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Africa: Small Group of Rich Nations Have Bought Up More Than Half the Future Supply of Leading Covid-19 Vaccine Contenders
Press Release - Wealthy nations representing just 13 percent of the world's population have already cornered more than half (51 percent) of the promised doses of leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates, Oxfam warned today as the health and finance ministers of G20 countries meet to discuss the global
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Don't Pooh-Pooh This: Zoo Helps Hippos Swim with the Fishes | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
VALENCIA, Spain -Caretakers at a Spanish zoo have come up with a way for its hippos to feel more at home by creating a pool that includes a variety of fish found in the species' native habitat in Africa. The staff at the Bioparc Valencia Zoo celebrated the completion of that project in its Kitum
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UN chief: don't 'throw away' stimulus money on fossil fuels - Black News Channel
By FRANK JORDANS and PHILIPP JENNE Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Thursday on governments not to 'throw away' economic stimulus funds by supporting fossil fuel industries that contribute to global warming. Speaking at a virtual conference on climate
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Aarey Forest in Mumbai City Gets New Life as Green Activists Prevail and Construction Stops | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
After a seven-year battle with green activists, Mumbai Metro Rail Corp. Ltd. has stopped work at a rail car depot site inside Aarey , a heavily forested area in the western suburbs of Mumbai. The recent halt to construction has prompted cheers among activists who had protested the project they
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Trump, Biden facing off on wildfires — The Sacramento Observer
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden are focusing the presidential campaign on the wildfire-scorched West Coast, with Trump meeting fire officials in California on Monday while Biden declares the fires underscore an urgent need to address climate change. The
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Pause: Take care before you share | New Pittsburgh Courier
Take Charge Of Your Health Today. Be Informed. Be Involved. This month, the Take Charge of Your Health page discusses COVID-19 and its impact in the past six months. With … Continued The post Pause: Take care before you share appeared first on New Pittsburgh Courier.
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Uganda Probes Killing of 10 Refugees in Row With Locals Over Water
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nairobi -- Uganda says it needs more funds to look after the 1.4 million refugees it hosts as dispute highlights tensions over resources
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Tasmanian Angel: Baby Wallaby Takes a Peek from its Pouch – The Wilmington Journal
Visitors to a Tasmanian wildlife park got a sneak peak at a recent arrival: the joey of a red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus). Video taken at the Wing's Wildlife Park on the island state of Tasmania [...]
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Liberia Declares Rape A National Emergency Following Weeks Of Protest And Public Pressure - Blavity
Women in Liberia have spent weeks protesting a rise in violent rape crimes, forcing the government to declare rape a national emergency.
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VIDEO: Wildfires Plague Northern Spain – The Wilmington Journal
The American West isn't the only region in the world fighting major forest fires. Northern Spain, for instance, is currently home to nearly a dozen blazes that burned more than 9,800 acres of land last [...]
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South Sudan - Progress On Peace Agreement 'Limps Along', UN Envoy Tells Security Council
[UN News] Although the transitional government in South Sudan continues to function, with state governors now appointed, among other developments, progress on the 2018 peace agreement "limps along", the top UN official in the country told a virtual meeting of the Security Council on Wednesday.
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The 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist announced - Voice Online
DIANE COOK, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Avni Doshi, Maaza Mengiste, Douglas Stuart and Brandon Taylor are today,... The post The 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist announced appeared first on Voice Online.
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Congo-Kinshasa: Lumumba's Remains Return Home to Find Rest At Last
[New Frame] Sixty years after independent Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, was murdered and dissolved in acid, his teeth, kept as a trophy in Belgium, will be returned to Africa.
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Pickersgill in hospital
WESTERN BUREAU: People’s National Party (PNP) self-proclaimed ‘Chairman for Life’ Robert Pickersgill has been admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies. Highly placed sources in the PNP confirmed his hospitalisation, but declined to...
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Africa: Interview with H.E. Professor Tijjani Muhammad-Bande,President Of The 74th Session Of UN General Assembly
[African Union] New York -- As the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly successfully concludes, we sat down with the outgoing President, H.E. Pr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande to get his reflections on implementing key priorities during his presidency, the evolution of multilateralism, and the place of
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Saudia Arabia Is Detaining Ethiopian Migrants In Horrid Conditions For Assuming They're More Likely To Have COVID-19 - Blavity
After being detained in March due to COVID-19, thousands of Ethiopian migrants are living in squalid Saudi Arabian prison camps.
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Hunger will fuel uprisings: ED ally
By Tatenda Chitagu ZION Christian Church leader Nehemiah Mutendi, one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s closest allies, yesterday warned that the high levels of hunger in the country could trigger mass uprisings, hence the need for government to urgently address the issue. Mutendi told Mnangagwa
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Earth Today | AF climate projects continue amid COVID-19
FROM HONDURAS to Uzbekistan, the Adaptation Fund is helping countries build resilience to environmental, health and economic challenges, even as COVID-19 remains a public health challenge. “In Honduras, an Adaptation Fund (AF) project, funded by AF...
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Corruption in Africa: The necessity for stringent accountability
guest column:Anadi Arnold Sululu I WAS following social media postings in the past few weeks, where cases of corruption allegations in South Africa and Zimbabwe, among other African countries, were exploding. It jolted me to revisit a chapter on corruption in an unfinished book which I am currently
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GM at mines operation dies after being pinned by tree - Stabroek News
A miner died at Big Hope Backdam, at Waini, Region One, after a tree fell and pinned him on Monday. The article GM at mines operation dies after being pinned by tree appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Water Crisis Haunts the ‘Detroit of India’ – The Wilmington Journal
Chennai, known as the 'Detroit of India' because of the many international carmakers that have factories there, is facing a water crisis. The city of 7 million on the Bay of Bengal in eastern India, [...]
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Govt crafting climate change-proof programmes
BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Hospitality Industry Munesu Munodawafa said government had created a climate change resilient programme to effectively deal with the effects of climate change. Munodawafa told delegates at a national adaptation workshop held in
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China willing to consult with people of all countries to jointly contribute to and share peace, development - Stabroek News
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High-tech UK-US ship launched on 400th Mayflower anniversary - Black News Channel
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press PLYMOUTH, England (AP) — With a splash of Plymouth gin, the U.S. ambassador to Britain officially launched a ship named Mayflower on Wednesday, 400 years to the day after a wooden vessel with that name sailed from an English port and changed the history of two
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Africa: AfDB Charge On Fashion Industry in Africa
[Ethiopian Herald] The disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic on global value chains and its impact on African businesses is already evident. As factories close their doors and border closures and travel restrictions interrupt supply chains, the workers - the most vulnerable and lowest paid people in
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'Work like the devil': Biden visiting Florida to woo Latinos - Black News Channel
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden is making his first trip to Florida as the Democratic presidential nominee, while his campaign is acknowledging concerns about his appeal with Latinos, a voting bloc likely to prove pivotal against President Donald Trump in one of
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Berkeley Fire Department Hosts Wildfire Evacuation Preparedness Workshop
The Berkeley Fire Department hosted a wildfire evacuation preparedness workshop on Sept. 10. About 340 residents attended the meeting, which was hosted on Zoom. “As the last few weeks have made profoundly clear, we’re all affected by wildfire regardless of whether we live within the city limits or
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Sudan's Bashir trial adjourned | News24
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