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Sky News host Peta Credlin speaks to Nicky, a South African farmer, about her experience of fear and violence in the region, and her failed attempts at resettlement in Australia ... News Corp Australia .......

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Ghana to host maiden International Coconut Festival

Joy Online 24 Jun 2019

The event, spearheaded by the African Coconut Group on the theme ... At the launch of the festival in Accra, Chairman of the African Coconut Group, Davies Narh Korboe tells Adom News the current value of coconut, which is ten billion dollars, is expected to shoot to fifteen billion dollars by 2020....

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Jennifer Rubin: When is a gaffe a gaffe?

Winston-Salem Journal 24 Jun 2019

One after another, prominent African American leaders (e.g., Reps ... Lewis, arguably the most revered African American civil rights figure alive, stated, "I don't think the remarks are offensive ... In news coverage immediately after the flap, there were African Americans who expressed anger, but many others did not....

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SA golfers Sterne, Van Rooyen qualify for British Open

Independent online (SA) 24 Jun 2019

JOHANNESBURG - South African golfers Richard Sterne and Erik van Rooyen will be teeing it up at next month's British Open after strong seasons so far in the 2019 Race to Dubai ... the South African has also earned a top-10 at the Trophée Hassan II ... African News Agency (ANA) ....

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UNCF with AFRICAN PRIDE® & JFM® CURL PEACE™ LAUNCH -WEAR YOUR CROWN WITH CONFIDENCE™- LOAN ...

Omaha World-Herald 24 Jun 2019

Thompson, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of African Pride®, JFM® Curl Peace™, and Dr ... NBC News/GenForward at the University of Chicago Survey cites one out of every two African American Millennials has up to $29,000 in student loan debt ... Partners like African ......

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BET Networks and Tyler Perry Studios to Launch BET+

Atlantic City 24 Jun 2019

VIA, VIA.B), is the nation's leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience ... BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions including BET.com, a ......

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Air Tanzania to reintroduce flights to SA

Independent online (SA) 24 Jun 2019

JOHANNESBURG – Air Tanzania is to resume flights to South Africa on Friday in a bid to attract South African tourists and business travellers ... South Africa is in a strategic position when it comes to linking airlines in the southern and East African region to destinations abroad, including Australia ... - African News Agency (ANA)....

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Forum for China-Africa Cooperation meeting underway in Beijing

Independent online (SA) 24 Jun 2019

They include infrastructure connectivity, industrial promotion, green development, healtcare initiatives and trade facilitation between China and its African trade partners ... - African News Agency (ANA)....

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Late cash demands have become a sadly familiar tournament ritual of African soccer

Quartz 24 Jun 2019

For many African countries, national soccer teams provide an escape from enduring political, economic and social problems but, as it turns out, these teams are not exempt from those problems either ... Sign up to the Quartz Africa Weekly Brief here for news and analysis on African business, tech and innovation in your inbox .......

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Teargas used as clashes between Gumede’s supporters, police continue

Independent online (SA) 24 Jun 2019

One of KwaZulu-Natal’s police spokespersons, lieutenant-colonel Thulani Zwani, told African News Agency (ANA) that one teargas canister had been utilised for crowd control ... African News Agency (ANA) ....

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Sedibeng residents want ANC to be held accountable over lack of service delivery

Independent online (SA) 24 Jun 2019

Johannesburg - Residents from Sedibeng, a district in Gauteng, on Monday marched to Luthuli House, the headquarters of the ruling African National Congress ... African News Agency (ANA) ....

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Mauritania is set for its first ever peaceful transfer of power since independence

Quartz 24 Jun 2019

Last year, the African Union rebuked Mauritania for failing to adequately enforce its anti-slavery laws and prosecute the perpetrators ... Sign up to the Quartz Africa Weekly Brief here for news and analysis on African business, tech and innovation in your inbox....

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Charity makes plea for ban on trophy and canned hunting

Independent online (SA) 24 Jun 2019

It was a moment that caused a worldwide public outcry, bringing the brutal practice of trophy hunting to the fore ... Among the trophies exported in the last 10 years, were nearly 40 000 trophy items from African elephants, over 8 000 from leopards, and 14 000 from African lions ... African News Agency (ANA) ....