Tag: Crisis

Benoit ThierryOpinion by Benoit Thierry (dakar, senegal)Monday, July 25, 2022Inter Press ServiceDAKAR, Senegal, Jul 25 (IPS) - Benoit Thierry, is Sahel Office Director of International Fund for Agriculture Development, DakarThe current ...

Nairobi — The United States through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing nearly $255 million in additional emergency food and other critical humanitarian and development assistance to ...

The European Commission on Friday gave the go-ahead to the renewed suspension of crop rotation rules that require European farmers to leave 1.5 million hectares of arable land lying fallow. ...

Nord Stream 1, the pipeline that delivers natural gas from Russia to Germany, was shut down this week for annual maintenance. Typically, this is routine. But typically, a war isn’t ...

As the lingering scarcity of foreign exchange (FX) is hampering their ability to import raw materials, manufacturers in Nigeria are increasingly shifting towards local substitutes. The FX scarcity in Africa’s ...

The U.S. aid chief is urging nations to do more to avert a food crisis in East Africa and singled out China for not doing enough. Samantha Power, the head ...

The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, issued a dire warning on Monday to representatives from 40 countries at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, calling for more concrete action to tackle ...

Nigeria’s oldest airline, Aero Contractors, has temporarily suspended operations over economic crisis. The PUNCH reports that airlines in Nigeria have been lamenting the skyrocketing price and scarcity of aviation fuel, ...

Here are the latest developments from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict on July 17 Here are the latest developments from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict on July 17 Russian forces fired missiles ...

An Italian government crisis, once so frequent as to be a near nonevent, has exposed the fragility of a Europe contending with rising energy prices, a plunging currency, faltering leadership, ...