Source: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Cluster Munition Coalition Country: WorldAccording to the Landmine Monitor, 2015 marked a 75% increase from the number of casualties caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance recorded for 2014, while clearance funding keeps declining. Alarm at mine victim rise Landmine report finds global casualties at 10-year high while ...

Une question essentielle se pose : si la mondialisation ne convient plus aux pays qui en sont le cœur nucléaire, alors peut-être est-ce parce qu’elle profite surtout aux pays de la périphérie dont fait partie l’Algérie. L’argumentaire du Brexit et du vote Trump le laissent penser. Ils reprochent à la ...

A free trade agreement between Turkey and Pakistan will be ready to be signed in December, according to Ankara’s ambassador to Islamabad.

Pakistan’s top civilian and military leaders traveled to the country’s southwest on Sunday to open a new international trade route by seeing off a Chinese ship that’s exporting goods to the Middle East and Africa from the newly built Gwadar port. The first convoy of Chinese trucks carrying goods for ...

Source: World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UN Children's Fund, GAVI Alliance Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, WorldIn 2015 the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan accounted for half of the unvaccinated infants and 75 per ...

La información fue confirmada por el superintendente de bancos, Ricardo Fernández. 

I was called to Bar here in London just over 55 years ago. June 16, 1959, to be precise by Lincoln’s Inn. A few weeks later I returned to Kenya. The big law firms then were all European and before independence it was their stated policy not to accept Asian ...

Malta remains the most difficult place to do business in the whole of the European Union, according to the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings that were released on Tuesday.On a global level Malta climbed slightly in this year’s World Bank assessment, by four spots from 80th place last ...

Source: World Health Organization, UN Children's Fund Country: IraqToday, on World Polio Day, the Ministry of Health, with support from UNICEF and WHO, launched a week-long nationwide campaign to immunize Iraq’s children against polio. Bagdhad, Iraq – Today, on World Polio Day the Ministry of Health with support from UNICEF and the ...

Source: World Health Organization, UN Children's Fund Country: IraqToday, on World Polio Day, the Ministry of Health, with support from UNICEF and WHO, launched a week-long nationwide campaign to immunize Iraq’s children against polio.Bagdhad, Iraq – Today, on World Polio Day the Ministry of Health with support from UNICEF and the ...

Source: UN Human Rights Council Country: AfghanistanDue to a deteriorating security situation, displacement is becoming more protracted for more people, a United Nations expert on internally displaced persons explained.KABUL / GENEVA (20 October 2016) – A United Nations expert on internally displaced persons (IDPs), Chaloka Beyani, today called on the Government ...

WASHINGTON- The revision of Investment Bill will help Algeria to attract an important flow of Foreign Direct Investment, forecast the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In its report on the prospects of growth for the region of Middle-East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan (Moanap), the Fund said that the countries ...

Nearly 200 nations have reached a deal to limit the use of greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide in a major effort to fight climate change.The talks on hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, were called the first test of global will since the historic Paris Agreement to cut carbon emissions ...

Source: Amnesty International Country: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Myanmar, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, WorldWealthy countries have shown a complete absence of leadership and responsibility, leaving just 10 countries, which account for less than 2.5% of world GDP, to take in 56% of the ...

Source: International Crisis Group Country: AfghanistanInternational donors and the government should look at the rapidly deteriorating economy before this and an escalating humanitarian crisis merge to reach a dangerous critical mass, says the ICG.Donors and Afghan state agencies must urgently tackle an economic crisis building up since 2014, when foreign troops ...

Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: South Sudan, Uganda, WorldUNHCR’s protection chief says commitments adopted at the UN Summit in New York on 19 September will revolutionize the international community’s engagement with refugees and migrants.UNHCR’s protection chief, Volker Türk, says commitments adopted at UN Summit will revolutionize the international community’s ...

ODM leader Raila Odinga and a new team of strategists have crafted a multi-pronged tactic to discredit President Uhuru Kenyatta’s first four years in power. The strategy, rolled out by a newly formed strategic group and a strike force––both in his inner circle––aims at massively stepping up pressure to unseat Jubilee. The ...

ODM leader Raila Odinga and a new team of strategists have crafted a multi-pronged tactic to discredit President Uhuru Kenyatta’s first four years in power. The strategy, rolled out by a newly formed strategic group and a strike force––both in his inner circle––aims at massively stepping up pressure to unseat ...

Source: Guardian Country: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, WorldJim Yong Kim told the Guardian he would tell the WEF in Davos every year to point the finger at governments that failed to tackle a scourge affecting tens of millions of children.Exclusive: Bank chief Jim Yong ...