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  • Chinese to build dam on the River Nile

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    Ethiopia, in a bid to accelerate the pace of construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, has signed agreements with two Chinese companies to finish the work. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) formerly known as the Millennium Dam, is a gravity dam….

  • China’s “mega city” corridor plans

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    China’s long-awaited plan to create a high-tech megalopolis on its southern coastline rivalling California’s Silicon Valley generated optimism among Hong Kong’s business community even as key details remain unclear. Hong Kong is an autonomous territory that holds a separate political and economic system from China. Under the principal …

  • Mozambique’s looming debt crisis

    Mozambique’s looming debt crisis

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    Mozambique’s government is scrambling to contain the fallout from a U.S. investigation into the country’s $2 billion hidden-debt scandal, ordering a series of high-profile arrests in early February 2019. Mozambique is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi….

  • US state sue over emergency declaration

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    California and 15 other US states have filed a lawsuit against US President Trump’s national emergency declaration which can bypass Congress to fund the US Mexico border wall. A state of emergency can be declared during a disaster, civil unrest or armed conflict. This can be used as a rationale or pretext for suspending rights…

  • EU-US trade war?

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    The EU has threatened retaliation if Donald Trump imposes punitive import tariffs on European cars, based on the findings of an investigation into whether they pose a threat to US national security. A trade war is an economic conflict resulting from extreme protectionism in which states raise or create tariffs or other trade barriers….

  • Hodeida withdrawal agreed

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    Yemen’s government and the Houthi rebels have agreed on the first stage of a mutual pullout of forces from the port city of Hodeida, a key entry point for humanitarian aid, the United Nations said. The modern Republic of Yemen is a relatively new state. Prior to becoming the modern state of Yemen, several dynasties…

  • MSF suspends work in DRC

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    Doctors without Borders is said to have suspended all non-essential work in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, February 17th, after the abduction of two of its workers earlier in the month. The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world, despite its vast natural resources. The east of…

  • Will the Wall be built?

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    President Donald Trump declared a state of National Emergency at the southern border on February 18, 2019 in order to curb the crossing of illegal immigrants from Mexico into the USA. President Trump’s most polarizing and widely reported proposals were about immigration and border security during his electoral campaign Make America…

  • Northern Macedonia ready for closer ties

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    The newly re-named Balkan country is taking a new place in the world, joining NATO and aspiring to EU membership after ending decades of dispute with Greece. The use of the name “Macedonia” is disputed between the south-eastern European countries of Greece and the Republic of….

  • UK concern over German arms sale ban

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    A German ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia imposed after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has caused growing diplomatic tensions between Berlin and London. UK’s BAE Systems is the first casualty of the arms sale ban instituted by Germany in October 2018. BAE Systems plc is a British….