2022-06-04: News Headlines

Paul Adepoju (2022-06-04). [World Report] Nigeria's new law aims to provide health insurance to all. thelancet.com In Nigeria, where only 3% of the population has health insurance coverage, a new law has been signed to provide coverage for all. Paul Adepoju reports.

Vijay Prashad (2022-06-03). Africa, the collateral victim of a distant conflict: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2022). mronline.org Debt hangs over the African continent like a wake of vultures. Most African countries have interest bills that are much higher than their national revenues, with budgets managed through austerity and driven by deep cuts in government employment as well as the education and health care sectors.

Editor (2022-06-03). African Liberation Day 2022: Smash neo-colonialism! mronline.org The age of classical colonialism in Africa changed the course of history. Exploited trade agreements and pseudo alliances between African nobility and European merchants led to heightened warfare, looting, and genocide across the continent.

_____ (2022-06-03). Paris Lost Direction or What's going on in Mali? journal-neo.org Franco-Mali relations have been feverish for the past two years, following the August (2020) coup in Mali, when President Ibrahim Boubacar KeàØta was replaced by the military. And for an outside observer it looks like a bout of split personality in Paris. France has announced, since June 2021, through the mouth of its President E. Macron, …

Staff (2022-06-03). Iran ready to send humanitarian aid to Kenya, African states. en.mehrnews.com Iranian Foreign Minister told his Kenyan counterpart that Tehran is ready to send humanitarian aid including medical assistance such as vaccines to Kenya and the African Continent.

Ann Brown (2022-06-02). NY State Sen. Jabari Brisport: Slaves Helped Build NY, Reparations Are Long Overdue. moguldom.com On June 1, California's first-in-the-nation reparations task force released its first interim report. The in-depth and extensive report "surveys the ongoing and compounding harms experienced by African Americans as a result of slavery and its lingering effects on American society today." This was an historic move by California. Many are wondering is New York State could …

Staff (2022-06-02). White House Black aids exodus shows racial discrimination. en.mehrnews.com Secretary-General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights has said that the exodus of African American staffers from the White House shows the existing systemic racism in American society.

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