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AfricaFocus Bulletin
May 11, 2022 Africa/Global: Debt, IFFs, and Inequality in Africa
“43 African governments are facing expenditure cuts totalling $183 billion
(equivalent to 5.4 percent of GDP) over the next five years, reveals new
analysis from Oxfam and Development Finance International (DFI) today. If
these cuts are implemented, their chances of achieving the UN’s Sustainable
Development Goals will likely disappear.” - Oxfam International and
Development Finance International
April 21, 2022 Africa/Global: Climate Put on Back Burner by War
While media attention focuses on the cost in human lives on the ground in Europe, the direct and indirect effects are also leading to many more lives lost around the world, not least in vulnerable countries on the African continent, according to a report issued on April 13 by the United Nations. The direct effects alone are projected to devastate the world economy (https://reliefweb.int/report/world/global-impact-war-ukraine-food-energy-and-finance-systems).
March 25, 2022 Africa/Global: Updates from AfricaFocus
This is the first AfricaFocus Bulletin since January. Towards the end of that
month, major issues with my home office computer systems crippled the
interface which I normally use to publish the Bulletin, and catching up on a
variety of medical issues also limited what I could do. Nothing life
threatening, but lots of doctor appointments.
January 19, 2022 USA/Africa: Bronx Fire Devastates Gambian Community
“This is the heart of the problem. If housing vulnerable people is an asset
class – not a social good, or a human right – then generating returns for
investors will always be in a zero-sum relationship with providing safe
housing for those people. Landlords will always be in the middle; and when
they’re taking sides, as they must in housing for profit, investors will
always win.” - Annia Ciezadlo
December 23, 2021 USA/Africa: Pandora Papers Keep Giving
2021 was a banner year for attention to national and international tax reforms to reduce tax evasion and avoidance, with legislation in the United States spearheaded by the FACT Coalition and a global reform deal proposed by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). But the Pandora Papers also demonstrated the pervasive scale of illicit financial flows that siphon off wealth into an “offshore” world of secrecy.
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November 23, 2021
Africa/Global: From Climate Denial to Deceit and Delay
November 2, 2021
Africa/Global: The Heat is On! Time to Act!
October 15 , 2021
Africa/Global: Hardly a Dent in #VaccineApartheid
August 26, 2021
Mozambique/Global: “Most Egregious Corruption Case of the 21st Century”
July 27, 2021
USA/Global: Let Cuba Live!
July 27, 2021
USA/Africa: Building Back Better? Or Not?
June 14, 2021
USA/Global: Bad Days for Big Oil (except in the GOP)
May 31, 2021
Mozambique/Global: Fossil Fuels, Debt, and Corruption
May 31, 2021
Mozambique/Global: War, Intervention, and Solidarity
May 17, 2021
Africa/Global: Decolonizing Medical Technology
May 3, 2021
Africa/Global: African-Language Literature in Global Scholarship
April 19, 2021
Confronting Global Apartheid Demands Global Solidarity
April 6, 2021
Africa/Global: People's Vaccine vs. Vaccine Apartheid
March 22, 2021
Sahel: Questioning Counterterrorism?
March 8, 2021
USA/Global: Taxing the Tech Giants
February 22, 2021
Africa/Global: The Inequality Virus
February 8, 2021
Ethiopia: No End to War in Devastated Tigray
January 26, 2021
Africa/Global: Distant Horizon for Vaccine Equity
December 14, 2020
Africa/Global: State of Tax Justice 2020
November 30, 2020
USA/Africa: Build Back Better on Africa Policy
November 30, 2020
USA/Global: On Climate, How Much Will Be New?
November 18, 2020
Ethiopia: Not Too Late to Step Back from War?
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