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Marrakech Hosts Global Forum on Investments in Food & Agriculture

Public funding alone is not enough to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) said participants in the Global Forum organized Tuesday in Marrakech by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), FAO and EU. They also called on international financial institutions to leverage private investments to tackle global challenges in food and agriculture. The […]

Somalia, the world’s most corrupt nation owing to terrorism, armed conflict — study

Somalia sits at the bottom on the list of 180 countries of the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index by Berlin-based corruption watchdog Transparency International, which blames terrorism and armed conflict in the east African country for creating world’s biggest breeding ground for corruption. The never-ending conflict in Somalia remains the leading cause of the runaway corruption, […]

The EU and State-Building in Failed States: European Engagement in Afghanistan

Failed states are considered as one of the most potent threats to international peace and security – soft security threats and risks in terms of organized crime, terrorism, illicit drug trafficking, illegal migration to money laundering, originating from failed and fragile states are the major security challenge in the post Cold War era. Failed and […]