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Why African free trade area could be the game-changer for the continent’s economies
Aug 14, 2020 08:37Most economists see structural transformation as one of the main routes to Africa’s sustainable development. What it means is changing the share of agriculture, manufacturing and services in an economy. It is a central aim of the African Union’s Agenda 2063.
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‘It's a tsunami’: COVID-19 plunges Latin America back into poverty, violence
Jul 10, 2020 08:43As Latin America grapples with a tragedy that has yet to fully play out, there are also growing fears about the coronavirus pandemic’s longer term impact on a region the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects to shrink 9.4 percent this year. Tens of millions are expected to be plunged into poverty and decades of social progress erased.
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Global wake-up call
Jul 05, 2020 10:18The coronavirus pandemic, as horrible as it is, must be a wake-up call that prompts all political leaders to understand that our assumptions and approaches have to change, and that division is a danger to everyone. This understanding could lead people to recognize that the only way to address global fragilities is through much more robust mechanisms of global governance with international cooperation.
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Worst virus fears realized in poor or war-torn countries
Jul 01, 2020 13:19Coronavirus lockdowns are likely the most effective safeguard, but they have exacted a heavy toll even on middle-class families in Europe and North America, and are economically devastating in developing countries. India’s lockdown, the world’s largest, caused countless migrant workers in major cities to lose their jobs overnight.
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US deportations are exporting COVID-19 to Latin America and the Caribbean
May 21, 2020 07:33“United States has been flying migrants on hundreds of deportation flights to at least 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean since the pandemic began in the United States. There have been over 100 cases of migrants deported from the United States testing positive for COVID-19 upon being returned to Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico and Colombia”.
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Three Africans in Mexico City grave tell stories of slavery’s toll
May 08, 2020 19:55The three skulls were unlike hundreds of others in the 16th-century mass grave uncovered at the San José de los Naturales Royal Hospital in Mexico City. Their front teeth were filed decoratively, perhaps as a ritual custom, unlike those of “los naturales,” the Indigenous people who made up the majority of bodies at the colonial burial site. Archaeologists concluded the three individuals were most likely enslaved Africans, but they needed more evidence to be certain.
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Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon
Jan 01, 2020 22:35"The 8.4 million soccer fields of land deforested in the Amazon over the past decade. That’s 24,000 square miles, or about 10.3 million American football fields", says Liberty Vittert, the professor of the practice of data science at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis in a news report titled: Statistic of the Decade: The Massive Deforestation of the Amazon. This news report has been published in the Truthout website.
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End of disastrous 2019, start of unpredictable 2020
Jan 01, 2020 14:22Wednesday marks the start of the year 2020 of the Christian Gregorian calendar that was ushered in at midnight in the West and in societies influenced by western culture.
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Latin America in face of onslaught of imperialism and oligarchies
Dec 08, 2019 11:38Titled: "Latin America in the face of the onslaught of imperialism and the oligarchies," the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement analyzing the current convulsed situation suffered by the people of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Asylum seekers are being misclassified under migrant protection protocols
Dec 01, 2019 19:48The Trump administration has tailored existing asylum policy in a way that leaves many refugees who attempt to gain entry along the U.S./Mexico border without the ability to appeal if their asylum applications are denied, as they’re returned to Mexico with no future court dates and no way to enter the country to find an attorney.