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African leaders convinced of balanced trade as China moves to open its markets
Fears of China’s neo-colonialism in Africa has been met with fierce rebuttal and counter-arguments despite the Asian economic giant’s infiltration of Africa’s media space, land and airspace...
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These East African runners rule New York
It took 28-year old Ethiopian runner Lelisa Desisa 2 hours 5 minutes 59 seconds to finish the New York City Marathon in Central Park ahead of all the more than 50,000 participants running 26.2 miles through...
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Rwanda opens door to Chinese firm Alibaba to build Africa’s first digital economy
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has launched Africa’s first Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP) with the help of Chinese multinational technology conglomerate and the world’s largest e-commerce...
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Jamaica turns back on Patois and plans to make Spanish an official language
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has on several occasions disclosed plans by his government to make Spanish Jamaica’s second language as against the widely used Jamaican native language of...
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George Weah declares public universities in Liberia tuition-free after fee-hike protest
Liberia’s president George Weah has declared the University of Liberia and all public universities tuition-free for undergraduate students in the country. He made the announcement before hundreds...
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After 35 years, this ‘shameful’ misrepresentation of MLK sitting in New York must go
Since its unveiling in 1983, an eight-foot bust of MLK that does not look like the civil rights hero has been sitting in Buffalo’s Martin Luther King Jr. Park creating a sense of unease among those...
