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Kenya’s debt to remain high

Kenya Kenya’s cost of servicing its debts is expected to remain stubbornly high, ratings agency Moody’s said on Wednesday, as the government leans on the domestic debt market to fund its budget shortfalls. The East African nation has one of the highest debt interest costs to revenue ratio in the world, Moody’s said, and spends […]
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Tackle climate change now UN court says

United Nations The United Nation’s top court says failing to protect the planet from climate change could violate international law.   Nations failing to tackle climate change could violate international law, the United Nations’ top court said on Wednesday, and the consequences could be expensive.   In a landmark advisory opinion, the International Court of
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Israeli strikes kills 21 in Gaza

Israel Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 21 people late Tuesday and early Wednesday. More than half of those killed were women and children, health authorities said. Desperation is mounting in the Palestinian territory of more than 2 million, which experts say is at risk of famine because of Israel’s blockade and nearly two-year […]
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Agian, US leaves UNESCO

USA “President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO — which supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November,” White House deputy spokesperson Anna Kelly told the New York Post on Tuesday. UNESCO and the White House did not […]
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Trump leaves coffee producers in the dark

USA In the north of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, expectations for this year’s coffee harvest are clouded by uncertainty, after President Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports to the United States.  For small producers in the region, the tariffs news hit like a bombshell. “We had high expectations until about a […]