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November 15, 2023

Fast Fashion Is Antithetical to Workers’ Rights

Don’t believe the fashion industry’s stated commitment to support a living wage for Bangladesh’s garment workers ’Tis the season for holiday shopping, and as American consumers ready their spending dollars, few of…

August 28, 2023

The Truth about Microfinance

Tags: Finance Anita Rathod learned about microfinance from a neighbour a decade ago. She joined a group of local women to secure small loans — worth a few thousand rupees at a time…

August 21, 2023

Disappearing Fish Spell Hard Times for Women in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s ballooning informal sector has, in recent years, spawned the over-exploitation of the country’s natural resources, with the fisheries taking some of the most felt battering. Amidst challenges brought by economic hardships,…

June 28, 2023

  Our planet is imploding: when will we act to save ourselves?By Julian Cribb   While much of humanity was glued to the unfolding drama over one tiny submarine, the Earth we all…

April 24, 2023

The geopolitics of debt in Africa

Massive exposure of some African economies to Chinese-owned debt is making it difficult for Beijing to sustain official narratives that suggest equality with African countries. Tim Zajontz, Ricardo Reboredo and Pádraig Carmody…

November 12, 2022

Where Coffee Is Grown but Rarely Consumed, a Shift

In Uganda, people grow coffee to export but rarely consume it themselves. Now a push to dispel myths about the beverage and introduce new ways to use the beans is changing that.…

July 6, 2022

Central African Republic launches Bitcoin hub

The Central African Republic has launched its government-backed cryptocurrency hub called Sango – named after one of the country’s official languages. President Faustin Archange Touadéra launched the hub on Sunday in a…

December 9, 2021

The Hell of Migrants By José Blanco

The hell of migration today is extreme. Women and men, often with children, or children without parents, face the most brutal social, political, climatic, geographic and criminal obstacles, as they march along…

September 15, 2021

Arundhati Roy on America’s Fiery, Brutal Impotence

The US leaves Afghanistan humiliated, but now faces bigger worries, from social polarisation to environmental collapse, says the novelist and essayist. For reasons of narrative symmetry if nothing else, as the US…

March 1, 2021

Egypt-Ethiopia: Difficult Negotiations

The latest round of Egyptian-Ethiopian negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), brokered by former African Union (AU) president Cyril Ramaphosa, ended without agreement, adding another episode to the chain of…

March 1, 2021

To Farm or Not to Farm in Developing Countries

The week has been an interesting one full of global challenges, with escalating violence propagated by the military coup in Myanmar, resulting death of a young protester from a bullet wound[i], the…

February 5, 2021

Haitians intensify struggle against president Jovenel Moïse

Haitian citizens, social movements, trade unions and opposition political parties are demanding the resignation of president Jovenel Moïse, who seeks to extend his term of office until February 2022, which according to…

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