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Breaking: Township residents lose illegal power connections in South Africa

Residents of the Diepsloot township, Johanesburg, South Africa have no electricity so most of them are forced to install illegal lightning rods to be able to live with power. But the authorities have however now come to tear out these illegal electricity connections. Eskom technicians were in Diepsloot on Tuesday morning to remove illegal electricity […]

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NEWS: Feeding the homeless affected by Covid in South Africa

Volunteers in South Africa are feeding needy humans on a sports activities subject the place stray bullets from gang struggle are a day by day hazard. The group, in Lavender Hill outside Cape Town, hand out food to homeless people and youngsters every day. They feed some 300 human beings twice a day, after the […]

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Entertainment: ‘I Was So Broke, I Could Only Live In A Shelter’ – Tiwa Savage

Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, has revealed some important details from her life while in New York. The award-winning Afro-pop artist was treated to a surprise party for her album launch organized by singer, Lami Phillips and former beauty queen cum fashion entrepreneur, Elizabeth Elohor. At the party, some notable Mavin crew members such as Don […]

UN reports highest number of refugees ever recorded

The UN refugee agency says the number of asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and refugees worldwide shot up by nearly nine million people last year – the biggest rise in its records. In its annual “Global Trends” report released on Thursday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says that the 79.5 million […]

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Kenya: Lockdown poverty exposes African sex workers to more violence

Peninah Wanjiru wasn’t really one to take chances. Her friends said the 35-year-old Kenyan sex worker was careful how she conducted business at her home in Majengo, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Nairobi, where she only allowed clients in for a “quickie”. But on the night of May 7, a curfew imposed to […]

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Economic distancing: 60 million face extreme poverty – World Bank

The coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences could push as many as 60 million people into extreme poverty. The World Bank warns that the progress made over the past three years in the fight against poverty could be wiped out. Living on less than $1.90 per person per day is how the financial institution defines […]

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Museveni describes the poverty in Uganda

President Museveni has said Ugandans will remain poor if they spend much of their time sleeping instead of engaging in productive activities. “We Ugandans and Africans have big problems that have stagnated our progress, that is; either we sleep and do nothing or we wake up and do things without mathematics and the result of […]