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Bruno TorquatoA Nazi video published in Brazil had just fired the Secretary of Culture in Brazil
Belo Horizonte, Brazil • Current Affairs • 24 Jan 2020
Roberto Alvim was fired this Friday, January 17th, after his Nazi video went viral on social media. The file has about 6 minutes and includes the Opera song “Lohengrin”, wrote by Wagner, a Hitler idol. The similarities are far from it: even the speech seems that Alvim just plagiarized Joseph... Read more
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Craig McCullochHuawei CFO Meng Wenzhou Extradition Hearing.
Vancouver, Canada • Technology • 26 Jan 2020
The extradition case of Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Huawei, is scheduled to restart on Monday, January 20th, 2020 here in Vancouver. This part of the process is scheduled to last for the entire work week (five days) to Friday, January 24th, 2020 local Vancouver/Pacific Time. Canadian... Read more
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Amy FallonHumanism in Africa stories (nice Xmas angle)
Uganda • Cultural • 31 Jan 2020
I'm a widely-published journalist who has some nice human interest stories on humanism in Uganda and Africa with high res pics available. One would make a nice read in the lead-up to Christmas. Please get in touch with me so I can pitch you specific angles. Read more
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Enos DenhereI wish you a fruitful 2020 . I want to be your Freelance Journalist
Harare, Zimbabwe • Breaking News • 31 Jan 2020
I wish you all a fruitful 2020 .Are you a media house/ News agency /NGO with plans for Zimbabwe and Africa.2020 was in the womb but now born. 2019 is gone but 2019 plans didn't go with the year but need to be fulfilled/implemented.I am interested to work with you as your Freelance Journalist in... Read more
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Diing MagotFemale Pilot in South Sudan
Juba, South Sudan • Breaking News • 31 Jan 2020
Female pilot in South Sudan who flies commercial flies wants to open an organisation to empower other young women to choose piloting as a career. Read more
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LENNY RUVAGAMaasai She-Wariors
Nairobi, Kenya • 360 Videography • 31 Jan 2020
Conserving the environment has been the preserve of men in Kenya. However this trend is being challenged by womenfolk from the Maasai community. Read more
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Lungelo NdhlovuCorruption and poverty are fueling ivory poaching in Zimbabwe
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe • Investigative Reporting • 31 Jan 2020
What is the core conflict of the story? Corruption and poverty are fueling ivory poaching in Zimbabwe. Villagers surrounding Zimbabwe’s biggest game parks, the Hwange National Park and Gonarezhou, reeling from the economic meltdown and poverty are working with syndicates from Europe and Asia to... Read more
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Godfrey SigwelaSwahili to speak for peace
Port Elizabeth, South Africa • Breaking News • 31 Jan 2020
In an about turn move South African pupils in lower school grades would have a choice to learn to write and speak Swahili language. It is an African language spoken by the millions from the Great Lakes in Africa. This follows dozens of fights and conflicts between South African residents and... Read more
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Godfrey Sigwela
Swahili the best way to follow?
Port Elizabeth, South Africa • Breaking News • 31 Jan 2020
It's true that it is never too late to mend, South African pupils in lower grades at school would have a choice to learn, write and speak Swahili language. Obviously it is a move towards the right direction in order to mend the broken hearts previously caused by the fights occurred between South... Read more
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Bruno Torquato
Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency ban sells of contaminated beers that killed four people
Belo Horizonte, Brazil • Health & Fitness, Medical • 31 Jan 2020
The year 2020 started with a lot of people in Belo Horizonte, Brazil going to the hospital with nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, urine blockage, renal impairment, in addition to neurological manifestations. The police investigation so far says that a beer made by the brand Backer, called... Read more
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Brazilian President has attacked the press over 120 times in 2019, says report
Belo Horizonte, Brazil • Current Affairs • 31 Jan 2020
The Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attacked the press and its journalists 121 times last year, says the annual report “Violence against journalist and press freedom in Brazil” made by the National Federation of Journalists of Brazil (FENAJ). The report was released this week and says the total... Read more
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Mahmud Mohammed-NurudeenIt is hypothermia: Ghanaians in Bawku, Zebilla, Binduri, Garu resort to early indoors as extreme cold and dry winds dri
Kumasi, Ghana • Health & Fitness • 04 Feb 2020
Here come the harmattan and residents in the northern part of the country are resorting to different strategies to stay strong and healthy. Northern Ghana is most affected area where citizens either sit by coal of fire or stay indoors for hours. Read more
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Drying up of white Volta: sand winners cash in while farmers feel the pinch of harmattan
Kumasi, Ghana • Investigative Reporting • 10 Feb 2020
The White Volta in Ghana is completely dried up, sand winners are making money out of it while farmers struggle to grow their vegetables along the river. Read more
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John VerlingIrish General Election
Tralee, Ireland • Politics • 15 Feb 2020
The Irish general election campaign is underway, with three weeks of stories, oddities and colourful side events to provide news and entertainment. We have Proportional Representation which makes every constituency competitive and often a candidate waits until the eight count to win by the one... Read more
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Nangayi GuysonUganda's Poor Waste Management Policy Turning Kampala into a City of illegal Dumping
Kampala, Uganda • Science & Environment • 29 Feb 2020
Late this December, five men pushing wooden wheelbarrows full of garbage to an illegal dumping site in a Kampala suburb got into a scuffle with the landowner and their wheelbarrows were confiscated for illegal dumping. Scuffles about illegal dumping are very common in all slum areas of Uganda’s... Read more
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James HyamsAustralian Bushfires
Brisbane City, Australia • 360 Videography • 03 Mar 2020
Pending title: Bushfires in Australia - the economic and environmental impact A.1 Interview Professor Chris Dickman, an expert on Australian biodiversity at the University of Sydney, who estimates half a billion animals have been killed in the bushfires. [B.1] Understand how he came to that... Read more
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Marina OlivetoFilmmaker, 360 Filmmaker and Breaking News
Lisbon, Portugal • Training, Breaking News • 31 Mar 2020
I am a freelance Filmmaker and 360 Filmmaker based in German andPortugal. I am available to cover breaking news and to produce theme based short documentaries and news package and 360 production. Read more
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Enos Denhere
Is Africa the richest continent?
