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World Concern Teams Up with Local Churches in South Sudan to Prevent Coronavirus Infections

World Concern Teams Up with Local Churches in South Sudan to Prevent Coronavirus Infections

Image depicts World Concern partners in South Sudan holding banners with COVID-19 prevention information. (Photo courtesy of World Concern via Facebook)

Effective messaging is critical for raising community awareness and knowledge of COVID-19 prevention. See our full coronavirus coverage here. In South Sudan, World Concern teams up with local churches to spread the word.

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Neiman Marcus Adds African-Owned Skincare Brand to Its Premier Beauty Collection

Neiman Marcus Adds African-Owned Skincare Brand to Its Premier Beauty Collection

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Since the start of the Black Lives Matter protests earlier this year, many have demanded that major corporations and institutions do more to advance diversity and inclusion within their business structures. Neiman Marcus announced this week that it will be adding to its premier beauty collection catering to women of color with an African-owned skincare brand, Yangu Beauty.

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ISIS Militants Behead 50 Men and Boys on Mozambique Soccer Field

ISIS Militants Behead 50 Men and Boys on Mozambique Soccer Field

ISIS-linked militants have beheaded more than 50 people and chopped up the bodies of the victims in a brutal attack in northern Mozambique, according to reports.

The militants turned a football pitch into an “execution ground” as they decapitated and chopped up the bodies of villagers in the Cabo Delgado province, state media reports.

Scores of women and children were abducted in Nanjaba…

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Ethiopians Including Army Soldiers Flee Escalating Conflict to Sudan

Ethiopians Including Army Soldiers Flee Escalating Conflict to Sudan

Several Ethiopians, including army soldiers, fled the escalating conflict in the restive Tigray region to neighbouring Sudan on Monday, Sudanese state media and residents said.

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Declaration for Freedom of Religion Signed in Sudan, Moving Country Closer to Religious Freedom

Declaration for Freedom of Religion Signed in Sudan, Moving Country Closer to Religious Freedom

A Christian church service in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan (File photo: World Watch Monitor)

After a two-day meeting, Christian and Muslim leaders in Sudan signed an agreement promoting peace and religious freedom. It’s the first of its kind and a significant step forward.

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Africans Taken Aback by U.S. Election Trmoil

Africans Taken Aback by U.S. Election Trmoil

  For some Africans, President Donald Trump’s actions in the aftermath of the U.S. election have been a cause for dark humour, while others reacted with dismay or disbelief.

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54 People Massacred by Rebels in Ethiopia

54 People Massacred by Rebels in Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Survivors of a massacre by rebels in western Ethiopia on Sunday counted 54 bodies in a schoolyard, the latest attack in which members of ethnic minorities have been deliberately targeted, Amnesty International said Monday.

Human rights groups are asking why federal soldiers left the area just hours before attackers moved in and targeted ethnic Amharas.

Ethiopia’s…

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'They were all dead before they knew what happened:' 27-year-old US citizen who was kidnapped in Niger is rescued by SEAL team 6 in dramatic raid that left six of his captors dead after they demanded $1 million ransom - as President Trump calls it a 'big win'

‘They were all dead before they knew what happened:’ 27-year-old US citizen who was kidnapped in Niger is rescued by SEAL team 6 in dramatic raid that left six of his captors dead after they demanded $1 million ransom – as President Trump calls it a ‘big win’

Philip Walton, 27, was taken from his farm in southern Niger early Tuesday morning by kidnappers armed with AK-47 assault rifles and brought across the border to Nigeria.

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Nigerian Christians Killed, Churches Burned During Protests for Peace and Justice

Nigerian Christians Killed, Churches Burned During Protests for Peace and Justice

Nigerians in Lagos and other communities are protesting alleged police brutality and killings by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other police. The Guardian screen capture

NIGERIA (BP) – An untold number of evangelical Christians are likely among growing deaths in Nigeria amid violence surrounding peaceful protests against police brutality, an advocate for Christians in Nigeria told…

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Will a $335 Million Peace With Israel Secure Sudan’s Religious Freedom? Sudan’s Christians are relieved—and concerned. Their nation’s historic agreement, announced Friday, to normalize relations with Israel does not directly impact their minority community, nor the trajectory of their burgeoning religious freedom.

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Nigerian Christian killed in Fulani ambush attack as violence skyrockets

Nigerian Christian killed in Fulani ambush attack as violence skyrockets

Suspected Fulani extremists murdered a Christian man in an ambush-style attack as he and two others walked home from work.

According to the Emancipation Centre for Crisis Victims in Nigeria, Justine Patrick was 25 when he was killed earlier this month.

He was walking home from work with his coworkers Daniel Gyang and Sele Dung through some maize fields about an hour before sunset on Oct. 14,…

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Opposition leader Wavel Ramkalawan wins presidency in Seychelles

Opposition leader Wavel Ramkalawan wins presidency in Seychelles

A victory for the Seychelles opposition for the first time since 1977 has brought the Indian origin Wavel Ramkalawan to the office of president.

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Gunmen Attack School in Cameroon, Killing at Least Six Children

Gunmen Attack School in Cameroon, Killing at Least Six Children

An empty clasroom is seen following a shooting at a school in Kumba, Cameroon October 24, 2020 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Tamfu Ciduan Ndimbie/My Media Prime TV/via REUTERS

Gunmen stormed a school in Cameroon on Saturday and opened fire indiscriminately, killing at least six children and wounding about eight more in a region where separatist insurgents operate,…

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Oscar Amaechina on What the Nigerian Church Should Learn From the Early Ethiopian Church

Oscar Amaechina on What the Nigerian Church Should Learn From the Early Ethiopian Church

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Oscar Amaechina is the president of Afri-Mission and Evangelism Network, Abuja, Nigeria. His calling is to take the gospel to where no one has neither preached nor heard about Jesus. He is the author of the book Mystery Of The Cross Revealed.

In the course of researching on Christianity in Africa, I came in contact with some mind-blowing strategy that the people of…

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Christian Education Lacking in Sudan's Nuba Mountains

Christian Education Lacking in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

Image depicts a 7th grade class in Sudan. (Photo credit: GPE/Kelley Lynch via Flickr/CC2.0)

More than three million kids between the ages of five and 13-years old are out of school in Sudan, the UN reports. That’s one of the worst education rankings throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

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Bible Translation Work in Nigeria Suffers from Terrorism, the Coronavirus Plague, and Economic Collapse

Bible Translation Work in Nigeria Suffers from Terrorism, the Coronavirus Plague, and Economic Collapse

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Many Wycliffe Associates’ Bible translators in Nigeria have been forced to halt or delay their work due to terrorist activity, COVID-19, and a lack of resources.

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At Least Two Struck as Soldiers Fire on Nigerians Protesting Police Brutality in Lagos Soldiers opened fire on Nigerians protesting against police brutality in the Lekki district of the commercial capital Lagos on Tuesday, striking at least two people, four witnesses told Reuters.