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East Africa: Weaker Currencies Increasing EA Debt Payments Burden

https://allafrica.com/stories/202011060408.html Countries in Eastern Africa are facing a rise in debt resulting from the global pandemic Covid-19. Monetary authorities are worried about the the current rise in the fall of their currency value. Between only 4 countries, the debt accumulated to 86 billion dollars in just 1 year. Kenya has managed to lost 7.4 per cent to their dollar, Uganda… Read more »

Highly Trained Teaching Professionals are Critical to Advancing Africa’s Knowledge-Based Economies

https://allafrica.com/stories/202011030841.html The Africa’s Unions has recently released their vision for the 206 year. That seems like very far away, but in reality in order to succeed that far away and reach those goals- it starts by implementing things now. A big conversation in these goals are the improvement in education through better teacher training. They have implemented numerous amounts of… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Child Marriages Worry Chimanimani Communities

https://allafrica.com/stories/202011060411.html In a village in Chimanimani, locals have been seeing a larger growing number of young girls not go far into their education, only reaching their “ordinary level” instead of the two levels after this. Why is this happening? well, in addition to noticing this statistic, they have also noticed with this has come an increase in child marriage. A… Read more »

Zambia: Govt’s Debt Crisis Worsens

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https://allafrica.com/stories/202010160255.html A debt crisis is not unfamiliar to a lot of countries. Zambia has been dealing with this issue for sometimes now and the government is trying to devise a plan to help this. During a Parliament meeting, people worried that this wasn’t an issue that had been addressed. However, Dr Ng’andu came out and said that excluding “Eurobond payments… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Militarisation Worse in Post-Mugabe Era – ZDI

https://allafrica.com/stories/202010160323.html As United States citizens, it is hard for use to imagine not being able to express civil liberties without the backlash of military, and government violence. In Zimbabwe- this is their everyday. Although it is limited the media, and what is displayed globally is remotely good and shows a somewhat democratic country, it is the opposite. This articles exposes… Read more »

President Announces Plan to Revive South African Economy

https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00075302.html Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the African economy dropped tremendously. The President Cyril Ramaphosa has introduced a new plan to help the South African economy grow and recover. This plan offers 6 billion dollars to help job creation- hoping to create up to 800,000 thousand jobs for the residents. Additionally, the government will invest 60.4 billion dollars into an… Read more »

We Cannot Risk Our Lives By Drinking Dirty Water

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Article Link It seems impossible to imagine life without clean water, let alone going days, or even weeks without any water (clean or dirty) at all. Many families and people residing in the Mngazana Village in Port St. Johns go months without clean drinking water, and in addition, sometimes weeks without any water at all. The village received new pipes… Read more »