When Singer Lauryn Hill’s 21-year-old daughter Selah Marley took to social media to say she was often beaten by her mother as a child, something that still traumatizes her, she set off a conversation that took on a life of its own.
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NAMIBIA: Nation Rejects Germany’s €10m Reparations Offer For Historical Genocide
Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has turned down an offer €10 million reparations made by Germany for mass killings in its then colony.
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NIGERIA: Price Of Hydroxychloroquine Skyrockets
Reports from Nigeria indicated that the price of the anti-malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine has skyrocketed according to the government’s consumer protection body.
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PHILIPPINES: President Duterte Offered To Be ‘Lab Rat’ For Russia’s covid-19 Vaccine
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has offered to be the first person to be injected with Russia’s coronavirus vaccine even as World Health Organisation cautioned on its safety as pre-qualification assessment and review is yet to be conducted.
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NIGERIA: Sharia Court Sentence Islamic Gospel Musician To Death For Blasphemy
An upper Sharia court in Nigeria Northern state of Kano has sentenced a 22-year-old Islamic gospel musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death by hanging having been found guilty of committing blasphemy for a song he shared on WhatsApp in March.
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Coronavirus Outbreak Force Georgia School Back To Online Classes
A Georgian school that became infamous after a crowded hallway with unmasked students was posted on social media have now been forced to retreat to online studies after 12 students and three staffers tested positive with COVID-19.
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UK: Face Mask Found In McDonalds Chicken Nugget
McDonalds is investigating how a blue surgical face mask end up in a chicken Nugget that a six-year-old girl in Hampshire nearly choked on following a complaint by her Mother. Read More »
Ex-Google Engineer Sentenced Over Trade Secret Theft
Anthony Levandowski, an ex-Google self-driving car engineer and serial entrepreneur at the centre of a lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, has been sentenced to 18 months on one count of stealing trade secrets.
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WhatsApp Introduce New ‘Fact Check’ Feature To Curb Misinformation Spread
WhatsApp has introduced “Search the web”, a new feature that allows users to fact-check content contained in forwarded messages.
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JAMAICA: Court Upholds Dreadlocks Ban In Schools
That a court ruling in Jamaica upheld the ban on kids wearing dreadlocks in schools last week is shocking will be an understatement even as the parents of the seven-year-old insist they will not cut her natural hair.
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