French charity Secours Catholique recently published its annual report on poverty. The NGO, which helped around 1.4 million people in 2019, estimates that their median income is €537 per month, well below the poverty...
Ethiopia fighting: Number of refugees fleeing to Sudan surpasses 20,000
The number of people who have fled into Sudan from the #conflict in northern #Ethiopia has risen to at least 20,000, the U.N. #refugee agency and local officials said on Sunday. FRANCE 24’s Maria Gerth-Niculescu...
Asia form world’s biggest trade bloc, a China-backed group excluding US
Fifteen #Asia-Pacific economies formed the world’s largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a #China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had left a rival Asia-Pacific grouping under Donald Trump. FRANCE...
Music show: Katy J Pearson on making a debut comeback album
Katy J Pearson nearly gave up on music and songwriting after being burnt out by a major record label which had picked up the band she’d formed with her brother when she was in her late teens. Luckily for us, the...
The French President vs. the American Media
IN THE PRESS – Monday, November 16, 2020: Papers warn that the conflict in Ethiopia could destabilise the region as it spills into neighbouring Eritrea and refugees flee to Sudan. Meanwhile, The New York Times’s...
“We demand transparency, we want justice!”: Peru now has no president as crisis takes chaotic turn
#Peru was without a president Monday after Congress failed to agree on a successor to interim leader Manuel #Merino, who resigned following days of street #protests against him. Merino announced he was stepping down...