The IMF warned that the ongoing infighting in Sudan could undermine the wider region’s economy, citing the Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. These countries are already fragile as they receive waves of Sudanese refugees fleeing infighting and famine, the IMF’s deputy director for Africa, Catherine Pattillo, told AFP. A famine was […]
The House of Representatives adopted, on Wednesday the bill legalizing the use of cannabis for medical purposes. The text on “the legal uses of cannabis, medical, cosmetic and industrial”, was adopted by the House of Representatives with 119 votes for and 48 against. The deputies of the Justice and Development Party (PJD), at the head […]
Dutch King Willem-Alexander apologized on Saturday (1 June) — the day to remember the 160th anniversary of abolition of slavery in the Netherlands — for his country’s role in slavery, acknowledged that racism is still a problem and asked for forgiveness in a historic speech. The Netherlands formally abolished slavery in its colonies in 1863, […]
