News highlights, late November 2016

Trump and Africa:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/11/10/donald-trump-and-africa/

DRC and elections:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/29/too-little-too-late-drc-congo-kabila/?utm_content=buffer6d9e7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Fisheries, China and West Africa:

http://qz.com/842381/photos-chinese-fishing-fleets-are-dominating-and-potentially-depleting-west-africas-seas/

Slavery, Children:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/nov/24/child-labour-what-can-we-do-africa-modern-slavery

UN and South Sudan:

http://www.peaceau.org/en/article/the-chairperson-of-the-au-commission-welcomes-the-agreement-between-the-un-and-the-government-of-south-sudan-on-the-deployment-of-the-regional-protection-force?utm_source=Email_marketing&utm_campaign=Sunday_November_27_2016_-_1&cmp=1&utm_medium=HTMLEmail

News highlights, late October 2015

Aid and cash:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/welfare-reform-direct-cash-poor/407236/?utm_source=SFFB

Problem with aid to local agencies:

http://www.irinnews.org/report/102029/emergency-aid-obstacles-to-going-local

ODI report on UN SDGs:

http://www.developmentprogress.org/sites/developmentprogress.org/files/scorecard_report.pdf

Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize winner:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/12/why-angus-deaton-deserved-the-nobel-prize-in-economics/?utm_content=buffer3fbce&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Literature and Africa:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/man-booker-shortlist-2015-the-fishermen/409399/

News highlights, early October 2015

Fishers and Gaza:

http://english.pnn.ps/2015/06/03/occupation-targets-farmers-and-fishermen-injures-1-in-incursion-east-of-rafah/

UN SDGs, women and fisheries:

http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/women-and-the-sdgs/sdg-14-life-below-water

Bollore and investment in Africa:

http://www.jeuneafrique.com/263769/economie/au-coeur-des-bluezones-de-bollore/

EU, Human rights, sanctions and Gambia:

http://venturesafrica.com/can-the-hrw-report-and-eu-funds-withdrawal-change-the-gambias-political-atmosphere/?utm_source=Copy+of+Ventures+Monday+14th+September%2C+2015&utm_campaign=PR%2C+Africa+Business%2C+Africa+Economy%2C+Africa+Entrepreneur%2C+Ventures+Africa&utm_medium=email

Industrialising through trade:

http://www.un.org/en/africa/osaa/pdf/pubs/2015era-uneca.pdf

EU sanctions on Burundi:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOL_2015_257_R_0009

News highlights, early June 2015

 

EU caving in to Russia:

http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=60229

UN angry at EU migration plan:

https://euobserver.com/justice/128853

Gaza war:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/may/29/gaza-killing-gets-easier/

HSBC and money laundering:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/05/hsbc-money-laundering-procedures-flaws-too-bad-to-be-revealed

Occupied territories and home destruction:

http://www.irinnews.org/report/101579/the-catch-22-for-palestinian-villages-in-the-west-bank