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The joy of building Black political power in the face of white supremacy
This year is already one for the history books. 2021 will be remembered as the year a seditionist, outgoing United... View Article The post The joy of building Black political power in the face of white supremacy appeared first on TheGrio.
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Former Guyanese Minister charged with fraud | New York Carib News
Former Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson and former General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) Corporation, Rawlston Adams, appeared in court Monday charged with conspiracy to defraud a government corporation of almost G$163 million (US$781,841).
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VIDEO: Russian Peacekeeping Troops On Nagorno-Karabakh Border Alert – The Wilmington Journal
NAGORNO-KARABAKH, Azerbaijan — The Russian Ministry of Defense aired footage on 18th January showing a base where Russian peacekeepers are staying in Nagorno-Karabakh. They have been carrying out the continual monitoring and observing ceasefire in [...]
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Central African Republic: CAR's Troubled 2020 Human Rights Record
[allAfrica] An excerpt on the Central African Republic from the annual Human Rights Watch publication, World Report 2021:
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'We want to kill Boko Haram': Nigerians welcome new army chiefs | Africanews
Residents of an internally displaced camp in Maiduguri welcome President Buhari's decision to replace the country's top military commanders.
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Hwange district leads in COVID-19 cases in Mat North
BY NIZBERT MOYO HWANGE district in Matabeleland North province has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the province with a cumulative figure of more than 300 cases. Matabeleland North provincial medical director Munekayi Padingani told Southern Eye yesterday that the district includes Victoria
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PICS | Flooding in KZN and Limpopo, but cyclone Eloise losing steam | News24
There have been reports of light flooding and debris causing roads to be closed in low-lying areas of Limpopo after heavy rains as a result of tropical storm Eloise.
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Fletchers Street in Bog Walk to be closed for the weekend
The National Works Agency (NWA) has advised that a section of Fletchers Street in Bog Walk, St Catherine will be closed to vehicular traffic for two days between 9:00 a.m., Saturday, January 23 and 9:00 a.m. Monday, January 25. The road...
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Biden halts border wall building after Trump's final surge - Black News Channel
By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — In the days before Joe Biden became president, construction crews worked quickly to finish Donald Trump's wall at an iconic cross-border park overlooking the Pacific Ocean, which then-first lady Pat Nixon inaugurated in 1971 as a symbol of
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Covid-19: South Africa records 8 147 new infections and 300 new deaths | News24
As of Sunday, the country recorded a total of 1 412 986 confirmed Covid-19 cases.
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Congo-Kinshasa: Human Rights Take a Downturn - Report
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Biden Reverses Trump Ban on Transgender People in Military - Black Voice News
Lolita C. Baldor and Zeke Miller | Associated Press President Joe Biden signed an order Monday reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military. The new order, which Biden signed in the Oval Office during a meeting with
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Africa: Beem's Founder Looks to Bring Together SMS and New Digital Channels With a Pan-African Reach - Smartphones Still Under-Used in Tanzania
[Balancing Act] London -- This week Tanzania's digital marketer Bongo Live! changed its name to Beem. A name change is nothing remarkable but it provided a good moment to check out the state of the transition from SMS to more digital channels. Russell Southwood spoke to Taha Jiwaji, Beem's CEO and
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Risky Path For Smugglers Struggling To Support Their Family  | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
TORKHAM, Pakistan - Ikram Khan, 12, sits at a warehouse holding a black bag full of shampoos and cosmetics that he has carried across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border - his fourth trip that day. He is quite content to have achieved his daily earning target in a short amount of time. Khan, who is
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COVID-19 might widen existing inequality in schooling system - Equal Education
EE said the DBE must provide regular updates to the public on how schools are coping and how are they being supported by the government once teachers and learners have returned to classrooms.
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The budget and the Natural Resource Fund Act - Stabroek News
In the year since oil production began, Guyana has earned around US$185m and this sum has been parked in the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The article The budget and the Natural Resource Fund Act appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Two children among five who drowned in Mpumalanga in past 10 days | News24
Police have called for caution around waterways after five people - including two children - drowned in Mpumalanga.
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Severe impact warning of heavy rains as tropical storm Eloise reaches SA | News24
The storm has brought heavy rain in some parts of Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
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Over 26 000 educator assistants not paid in December, Eastern Cape education dept apologises | News24
The MEC for education in the province, Fundile Gade, revealed that, of the 50 540 youths employed at the province's 5 037 schools, the department only managed to pay 23 681.
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Locals Distressed At Government Move to Denotify Elephant Reserve  – The Wilmington Journal
Mohan Khatri, 60, a small farmer of Nathuwali village in Uttarakhand, is upset over the state government’s decision to denotify the northern Indian state’s only elephant reserve — the Shivalik Elephant Reserve —for the expansion [...]
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'Time's up, Mr President': Ramaphosa fails to deliver DA vaccine clarity
The DA say that Ramaphosa has until close of business to respond to their demands for clarity on COVID-19 vaccine procurement.
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Kerry aims to talk US back into a lead role in climate fight - Black News Channel
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press From a wood-paneled library in his Boston mansion, new climate envoy John Kerry is talking the U.S. back into a leading role in global climate action, making clear the nation isn't just revving up its own efforts to reduce oil, gas and coal pollution but that it
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Rwanda: Govt Continues to Target Critics, Flout Human Rights - Report
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Understanding ourselves: Confronting shame, blame and internalised racisms: Reimagining the future? Part I - Stabroek News
By Rhoda Reddock Rhoda Reddock is emerita Professor of Gender, Social Change, and Development at the University of the West Indies, St. The article Understanding ourselves: Confronting shame, blame and internalised racisms: Reimagining the future? Part I appeared first on Stabroek News.
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[The Conversation Africa] Nearly half of the food eaten in the UK is grown abroad. Take your morning tea or coffee. These are just two of the many crops grown in tropical and sub-tropical climates that depend on animal pollination and countless other services provided by wildlife before they can
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Govt urged to increase pensioners monthly stipends
BY PRAISEMORE SITHOLE PENSIONERS have urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to increase their monthly stipends in order to cushion them from the harsh economic situation that continues to affect the country. Zimbabwe has an estimated 500 000 pensioners who earn a paltry $1 500 monthly
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Put your resolutions in easy reach - Dallas Examiner
Family Features Setting New Year’s resolutions is one thing but keeping them is another. Look for ways to make it easy to stick with your plan this year so you can celebrate [...] The post Put your resolutions in easy reach appeared first on Dallas Examiner.
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Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo - What's Next for President Felix Tshisekedi Without Joseph Kabila?
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