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CALL TO ACTION FOR D.R. CONGO
December 14, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" According to the World Food Program, 250,000 children, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRCongo), will die if...
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UGANDA’S OPIOID SOLUTION
December 14, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" In October, President Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. The scourge of drug addiction and abuse that has swept...
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SLAVERY 2017: HUMAN RIGHTS DAY?
SLAVERY IN 2017 December 12, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" Sunday, December 10th was global "Human Rights Day"...it was celebrated in Libya...woooow...
HUMAN RIGHTS DAY...
Human Rights Day is...
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SLAVERY 2017: RESETTLEMENT
SLAVERY IN 2017 December 12, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" Yesterday, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, launched an urgent appeal calling for 1,300 resettlement places for vulnerable...
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“IMHO”: DIASPORANS XMAS VISIT
December 12, 2017 By Nana Yaa Ofori Atta If you live and work in my side of Africa, as in the wild wild West, you know what...
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“IMHO”: THE MAGIC TRIANGLE
The 1st Regional Roundtable on Infrastructure Governance was held in Cape Town, South Africa, last month.
Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International, addressed the event, and...
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AMERICAN JOURANLIST DETAINED
December 11, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" Authorities detained Patrice Nganang, a Cameroonian-American academic and columnist, as he attempted to fly to Zimbabwe from Douala -...
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SLAVERY 2017: UN’S WEAK RESPONSE
December 8, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist"
SLAVERY IN 2017 Yesterday, the UN Security Council (UNSC) adopted a feckless Presidential Statement on reports of migrants being sold into...