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Ali ShehabTIME-SENSITIVE PITCH: How Donald Trump policy in Lebanon served Hezbollah?
Beirut, Lebanon • Politics • 25 Jan 2021
With the rapid collapse of the Lebanese economy, the effects of the crisis are not showing in the southern suburbs of Beirut and southern Lebanon, the areas of influence of Hezbollah. While most Lebanese believe that the financial blockade imposed by the Trump administration on Lebanon contributes... Read more
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Michael WilliamsThe U.S. Presidential Inauguration Live From Washington, DC
Washington, United States of America • Politics, Current Affairs, Breaking News • 26 Jan 2021
On January 21, 2021 the Trump Administration will come to a close. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in and President and Vice-President, taking the reins of a nation that is as divided as it has been since its Civil War. I will be available for Radio and TV outlets that need up to the... Read more
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Enos DenhereThe difficulties freelance Journalist went through during COVID-19
Harare, Zimbabwe • Breaking News • 26 Jan 2021
During health emergencies, like COVID-19 pandemic will always makes life difficult for freelance Journalists around the world. Many News organizations have either suspended or limited the freelance they commission and downsized their own staff (full time Journalists). I had some stories which were... Read more
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Madalitso KatetaMalawi's rights groups rallying to protect girls from sexual violence
Lilongwe, Malawi • Current Affairs, Investigative Reporting, Social • 29 Jan 2021
Following a sharp rise in defilement and incest cases mostly targeting adolescent girls and in extreme cases children under the age of five (https://times.mw/zomba-man-arrested-for-defiling-5-month-baby), human rights groups in Malawi are rallying to protect children from sexual violence believed to... Read more
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Michael DibieNigerians laments over identification
Abuja, Nigeria • Social • 31 Jan 2021
In Nigeria, attempts at creating a National ID card dates back to 1986. After several decades and millions of dollars, the government is now looking to take the process digital. In Africa’s most populous nation, getting any accepted means of identification can be difficult. A driver’s licence... Read more
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Michael Dibie
Nigeria: Children cattle rearers
Abuja, Nigeria • Social • 31 Jan 2021
In September this year, the leadership of Fulani cattle rearers in Kaduna State, North of Nigeria directed members to stop underaged children from grazing cattle in the state, saying such development would prevent further destruction of farm produce of the farmers resulting in a crisis. However,... Read more
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Johan VerheydenNightly battles with the police ... unrests mount
Tunis, Tunisia • Current Affairs • 31 Jan 2021
The tensions mount - police arrests 1000s of young protesters TUNIS, TUNISIA - Protests have swept towns and cities throughout Tunisia for a week, often turning violent as demonstrators denounce broken promises from the government, which hasn't been able to turn around an economy on the verge of... Read more
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Harold EMERTClarice Lispector 100 years
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Arts & Books • 31 Jan 2021
Despite Covid-19 Brazil is currently celebrating online the 100th anniversary of perhaps its greatest contemporary writer,Clarice Lispector. A resident of Leme, Rio de Janeiro when she did not reside in many parts of the world with her diplomat husband,Clarice is perhaps best known for "Hour of the... Read more
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Arti DaniAgenda of UAE's vertical farms for 2021 - Listicle
Dubai, United Arab Emirates • Science & Environment • 31 Jan 2021
Over the past few years, hydroponics technology has been adopted rapidly globally as well as across the UAE. Globally, because of water scarcity and erratic weather patterns, outdoor agriculture has suffered. Crops that we traditionally grew outdoors have been ravaged by extreme weather conditions,... Read more
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Enos Denhere
Stay Safe from COVID, I wish you a Happy Prosperous New Year but remember to acquire my services 2021
Harare, Zimbabwe • Business, Breaking News, Climate Change • 31 Jan 2021
Stay Safe from COVID, I wish you a Happy Prosperous New Year but remember to acquire my services as your correspondent Journalist. Email enosdenhere@gmail.com WhatsApp +263773894975 Read more
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Mathieu PolletHow France is using sewage to track COVID-19 surges
Paris, France • Current Affairs, Science & Environment, Health & Fitness • 31 Jan 2021
Across the country, scientists are paying close attention to sewage and wastewaters to track and anticipate the COVID-19 surges. In Paris, the latest analysis from network Obepine shows the same concentration of coronavirus as of September. Read more
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Ebrahim PressbahBanjul, The Gambia: The Second Political Transition
Banjul, Gambia • Current Affairs • 07 Feb 2021
Military Troops By The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are still in enforcement of the transitional mandate of the current president of the Gambia. From a short term contract after the fall of a 22-year rule characterised by brutality under exiled former president Jammeh, the... Read more
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Yasmina Nuny SilvaCarnival and coronavirus in Guinea-Bissau: the clashing agendas
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau • Politics, Current Affairs, Social, Cultural • 12 Feb 2021
Carnival in Guinea-Bissau under normal circumstances is a three day affair with parades and celebrations across the country, the biggest one being in the capital, Bissau. In the time of coronavirus, though, things are a little different. The infection rate has increased in Guinea-Bissau since... Read more
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Enos Denhere
I am Freelance Journalist
Harare, Zimbabwe • Business, Climate Change • 28 Feb 2021
I am a Freelance Journalist based in Zimbabwe seeking for News Agencies I work for. WhatsApp +263773894975 Read more
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Komeil SoheiliZagros Under Fire: From a birthplace of wine to a land of smoke and flames
Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran • Natural Disasters • 28 Feb 2021
Two hundred seventy thousand oak trees burned in western Iran in the last few months, and one volunteer died in an attempt to stop the fire. "The night in oak forest was bright with flames of wildfires. Some seven-century years old trees turned to ashes within a few hours! It hurts knowing that... 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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Scovian LillianWas 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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Raja Furqan AhmedCoronavirus: The economic situation in Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan • Risk Analysis • 31 May 2021
The spontaneous change in the life of human kinds comes through the pandemic called COVID-19. Approximately 7.8 billion world populations’ feels threatened and larger confined at home. In many parts of the world borders are closed, trade stops, hotels, businesses shut down, churches, mosques,... Read more
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Andy RoesgenBlack 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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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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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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Wasim Shahzad QadriCharacter-Driven Story: Iron-leady takes care of the caretakers in Pakistan
Pakistan • Current Affairs • 31 Aug 2021
With hospitals overwhelmed and a sharp rise in the number of deaths, Pakistan's delicate health system is bracing for an imminent peak of corona-virus cases. More than 10,000 front-line healthcare workers have tested positive and thousands others are under mental stressed. A Iron-lady named XXXX... Read more
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Shuchita Jha
Once the fashion statement of Begums the 'Bhopali Batua' struggles to stay alive
Bayeux, France • Cultural • 30 Sep 2021
Once a fashion statement, to carry a matchig 'batua' (strng-pouch) with gold and silver-wire 'zardozi' embroidery, the Bhopali batua ruled the fashion world as every woman aspired to carry one beautiful pouch in which she'd keep her tobacco, slaked lime and money, along with a silver toothpick to... Read more
