West Africa moves in unison to promote vaccination and curb falsehoods — Poynter

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In West Africa, fact-check­­ers are coop­er­at­ing to expand their influ­ence on local, nation­al and inter­na­tion­al lev­els to curb mis­in­for­ma­tion about vac­cines. Orga­ni­za­tions are band­ing togeth­er, form­ing alliances with inter­gov­ern­men­tal groups and cre­at­ing cross-con­ti­­nent task forces to ele­vate health knowl­edge across Africa. “I think the most impor­tant thing is to high­light how fact-check­­ers lever­age col­lab­o­ra­tion to…

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My First Airplane Trip Without A Mask In Two Years

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https://liveandletsfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Flying-Without-Mask‑2–738x355.jpegI flew yes­ter­day for the first time since the mask man­date was lifted…it was a bit sur­re­al, to be honest…but strange­ly sat­is­fy­ing.  My Air­plane Trip With­out A Mask…Two Years In The Mak­ing I am glad to see the mask man­date come to an end. At the same time, I respect those who choose to continue…

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Bidens to attend next White House Correspondents’ dinner

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This sto­ry, plus law­mak­ers urge Meta to curb Span­ish-lan­guage dis­in­for­ma­tion on con­flict in Ukraine, a look at the impact of acqui­si­tions of local news com­pa­nies and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries Apr 20, 2022 Apr 20, 2022 Apr 20, 2022 Media Busi­ness Apr 21, 2022 Apr 21, 2022 Apr 20, 2022 Press & Gov­ern­ment Apr 20, 2022 Apr 20, 2022…

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Rwanda asylum seeker policy: Ex-PM Theresa May criticises government plan — BBC.com

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For­mer prime min­is­ter There­sa May has crit­i­cised the gov­ern­men­t’s plan to send some asy­lum seek­ers to Rwan­da.  Mrs May told the Com­mons she did not sup­port the pol­i­cy due to her con­cerns over whether it met stan­dards on “legal­i­ty, prac­ti­cal­i­ty and effi­ca­cy”.  Home Sec­re­tary Pri­ti Patel said the scheme would be “a major blow to…

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Venture Capital Firms Invested Record $5.2B in African Startups in 2021 — PYMNTS.com

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Ven­ture cap­i­tal (VC) firms inject­ed a record $5.2 bil­lion into African start­up firms in 2021, a near­ly five­fold increase from 2020 lev­els, which dipped dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, accord­ing to a report by the African Pri­vate Equi­ty and Ven­ture Cap­i­tal Asso­ci­a­tion (AVCA). As Reuters report­ed Tues­day (April 19), the suc­cess of Nigeria’s Paystack, which was…

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Why the World Isn’t Really United Against Russia

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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/league-of-nations-geneva-GettyImages-1181884806.jpg As Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin’s army reduced one Ukrain­ian city after anoth­er to rub­ble, crush­ing civil­ians caught in apart­ment blocks and shop­ping malls under a rain of artillery and mis­sile fire, many observers in the rich world bemoaned the dys­func­tion of the Unit­ed Nations for not being able to over­come an obsta­cle writ­ten into…

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A Door-to-Door Effort to Find Out Who Died Helps Low-Income Countries Aid the Living

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/04/19/science/00sci-sierra-leone-death1/merlin_203167641_4b85b769-4743–4029–9a6d-4ded6abc9af1-moth.jpg Many devel­op­ing coun­tries don’t keep offi­cial death records. A nov­el effort uses “elec­tron­ic autop­sies” to count deaths, and record their cause. FUNKOYA, Sier­ra Leone — Augus­tine Alpha begins gen­tly. “Who lives in this home?” he asks the young man, who has come in from the fields to answer his ques­tions. Your name? Age? Reli­gion? Marital…

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Meet the African women reviving traditional religions — BBC Africa

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Africa is rich with a vari­ety of tra­di­tion­al reli­gions and spir­i­tu­al belief sys­tems. How­ev­er dur­ing the colo­nial peri­od mis­sion­ar­ies spread Chris­tian­i­ty through­out the con­ti­nent, and sup­pressed many of these pre-exist­ing belief sys­tems. Africans con­tin­ued to fol­low their tra­di­tion­al belief, in small­er num­bers than before, and these faiths still exist today. Younger African peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly women, have…

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After Cameroonians in the US Get TPS, A look Beyond the News

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DENVER, USA — (AFRICA NEWS MATTERS) News that an esti­mat­ed 40,000 Cameroo­ni­ans liv­ing in the Unit­ed States may qual­i­fy for Tem­po­rary Pro­tect­ed Sta­tus or TPS rock­et­ed to the top of the charts in the past week.  There are sev­er­al key dimen­sions to this sto­ry — not just the fact that the Cameroon­ian ben­e­fi­cia­ries who are fleeing…

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Second Global COVID-19 Summit to Be Held May 12 

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https://gdb.voanews.com/03a90000-0aff-0242-f82f-08da21623727_w800_h450.jpg Wash­ing­ton —  The White House has announced the Unit­ed States will co-host the sec­ond glob­al COVID-19 sum­mit vir­tu­al­ly on May 12 to dis­cuss increas­ing efforts to end the pan­dem­ic inter­na­tion­al­ly and pre­pare for future vari­ants of the coro­n­avirus. “The emer­gence and spread of new vari­ants, like omi­cron, have rein­forced the need for a strategy…

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