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68th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human & Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) (African Union)

Public Technologies 13 Apr 2021

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South Africa’s mental health facilities are ailing

Mail Guardian South Africa 13 Apr 2021

In November 2017, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) convened a national consultative hearing on the status of mental health care in South Africa ... They arose, the commission said, from the “prolonged and systemic neglect of mental health at the level of policy implementation”.

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ThinkMarkets Starts Offering South African Shares and ETFs

Finance Magnates 13 Apr 2021

... African client base for trading ... We are proud of the quality of the platform we provide to our clients and have the confidence that the South African stock market is ripe to join in the trend of low-commission trading, just like the largest stock markets worldwide,” Anees added.

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Kagame rallies African leaders on vaccine manufacturing

Ghana Web 13 Apr 2021

In his remarks, Moussa Faki Mahamat, the African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson, called for what he described as “a strategic partnership for a new health world order” in view of enabling the continent to be able to meet most of its need for pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines.

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African Experts Urge Local COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing

Beijing News 13 Apr 2021

These experts, alongside African heads of state and ... Economist Vera Songwe, executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, estimated that the pandemic has caused 100 million Africans to fall into poverty, and led to the loss of 30 million jobs.

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ThinkMarkets Launches South African Shares & ETFs Offering

News-Press Now 13 Apr 2021

The launch is the company's most innovative product offering for the South African market yet ... We are proud of the quality of the platform we provide to our clients and have the confidence that the South African stock market is ripe to join in the trend of low-commission trading, just like the largest stock markets worldwide," Anees added.

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Central African Republic: Why Reparations Should Come First

All Africa 13 Apr 2021

With a special court that has yet to open a trial and a truth commission that is not up ...

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No justice for Dawit Isaak, the world’s longest detained journalist

Mail Guardian South Africa 13 Apr 2021

Navi Pillay, the former United Nations high commissioner on human rights, Canada’s former justice minister, Irwin Cotler, and the former chair of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Pansy Tlakula, are also behind the complaint ... the African Human Rights Yearbook.

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Huawei to help Ethiopia cultivate ICT talent

People Daily 13 Apr 2021

ADDIS ABABA, April 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese hi-tech giant Huawei announced on Monday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ethiopia Jobs Creation Commission (EJCC) to cultivate the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) talent ecosystem in the east African country ... Shi Xi, Liang Jun). .

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US Congressional Committee to Consider Reparations Bill

Voa News 12 Apr 2021

House of Representatives committee is due to consider Wednesday a bill to create a commission to study the history of slavery in the United States and recommend “appropriate remedies.” ... in the early 1600s, as well as discrimination against the descendants of African who were forcefully brought to the U.S.

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Africa mulls over vaccine manufacturing capacity

Anadolu Agency 12 Apr 2021

African Union Commission head Moussa Faki Mahamat, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, and the World Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are also participating in the conference ... Tshisekedi also highlighted the need for partnerships that should be in line with African priorities.

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Continental vaccine manufacturing virtual conference

Ghana Web 12 Apr 2021

President Paul Kagame is expected to be among African leaders who will this afternoon meet to discuss the continent’s vaccine manufacturing roadmap ... of South African and Macky Sall of Senegal. Also expected is Moussa Faki Mahamat, the African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson, Dr.

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Mysteries behind Battle of Bangui

Mail Guardian South Africa 12 Apr 2021

“François Bozizé is Satan on earth.” These were the words of a respected international banker from the Central African Republic when he saw me reading The Battle of Bangui at a hotel in N’Djamena a few days ago ... Infamously, Bozizé turned to former South African president Jacob Zuma when he had run out of friends — and Zuma offered to help.

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UN can only lift sanctions when Juba peace deal is fulfilled - Guterres

Ghana Web 12 Apr 2021

The UN chief also appealed for the urgent establishment of the Hybrid Court of South Sudan, with the first steps including the conclusion of a memorandum of understanding between the African Union Commission and the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity.

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Marvel, Give Me A Dora Milaje Video Game Already

Kotaku 12 Apr 2021

The plot centers on the new initiate coming into her own as a valued member of the Dora Milaje as she works to reclaim pieces of stolen Wakandan tech from around the world while uncovering a conspiracy to attack the secretive African nation ... G/O Media may get a commission.