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African News, East/Central Africa, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, September 13th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Carlena Evans, the daughter of famous late African American Actor/Writer, Mike Evans is currently putting smiles on the faces of children in Uganda, East Africa. Her late father, Evans was an actor best known for playing Lionel Jefferson on the 1970s sitcom “All in the Family” and its popular spinoff “The Jeffersons”. […]
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African News, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, West Africa
Tuesday, September 13th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry will travel to Nigeria and Senegal to engage in discussions with government counterparts and the private sector regarding strengthening climate action and the upcoming 27th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The special presidential envoy will arrive Abuja […]
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Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Monday, September 12th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has asked the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to disclose to it the status of payment of license fees by all broadcasting stations and platforms operating in Nigeria and the amount of indebtedness of each of the stations owing license fees. The NBC is a parastatal of the Federal […]
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Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Monday, September 12th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The legendary African American music industry giant and author, Teddy Astin has revealed the twists and turns of his monumental journey from being a 6-year-old paperboy to the warehouse of Warner Brothers Records. In his new memoir entitled, “A Golden Past -And- A Platinum Future”, Astin symbolically describes the journey from his […]
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African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Saturday, September 10th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – This year’s edition of the African Development Bank Evaluation Week aims to will explore ideas on how governments and development partners can use evaluation evidence to inform decisions aimed at building a more resilient Africa. This was disclosed in a statement made available to the media on Friday. The biennial knowledge conference […]
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Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Saturday, September 10th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has rescheduled the approval session for the Synthesis Report (SYR), which will integrate the findings of the Working Groups and Special Reports. The assessment reports which were initially scheduled to be released from 13 to 17 of March 2023, hosted by Switzerland, has been shifted […]
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Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Friday, September 9th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African American Primary Care Physician, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ExtraCare, Dr. Patricia Horace has launched a new telemedicine and walk-in clinic in Texas to address healthcare disparities across the state. The clinic is helping local residents to achieve wellness and ideal health throughout Tarrant county and beyond. Dr. Horace […]
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Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Friday, September 9th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, has reiterated the need to unit and collectively protect education in crisis-prone countries and region of the world. ECW works through the multilateral system to both increase the speed of responses in crises and connect […]
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Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, September 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Lagos urged Nigerians to believe in the capability of the armed forces to safeguard and bring long-lasting peace and stability to the country. Declaring open the 12th Nigerian Navy Games, LAGOS 2022, the President assured Nigerians that the armed forces would continue to sustain their operational […]
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Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Thursday, September 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A newly released book written by African American author, Lauren Wilson addressed a broad range of issues including infidelity, alcoholism and abortion. The book entitled, “Afro-Bougie Blues: A Collection of Short Fiction”, is a collection of twelve short stories about ordinary Black women and men meeting life’s challenges. Each story portrays a […]
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African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, September 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gabon’s Minister of Water, Forest, the Sea and Environment, Prof. Lee White said his country is a net positive country that is fully committed to remain carbon neutral to 2050. The minister disclosed this in his opening remarks at side event of the just-ended Africa Climate Week, which was focused on Nationally […]
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African News, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, September 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Director General of World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has harped on the need for trade policy to be integrated into global climate action. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala made the observation while speaking on Monday at the High Level Africa Adaptation Summit in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to highlight the urgency of climate adaptation funding […]
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African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa and the European Union (EU) have agreed to collaborate in organizing events and expert level exchanges on a number of specific issues, including gender equality, business and human rights and the right to development. The agreement was reached at the 7th EU-South Africa Structured Dialogue Forum on Human Rights which […]
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Business News, Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A renowned and accomplished female entrepreneur, Ms. Sharifah Hardie has inaugurated a digital platform that is aimed at raising funds amounting to $1.5 billion for African American-owned businesses. Dubbed, “Support My Black Business (SupportMyBlackBusiness.org)”, it is a crowdfunding platform designed solely to assist local Black-owned businesses to generate funding and to help […]
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African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Portuguese government have signed a new €400 million guarantee agreement to boost business in six Portuguese-speaking countries in African. The deal which was consummated under the under the Lusophone Compact aims at promoting business ventures in Angola, Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé […]
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African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Werner Hoyer has warned that climate change could wipe out 15 percent of Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2030, which would mean an additional 100 million people in extreme poverty by the end of the decade. Hoyer made the observation while addressing the Africa […]
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African News, Europe, Latest Headlines
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022

(AFRICAN Examiner) – Frontline fund managers will come together next week at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, in the United Kingdom (Uk) to support Africa’s tech innovation boom. From 12 to 16 September, the Boost Africa Technical Assistance Facility and AfricaGrow Technical Assistance Facility will host 40 leading fund managers from select African […]
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IT & Telecoms, Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Monday, September 5th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A renowned Information Technology (IT) guru, Ernest Manning has launched a new social media platform that celebrates Black and Brown culture, unity and love. Manning, a retired Air Force Master Sergeant is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of WeKinFolk.com, an online space that celebrates Black business achievements while building social […]
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Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Saturday, September 3rd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – 31-year-old Tre’Von Dorsey and his wife, 34-year-old Mercedes Teasley-Dorsey, are poised to helping African American entrepreneurs to build wealth in cannabis and hemp industry in the United States of America. The young couple are the founders of CEED, a Black-owned AI-backed, cloud-based digital ecosystem built to help other Black entrepreneurs and innovators […]
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Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Friday, September 2nd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 10-year-old African American girl, Nyla Johnson made history recently when she landed a major book distribution deal in hundreds of stores across the Unites States of America. Nyla, who is an author and entrepreneur from Rochester, Michigan, is celebrating having a nationwide book distribution deal at more than 250 Meijer store […]