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NBA star Pascal Siakam donated over 150 laptops to youth in Toronto.

Here are 5 humanitarian crises happening in Black and brown countries that aren’t getting as much attention as Ukraine.

"This is the gold standard of how everyone should be treated," UndocuBlack's National Director of Policy and Advocacy Haddy Gassama wrote in an op-ed. "So, we're putting into question why Black migrants, in particular, are not allotted the same level of empathy and humanity." 

Critics feel that prior to the election, ICE ramped up deportations and abuse among Black asylum seekers, as an estimated 16,000 immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa are being held in detention centers across the U.S.

Obama has made the decision to send 300 troops to Cameroon to assist in the effort to curb the Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

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Boko Haram Kidnaps the Vice–Prime Minister of Cameroon’s Wife Boko Haram, the brutal militant group best known for abducting around 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in April, has kidnapped the wife of Cameroonian Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali, as well as her maid, the BBC reports. (Ali himself managed to escape.) The attack took place at the Ali […]

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Buea, Cameroon (NewsOne) — Grace of God Philanthropic Foundation Orphanage (pictured), which is located in Buea, one of the cities of the West and Central Africa Country of the Republic of Cameroon, is a nonprofit organization that has been taking care of orphans and underprivileged children since 2004. On Saturday, the organization was able to […]

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Douala, Cameroon (NewsOne) Training youths in entrepreneurship in Douala, which is one of the main cities of the West and Central Africa nation of the Republic of Cameroon, La Tribune Des Savoirs, an association that promotes youth entrepreneurship to ensure job creation and reduce unemployment since February 2010, took part in World Entrepreneurship Week last […]

From October 14th, NewsOne — as well as other invited journalists — will be on location in the West African country of Cameroon to see why the country is on the rise. In the coming days, learn about why Cameroon is referred to as “Africa in the Microcosm” with a number of features and reports […]

From October 14th, NewsOne — as well as other invited journalists — will be on location in the West African country of Cameroon to see why the country is on the rise. In the coming days, learn about why Cameroon is referred to as “Africa in the Microcosm” with a number of features and reports […]

From October 14th to the 23rd, NewsOne — as well as other invited journalists — will be on location in the West African country of Cameroon to see why the country is on the rise. In the coming days, learn about why Cameroon is referred to as “Africa in the Microcosm” with a number of […]