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un AIDS Chief calls out racism after people in the South denied visa to attend conference
Angola 170 carat pink diamond discovered in Angola largest in 300 years
Cameroon macrossey's France to open archives on Cameroon colonial era Burkina Faso compare
apologizes to the family of slain Sankara Botswana Botswana hits historic U.N goal
against HIV reports diaspora a new dictionary will document the Lexicon of African-American English
africa-wide U.N AIDS Chief calls out racism after people in the South denied visas to attend
conference Winnie bianima took it to Twitter on July 26 to slam the treatment she received when
boarding a plane in Geneva in the western part of the Swiss Confederation the executive director
of the UN AIDS agency was heading to Canada where the pre-conferences of the 24th International AIDS
conference are scheduled on Wednesday 27th through Thursday 28th the former executive director of
Oxfam International denounced an unjust and racist situation for hundreds from the south
who will miss the conference over Visa issues the incident comes after afro-pop star yemi alade was
barred from performing in Canada after her visa applications were rejected she was expected to
sing on the closing event of the new EDF freak Festival taking place in Montreal on July 24th
Angola 170 carats pink diamond discovered in Angola largest in 300 years
a big pink diamond of 170 carats has been discovered in Angola and is claimed to be
the largest such gemstone found in 300 years called the Lula Rose the diamond was found at
the Lulu aloe vera Diamond Mine The Mines owner The lucapa Diamond Mine Company announced on its
website the Lulu mine has already produced the two largest diamonds ever found in Angola including a
404 carat clear Diamond the pink gemstone is the fifth largest diamond found at the mine where 27
diamonds of 100 carats or more have been found According to lucapa which is based in Australia
the pink diamond will be sold by International Tender by the angolan state Diamond marketing
company sodium Angola's mines make it one of the world's top 10 producers of diamonds
Cameroon Macross says France to open archives on Cameroon colonial era president Emmanuel macro
on July 26 say the archives on French colonial rule in Cameroon would be open in full and asked
historians to shed light on the period Speaking on the cameroonian capital yonde French leader
Macross said he wanted historians from both countries to work together on investigating
the past and established responsibilities French Colonial authorities brutally repressed armed
cameroonian nationalists before the country's Independence in 1960. tens of thousands of
supporters of the Union of the peoples of Cameroon UPC party including independence leader Ruben
umyobe were killed by the French army the cameroonian Army under the country's first
post-independence leader ahmadu ahijo also slayed UPC Fighters former president Francois Holland in
2015 conceded that France's Colonial past in Cameroon brought tragic moments and said
he was open to opening the archives Burkina Faso Campari apologizes to the family of Celine Sankara
Burkina faso's former president Blaise comparis sentenced an Absentia to life in jail for the
1987 assassination of revolutionary icon Thomas and Cara has apologized to the ex-leader's family
comparis his power in the West African nation in a 1987 coup in which Sankar was gunned down
by a hit squad the violent death of his former comrade in arms was a taboo subject throughout
his 27 years in power abukina Court handed him a life term In Absentia in April for his role
in the assassination he returned to Burkina Faso for several days this month without facing arrest
after the country's military leader Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henry sandago de amoeba invited him
in the name of national reconciliation the visit sparked an artcry among Civil Society groups and
political parties Crusade uniting the nation should not come at the expense of impunity
Botswana Botswana hits historic U.N goal against HIV reports Botswana has become the second nation
in the world after eswatini to reach a landmark U.N goal towards eradicating AIDS researchers
stayed on July 27th in what health experts hailed as Stellar results the country has met
the so-called 95-95-95 Target on HIV diagnosis treatment and viral suppression several years
early according to a study published ahead of a global conference on the disease about one in
five people in Botswana live with the virus U.N AIDS wanted 95 percent of hiv-positive
people to know their status 95 percent of those diagnosed on medication and 95 percent of those
under treatment to show signs that the virus is being suppressed in their blood by 2025
but the study led by botswana's Health Ministry found the country had already met or surpassed
all three thresholds with a 95-98-98 score the global average in 2020 was 84 87 90 unaid says
diaspora a new dictionary will document the Lexicon of African-American English
black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used
and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford dictionary of African-American
English the research project is a collaboration between Harvard University's Hutchins Center
for African and African-American research and Oxford University press with Lane Hearts among
the advising editors although there have been projects like this in the past Lane Hart said
none had attempted to focus on African-American language varieties at this magnitude the project
is one of the most well-funded efforts of its kind researchers will pull from
documents including Flyers books and newspapers they will also draw from music oral histories
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