Nigeria Sees ‘Immediate’ Investments Worth Billions from Saudi »
RUTH OLUROUNBI Nigeria says it sees “immediate” multi-billion-dollar investment flows from Saudi Arabia after it signed an agreement with the kingdom to establish a business council that could see the…
Nov 28 2023 / No Comment / Read More »A Ghana reparations summit agrees on a global fund to compensate Africans for the slave trade »
FRANCIS KOKUTSE Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana agreed Thursday November 16 to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved centuries…
Nov 28 2023 / No Comment / Read More »China hands over new parliament to Zimbabwe as ‘gift’ »
KITSEPILE NYATHI CHINA on Thursday October 26, handed over to Zimbabwe a new $100 million parliament building that Harare says is a symbol of deepening relations between the two countries.…
Nov 12 2023 / No Comment / Read More »Nigeria Budgets for Presidential Luxuries While Millions Struggle »
Nigeria’s lawmakers on Thursday November 2, approved the new government’s first supplemental budget, which includes huge allocations for SUVs and houses for the president, his wife and other public officials,…
Nov 12 2023 / No Comment / Read More »Cameroon grants indigenous Baka more access to protected forests »
The government of Cameroon and the indigenous Baka people in the country’s southeast have agreed to an updated memorandum of…
Sep 27 2023 / No Comment / Read More »NJ councilwoman’s accused killer forces Gov. Murphy to get involved »
Rashid Bynum was charged with killing Eunice Dwumfour He declined to waive extradition to New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy can…
Jul 13 2023 / No Comment / Read More »Black men were likely underdiagnosed with lung problems because of bias in software, study suggests »
MIKE STOBBE Racial bias built into a common medical test for lung function is likely leading to fewer Black patients…
Jun 14 2023 / No Comment / Read More »Report on medical access finds one-third of Black Americans live in ‘cardiology deserts’ »
ELAINE CHEN Many Black Americans would have to travel across county lines just to find an open spot with a…
May 13 2023 / No Comment / Read More »Loneliness poses risk as deadly as smoking, surgeon general warns »
AMANDA SEITZ Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the…
May 13 2023 / No Comment / Read More »In counties with more Black doctors, Black people live longer, ‘astonishing’ study finds »
USHA LEE McFARLING Black people in counties with more Black primary care physicians live longer, according to a new national…
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