UVI Bulletin Board for September II

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UVI Bulletin Board for September II

Here is what's happening on both campuses of the University of the Virgin Islands.

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Africa: SA Participates in China-Africa Solidarity Summit

FOCAC is an official forum that coordinates cooperation between the People's Republic of China and African

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Source: allAfrica.com

Why Nintendo’s sales are skyrocketing during the global pandemic

Collaborative, multiplayer games, casually referred to as “couch-cooperative,” such as “Animal Crossing: New Horizons,” “Mario Party” and “Mario Kart” that can be played virtually with others, are making a huge comeback in the gaming world and driving Nintendo’s profits through the

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Rwanda: Chess - Interim Executive Team Elected to Run Federation for a Year

The Rwanda Chess Federation (Ferwade) general assembly on Sunday, June 14, elected a new executive committee to help steer the ship for an interim period of 12

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Source: allAfrica.com

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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Source: Your Black World

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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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: WTO - Okonjo-Iweala's Nomination Violates AU Rules - Official

In a diplomatic note through Nigeria's mission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which hosts the AU headquarters, Mr Buhari announced Mrs Okonjo-Iweala as the country's candidate for the WTO

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Source: allAfrica.com

This one change to bankruptcy law could help small businesses – Voice and Viewpoint

The law creates a Subchapter V of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which essentially makes it easier for small business owners to retain ownership of their business in the event of seeking bankruptcy protection.Small businesses forced to file for bankruptcy protection due to financial stress

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Rwanda Allows Birth Registration Services At Health Facilities

The Government of Rwanda has finally endorsed civil registration services at health facilities around the country where designated members of staff can legally register events such as births and

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Source: allAfrica.com

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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Source: allAfrica.com

Black Business Group Takes AB 5 Independent Contractor Fight to Gov. Newsom – Voice and Viewpoint

In the wake of worldwide efforts to call out systemic racism, Black business organizations are speaking out against the restrictions that AB 5 has placed on African American entrepreneurs in including the bill’s author Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), say they are open to making

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Africa: HIV and High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy - We're Tracing the Connections

Pre-eclampsia is the development of hypertension after the 20th week of pregnancy in a woman who previously had normal blood

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Source: allAfrica.com

African Union and Focac Co-Host China-Africa Solidarity Summit On COVID-19

President Cyril Ramaphosa will, in his capacity as the Chairperson of the African Union (AU), participate in a virtual Extraordinary China-Africa Solidarity Summit against Covid-19 co-hosted by the Forum for China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and the

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Racial terror: 2,000 black Americans were lynched in Reconstruction era, report says

The report, Reconstruction in America, documents more than 2,000 black victims of racial terror lynchings killed between the end of the civil war in 1865 and the collapse of federal efforts to protect the lives and voting rights of black Americans in

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Unemployed Tunisians seek laws guaranteeing jobs

Demonstrators demanded the adoption of a law that would guarantee jobs for anyone with a diploma who has been unemployed for more than 10

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COVID-19 jeopardises progress in protecting women and girls from violence and harmful practices

The passing of laws to end child marriage resulted in blocking thousands of child marriages and enabling second chance education for

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Africa Development Bank blacklists Chinese company building Kenyan power project

“An investigation conducted by the Bank’s Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption established that Sinotec Company Limited misrepresented its experience, the value and dates of its reference contracts and its relationship with other bidders while participating in three Bank-financed tenders under

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Mali's president agrees to hold dialogue aimed at forming unity government

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced on Tuesday that he would hold talks on establishing a new unity government, after weeks of escalating criticism from the country’s political

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Tanzania coronavirus: prez orders reopening of all schools on June 29

June 11: Africa CDC calls on Tanzania to share virus data

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Kenya: COVID-19 - in Kenya, Confusion and Corruption While Politicians Flout Lockdowns

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, who has been giving routine updates on the pandemic, said the suspected case was a Kenyan who had travelled to Nairobi from the United States through

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Source: allAfrica.com

Mauritius ends virus lockdown: beaches reopen, borders still closed

June 13: Mauritius lifts lockdown, beaches to reopen

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Silence Is NOT An Option | Afro

The police officer who put his knee on George Floyd’s neck and the police officers who stood by and watched didn’t just murder George Floyd, they stole

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

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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Kenya's Open Door Policy Offers Economic Opportunities for Refugees and Their Hosts

Programs in training and skills development were availed to refugees without a clear integration into the local labour market realities or the same opportunity availed to host

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Source: allAfrica.com

U.S. Still in ‘First Wave’ of Pandemic, Fauci Warns

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, warned against events such as President Trump's upcoming campaign rally with the country still in the throes of the coronavirus

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Source: The Washington Informer

Lagos coronavirus: 7,461 cases; freeze on reopening churches, mosques

Total cases = 3,093

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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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Source: allAfrica.com

Kenya: Odinga COVID-19 Negative After Kemri Test

Odinga displayed his COVID-19 free certificate at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) where he was tested

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Africa: ATU, Ericsson Sign MOU to Accelerate ICT Growth in Africa

According to ATU, a specialised agency of the African Union in fostering the growth of ICT in Africa, The MoU would support the growth of ICT as a critical infrastructure for the 21st century and help set the foundation for social and economic progress in the

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Source: allAfrica.com

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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Cameroon: Doctors Begin Home Consultations for COVID-wary Patients

In Cameroon, a nonprofit group of doctors has started to make home visits, the first program of its kind in the

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RFP-036-T-2021(P)

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RFP-035-T-2021(P)

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