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Southern Africa: COVID-19 - SADC Establishes Back to School Rules
Luanda — The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States who want to reopen the educational establishments should establish the minimal and basic requirement of prevention including the availability of hygiene, water and
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Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights activist and minister. He was born as Jesse Louis Burns on October 8, 1941 to a 16 year high school student named Helen Burns out of wedlock. Jesse’s biological father was their 33 year old neighbor named Noah Louis Robinson who was married to someone
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8
1941
Africa's Health Dilemma - Protecting People From COVID-19 While Four Times As Many Could Die of Malaria
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe — Experts across Africa are warning that as hospitals and health facilities focus on COVID-19, less attention is being given to the management of other deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, which affect millions more
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Uhuru Kenyatta
Uhuru Kenyatta , in full Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born October 26, 1961, Nairobi, Kenya), Kenyan businessman and politician who held several government posts before being elected president of Kenya in
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Do not return to schools, Sadtu urges teachers in the Northern Cape
The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) in the Northern Cape has urged its members not to return to work on Monday after the provincial Department of Education indicated it was not
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First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, Nashville, Tennessee (1835- )
First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill lays claim to the designation as the oldest continuously operating African American church in Tennessee because it traces its origin back to First Baptist Colored Mission which first met to hold prayer services in 1835.  Up to that point Nashville’s black
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Boateng, Paul Yaw (1951- )
Born to a Ghanaian father and a Scottish mother in Hackney, London, Paul Yaw Boateng became one of the first black British Members of Parliament in the general election of 1987. In 2002 he became the first Afro-Briton to serve in the Prime Ministers Cabinet.  The family moved to Ghana when Boateng
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Sudan: Hope for Sudan Peace Agreement By June
Khartoum / Juba — The peace negotiations between the Sudanese government and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) resumed via online links between Khartoum and Juba on Monday to comply with precautionary social distancing protocols to prevent the spread of coronavirus
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African American educators are impacted dramatically by COVID-19 and districts need to address it
Compounded with this, many African American educators like me are in constant fear of the risk factors of COVID-19 in our
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Tunisia: Parliament to Hold Plenary Next June 2 to Discuss Two Draft Bills
Tunis/Tunisia — The bureau of the House of People's Representatives (HPR) decided at its meeting Tuesday to hold a plenary session on June 2 to review two draft
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Zimbabwe: Govt Announces List of Allowed Low-Risk Sports
Golf, swimming, tennis, and athletics are some of the low-risk sports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has allowed to
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Samuel Ringgold Ward, minister, abolitionist,
Samuel Ringgold Ward, minister, abolitionist, author, born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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Mliswa savages government
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) yesterday savaged the government for allowing minority sports to resume activity, while keeping the majority disciplines which earn the country money on
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Mchichwa triggers Musona debate
FORMER Warriors and Kaizer Chiefs defender Rabson Mchichwa has picked Khama Billiat ahead of former Zimbabwe captains Peter Ndlovu and Benjani Mwaruwari as well as current skipper Knowledge Musona as the best Zimbabwean to have played in the South African
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Adams, Henry [Kentucky] (1802–1872)
Henry Adams was a prominent black Baptist minister and advocate for African American education who worked in Georgia and later in Louisville, Kentucky. Adams was born in Franklin County, Georgia in 1802.  He obtained a license to preach at the age of 18 and was ordained on October 29, 1825.  Adams
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29
1825
Tanzania: AG Faults Queries On Mwambe's MP Status
State lawyers, comprising Principal State Attorneys Vicent Tango, George Mandepo and Alecia Mbuya as well as State Attorney Erign Rumisha, told the High Court panel comprising Judges Issa Maige, Stephen Magoiga and Seif Kulita that the petition is unmaintainable in
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AU, Madagascar to test herbal Covid-19 remedy
The African Union (AU) will test the controversial herbal remedy for Covid-19 from
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Nairobi church faces eviction from public land after losing suit
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Countee Cullen , in full Countee Porter Cullen (born May 30, 1903, Louisville, Kentucky?, U.S.—died January 9, 1946, New York, New York), American poet, one of the finest of the Harlem
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Jan
9
1946
The captivating story of Djoser, the Egyptian king behind the first pyramid
Known for commissioning other tombs, temples, and monuments, it is during the reign of Djoser that Egypt witnessed great technological innovation in the use of stone architecture, according to
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Locusts, Covid-19, bad weather: The anatomy of a food crisis
A spectre of food crisis is haunting East Africa, preceded by an unfortunate axis of locust invasion, Covid-19 pandemic and adverse
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AMHVoices: Children living with HIV/AIDS suffer Covid-19 pandemic
Children can be ‘hidden victims’ of Coronavirus (COVID-19) if governments fail to strategize ways to lessen the effects of the pandemic on them, a regional non-governmental organization
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Early Sermon for Abolition
On this date in 1791, Jonathan Edwards Jr. (1745-1801) preached a strong anti-slavery sermon before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom and for the Relief of Persons unlawfully holden in Bondage. Edwards was a Congregationalist minister, like his more famous father, and later
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15
1791
George W. Buckner
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10
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Zimbabwe: MDC Reaches Out to United Nations Over Abductions
The Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance has called for a United Nations led investigations into the abduction and torture of three of its
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Liquor sales and tobacco ban: 11 things you need to know from Ramaphosa's speech
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