IMF raises red flag over Tanzania’s bleak economic outlook-report

Credit to Pinterest Dar es Salaam. Tanzania requires urgent financial support of $1.1 billion (1.5 percent of GDP) in the next 12 months to avert a potential economic fallout arising from the Covid-19 pandemic and the rising import bill linked to rising crude oil prices. According to The East African reported. The International Monetary Fund

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Usyk outclasses Joshua to claim world heavyweight titles

Boxing – WBA, IBF & WBO Heavyweight Titles – Anthony Joshua v Oleksandr Usyk – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain – September 25, 2021 Anthony Joshua in action against Oleksandr Usyk Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge Reuters By Martyn Herman Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk dethroned world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in his own backyard with a

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Priti Patel’s Political Paradox: The effect on Refugees and those Seeking Asylum

Refugees By African Exponent What this means for future refugees? Across recent headlines, Priti Patel came under fire for her inability to solve the so-called “Channel Crisis” as a record (for this year) 828 people arrived in the month of August 2021. This was highlighted by rising tensions between the Home Secretary and her French

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Taliban hang body in public; signal return to past tactics

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – A dead body hangs from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan, on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2021. A witness told The Associated Press that the bodies of four men were brought to the main square and three of them were moved to other parts of

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The latest suicide car bombing rocks in Mogadishu

Multiple people were killed in Somalia’s capital on Saturday after a suicide car bombing that targeted a security checkpoint near the presidential palace, police said. According to Anadolu Agency reported. “There are multiple casualties from the attack but we don’t know exactly how many people have been killed or wounded” Abdi Hassan Mohamed, a police

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Britain expected to ease visa rules as truck driver shortage bites

Lorries are seen at an HGV parking, at Cobham services on the M25 motorway, Cobham, Britain, August 31, 2021. REUTERS/Peter Cziborra/File Photo Reuters By Michael Holden Britain is expected to announce plans to issue temporary visas to truck drivers to alleviate an acute labour shortage that has led to fuel rationing at some filling stations

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Is it a bluff? Some in Hungary and Poland talk of EU pullout

FILE – In this May 21, 2017 file photo, supporters of Hungary’s political opposition display a banner during an anti-government protest, at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary. When Hungary and Poland joined the European Union in 2004, after decades of Communist domination, they thirsted for Western democratic standards and prosperity. Yet

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German millionaires rush assets to Switzerland ahead of election

Women relax on the banks of Lake Zurich on a sunny spring day, as the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues, in Zurich, Switzerland March 23, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann. Reuters By Oliver Hirt A potential lurch to the left in Germany’s election on Sunday is scaring millionaires into moving assets into Switzerland, bankers and tax

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Dutch court rules boy can receive coronavirus jab despite father’s objection

By Anadolu Agency Boy petitioned court to visit seriously ill grandmother after receiving vaccine A court in the Netherlands ruled in favor of a 12-year-old boy to get the coronavirus vaccine despite his father’s objections, according to a statement on Thursday. The statement on the decision in northern Groningen said the judge ruled in the

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Chinese banks try to calm fears about developer’s debts

The Evergrande headquarters, left, stands in Shenzhen, China, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. Seeking to dispel fears of financial turmoil, some Chinese banks are disclosing what they are owed by a real estate developer that is struggling under $310 billion in debt, saying they can cope with a potential default. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Associated Press

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