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Zimbabwe: Parly Summons Treasury, RBZ Over Cotton Farmers
[The Herald] Members of Parliament have resolved to invite Treasury and the central bank to explain the mitigatory measures to assist cotton farmers after firms buying the lint stopped making payments following a recent suspension of mobile money platforms.
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Source: allAfrica.com
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SC Law Firms, Charleston Legal Expand Pro Bono Legal Clinic Statewide to Help Small Businesses Nonprofits Navigate Pandemic’s Economic Impact
July 1, Charleston Legal Access, along with law firms Nelson Mullins and Jackson Lewis, announced they will expand their South Carolina Virtual Legal Clinic statewide to assist small business owners and nonprofits. Initially launched at the end of May to help those in the Lowcountry region, the
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I Thought I Understood White Privilege. Then I Married a Black Man. | The Oklahoma Eagle
www.goodhousekeeping.com BY GENEVIEVE ROTH For the first 37 years of my life, I considered myself largely exempt from the blind spots of white privilege. Intellectually, I knew the definition of the phrase: White privilege is the inherent advantages that come with being white. But I assumed
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Democrats, Biden Look to Accelerate Southern Political Shift Free Press of Jacksonville
ATLANTA — By Bill Barrow The Associated Press From Mississippi retiring its state flag to local governments removing Confederate statues from public spaces, a bipartisan push across the South is chipping away at reminders [...]
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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly
14-year-old girl ‘sold’ to Kenyan man
Fourteen-year-old Maria Malaso was supposed to be married to a 64-year-old mana few weeks after the Kenyan government ordered the suspension of schools in mid-March due to the coronavirus. I woke up one morning and my father told me that we are poor and schools will never reopen, she said. Her
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We asked Black artists from Mississippi to design a new state flag - L.A. Focus Newspaper
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Ledger Smith, the man who traveled 10 days on skates to see MLK deliver his I Have A Dream speech - Face2Face Africa
Baptist minister and civil rights notable Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his most compelling speech before 250,000 people during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. But if King left his name in the annals of history with his I Have A Dream speech, another man would
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The World, Opened Up
The fear of traveling in my body made the world seem small, until I did it anywayContinue reading on ZORA »
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Fetter Health Care Network announces COVID-19 schedule updates for week of June 29
The testing sites rotate to different locations throughout the Lowcountry each day, providing free and accessible walk-up and drive-up tests to community
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With House in Tow, D.C. Statehood Backers Mull Senate Strategy
With the historic passage of a bill granting the District state-level sovereignty despite Republican opposition, statehood advocates are planning a Senate strategy for the remaining months of this congressional session and the next, regardless of the results of the November general election.
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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms mandates masks for all Atlantans, criticizes testing process | Atlanta Daily World
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an executive order requiring all persons to wear a mask or a cloth face covering over their nose and mouth within the city of Atlanta in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections. The Order also prohibits gatherings of more than 10 persons on city of
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Nile Dam impasse: Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan agree to AU-led talks
The leaders of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia agreed late Friday to return to talks aimed at reaching an accord over the filling of Ethiopia’s new hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile, according to statements from the three
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Nearly 80 Texas counties have opted out of Gov. Greg Abbott's mask order. Others refuse to enforce it. | Dallas Weekly
The governor allowed counties with 20 active cases or fewer to opt out.
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Kenyan Schoolgirls Being Forced Into Marriage - Voice and Viewpoint
Edited by Ashley Perry and Judy Isacoff Fourteen-year-old Maria Malaso was supposed to be married to a 64-year-old man a few weeks after the Kenyan government ordered the suspension of schools in mid-March due to the coronavirus. “I woke up one morning and my father told me that we are poor and
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Old Mutual’s share price is key focus in Zimbabwe’s currency war | Fin24
The share price of one of Africa’s oldest insurers is taking center stage in Zimbabwe’s battle to bring order to its chaotic foreign-exchange system.
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Zimbabwe's security forces sideline government as economy crashes
Zimbabwe’s security force leaders sidelined the nation’s economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situation
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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announces she tested positive for COVID-19 | The Atlanta Voice
Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Monday evening via Twitter that she had tested positive for COVID-19. “COVID-19 has literally hit home. I have had NO[sic] symptoms and have tested positive,” Bottoms tweeted. According to an interview she gave to CNN, Bottoms said her husband and one of
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East Africa: Malawi Benefits From Comesa Digital Financial Inclusion Plan
[Nyasa Times] Malawi is among the top five countries in Africa to benefit from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) digital financial inclusion plan.
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Nigeria coronavirus: 26,484 cases; local flights start July 8, recoveries hit 10,000 | Africanews
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Who Was Trump's 'Our Heritage' Rhetoric Aimed At? : NPR
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Bernard Powers, professor emeritus at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, about President Trump's hostile messaging over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
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BET Founder Robert Johnson Urges Black Lives Matter to Form its Own Independent Political Party Free Press of Jacksonville
By Kevin Stankiewicz Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, told CNBC on Tuesday that Black Americans should form their own political party to concentrate their electoral influence. “I’ve been convinced for a long [...]
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Don’t Let High Turnout Distract You From the Reality of Voter Suppression
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Gov. Wolf: Sec. of Health signs expanded mask-wearing order | New Pittsburgh Courier
Masks Are Mandatory in All Public Spaces Expanding on the business safety order signed by Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine in April that requires the wearing of masks in businesses, Governor Tom Wolf today announced a new order signed by Dr. Levine that takes the mask-wearing directive one
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WATIMA: Link between lay-offs and wages in Kenya
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Nigeria coronavirus: 28,711 cases; Oyo State reopens schools | Africanews
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, as at end of June 2020 was Africa’s third most impacted country only behind South Africa and
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Annual Katie Hall luncheon canceled because of COVID-19 | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Crusader Staff Report The annual Katie Hall Public Service Awards Luncheon has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizer Junifer Hall announced on Monday, July 6. The event, originally scheduled for April 3, was postponed to August 21 because of the pandemic. Organizers had hoped
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