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Tunisia's Real GDP Should Grow 2 Percent in 2021, If Covid-19 Pandemic Recedes (AfDB Report )
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisia's real GDP should rebound and grow 2% in 2021 and 3.9% in 2022, if the pandemic recedes and allows a restart of the global economy, especially in Europe, upon which Tunisia relies heavily, reads the report of the African Development Bank
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Source: allAfrica.com
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It’s now illegal for Zim schools to expel pregnant girls
Zimbabwe has made it illegal for schools to expel pupils who get pregnant, a measure women’s rights campaigners said would help tackle gender inequality in the classroom and stop many girls from dropping out of school. A legal amendment announced recently seeks to reinforce a 1999 guideline that
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Namibia: Nantu Wants Health Safeguards At Schools
With Namibian schools scheduled to reopen for face-to-face teaching and learning for the critical 11 and 12 grades, the Namibia National Teachers' Union (Nantu) says all schools should get health safeguards before
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The Tie Breaker Ruling in Perspective: A Plaintiff Looks Back on the Historic U.S. Supreme Court Decision of 2007
In 2000 Kathleen Brose led an organization called Parents Involved in Community Schools which filed a lawsuit against the Seattle School District, challenging its tie-breaker rule in Seattle Public Schools which gave preference to racial minorities in school assignments when all else was
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Govt, lending sector key to small business post-COVID recovery
It has not been simply a matter of these small businesses generating significant levels of employment and creating additional income streams for their owners, it was also, in many instances, a matter of ordinary people proving to themselves that they possessed skills and capabilities that they
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Black People Suffer Disproportionately from Dementia Crisis – Free Press of Jacksonville
NNPA NEWSWIRE —By Dr. Lucille Ridgill – One major reason Black people suffer disproportionately from Alzheimer’s is we are underrepresented in dementia research, in part because many of us are unwilling to donate our brains to research or participate in brain studies due to distrust of the medical
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WATCH | People take to the streets across SA in solidarity with Palestine | News24
In Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, residents gathered at various locations to show solidarity with Palestinian people.
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Africa: Young People Grapple with Governance This Africa Day
[SAIIA] Every year on 25 May, Africans commemorate the founding of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963. As the OAU transformed itself into the African Union in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it emphasised good governance as a prerequisite for peaceful and prosperous societies. One of the
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South Africa: Busting South Africa's Xenophobic Myths Starts At Grassroots
Analysis - The past year has been deadly for African and Asian-born migrants in South Africa. And if past trends are anything to go by, it is about to become deadlier.
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Resources made available to protect Alabama towns from COVID-19
By Jennifer Elmore doingmoretoday.com Two mayors. Two small Alabama towns. One hundred miles apart. And one common mission: protecting people from COVID-19. The moment you meet Vredenburgh Mayor Calvert Wright, his spirt of gratitude is clear. The same is true for Epes Mayor Walter Porter, who
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President Bio initiates public dialogue with civil society groups
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 October 2020: Last Friday, president Dr Julius Maada Bio inaugurated the Government Civil Society Organisations’ dialogue series and hope that the public engagement will help strengthen and consolidate the country’s democratic values. “I am tasking my Government to infuse
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Malawi: Ansah Must Go, Chilima Returns to Court for Firing of Malawi Electoral Commission
Vice-President Saulos Chilima has returned to court Tuesday to press President Peter Mutharika to sack Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson, Jane Ansah and her fellow commissioners after Parliament, the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal found them incompetent and their
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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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21 Savage Launches “Bank Account” Financial Literacy Program For Youth
21 Savage continues to boss up even in these challenging times. He is helping the younger generation prepare for their future. On July 1 the trapper turned rapper announced his ongoing support of Atlanta youth enrolled in his Juma Bank Account Financial Literacy program by launching a multi-tier
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McConnell says 'no concerns' about health while badly bruised, bandaged : TheGrio
The health of Senator Mitch McConnell was called into question after bruises and bandages were on display during a public... View Article The post McConnell says 'no concerns' about health while badly bruised and bandaged appeared first on TheGrio.
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Cameroon: NW,SW Gruesome Assassinations - Political Class, Civil Society Condemn
[Cameroon Tribune] The condemnations come after those of government and Cameroon's friendly countries.
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Cyril Ramaphosa | The solutions to Africa’s problems reside within Africa itself
Yet at the same time, some of the very health challenges African countries have wrestled with for decades have given us a clear understanding of what needs to be done, and how to do
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OP-ED: Black People Suffer Disproportionately from Dementia Crisis
Alzheimer’s disease (the most common type of dementia) is the 6th leading cause of death among White people, but the 4th leading cause of death for Black people like
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Uganda: Stakeholders Decry Govt Secrecy in Oil Dealings
[Monitor] Civil society organisations (CSOs) and other stakeholders have expressed concern over what they describe as government's continued secrecy in the oil and gas sector, saying it fuels grand systemic corruption and tax evasion.
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Africa: President Ramaphosa Launches the Africa Medical Supplies Platform to Help Fight COVID-19 Pandemic
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Zimbabwe: No End in Sight to Zimbabwe Elections Standoff
[CAJ News] Harare -- THE deadlock between the government and civil society organisations over the holding of by-elections in Zimbabwe remains unresolved and is playing out in the courts.
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MEC to address 23 year old constituency and ward boundaries anomalies
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says the review of constituency and ward boundaries the Commission is intending to conduct will address the anomalies that have crept in the past 23 years. MEC Chairperson Dr. Chifundo Kachale disclosed that the anomalies created a situation whereby some
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Kenya: Protesters clash with police in Nairobi over Covid curfews and restrictions | Africanews
"We are here to talk about our youth the way they have been murdered, the way they are suffering. We want our rights. Our youth do not have jobs, our youth are being killed. Our youth are suffering; they have fallen sick because of lack of work.. "- Jane Atieno, protester
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No home, no hope ... It’s a dog’s life
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Africa: States Must Partner With Civil Society As Second Wave of COVID-19 Hits Countries
Press Release - As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, civil society organisations responded nimbly and effectively, providing frontline help and defending the rights of people across the world. A report released today by global civil society alliance CIVICUS, ‘Solidarity in the Time of
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Malawi re-run: opposition candidate wins, unseating Mutharika
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CHASE Fund provides $50 million to equip basic schools with PPEs, other supplies
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Nigeria: Mass Terror Trials Test Nigeria's Criminal Justice System
Nigeria is expected to conduct a fourth phase of mass trials for Boko Haram suspects currently in military
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Malawi: HRDC Wants MEC National Tally Centre Moved to Lilongwe
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has called on the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to move the national tally centre from Blantyre to Lilongwe to ease logistical
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Malawi: HRDC Slams Tonse On Covid-19 Response
[Nyasa Times] Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC has expressed disappointment with the Tonse government's lacklustre response to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, saying the current efforts are inadequate.
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