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Andy RoesgenDerek Chauvin (George Floyd) trial begins in Minneapolis
Minneapolis, United States of America • Current Affairs • 08 Mar 2021
The murder trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin gets underway on Monday, March 8th in Minneapolis. The image of George Floyd, under Chauvin's knee, and Floyd's death set off world-wide demonstrations, some violent, and led to a reckoning on race in America. I'll be available for... Read more
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Mike WagenheimOverview of jurisdictional and external factors surrounding the Israel/Palestinian Authority file at the ICC
New York, United States of America • Politics • 09 Mar 2021
An 1,150-word overview of jurisdictional issues and external factors surrounding the Israel/Palestinian Authority file at the International Criminal Court. Quotes from several experts. Read more
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Mohammad Atif AryanThe story of Parigol’s life in Afghanistan, fleeing the war and begging for survival
Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan • War Reporter • 10 Mar 2021
At the entrance of the northern part of the Blue Mosque, a shrine attributed to Prophet Ali, in Mazar-e-Sharif City, a woman with amputated fingers, apparently an amputated nose and low vision caused by burns and dust of the war, is begging at a time when the international community, after formation... Read more
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Shadi TurkSyrian Revolution 10th Anniversary
Idlib, Syria • Social • 15 Mar 2021
Ten years ago today, tens of thousands of Syrians peacefully took to the streets calling for respect for human rights and the end of government corruption. Instead of heeding the Syrian people’s legitimate demands, the Assad regime responded with a ruthless campaign of arbitrary arrests, detentions,... Read more
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Aston KusekaIllegal Mining Deepens Woes In Zambia's Manganese Ore-Rich Mansa Town.
Mansa, Zambia • Science & Environment • 15 Mar 2021
Mansa Town is richly endowed with huge deposits of high-grade manganese ore. However, majority of the people in this predominantly rural town situated in Luapula Province north of Zambia continues to wallow in poverty. This is despite the town's vast untapped virgin wealth of mineral ores and other... Read more
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Advent of COVID-19 Eclipses Annual Cholera Outbreak In The Disease's Vulnerable Luapula Province.
Mansa, Zambia • Health & Fitness • 15 Mar 2021
The annual advent of the rain season in Zambia has come to be characteristically closely associated with an equally annual outbreak of the cholera disease in the nation's Luapula Province. And with these annual outbreaks of this deadly water-borne disease, local, national and international media... Read more
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Jayatri NagAfter death illegal coal miners family living in dire conditions in India's Meghalaya
Kolkata, India • Business • 20 Mar 2021
By Jayatri Nag Kolkata: Six miners fell in a 150-feet-deep pit at an abandoned coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills while digging a tunnel in the last week of January. Among them four miners were residents of Ratabari in Assam’s Karimganj. Their family members are yet to get any... Read more
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American Strategists and Their Involvement in Israeli Politics
New York, United States of America • Politics • 20 Mar 2021
An 1,150-word overview piece on the history of American political strategists and pollsters and their involvement in Israeli politics. Why do Israeli politicians on the left and right turn so often to American consultants? Is Israeli electoral politics as rough-and-tumble as the rest of the world?... Read more
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Alexander SealeWhat do Londoners think about the long road to normal life?
London, United Kingdom • Politics, Current Affairs, Sports, Food & Drink, Health & Fitness, Medical, Social, Breaking News • 31 Mar 2021
PM Boris Johnson will the measures to get out out of lockdown. What do londoners think about it? Read more
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Garries WamundilaZAMBIA POLICE OFFICER NABBED OVER SHOOTING INCIDENCES OF TWO PEOPLE
Lusaka, Zambia • Breaking News • 31 Mar 2021
Police in Zambia have arrested a police officer in connection with the killing of two people in December last year, in the capital city, Lusaka. Police spokesperson Esther Katongo told the local media in a statement that Constable Fanwell Nyundu, 25, has been charged with two counts of... Read more
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Abeer AyyoubAre Palestinians optimistic about upcoming elections?
