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GONAIVES, Haiti—The United Nations will launch a global appeal for $30 million in emergency aid to help Haiti recover from floods that killed hundreds of people, the executive director of Unicef said on Wednesday on a visit to the impoverished Caribbean nation. “The situation is quite devastating here,” said Carol…

West Africa’s verification and fact-checking platform, Dubawa, has started the induction of twenty-six fellows into its 2021 class of fact-checkers to combat misinformation in the sub-region. The platform, under the aegis of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, announced the commencement of the yearly fellowship in Abuja on Monday. …

SEN. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson has sought an immediate inventory of government properties amid President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to sell some of them to fund the pandemic response. The senator on Wednesday voiced support for the President’s plan to sell some government properties to finance the vaccine rollout. “An audit and…

Two Republicans have launched their bids for governor of Arizona in hopes of succeeding incumbent Gov. Doug Ducey in 2022, who will not be running due to term limits. State Treasurer Kimberly Yee became the first major Republican to jump into the race on Monday, followed hours later by developer…

Olusegun Bamgbose, National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, CAGG, has told Senate President, Ahmed Lawan that Nigeria cannot survive beyond 2023 without restructuring. According to Bamgbose, people such as the Senate President who are opposed to restructuring or national dialogue would have themselves to blame later. He noted that…

As a longtime real estate developer based in Chile, Benjamin Labra was able to spot gaps in the buying and renting markets in Latin America. To meet demands, he started Houm, an all-in-one platform that helps homeowners rent and sell their properties in the region. Fresh out of Y Combinator’s…

I’ll spell it out in a nursery rhyme... She sells seashells by the sea shore, but the value of these shells will fall, due to the laws of supply and demand, no one wants to buy shells cos there’s loads on the sand. Step one: you must create a sense…

Charles Oliveira is the new UFC lightweight champion. He earned that title with a TKO win over Michael Chandler in the early going of the second round of their UFC 262 main event matchup. With his title winning finish, Oliveira moved his winning streak to nine straight fights — all…

“The Colonial Pipeline crisis shows that we need more American energy to fuel our economy, not less.” So tweeted Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, shortly after a cyberattack prompted Colonial to shut down a pipeline serving huge chunks of the East Coast. McCarthy chided the Biden administration for canceling the Keystone…

A senator investigating reports of the DoD tracking US citizens without warrants says that he is unable to share his findings with the public. Senator Ron Wyden says that, although he received responses from the Department of Defense, the answers given to him included classified information. Wyden is calling for the…