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Recently, China has stepped up assistance to support the growing number of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) affected by conflicts, poverty and climatic shocks in several African countries, providing a new lease of life for many on the continent....

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Xinhua Headlines: China takes action as Africa struggles for solutions to forced displacement

Xinhua 12 Feb 2019

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Soweto businesses get full land ownership rights

Independent online (SA) 11 Feb 2019

This is the second time title deeds have been handed over to businesses in Soweto's Diepkloof area, over the last nine months, with an initial 22 recipients having received deeds to premises leased to ... African News Agency (ANA) ....

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Spat over Leased Aircraft

This Day 08 Feb 2019

“The aim of having the Cape Town Convention is to help, especially African airlines to be able to get leases easily and at affordable prices ... However, Nigeria is a signatory to the Cape Town Convention, which helps especially African countries to get access to lease of aircraft ... The post Spat over Leased Aircraft appeared first on THISDAYLIVE....

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Donna Brazile: Homegrown Political Strategist to Lecture at SUNO

New Orleans Tribune 08 Feb 2019

“We have to be present in this moment,” she says of African-Americans in politics ... of Barack Obama, America’s first African-American president ... Donna Lease Brazile holds the historic distinction of being the first African American woman to direct a major presidential campaign....

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A New Era of Justice Seekers: Anthony Graves, Wrongfully Convicted Death Row Inmate, Gives Voice ...

Afro 03 Feb 2019

Imagine spending nearly two decades in prison for a crime you never committed ... Sadly, stories of false imprisonment and wrongful conviction have impacted countless African Americans for decades — from having to deal with the controversial and inhumane convict-leasing system, to flawed public policy that disproportionately impacts African Americans....

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Capitol Digest: Bill requiring regular rental inspections in Omaha advances in Legislature

Omaha World-Herald 31 Jan 2019

The World-Herald’s statehouse reporters round up news highlights from the Legislature and state government into the Capitol Digest — a daily briefing for the political newshound with a busy schedule. Rental inspections ... State Sen ... It was used to arrest African-Americans and force them into involuntary servitude, a practice known as convict leasing ... ....

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A Voice To Be Reckoned With: Wrongfully Convicted Death Row Inmate Anthony Graves Creates New ...

Houston Forward Times 30 Jan 2019

ABOVE. Anthony Graves visits with Forward Times Associate Editor Jeffrey L ... Sadly, stories of false imprisonment and wrongful convictions have impacted countless African Americans for decades – from having to deal with the controversial and inhumane convict-leasing system to flawed public policy that has disparately impacted African Americans....

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Co-Op Bank Inks Deal to Supply 125 Police Cars

All Africa 24 Jan 2019

Co-operative Bank of Kenya's joint leasing venture with South African logistics firm Super Group has concluded a major deal to supply 125 police vehicles worth over Sh890 million .......

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Human remains found in Sugar Land draw attention to dark past

Tyler Morning Telegraph 20 Jan 2019

More than a century later, near the land where Texas prisoners picked cotton under scorching sun amid threats of severe whippings, the discovery of 95 African-American remains at a Fort Bend school ... The convict-leasing system in Texas was also overwhelmingly African-American....

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Activists call attention to human remains at Texas site

Herald-Standard 20 Jan 2019

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Helios Towers buys stake in SA Towers to build 500 cellphone masts

Business Day 18 Jan 2019

Earlier this week, Helios Towers, which owns and leases out 6,560 cellphone masts in Africa, said it was entering the South African market through a joint venture with Vulatel. The company followed that up with an announcement on Friday that it would buy 89.5% of SA Towers for an undisclosed sum ... “The SA Towers pipeline is over 500 urban locations....

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S.C. African-American Museum Already Expanding

Anderson Observer 14 Jan 2019

The Post and Courier reports the International African American Museum in Charleston has entered into a lease with the city that opens a section of the Charleston ......