Report: Governments or ruling factions manipulate data to exclude evidence of famine, delay famine warning
In Gaza, the conflict has imperilled the data collectors themselves, who often are aid workers. At least 337 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since the Israeli operation began, the most ever in a single crisis, according to the UN.
Report: Famine catastrophes result from governments fear of international stigma and political blowback at home for failing to feed own people
Martin Griffiths, who stepped down as UN humanitarian relief chief in June, said shortages of data, money and access to areas where people are starving has created a situation in which “your hands are tied behind your back from the beginning.”
President Macron to replace PM Michel Barnier as France’s political crisis deepens
The fall of France’s government leaves the country without a clear path towards reducing its fiscal deficit and the most likely outcome is less belt-tightening than previously planned, credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) said.
UnitedHealthcare CEO killed in a ‘targeted shooting’ outside New York hotel, police say
UnitedHealthcare is the insurance arm of the healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group Inc. The Minnetonka, Minnesota-based company was scheduled to have its annual meeting with investors in New York City to update Wall Street on the company’s direction and expectations for the coming year, according to a company media advisory.
With a month left of his tenure, Biden is uses visit to Angola to push US interests in African
Joe Biden has long had the nickname Amtrak Joe for the 36 years he spent commuting by US train from his home in Delaware to Washington while in the Senate. He said the Lobito Corridor constituted the largest US investment in a train project outside the country.
Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah wins Namibian presidential election
A mood of change has swept across the region, with parties that led their countries out of white minority or colonial rule in neighbouring South Africa and Botswana both losing their long-held political dominance.
Scramble for Africa’s natural resources ushers in militarisation of China’s foreign policy
China’s expanded African engagements follow its global ambitions. When FOCAC was launched in 2000, China had no peacekeepers in Africa and lagged far behind the United States and Europe in the training of African students, civilian and military professionals. Chinese security assistance was non-existent, and China was absent in African security debates.
Migrants prefer their countries despite surge in poverty, unemployment, insecurity and political crises to settling in US
Organised crime has established extensive human trafficking networks across Mexico, making the journey north through the country treacherous. Mexico is plagued by violence, with around 30,000 people murdered a year and over 100,000 people officially registered as missing.
Biden arrives in Angola to highlight US investments in southern Africa, visit slavery museum
The US has for years built relations in Africa through trade, security and humanitarian aid. The 800-mile (1,300-kilometre) railway upgrade is a different move and has shades of China’s Belt and Road foreign infrastructure strategy in Africa and other parts of the world.
Iraq, deemed economic lung of Iran, targets high fuel oil exports this year via smuggling
In January 2023, a few months after Sudani took over, the price was lowered to $100-$150 a ton, far below the market price for exports, estimated at anywhere between $300 and $500. The lower the price of the subsidised fuel, the higher the profit margin when exporting it on the international market.
