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Mint Quick Edit | Poverty isn’t widespread but prosperity needs to be
Latest World Bank figures point to a sharp decline in the ratio of extreme poverty in India. It fell to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in 2011-12, with 269 million individuals lifted out of such indigence during that…
Rich Get Much Richer, Driving Inequality And Poverty
Monday, 9 June 2025, 1:21 pmPress Release: Green Party
The 2025 NBR Rich List makes immediately obvious the need
for a fair tax system, says the Green Party.“The
rich list is now worth more…
Ashipala-Musavyi represents Namibia at China-Africa economic and trade events
Staff ReporterTHE Minister of International Relations and Trade, Selma Ashipala-Musavyi, has arrived in Beijing to take part in the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo (CAETE), scheduled…
SNP calls on Labour to match Scottish Government action on poverty
Ahead of the UK spending review, the SNP asked the House of Commons Library to produce an independent analysis on the number of British children in poverty and the impact that replicating Scottish Government policies across the UK would…
Ghana ranked 9th in Africa with highest outstanding loans to China
Ghana is ranked 9th in Africa with the highest outstanding loans to China, according to data compiled by Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center.
The country’s debt to China…
Africa’s Energy Future: Nigeria and Angola to lead the charge
AFC names Nigeria, Angola as front-runners in Africa’s energy transformation
Nigeria and Angola are now central to Africa’s push for energy security, with the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) projecting that refining capacity on the…
No Longer a Pawn, Now a Player – KT PRESS
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African Renaissance Monument, Senegal. Net Photo.
In today’s shifting global order, Africa is gaining strategic traction in a world no longer defined by a simplistic East-West binary.
With the decline of U.S. global hegemony and…
Portuguese ship leads the inaugural parade of the UN Conference
The historic Portuguese cod fishing ship, built in 1937 and renovated in 2022, departed from Monaco late in the morning, arriving around 5 PM local time in Nice (4 PM Lisbon time) to participate in a parade.
The fleet also included…
The Guardian view on child poverty: free school meals are a help, but not a panacea | Editorial
It was Ellen Wilkinson, education minister in the Attlee government, who announced in 1946 that free school dinners would be introduced, along with free school milk, at the same time as child benefit. No doubt Rachel Reeves, who has a…
PM Hun Manet Departs for Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France
(Phnom Penh): Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet departed Phnom Penh on Sunday (Jun. 8) to attend the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), to be held in Nice, France, from 9 to 11 June 2025,…