Gaza • Politics • 15 Apr 2021
14 years ago, Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem voted in the legislative elections choosing between Islamic Hamas and secular Fatah parties; the result was a great victory for Hamas. One year later, street battles between the two parties erupted due to their disagreement on... Read more
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Enos DenhereWhen there is crises(COVID-19), we know that girls are hardest hit due to harmful social norms and double discrimination
Harare, Zimbabwe • Business, Finance, Politics, Current Affairs, Technology, Science & Environment, Natural Disasters, Film & Theatre, Entertainment & Celebrity, Sports, Food & Drink, Music, Health & Fitness, Medical, Paranormal, Media Training, Investigative Reporting, Research, Risk Analysis, Social, Cultural, Training, Breaking News, Climate Change • 27 Apr 2021
Covid-19 has been the worst public health crisis the world has seen in 102 years. Zimbabwe is on a tight lockdown imposed in early January which have affected the informal business operations. Since April 2020, local authorities in Zimbabwe’s major cities demolished thousands of illegally built... Read more
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Scovian LillianSocial change impact, a pre-requisite for Universities worldwide
Nairobi, Kenya • Current Affairs • 30 Apr 2021
The global pandemic has seen various key players spring up to action to provide services to save populations from the deadly virus. Civil organizations, the medical fraternity, religious bodies, donors, and researchers among many others have continuously united to show humanity and social change.... Read more
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Zambia’s President Aides lung cancer patient after her bedridden pictures went viral on social media
Lusaka, Zambia • Health & Fitness • 30 Apr 2021
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has pledged to meet all the medical requirements for a female youth based in the country’s Kabwe town who is battling lung cancer. President Lungu responded to the need after pictures in bedridden state of Chama Musonda who needs about K60,000 ($2,800) for... Read more
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Kevin McGwinDanish island set to return kids to schools, get haircuts amid relxation of Covid restrictions
Allinge, Denmark • Current Affairs, Breaking News • 30 Apr 2021
On 1 March, Denmark will be relaxing some of its Covid restrictions. The restrictions will be eased most on the island of Bornholm (where I live). Here, schools will again be open for all students, hairdressers will be allowed to re-open and people will be allowed to gather in groups of 10... Read more
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Was Maraga Kenya’s finest Chief Justice?
Nairobi, Kenya • Current Affairs • 30 Apr 2021
Kenya’s Chief Justice David Maraga is set to retire in Mid-January next year, but he has however announced that he would be going on leave as of 11th December. Maraga, the second Chief Justice to Kenya under the new constitution took over from retired Chief Justice Willy Mutunga in 2016. Unlike... Read more
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Shuchita JhaWorld War II Bunker turns into music centre for musicians of this French town
Bayeux, France • Travel • 30 Apr 2021
This is a story of how a quaint little town of Bayeux, France turned a World War II hospital for German soldiers, built during the Normandy invasion of France, in 1944, into a place for musicians to rehearse. Some years ago, the musicians of the city needed a place to practice, and the city of... Read more
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Black resistance to the vaccine in America
Chicago, United States of America • Current Affairs • 01 Jun 2021
Louis Farrakhan, head of Chicago-based Nation of Islam, is calling the newly-produced COVID vaccine "toxic waste". Polls show Black Americans are much more hesitant to take it -- and concern is understandable: the notorious "Tuskegee Experiment", which ran from 1932 to 1972, still looms large for... Read more
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Jackie Guigui-StolbergFarm-fresh to go: Roadside self-serve huts help Bavarian farmers and consumers get through COVID
Munich, Germany • Business • 30 Jun 2021
Who wants to go to a supermarket when you can buy fresh from a farm, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week while benefiting the local economy and the environment? First the Eierhäusl and Millihäusl (“egg huts” and “milk huts,” in down-home Bavarian dialect) − standing temptingly at roadsides and... Read more
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Fernando Mahía VilasBidasoa's round trip to glory
Irun, Spain • Sports • 30 Jun 2021
In 1995, Elgorriaga Bidasoa became European handball champion. There it was, a team from the Spanish tiny city of Irún -60,000 people, right in the border with France- overcoming any continental powerhouse. It was not only a sports story, but the tale of a booming Spanish economy, which allowed its... Read more
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Claude DjaquisIvory Coast 2020 - Only one man can "lie down with the crocodiles of yamoussoukro".
London, United Kingdom • Current Affairs • 22 Jul 2021
Ivory Coast 2020 - Only one man can "lie down with the crocodiles of Yamoussoukro". Nine years ago , battle-hardened "Forces Nouvelles" soldiers led by Guillaume Soro, a former student union leader turned rebel front man, crossed the decade-old French army buffer zone separating North and South... Read more
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Shahin BabuBackward people ।। Covid-19 and small ethnic groups in Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh • Social • 31 Jul 2021
When the global crisis epidemic coronavirus hit Bangladesh in late March last year, At that time, we had to worry about its impact on small ethnic groups. This is because these groups have been fighting for their socio-economic, political and cultural rights for a long time. Bangladesh is home... Read more
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Isaac OtwiiCovid-19 doubles burden for families with nodding syndrome in Northern Uganda
Lira, Uganda • Investigative Reporting • 31 Jul 2021
COVID-19 doubles the pain of children suffering from Nodding disease syndrome In the districts of Oyam and Lira in Lango Sub-region, several children have fallen ill with a fatal, incurable disease known as nodding disease. The communities continue to panic and some people are losing hope while... Read more
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Vicky StarkGift of the Givers turns 28
Cape Town, South Africa • Current Affairs • 06 Aug 2021
African disaster relief organisation Gift of the Givers celebrates its 28th anniversary. To date, its delivered more than 3 billion South African rand, or nearly 200 million US dollars of aid, to 44 countries. Founder, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman says he was instructed to start the organisation by a Sufi... Read more
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MANIGHA YUHTHE POLISARIO REBELS ATTACK MOROCCO'S GUERGUERAT BORDER
Yaounde, Cameroon • War Reporter • 17 Aug 2021
THE story seeks to reveal what appears to be a renewed tension between Morocco and the Polisario in neighbouring Mauritania Read more
