UNWTO launches global guidelines to reopen tourism

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a set of guidelines to help tourism sector emerge stronger and more sustainably from COVID-19. The guidelines highlight the need to act decisively, to restore confidence and, as UNWTO strengthens its partnership with Google, to embrace innovation and the digital transformation of global tourism.   The new guidelines, […]

Africa: Emmanuel Macron calls for a “New Deal”

Three weeks before the summit on the financing of sub-Saharan African economies that will take place on May 18 in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a “New Deal” for Africa. How to react to a “very strong slowdown” of African economies caused by the Covid-19 crisis? Yesterday’s recipes are ineffective, said Emmanuel […]

Burkinabe junta’s security strategy of recruiting cheap militiamen backfires — NYT report

By arming civilians who are poorly trained and have little to no respect for human rights, Burkina Faso’s junta-led government has brought the West African nation that once prided itself on tolerance and peaceful interethnic relations to the brink of civil war, says a latest report by The New York Times (NYT). A West Africa […]