A total of twelve Ghanaians have been killed by Covid in New York as nine new deaths were recently disclosed. This comes after three people; two women and a man, were confirmed to have succumbed to the disease in March.
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by ASTRID GALVAN, PHILIP MARCELO and CLAUDIA TORRENS | Associated Press
The $2.2 trillion package that Congress approved to offer financial help during the coronavirus pandemic has one major exclusion: millions of immigrants who do not have legal status in the U.S. but work here and pay taxes. This includes a lot of African, Latino and Asian immigrants all across America
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By Cholo Brooks | Global News Network
PHILADELPHIA – Mr. Jucontee Thomas Woewiyu, who served as Defense Minister for Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front (NPFL) has fallen prey to the deadly hands of COVID 19, according to the FPA quoting family sources, Mr. Woewiyu died in the US city of Philadelphia.
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Amewoke Adamaley is one of hundreds of foreign-trained doctors in the state who face hurdles to practicing in America.
By JOEY PETERS | SAHAN JOURNAL
Amewoke Adamaley graduated from medical school seven years ago and has been in the health care sector ever since. But he isn’t working as the doctor he’s trained to be. Instead, he’s a nursing assistant at M Health Fairview University of Minnesota’s east bank hospital. That’s because Adamaley, who earned his medical degree from Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China, has a tougher pathway to practicing medicine in the U.S. than doctors who were trained in America.
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By Pep Junia | EnewsGH
Leader of the largest growing poetry/hip hop movements in Canada called R.I.S.E Movement Zakisha Brown has shared her Year of return story in her new single.
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By PHILIP ONYANGO | Daily Nation
Felmas Koranga is set to become the first player from Kenya to play in the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division One League in America after signing for Troy University. Koranga, was named the 2020 Women Basketball College Association (WBCA) Player of the Year in the just concluded National Junior Collegiate Athletics Association (NJCAA) League where she played for Tyler College.
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BY ERYN MATHEWSON | THE UNDEFEATED
Aliphine Tuliamuk, Sally Kipyego and Abdihakem “Abdi” Abdirahman, three of the six runners who make up the the U.S. Olympic marathon team All three runners are African-born American citizens and vary in how they identify: American, African American, Kenyan or Somali American, black. But they all agree on the title: marathoner.
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By Saybin Roberson | LOS ANGELES SENTINEL
British-Nigerian comedian Gina Yashere is telling it like it is. A self-made star, Yashere is enlightening the world and informing the culture one joke at a time. Born and raised in London to Nigerian parents, Yashere began her journey into adulthood studying engineering. However, one day while working on elevators, she decided to make a switch. A naturally funny and charismatic young lady, Yashere took to stand up comedy and the rest was history.
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By FREDERIC MUSISI | Daily Monitor
At least three Ugandans succumbed to the virus last week; two in New York, and one in New Jersey, according to diplomatic sources. The deceased have been identified as Maria Giita, Edward Ssengendo Mugerwa, and a one Mugerwa, a resident of New Jersey.
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By Cynthia Simba | Mshale
Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Pauli attorney Ngozi Akubuike has her sights set on a new position. After a long multi decade legal career Akubuike is running to be a Ramsey County judge.
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By MARTIN SIELE | Kenyans.co.ke
Former US President Barack Obama’s Kenyan half-brother, Malik Obama, is set to publish a new tell-all book uncovering details of relations within the Obama family that have long stayed hidden from the public eye. Malik, who has in recent years cultivated a large following among American right-wingers due to his support of President Donald J. Trump, announced that the upcoming book would be titled Big Bad Brother from Kenya.
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By MAYA RAO | Star Tribune
Khadija Ali has seen the interpreting side of her language business in Minneapolis drastically decline amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The local governments, universities and health care clinics that used to hire her staff aren’t calling as much as they reduce face-to-face interactions.
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In the 1970s, amid changing tastes and a growing population from Ethiopia and Eritrea, chef Desta Bairu’s DC restaurant won national attention. The woman in the kitchen, not so much.
By Mayukh Sen | VOX
Desta Bairu, a native of the Eritrean city of Asmara, had spent her 17 years in America trying to make injera. At first, nothing seemed to work.
Continue reading “With a single restaurant, she made Ethiopian food an American fascination. So why did fame elude “Mamma Desta”?”
