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How Rwanda came to have its name
Just six decades ago, Rwanda and Burundi were one and the same country owing to Belgian imperialism in central and eastern Africa after the so-called Scramble for Africa. But archaeological evidence suggests...
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Speaker at Republican convention said police are ‘smart’ to profile her biracial son
Abby Johnson, a speaker on anti-abortion policy at the Republican National Convention, recently defended racial profiling as a statically sound and smart policing technique. In the wake of the protests...
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‘Extremely poor’ Ugandan refugee mom found dead next to starving baby in flat
Mercy Baguma, a Ugandan asylum seeker in Scotland, was found dead lying beside what has been described as her malnourished baby in her flat in Glasgow. Baguma was discovered on Saturday, August 22 following...
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Three huge problems with Trump’s pitch to Black people
President Donald Trump knows better than anyone the importance of eating into the Black voter constituency of the Democrats if he is to win another surprise term in the White House this November. Since...
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SA finance minister slams Zambia president for ‘nonsense firing’ of central bank governor
South Africa‘s Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, took to Twitter on Sunday to blast Zambia’s president’s decision to remove that country’s central bank head without explanation on...
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Why is Somalia bent on legalizing child marriage?
Somali legislators are considering passing a bill that will give legal backing to child and forced marriages in the East African nation that already has one of the highest rates of child marriages in the...
