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All-Star Teams Compete to Win Each Quarter for Local Community Organizations; Format Honors Kobe Bryant and Has Teams Play to Final Target Score in Untimed Fourth Quarter. The NBA (www.NBA.com) announced today a new format for the 2020 NBA All-Star Game designed to increase the level of competition
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Six First-Time All-Stars Among Reserves: Adebayo, Gobert, Ingram, Mitchell, Sabonis and Tatum; NBA All-Star Draft to Air on TNT on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. ET. Former Kia NBA All-Star MVPs Chris Paul of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Russell Westbrook of the Houston Rockets lead the list
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Zimbabwean AI expert William Sachiti, CEO of UK-based start-up [Academy of Robotics](https://www.academyofrobotics.co.uk/) (www.AcademyofRobotics.co.uk) has today published an open-source technology known as ‘Trees of Knowledge’ to improve access to education through smartphones in Africa. This free-to-develop technology enables a tree or rural landmark
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FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said today the Desert Locust upsurge in the Horn of Africa threatened to provoke a humanitarian crisis and appealed for urgent funding to tackle the outbreak in order to protect livelihoods and food security. The locust outbreak is the worst to strike Ethiopia and Somalia for
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For the first time in a decade, investment expenditure rather than consumption accounts for more than half of GDP growth; report calls for urgent investment in education and infrastructure for good returns in long-term GDP; “Youth unemployment must be given top priority. With 12 million graduates entering the labor market
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On January 21, 2020, Ambassador Sun Gongyi paid an official call on Minister of National Infrastructure and Community Development, Mr. Mahendranuth Sharma Hurreeram. Both sides exchanged views on strengthening practical cooperation in the field of infrastructure. Commercial counselor Hu Ming was present at the meeting. Ambassador Sun Gongyi congratulated Mr.
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HE Head of the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco Saad Eddine El Othmani met with HE Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the Kingdom of Morocco Fahad bin Ibrahim Al Hamad Al Mana. The meeting discussed the bilateral cooperation and issues of mutual concern. Read more on https:
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This Thursday, 30 January 2020 – the first World Day for the Fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases – the Democratic Republic of Congo is celebrating its 3rd National Day for the Fight against Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness. “Belgium fully supports the eradication of sleeping sickness in DRC”
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Equatorial Guinea is positioning itself as a hub for gas in the Gulf of Guinea and hopes to deliver where others have failed: developing the first successful cross-border gas venture on the continent. Gas is a key priority for Equatorial Guinea and its neighbors. While Cameroon brought on stream Africa’
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Olivier Salgado, porte-parole de la MINUSMA : Mesdames et Messieurs, Bienvenus à ce point de presse et merci d’avoir fait le déplacement aussi nombreux. Aujourd’hui nous accueillons le Secrétaire général adjoint des Nations unies aux opérations de paix, M. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, avec à ses côtés, le Représentant spécial du
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today, Thursday, 30 January, that it is suspending its operational work at the Gathering and Departure Facility (GDF), fearing for the safety and protection of people at the facility, its staff and partners amid worsening conflict in Tripoli, Libya. “Unfortunately UNHCR was left with
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Malnutrition, air pollution and lack of access to vaccines and antibiotics among the drivers of preventable deaths from pneumonia—which last year killed a child every three minutes in Nigeria Boosting efforts to fight pneumonia could avert over 2 million child deaths from pneumonia and other major diseases in Nigeria,