By Cedric Kekeli | GhanaWeb
Every year, in the month of March, American colleges release their much-anticipated admission decisions to millions of eager college-bound students from all over the world. This year 49 Ghanaians were admitted into elite universities in the USA on scholarships. Some of these schools include Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Caltech, Cornell, Williams, Dartmouth, and others.
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By ABDIRAHMAN MOHAMED | SAHAN JOURNAL
Minnesotans like Nadira Mohamed have found themselves drawn into the state’s “all hands on deck” approach to mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic. Nadira received an email from a professor at the University of Minnesota’s College of Pharmacy asking students and faculty for help in creating masks for medical staff. Just weeks away from graduating with her doctorate in pharmacy, Nadira knew that her mother, Hawa Elmi, was the perfect person to turn to for assistance.
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By Alex Zidel |HNHH
It’s not every day that you hear about a rapper from Egypt making waves in America but, with the internet, anything is possible. The rising star has been expanding his network and his new seven-song project Glo Up gives us a good taste of what he’s about.
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Writing “The Girl With the Louding Voice,” about a 14-year-old employed as a housemaid, challenged how the novelist viewed a common practice in her native Nigeria.
By Concepción de León | New York Times
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By News Agency of Nigeria
The Consul General of Nigeria in New York, Mr Benaoyagha Okoyen, has confirmed the death of three Nigerians from the coronavirus disease in the United States. Okoyen made the announcement in a statement in New York on Saturday evening.
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By TED PERTON
A senior Kenya Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner captain has tragically passed away, a week after commanding a repatriation flight to New York City, USA. Captain Daudi Kimuyu Kibati, became ill on March 29th, he died on April 1st, a week after performing his last international assignment for Kenya Airways.
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By Hilary Kimuyu | NAIROBI NEWS
A Kenyan-American teenager has been accepted into 11 prestigious universities in the US after she completed high school. Sharon Njeri Wambu, whose parents immigrated to the US from Kenya, received acceptance to 11 top universities including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Cal Poly Pomona, and Vanderbilt.
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Nigerian-Born Kansas University senior Udoka Azubuike and sophomore Devon Dotson were each named to the 10-member 2020 Men’s Wooden Award All-American Team, the Los Angeles Athletics Club announced Wednesday. Additionally, Azubuike was named one of five finalists for the 2020 Wooden Award. The men’s and women’s Wooden Award All-American teams were selected by the Wooden Award National Advisory Board.
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BY MONICA ANDERSON AND PHILLIP CONNOR | PEW RESEARCH CENTER
As the annual number of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa to both the United States and Europe has grown for most years this decade, a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and Eurostat data finds that sub-Saharan immigrants in the U.S. tend to be more highly educated than those living in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Portugal – Europe’s historically leading destinations among sub-Saharan immigrants.
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By Dr. Tarig Elhakim | THE HILL
When I won the diversity lottery and emigrated to America in 2016 from my native Sudan, I never imagined I’d be one of America’s health care soldiers fighting against a global pandemic. Nowadays it is required for me to have my temperature checked every time I walk into the Miami hospital where I work. When the thermometer comes out, my heart starts racing as I hope for a reading of less than 100. It’s an experience I share with other health care workers in my institution, many of whom are immigrants or first-generation Americans.
Continue reading “I’m a Sudanese-born doctor fighting America’s war against the coronavirus.”By Adwoa Gyasiwaa Agyeman | Adom Radio
Three Ghanaians living in New York have succumbed to Covid 19. The Information Officer at the Consular office of the Ghanian Embassy in New York, Kofi Ameyaw, confirmed this during a radio interview in Ghana.
He said the deceased were two women and a man who was also a pastor in New York.
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By Carlos Echeverria-Estrada and Jeanne Batalova|Migration Policy Institute
There were very few sub-Saharan Africans in the United States just a few decades ago, with under 150,000 residents in 1980. Since then, immigrants from some of the largest sub-Saharan countries, such as Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Somalia, and South Africa, have settled in the United States. Overall, more than 2 million immigrants have come from the 51 countries that comprise sub-Saharan Africa, making up 84 percent of the 2.4 million immigrants from the entire African continent. The remainder are from the six countries of North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia.
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