[Coronavirus\African Students in China]
Kanzira, a 25-year-old Ugandan medical student, is among thousands of African students living in Wuhan, the central Chinese city of 11 million people currently under lockdown due to a rapidly spreading coronavirus.
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AFRICAN STUDENTS IN CHINA FEEL ABANDONED BY AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS AMID ONGOING CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA TRAVELS TO BRAZIL FOR 11TH BRICS SUMMIT
[Africa News\South Africa]
BRICS is an association of five major emerging countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – which together represent about 42% of the global population, 23% of GDP, 30% of the territory and 18% of the global trade.
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NBA COMMISSIONER SILVER TO CHINA’S GOVERNMENT: WE WILL NOT REGULATE NBA’S FREE SPEECH
[Sports\NBA]
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver: Values of equality, respect and freedom of expression have long defined the NBA — and will continue to do so. As an American-based basketball league operating globally, among our greatest contributions are these values of the game… The NBA will not put itself in a position of regulating what players, employees and team owners say or will not say on these issues. We simply could not operate that way.”
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AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION CONVENES 11TH AFRICAN PRIVATE SECTOR FORUM IN MADAGASCAR THIS NOVEMBER
[African News]
“The African Union Commission through the Department of Economic Affairs, is convening the 11th African Private Sector Forum set to be hosted in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on the 6-8 November 2019. The forum will be held under the theme of ‘Transforming African economies through private sector mobilization and capitalization of experiences from other regions of the world”.
Photo: African Union website screenshot
REP. WATERS TO AMERICAN FARMERS: DENOUNCE DONALD TRUMP’S LIES REGARDING CHINA TRADE WAR
[Trump and China Trade]
Rep. Maxine Waters on Trump’s China trade war: “Donald Trump’s trade wars have caused tremendous suffering among American farmers, so much so that the USDA has offered a total of $28 billion over the past year to farmers adversely impacted by retaliatory tariffs.”
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