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Dege Eco Village

Dege Eco Village

DEGE Eco Village in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania is a satellite township under construction. The $550million project kicked off in 2014 and is nearing completion. It covers an area of 1,21 km2 and intends to offer decent housing to middle, higher and even lower income earners. [origincode_photo_gallery_wp id="6"]
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LGBT+ Americans inch closer to ‘freedom’ as House passes Equality Act

LGBT+ Americans inch closer to ‘freedom’ as House passes Equality Act

MATTHEW LAVIETES  LGBT+ Americans have moved a step closer to winning legal protection from discrimination as the U.S. House of Representatives passed a key civil rights bill backed by President Joe Biden. By a vote of 224 to 206, the House passed the landmark Equality Act, which amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes in addition to race, religion, sex and national origin. The vote closely followed party lines, with only three Republican lawmakers supporting the bill. "Without the Equality Act, this nation will never live up to its principles of…
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Anti-gay uproar shuts Ghana first LGBT+ centre

Anti-gay uproar shuts Ghana first LGBT+ centre

ANITA BHALLA  ANTI-GAY outcry has forced Ghana's first LGBT+ community centre to temporarily close to protect its staff and visitors three weeks after it opened, its founder said yesterday. Church groups, politicians and anti-gay rights organisations have called on the government to shut down the centre, run by local charity LGBT+ Rights Ghana, and arrest and prosecute those involved. "We did not expect such an uproar," said Alex Kofi Donkor, director of LGBT+ Rights Ghana, which hosted an opening event on January 31 attended by European and Australian diplomats. "We expected some homophobic organisations would use the opportunity to exploit…
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Trans model Munroe Bergdorf urges social media giants to tackle abuse

Trans model Munroe Bergdorf urges social media giants to tackle abuse

RACHEL SAVAGE WITH online abuse pushing her to quit Twitter, transgender model Munroe Bergdorf has called for social media companies to act faster to tackle racism and transphobia on their platforms. The Black trans model, who said she regularly receives threats and waits hours for racist comments about her to be deleted, called on social media firms to invest in minorities to design algorithms to better protect themselves from abuse. "If you can censor a nipple and a picture gets taken down with a nipple on it straight away ... then why can't you develop an algorithm that targets transphobic…
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Black, gay and happy: is Hollywood ready for that?

Black, gay and happy: is Hollywood ready for that?

HUGO GREENHALGH DIRECTOR Lee Daniels says he's "a little ghetto, a little homo" and worries the world might not be ready for his next big idea. "I really want to do a gay superhero movie," the Oscar-nominated director told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. And then a gay love story - only one that ends well, too. "I want the guy and guy to walk off happy at the end," the 61-year-old said via a video call from his home in Los Angeles. "I want it to end beautifully," he said. "Some of the major Hollywood gay love stories that have…
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No schmoozing and boozing as the Indaba mining jamboree goes online

No schmoozing and boozing as the Indaba mining jamboree goes online

WENDELL ROELF and TANISHA HEIBERG THE prospect of chasing cocktails and contacts in the shadow of Table Mountain draws executives and officials from around the world to Cape Town each year for Africa's biggest mining conference. But this year the Investing in African Mining Indaba is online only and has been cut to two days rather than four as a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps South Africa. For the mining industry, it means not only foregoing Cape Town's famed wines, vistas and sun but also a key deal-making and networking opportunity - not to mention the blow to…
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Mozambique president dragged into debt scandal

Mozambique president dragged into debt scandal

A Lebanese shipbuilder at the centre of a $2 billion debt scandal in Mozambique said it made payments to its now-president and ruling party in 2014, but said these were legal campaign donations not bribes, according to a London court filing. Privinvest said payments made to President Filipe Nyusi in the run-up to his election and to the Frelimo party were allowed under Mozambican law, according to the January 15 filing at London's High Court. The case relates to a series of tuna fishing, maritime security and shipbuilding projects in which Privinvest was the sole contractor and for which Mozambique…
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Nigeria to use drones to deliver vaccines

Nigeria to use drones to deliver vaccines

LIBBY GEORGE NIGERIA’S Kaduna state has signed a deal with medical delivery firm Zipline that will allow drone shipment of COVID-19 vaccines without significant state investment in cold-chain storage, the company has announced. Kaduna's partnership with Zipline, which delivered more than 1 million doses of other vaccines in Africa over the past year, will also enable on-demand delivery of blood products, medications and other vaccines. "It will help ensure that millions of people in Kaduna State will always get the care they need," Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai said. Zipline said its end-to-end cold chain distribution capability, which can safely deliver…
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COVAX allocates at least 330 million COVID vaccines for poor countries

COVAX allocates at least 330 million COVID vaccines for poor countries

THE COVAX coronavirus vaccine sharing scheme has allocated at least 330 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for poorer countries in the first half of 2021, the GAVI vaccine alliance said yesterday. The allocation includes an initial 240 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India, an additional 96 million doses of the same shot made by AstraZeneca, plus 1.2 million doses of Pfizer -BioNTech'S COVID-19 vaccine. Publishing an interim distribution plan, the COVAX Facility, which is co-led by GAVI, the World Health Organization, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and the U.N. Children's Fund,…
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Guinea says China will donate 200,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses

Guinea says China will donate 200,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses

CHINA will donate 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Guinea, the West African nation's foreign minister Ibrahima Khalil Kaba told Reuters yesterday. China's ambassador in Conakry announced the donation in a meeting on Tuesday, Kaba said. He did not specify which Chinese-developed vaccine would be donated or when the doses would arrive. While vaccination campaigns are well underway in many wealthy countries, limited early access to vaccines made by Western drugmakers means most African countries have yet to launch inoculation drives. So-called vaccine diplomacy by China and Russia is cultivating goodwill in parts of the world after pharmaceutical companies including…
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