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Brazil’s President No Longer a Shoo-In After the Recession

Sluggish growth in Latin America’s largest economy is a blow to incumbent Dilma Rousseff.

Norway’s agency to boost fertilizer supply to 850,000 African smallholder farmers

The African Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) has received a $10.15 million financing from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) destined to support agricultural projects for small scale farmers in Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda. NORAD’s contribution will enable the AFFM to provide credit guarantees for up to 36 months in the three countries, with the […]

UN Security Council holds closed-door consultations on Sahara Issue, large support to Morocco’s autonomy initiative reverberates

The UN Security Council held, in New York, closed-door consultations on the Moroccan Sahara issue. These regular consultations are provided for by Council Resolution 2654 adopted last October 27. According to well-informed sources at the UN headquarters, the members of the Security Council were briefed on Wednesday by the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the […]