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Tanzania: Let It Flow Water Scarcity

Tanzania: Let It Flow

Water, essential to all life, plays a particularly important role in the lives of Tanzanians living near Mbarali River, part of the larger Rufiji River basin in southern Tanzania. Here, farmers use water from the river to irrigate their crops. Cattle herders guide their animals to its banks to drink…
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March 19, 2020
Zimbabwe Begs White Farmers To Return As Nation Teeters On Brink Of ‘Manmade Starvation’ Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe Begs White Farmers To Return As Nation Teeters On Brink Of ‘Manmade Starvation’

Crisis-torn Zimbabwe is on the brink of “manmade starvation” with most households unable to obtain enough food to meet basic standards, a UN envoy has said. This comes 17 years after Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwean government seized large swathes of land from white farmers in the country, triggering a rapid downturn in…
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March 19, 2020
Only Multilateralism Can Save Us Trade War

Only Multilateralism Can Save Us

Between a coronavirus pandemic and collapsing stock markets, the global economy may be in a worse situation than it was during the 2008 financial crisis, because America has all but slammed the door shut on international cooperation. And yet, without a multilateral response, the US will suffer as much as…
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March 19, 2020
Convoy of Italian army trucks haul away corpses as local crematorium flooded with coronavirus dead (VIDEO) Matteo Salvini

Convoy of Italian army trucks haul away corpses as local crematorium flooded with coronavirus dead (VIDEO)

The Italian military has been called in to help transport dead bodies as the northern city of Bergamo reels from the ongoing coronavirus epidemic. The city’s crematorium is reportedly now working around-the-clock. The head of Lega Nord, Matteo Salvini, posted a photograph on Twitter showing a seemingly endless line of…
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March 19, 2020
‘I don’t think it’s going well’: Turks see little upside to country’s military involvement in Syria NATO

‘I don’t think it’s going well’: Turks see little upside to country’s military involvement in Syria

Turkey's recent military operations in Syria highlight the tightrope Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is walking between East and West — and especially between his NATO partners and Russia, writes Margaret Evans.Many Turks are skeptical of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's insistence that the country continue to be militarily involved in…
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March 19, 2020
World leaders rush in to shore up panic-hit global financial system Chinese Economy

World leaders rush in to shore up panic-hit global financial system

LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy on Thursday as coronavirus cases ballooned in the new epicentre Europe, with the number of deaths in Italy outstripping those in mainland China, where the virus originated. With over 242,000 infections and nearly 10,000 deaths, the…
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March 19, 2020