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Ethiopia: Sponsor network gives lifeline under pandemic
Ethiopian single mother Zahra Mudesir lost her only source of income when the coronavirus put paid to her brother’s construction job. She...
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Black teen lit on fire by a group of white men
Police said they are investigating the assault as a possible hate crime. Four white men sprayed a Black teen with lighter fluid at a...
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From Kenya to Canada growing support for homosexuality
Acceptance of homosexuality is rising broadly across the world, according to a survey published yesterday, even as sharp divisions...
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Afghanistan: green stimulus to hire lockdown jobless boosting Kabul's water supply
Zaker Hussain Zaheri was one of the thousand people who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was a cook in Afghanistan's...
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One Black Frenchman's search for justice against police brutality
Boubacar Drame had been helping a mother find her lost daughter in a working-class Paris suburb before three police officers approached....
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Gabon: new vote to decriminalise homosexuality
Lawmakers in Gabon’s lower house of parliament voted to decriminalise homosexuality, becoming one of the few countries in sub-Saharan...
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South Africa and Oxford: continent's first trials for COVID-19 vaccine
Oxford University rolled out Africa’s first human trials for a potential vaccine against the current COVID-19 in South Africa just...
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Mexico invites Twitter boss to talk about fighting fake news
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday announced his formal invitation to the head of Twitter Inc to come to Mexico to...
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