gains Made Towards Protecting Women and Girls From Violence
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Nigeria: Striking Doctors in Nigeria Demand COVID-19 PPE, Hazard Pay
A Nigerian doctors union is demanding that the government provide members with more personal protective equipment and hazard pay in treating patients infected with COVID-19, or they will escalate a strike that began Monday, its leader
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Africa: South Africa's First Black Miss Universe Uses Platform to Fight Racism
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Kenya: A Vote for Kenya Is a Vote for Global Peace, President Kenyatta Says in Final Pitch for UNSC Seat
Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta has said Kenya will advance the pan-Africanist agenda of global peace, solidarity and multilateralism if elected to join the United Nations Security Council
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Kenyans Desperate After Mass Shack Evictions
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Africa: 4 Countries Win Seats on UN Security Council -5th Goes to Runoff
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Lesotho: 'We Need Political Stability for Economic Revival'
Lesotho must anchor her economic turn-around plans after the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on empowering domestic investors, the recently appointed Minister of Trade and Industry, Thabiso Molapo, has
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Africa: 43 African Countries Under Border Closure As COVID-19 Cases Top 225,000 Continentwide
As COVID-19 caseload surpassed 225,105 on Saturday across the African continent, 43 African countries are now under full border closure due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus
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Unemployed Tunisians seek laws guaranteeing jobs
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Angola: COVID-19 - Pandemic Reaches Cuanza Norte Province
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Rwanda, UK Financial Firms Commit to Closer Cooperation
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Kenya coronavirus: 3,860 cases; corruption probe on donations, funds
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Africa: COVID-19 - How to Press the Brakes On the Escalating Global Learning Crisis
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Uganda: Main Opposition Leaders Unite, Call for Peaceful Protests
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Ethiopia: Opinion - Ethiopia Is On the Brink of Failure
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Somalia: Red Cross Fears Coronavirus Spreading Silently in Somalia's Displaced Camps
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