• Etiopia

    Letarik Alemayehu

    Name: Letarik Alemayehu Education: BA in Literature Company Name: Letarik Advertising and Printing Studio Title: Owner and Managing Director Founded in: 2013 What it does: Advertising, event organizing and printing HQ: Near Plaza Hotel Number of employees: 30 Startup capital: 1,800 birr Current capital: 2 Million birr Reasons for starting ...

  • USA Etiopia

    Revisiting the Washington Consensus

    Two features have characterised International Economic Law during the recent period of rapid and seemingly unrestrained economic globalization: its emergence as the most important field of international law and its close association with the ruling paradigm of development, as embodied in the celebrated Washington Consensus. Its importance is confirmed by ...

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    Climate change-poverty-migration: The new, inhuman ‘Bermuda Triangle’

    Source: Inter Press Service Country: WorldRural areas of developing countries, where often poor households have limited capacity to cope with and manage risks, are forecast to bear the brunt of higher average temperatures.By Baher Kamal ROME, Jul 7 2017 (IPS) World organisations, experts and scientists have been repeating it to satiety: climate change ...

  • USA

    Child under-nutrition costs DRC economy $1 billion a year

    Source: Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, African Union, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Food Programme, New Partnership for Africa's Development Country: Democratic Republic of the CongoDRC could save up to $383 million by 2025 if the prevalence of underweight children is reduced from ...

  • Regno Unito

    South Sudan has little to celebrate at sixth independence day

    Source: Catholic Agency for Overseas Development Country: South SudanJuly 9 marks the sixth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence, but the promise of the world’s youngest country is marred by hunger and conflict, as millions of people still face starvation.9 July marks the sixth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence, but the promise ...

  • Regno Unito

    Worldpay emerges as a winner in the war on cash

    Vantiv’s £9bn deal to buy its UK rival shows that ecommerce is big business. Banks are playing catch-up

  • Turchia

    Turkey’s Malatya apricots get coveted EU geographical brand

    After a three-year wait, Turkey’s famous home-grown apricot has earned a coveted EU geographical indication, boosting hopes of bolstering the fruit’s export and marketing.

  • Russia USA Iran Giordania

    Putin and Trump agree Syria ceasefire - Lavrov

    Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump agreed on a ceasefire in southwestern Syria during talks at the G20 summit, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today. The truce, agreed during talks held in a "constructive atmosphere", would start on July 9, Lavrov told reporters. US Secretary of State ...

  • USA

    German states send more police to Hamburg as G20 violence escalates

    Protesters injured at least 160 police officers, torched cars and lorries and broke into a locked-down metro station today, seeking to wrest control of the streets of Hamburg as leaders from the world's biggest economies met nearby. The escalating violence prompted Hamburg's police to call in reinforcements from around Germany to ...

  • Malta

    MSE Share Index retreats from over 3-month high

    The MSE Share Index trended lower for the first time in the last three trading sessions as it slipped by 0.13% to 4,723.692 points from its highest level in over three months of 4,729.757 points. The declines in the share prices of IHI (-1.6%), BOV (-0.4%) and Farsons (-0.4%) outweighed ...