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    Massive boost for pastoralists in East Africa – CAJ News Africa

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    NAACP Panel Tackles Venture Capital’s Role In The Racial Wealth Gap

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots Bostonians are very familiar with a bracing data point: in 2015, the median net worth for White households in...

    Zimbabwe continues debt dialogue with creditors – CAJ News Africa

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    News in Brief 18 April 2023 |

    This is the News in Brief from the United Nations. Sudan: UN rights chief urges end to fighting The parties to the conflict in Sudan must...

    Mural Commemorating Jewish Greek Holocaust Victims Defaced with Swastikas

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A mural commemorating Greek Jews who were deported from Thessaloniki and sent to Nazi concentration camps during World War II was...

    Will Netanyahu’s Gaza War Escalate Into Another War In Middle East Region?

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Robbie Gramer and Jack DetschForeign Policy Photos: YouTube ScreenshotsWikimedia Commons As Israel wages its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, there...

    Climate Litigation Report reveals spike in cases demanding action

    The trend indicates that climate litigation is becoming an integral part of the international push for greater climate action and justice.  The Global Climate Litigation Report:...

    Black Man Exonerated On Murder Charge After Spending Nearly 29 Years In Prison

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: NJ Innocence Project (Armond McCloud, left, in 1993 and right, in January, when he was released from prison after more...

    Dozens of Alleged Israeli Agents Arrested in Turkish Anti-Espionage Operation

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Turkish media outlets carried lurid headlines about supposed Israeli espionage on Tuesday after Ankara’s intelligence services announced a wave of arrests...

    Anti-Defamation League Launches New Antisemitism Awareness Campaign

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Amid an explosion of antisemitic outrages at US colleges and universities, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday announced a new campaign...

    Southern Africa: Cyclone Freddy aftermath brings diseases, healthcare gaps

    The devastation caused by the cyclone in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique has increased the spread of cholera and malaria, as well as malnutrition. Meanwhile, more...

    Actress Léa Garcia Was A Pioneer Of Black Consciousness In Brazilian History

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com).  Photos: Paulo MilenoYouTube ScreenshotsWikimedia Commons Actress Léa Garcia‘s legacy in Brazilian history is inextricably intertwined with her career and her lifelong commitment...

    Israel, India Foreign Ministers Talk ‘Strategic Partnership’

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). i24 News – Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen spoke with his Indian counterpart on Thursday, during which the two spoke of...

    Uganda: How Gen. Museveni’s Appalling Deforestation Is Destroying Acholiland

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Okot Nyormoi Climatic change is not a hoax as peddled by conspiracy theorists. We now know that it is caused by...

    Nowhere To Run: Police Brutality In The United States And Africa

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Tania Bore Photos: YouTube Screenshots In the aftermath of George Floyd’s brutal murder on May 25, 2020 by officer Derek Chauvin in...

    Zambia launches national refugee policy

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    News in Brief 31 August 2023 |

    This is the News in Brief from the United Nations. ‘Pervasive discrimination’ against people of African descent must stop: UN chief Countries must take urgent steps...

    Antisemitic Incidents on the Rise in California, Report Shows

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). i24 News – Jews were the number one target of religion-based attacks in California in 2022, according to an official report...

    Iranian IRGC Commander Warns Israel to Expect Further Pogroms Like Oct. 7

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The head of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) has warned Israel to expect more atrocities like those unleashed...

    Big Pharma’s Greed: The World’s Poor People Have A Right To Life-Saving Medicines

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots Here is a simple moral proposition. No one in America, or anywhere in the world, should die or suffer...

    Mastercard spearheads SA digital payments evolution

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    UN underlines need to move forward on peace efforts in Colombia

     Presenting the latest quarterly report by the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, which covers the period from September to December 2023, he expressed hope...

    Hamas Delays Hostage Release, Demands Aid to Northern Gaza

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Hamas said it had decided to delay Saturday’s scheduled second round of hostage releases until Israel committed to allowing aid trucks...

    INTERVIEW: Heatwaves endanger workers and reduce productivity

    Data from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization reveals this July is set to be the hottest month ever recorded.  Heatwaves not only threaten the environment but...