Some of the major tech firms have either pulled their facial recognition technology or put a pause on its use. This after the anti racism movement gained strength and a case where the tech proved its racial biases

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The humble delicious drink enjoyed all over the world has ignited a transatlantic beef on social media , it's a storm in a teacup.

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As one of the measures against COVID-19 South Africa put up a multi-million dollar fence on part of its border with Zimbabwe. Busy border crossings with Zimbabwe were also shut in March. But with a food crisis looming, thousands of Zimbabwean are illegally crossing the border to buy essentials in South Africa and food smuggling has become big business as South African journalist Graeme Hosken explains.

After the skirmishes in Ladakh between India and China, many Indians have taken to a boycott Chinese products campaign to send a message to Beijing. But will it work?

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#BoycottFacebook calls grow again over the site's lack of action against hate content

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K-POP fans organised to spoil US President Donald Trump’s Tulsa Rally. It’s not the first time that the world’s most influential fan armies have put themselves into political mobilisation and it certainly won’t be the last.

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On June 19th in 1865, Slavery officially ended in America. In the century and more that has followed the experience of Black Americans has seen the first black president along with systemic racism, mass incarceration and deprivation. Now, with the anti- racism movement at perhaps its strongest point, there is a greater impetus to recognize what June 19th meant then and what it means today - Here's Adama Munu with more.

Newsfeed spoke to Kwame Shabazz, an Africologist and lecturer in Africana Studies, who explains about the origins of this important day and other things you may not have known about how enslaved African-Americans were freed.

As India says its troops were killed fighting China for the first time in 45 years, it’s hypersensationalist media has engaged in a war of its own.

It has called for Indian state to mobilise into action against China. However the Chinese state media have hardly mentioned the most serious confrontation with its neighbour in decades

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Thousands of semi-nomadic Fulani herders are stuck in Senegal's Louga region, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the ethnic group is already facing a series of challenges to their pastoral way of life. Will coronavirus be their biggest threat yet? Adama Munu explains.

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