Harare, Zimbabwe • Breaking News • 31 Mar 2020
Africa is a key territory on the global map. Rich in oil and natural resources, the continent holds a strategic position. Rich inn oil and natural resources, Africa is the world’s fastest-growing region for foreign direct investment. It has approximately 3percent of the earth’s remaining mineral... Read more
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RIDDA RIAZWhere is our household happiness?
Islamabad, Pakistan • Social • 08 Apr 2020
This piece traces the patterns of discontent and disturbance in our society at the level of family. It peeks into issues like traumatic childhoods and psychological setbacks of unhealthy family environments with the help of common stories and stats. It can leave readers with a more active insight on... Read more
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Jonathan MitchellUK's first spaceport planned in sleepy north coast of Scotland village
Tongue, United Kingdom • Science & Environment • 31 May 2020
In August 2018, the UK government announced that they had selected a site near Tongue, Sutherland, Scotland, UK to be the site of the UK's first spaceport. For the crofters (farmers) of nearby Melness, who jointly own the site, it's 'Rockets Galore' - as the spaceport will turn a sleepy north coast... Read more
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Enos Denhere
A Billion Reasons To Believe In Pan Africanism .
Harare, Zimbabwe • Breaking News • 01 Jun 2020
Pan-Africanism is a worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent. ... At its core Pan-Africanism is "a belief that African peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a... Read more
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Luis PeazêWill Portugal bite a big chunk of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, again, or give it away to China?
Lisbon, Portugal • Science & Environment • 07 Jun 2020
The 2020 UN Conference will take place in Lisbon (June 2-6) and Ocean is on top of the agenda, even beyond the Goal 14. Based in Lisbon and well immersed in the Blue Economy at large, from the industry perspective as well as from the academic, tourism and recreational segments; please refer to my... Read more
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Jackie Guigui-StolbergWhat the World Kneads Now: The International Diploma in German Bread Baking
München, Germany • Food & Drink • 30 Jun 2020
Imagine the springy warmth of a yeast dough, steaming-fresh from the oven, or the crunchy crust of a whole-wheat sour-dough bread bristling with toasted sunflower seeds, or the delicate, buttery flakes of a fine puff-pastry twist. Or an enormous pretzel worthy of the Oktoberfest, studded with salt... Read more
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Mohammad Zubair khanScarified for the Kalash tribes, lost sons of Alexander the great.
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan • Natural Disasters • 01 Jul 2020
Scarified for the Kalash tribes, lost sons of Alexander the great. Kalash tribes are known as lost sons of Alexander, famous for the unique culture and... Read more
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Santi DonaireBREAKING NEWS / REPORTS - SPAIN
Madrid, Spain • Travel • 01 Jul 2020
I am available as a photographer and camera man, to report about the latest breaking news about Spanish affairs. English and Spanish. I am also available as a fixer. Read more
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Beryl OsindoEarly marriages in western kenya
Nairobi, Kenya • Cultural • 01 Sep 2020
Early Marriages in Rural Kenya and Informal Settings For a long period in my life, I struggled to understand why my parents never wanted my family to stay in our ancestral home except on vacations. My six siblings and I felt overly important each fortnight of the family vacation. We were the... Read more
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Jackie Guigui-Stolberg
Munich Confronts its Nazi Past at the National Socialist Documentation Center
München, Germany • Cultural • 30 Sep 2020
The Braunes Haus, the building that housed Nazi party headquarters in Munich from 1930 to 1945, in fact no longer exists; it was destroyed by Allied forces after the war. But precisely at the site where it once stood, the National Socialist Documentation Center represents Munich's final coming to... Read more
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Jackie Guigui-Stolberg
Strolling Through History: A Walking Tour to Remember Munich's Nazi Past
München, Germany • Cultural • 30 Sep 2020
The name of Munich's most successful walking-tours company, "Stattreisen" is a play on German words that mean something most closely translatable as "alternative trips". The message is clear: on a "Stattreisen" walking tour you will experience the Bavarian capital in unusual ways, with... Read more
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Jackie Guigui-Stolberg
"Blindgänger" (Unexploded Bombs in Germany) - Blasts from the Past
München, Germany • Cultural • 30 Sep 2020
For countless reasons, World War II is present in the German psyche and memory for many people in the general population on almost a daily basis. Cities like Berlin and Dresden, for example, still have eerily empty spaces in the middle of town, where it is obvious that some edifice once stood there... Read more
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Núria Vilà ComaEnric Duran: the Robin Hood of the banks
Barcelona, Spain • Social • 30 Nov 2020
I'm a freelance journalist based in Barcelona, and I'm looking for media interested on publishing this story: Enric is a Catalan activist who in 2008 announced that, through a false payroll and a fictitious trade, he got loans from 39 financial institutions for a total of 492,000 euros -almost half... Read more
