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Sunday 02/December/2018 14:50 PM

The G20’s Africa problem

This has not been an easy year for the G20. The 2018 summit of the leaders of the world’s largest economies is being held in Buenos Aires, a city still...

Saturday 01/December/2018 15:31 PM

Angela Merkel’s long goodbye

With Angela Merkel having announced that she will step down as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and not seek reelection as chancellor when her...

Saturday 01/December/2018 15:16 PM

Uniting Africa for power

African countries are increasingly coming together. A landmark free-trade agreement was concluded earlier this year. East Africa has made great progress on...

Saturday 01/December/2018 14:58 PM

Securing the digital revolution

Pity the person who invests heavily in canals right before the railways start operating. You could understand, for example, why the sponsor of the...

Saturday 01/December/2018 14:33 PM

China’s four traps

On the 40th anniversary of the launch of China’s “reform and opening up,” the country is well on its way to recapturing its former status as the...

Wednesday 28/November/2018 15:51 PM

Closing the TB funding gap

In the 25 years since tuberculosis (TB) was declared a global-health emergency, policymakers and health-care professionals have devoted considerable time...

Wednesday 28/November/2018 15:29 PM

Pollution by the numbers

The Great Chinese Famine, which peaked in 1960, was the world’s largest on record. But the effects of that famine – including its toll of more than 30...

Wednesday 28/November/2018 14:47 PM

Nationalists of the world, unite?

Steve Bannon’s extensive travels in Europe this year have not drawn as much attention as they should have, given that he is the key theoretician of US...

Tuesday 27/November/2018 15:56 PM

Climate change, markets, and Marxism

Brazil’s new foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo, is on record as believing that climate change is a plot launched by “cultural Marxists” to stifle...