Joe Biden addresses America’s ‘original sin’ of slavery on Angola visit

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https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7de2ef7dffc123e32c1926ee31ecc763c3bff560/519_514_5398_3239/master/5398.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8c0c2c40ad7f28b55ca5df71eb0d011aUS pres­i­dent remem­bers ‘stolen men and women and chil­dren brought to our shores’ and lauds Amer­i­can invest­ment in coun­try Joe Biden addressed America’s his­to­ry of enslave­ment in a speech on Tues­day at Angola’s Nation­al Muse­um of Slav­ery, call­ing it “our nation’s orig­i­nal sin” dur­ing a trip in which he also laud­ed recent US invest­ment in…

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US urges Zimbabwe to double down on reforms

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https://gdb.voanews.com/3894dfeb-1068–47ef-929e-1450d106c101_w800_h450.jpegHarare, ZIMBABWE — The Unit­ed States is urg­ing the Zim­bab­we gov­ern­ment to dou­ble down on reforms aimed at return­ing the coun­try to the pros­per­i­ty it once enjoyed. Speak­ing to reporters in Harare on Mon­day, Pamela Tremont, the U.S. ambas­sador to Zim­bab­we, said her coun­try wants to have cor­dial rela­tions with the south­ern African nation. She urged…

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From VOA Persian: Iranian civil activist plans sit-in outside Evin Prison after arrest and release 

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https://gdb.voanews.com/02990000–0aff-0242–4395–08dac58b9c4b_cx0_cy7_cw0_w800_h450.jpegHos­sein Ron­aghi, a civ­il rights activist in Iran, has been hold­ing sit-ins across Tehran with his lips sewn shut in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the demands of Kianoush San­jari, anoth­er out­spo­ken gov­ern­ment crit­ic and for­mer jour­nal­ist who jumped to his death from a build­ing ear­li­er this month in protest against Iran’s author­i­tar­i­an rulers. Ron­aghi was once again…

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Band Aid at 40: ‘It treats Africans as a charity case’ — BBC Africa

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Band Aid’s sin­gle ‘Do They Know It’s Christ­mas’ is cel­e­brat­ing 40 years. The clas­sic char­i­ty song, whose funds were meant to fight famine in Africa, was per­formed by a music super­group and paved the way for a series of char­i­ty con­certs and records. But decades lat­er, some artists now believe it depicts Africa in a…

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Why did Russia vote against a ceasefire in Sudan? BBC Africa

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Rus­sia vetoed a draft UN Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil res­o­lu­tion which called for a cease­fire in Sudan. It was pro­posed by the UK and Sier­ra Leone, call­ing on both sides to imme­di­ate­ly halt hos­til­i­ties and start talks aimed at agree­ing a nation­al cease­fire. Why did Rus­sia veto it? Also, the online trend that has Nige­ri­ans furi­ous­ly tap­ping their…

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