Africa’s mounting debt burden — now standing at 64.3% of the continent’s GDP — is choking vital investments in health, education, and infrastructure, warns the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Speaking at a recent Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development, UNECA executive secretary Claver Gatete painted a sobering picture: out of 144 Sustainable […]
Tunisia’s Ennahda Party leader Rached Ghannouchi is set to start this Friday September 29 a hunger strike from prison to protest against his detention since April this year. Riadh Chaïbi, a political adviser within the party, made the announcement on Facebook, on Thursday September 28. Ghannouchi has been in prison alongside dozens of others including […]
Credit Suisse has lost its bid to block the lawsuit filed by the Government of Mozambique against the Swiss bank for its role in the 2 billion dollar scandal known as the “tuna deal”, and will thus be brought to trial in October. A UK high court judge on Monday (4 July) refused to strike […]
