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Entertainment Lifestyle 

New Music Video Becomes Anthem for National Opioid Crisis Awareness Campaign

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New Music Video Becomes Anthem for National Opioid Crisis Awareness Campaign – Music Industry Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for music industry professionals · Friday, April 28, 2023 · 630,565,529 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics Newsletters Press Releases Events & Conferences RSS Feeds Other Services Questions?… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Alayo Melody Singer inks deal with Sammek Entertainment, set for US tour

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Multi-award-winning musician, Akinola Ayoola Michael, prominently known in the Nigeria social circles as Alayo Melody Singer, recently returned to the country from his successful United Kingdom (UK) musical tour. Alayo has again extended his fast-rising music career as he has signed a new deal with wave-making promoter, Sammek Entertainment, a US based international music promoter. With this new development, the… Read More
Africa 

Relatives of missing Kenyan cult followers wait anxiously for news of their loved ones

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As the number of victims linked to a suspected starvation cult in Kenya climbed to 95 on Wednesday, relatives have been anxiously waiting for news of their loved ones at a morgue in the coastal town of Malinda. Last week, investigators unearthed mass graves on the property of cult leader Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, accused of driving his followers to death… Read More
Africa 

Thousands of Sudanese families cross into Egypt to flee fighting

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Thousands of Sudanese have been crossing the northern Arqin border into Egypt as they flee fighting in their country between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that erupted in mid-April. Buses are lining up at the border area and families have been sleeping outside in the desert, waiting to be let in to the neighbouring country. “I left… Read More
Africa 

UN humanitarians will return to Khartoum ‘as quickly as possible’: UN aid coordinator

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Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Abdou Dieng, speaking from Port Sudan, told reporters in the briefing room in New York that senior leadership would be returning to the Sudanese capital, as soon as the situation allows. The needs are urgent, and widespread, he said, as the final few hours of a US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire neared, with fighting continuing. Hundreds have been… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Sudan War: First set of Nigerian evacuees expected Friday – NiDCOM Chairperson

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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau Barring any unforseen circumstances that can truncate earlier plans made by the Federal Government, the first set of Nigerian evacuees from war-torned Sudan are expected to arrive in Nigeria on Friday aboard Air Peace Boeing 777 jetliners. This cheering news was dropped by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) Chairperson, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa on… Read More
Human Rights 

New UK law curtails key civil and political rights: UN rights chief

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called the Public Order Bill “deeply troubling legislation”, after it completed its passage through parliament on Wednesday. “It is especially worrying that the law expands the powers of the police to stop and search individuals, including without suspicion; defines some of the new criminal offences in a vague and overly broad manner;… Read More
Europe 

Regional stability still at risk without ‘increased commitment’ to negotiations: UN Kosovo mission chief

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UN Special Representative and head of the UN Interim Administration Mission, Caroline Ziadeh, told ambassadors that the most recent Secretary-General’s report on developments in Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008 but is not recognized by Serbia, “included serious challenges as well as an important collective effort to bring Belgrade-Pristina relations nearer to stability and normalisation.” She acknowledged recent tensions, “even… Read More
Pacific 

China: ‘Vocational training’ programmes for Tibetans carry risk of forced labour

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“Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have reportedly been ‘transferred’ from their traditional rural lives to low-skilled and low-paid employment since 2015, through a programme described as voluntary, but in practice their participation has reportedly been coerced,” they said in a statement.  ‘Cultural and political indoctrination’  They noted that the labour transfer programme is facilitated by a network of ‘vocational training… Read More
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