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Jamaican appointed new IFC regional manager for the Caribbean | New York Carib News
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — The International Finance Corporation (IFC) Tuesday announced that Jamaican, Judith Green, has been appointed the regional manager for the Caribbean, overseeing operations in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the English-speaking
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Source: The New York Carib News
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Tanzania: Fired Ministers Shared Mixed Fortunes
He served as a minister for Home Affairs in President John Magufuli's cabinet for five months, from December
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Tunisia: COVID-19 - Apii, Giz Ink Funding Agreement to Support SMEs
Tunis/Tunisia — The Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation (APII) and the German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ) inked on Monday a funding agreement worth €800 thousand (2.584 million Tunisian dinars) to launch a new support programme for small- and medium-sized
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Source: allAfrica.com
Tunisia: Heads of Parliamentary Blocs Meet
Tunis/Tunisia — The end of the meeting of parliamentary bloc presidents, which took place at the Bardo Palace on Monday afternoon, saw strong opposition from participants at the time of the review of the draft motion tabled on 8 June by President of the Free Destourian Party (PDL) Abir
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Reporter Sues Paper Over Ban On Her Protest Coverage | Afro
A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter prohibited from covering the city’s Black Lives Matter protests because of a tweet sued the paper on
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Ghana coronavirus: 12,193 cases; health insurance boss infected
Confirmed cases = 11,964
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Tunisia: International Day of Family Remittances - Ifad Calls for Remittance Service Providers to Be Declared Essential Businesses in Times of Crisis
Tunis/Tunisia — With the significant decline in money sent home by migrants due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) called on June 16, for governments across the world to declare remittance service providers essential
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Algeria: taxi drivers slam conditions for operations
Barely allowed to circulate after 3 months of confinement, Algerian taxi drivers are
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
Kenya: Rift Between Kuti, Isiolo MPs Widens After Reconciliation Meeting
Four MPs from Isiolo County have lashed out at Governor Mohamed Kuti over claims that they were behind the recent Twitter post that went viral last weekend, days after the Senate ad-hoc committee on Covid-19 initiated a probe into alleged leasing of some of the county's ICU
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Somalia: Egypt to Evacuate Teachers From Somalia Over Covid19
Egypt is set to evacuate teachers stranded in
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What Police Officers Won’t Tell You.
There are many things that are going on in the life of a local police officer that you will never hear him or her admit
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SECU Supports the African-American Credit Union Coalition with $125,000 Donation
/EIN News/ -- RALEIGH, N.C., June 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) is pleased to announce a donation of $125,000 to the African-American Credit Union Coalition
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Africa: Agroecology Strengthens Farmers' Resilience but Highly Underfunded in Africa
Nairobi — With just a quarter of an acre of land in Kesses near Kenya's Eldoret town in the Rift Valley region, Samson Tanui is practising agroecology and his permaculture unit has become the centre of attraction for farmers from near and afar amid food shortages during the current COVID-19
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Nicholas Johnson is Princeton University’s First-Ever Black Valedictorian – Your Black World
For the first time in the higher education institution’s 274-year history, Princeton University named a black
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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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Source: allAfrica.com
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Mozambique: Nyusi Promises Danger Money for Health Workers, Soldiers
Maputo — Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi in Tuesday announced that the government will pay a "risk allowance" to health professionals and to young soldiers who put their lives in danger to protect other
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Egyptian Journalist Mohamed Monir Detained, Charged With Spreading False News
Egyptian authorities must immediately release journalist Mohamed Monir and drop all charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said
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Uganda: 2021 Election - Uganda Opts for Virtual Campaigns
Candidates seeking electoral positions in Uganda's general election due early next year will have to conduct their campaigns without physical contact as dictated by Covid-19 social and physical distancing, the Electoral Commission has
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President Bio receives 2018 public procurement assessment report
Yesterday, Chief Executive Officer of the National Public Procurement Authority (NPPA) – Ibrahim Brima Swaray, presented his 2018 Public Procurement Assessment Report to President Dr Julius Maada Bio, which outlines details of procurement spending by government departments and agencies under the
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Kenya: Government Bans Night Burials for COVID-19 Related Deaths
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30,000 people flee Nigeria to Niger over unrest- UNHCR
More than 30,000 Nigerians have fled to Niger’s Maradi region in the past two months, the UN Refugee Agency has
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Africa: Human Rights Council Holds an Urgent Debate On Current Racially Inspired Human Rights Violations, Systemic Racism, Police Brutality and Violence Against Peaceful Protests
Speakers Urge the Council to Establish an International Commission of Inquiry to Investigate Systemic Racism in Law Enforcement in the United States
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Coronavirus in Africa: 267,818 cases; 7,219 deaths; 123,054 recoveries
There are now more than over 260,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
Tanzania ban on public interest litigation bad for human rights – PIN
Paradigm Initiative, PIN, avers that human rights and the ordinary citizen stood as the main victims if the Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act, No. 3 of 2020 is assented
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Burundians in Two Minds About Nkurunziza's Legacy
While claiming to rule by divine will, in the last couple of years, Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza turned the country into a living hell for
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Kenyans Desperate After Mass Shack Evictions
Struggling with hunger, Covid-19 and death threats, the residents of Nairobi's Kariobangi shack settlement are speaking out against state demolitions that left thousands
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Somalia: Govt, Somaliland Leaders Resume Talks in Djibouti
The leaders of the federal government of Somalia and the self-declared republic of Somaliland held a landmark meeting in the neighboring Djibouti on
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Africa: Low-cost Dexamethasone Reduces Death by Up to One Third in Hospitalised Patients with Severe Respiratory Complications of COVID-19
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Africa: Conditions are Rife for Next Pandemic Unless Urgent Action is Taken, WWF Warns
In a new report 'COVID 19: urgent call to protect people and nature', WWF says that the environmental factors driving the emergence of zoonotic diseases are: the trade and consumption of high-risk wildlife, land-use change leading to deforestation and conversion, expansion of agriculture and
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Black with a Capital “B”: Mainstream Media Join Black Press in Uppercasing Race
(CBM) – Last week, Norman Pearlstine, the editor of the LA Times, sent a memo to staffers announcing that the publication will begin capitalizing “B” in the word Black in its articles when referring to a race of
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