COVID-19 DATA IN MOTION
MARCH 1, 2021
FDA approves Johnson & Johnson vaccine
CBS Evening News
On Saturday, the FDA approved the one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The race to vaccinate is picking up as new variants have been identified
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.CA APPROVES 3RD VACCINE OXFORD-ASTRAZENECA
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Parents await news at .NG school after more than 300 girls kidnapped
Parents of more than 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren wait for information about the abduction by a bandit group in the northern state of Zamfara
#AJEnglish #Ethiopia
Killings in Axum by .ER troops ‘may amount to war crimes’
Eritrean soldiers have been accused of killing hundreds of Ethiopian civilians in a 24-hour massacre late last year. Amnesty International says the attack on the city of Axum came as Ethiopian federal forces retook the capital of the Tigray region after a deadly battle
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LAST AFRIKA COLONY ☼ 55th STATE?
Western Sahara: Polisario accuses UN of supporting .MA
An official of the Polisario Front, Khatri Addouh, accuses the UN of being responsible for the situation in Western Sahara, disputed by Morocco + Polisario independence fighters supported by Algeria / .DZ
MINURSO
Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of Western Sahara S/2020/938
#Haiti #PrisonBreak
Haitian gang leader shot dead after prision escape
In one of the most violent prison breakouts in the history of .HT, more than 400 prisoners have escaped from jail, with nearly 25 people pronounced dead
#AJEnglish #UK #COVID19
Some minority communities in the UK reluctant to get COVID jab
Almost twenty million COVID vaccinations have been carried out in the UK. But there is concern some in minority communities are at risk because they do not want to take the jab.
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.CI becomes second country to receive COVAX vaccines
Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) has become the second country in the world to receive coronavirus vaccines from the COVAX initiative, which was created to ensure that low- + middle-income countries have fair access
#UnitedNations
Yemen, Myanmar, Syria & other topics
Daily Briefing (1 March 2021)
Africanews (en Français) EN DIRECT
(When Available / Quand Disponible)
La première chaîne mondiale d'information pour l'Afrique
Reasons SOA calls "The Star Spangled Banner" Star-Spangled White Supremacy and why it shouldn't be honored by black people! (and SOA says NEVER 'KNEE' to Oppressors)
'terror of flight or glooom of the grave'
Spangled White Supremacy
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Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in Ameri-KKK-a
Eerie drone footage of a Boston
ghost town in early 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic began
thanks to BOSTONGLOBE.com
BOSTON LIVE
Mayor Walsh hosts a media availability to discuss updates relating to COVID-19
MARCH 1, 2021 @ 1 PM
GLOBAL MEDIA BRIEFING on COVID-19
26 FEBRUARY 2021
GOV. BAKER COVID-19 UPDATE
MARCH 1, 2021 @ 10 AM
Today Governor Baker + Lt. Governor Karyn Polito will join HHS Sec'y Marylou Sudders, Bishop John M. Borders, III & BMC President & CEO Kate Walsh to tour the vaccination site at Morning Star Baptist Church in Mattapan
O Sons + Daughters of Afrika
Flesh of the Sun Flesh of the Sky
Let us make Afrika the Tree of Life
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NOW IN 6 LANGUAGES - ONLY 1 AFRIKAN