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Africa’s first-ever balloon-powered internet service launched in Kenya
A fleet of 35 solar-powered balloons that will provide internet services to remote areas in Kenya by floating on stratospheric winds has been launched. The initiative by Google’s Project Loon and Telkom...
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‘I’m ready to meet my God’ – Remembering Lena Baker, the only woman executed in Georgia’s electric chair
Lena Baker was an African-American woman convicted of killing her white employer Ernest Knight by the State of Georgia in 1944 at the age of 44. The only woman executed in Georgia’s electric...
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Seven men pin down black teen who later died for throwing a sandwich
A disturbing surveillance video has emerged showing at least seven men violently restraining a black teenager, Cornelius Fredericks, at a Michigan youth center, who had a cardiac attack and died two days...
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Given three days to live at birth, Nekhidia Harris defied all odds to graduate at 24
Standing at a little over two feet, Nekhidia Harris is proof anything is possible. Born with a brittle bone disease, doctors gave Harris just three days to live. Twenty-four years later, Harris defied...
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Madagascar back to lockdown in capital as coronavirus cases surge
A lockdown has been reimposed in Madagascar’s central region including the capital, Antananarivo following a sudden spike in confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. Troops have been deployed to...
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Meet Aicha Evans, the Black CEO of self-driving company being bought by Amazon for $1.2bn
Aicha Evans is the CEO of Zoox, leading a team of forward-thinkers pioneering the future of ride-hailing by designing autonomous technology from the ground up with passenger front-of-mind, that is being...
