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Private lenders, not China, dominate debt repayments from poorer nations — study

Lower-income countries are paying private creditors nearly three times more than they repay China, according to new research by UK-based advocacy group Debt Justice, challenging dominant narratives around global debt. Between 2020 and 2025, 39% of the $354 billion in external debt repayments from 88 low-income countries and small island states will go to private […]

Mauritanian President Leaves Paris Hospital after Treatment

President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania has left on Wednesday the Percy Hospital in Paris where he had been treated for the gunshot wounds he was inflicted on October 13 in what was officially described as a “an accidental shooting”. According to a presidency official, President Abdel Aziz was in good condition and went […]

Negotiations on Renaissance Dam in Washington went well

Delegations from Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan met in Washington on Wednesday around President Donald Trump to continue discussions over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The meeting was extended to the US Secretary of the Treasury and the President of the World Bank. President Trump said in a tweet that “the meeting on the Grand […]