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Sunday, 24 November 2019- edited by Ilaria
Saltarelli, Laura Harth and Angelica
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Dramatic
humanitarian crisis in the central
Sahel
20
million people live in areas affected by conflict
between armed groups in the Sahel region– Burkina
Faso, Mali and Niger– bringing the total number of
people displaced in the three countries to
860,000. The World Food Programme (WFP) reports
that 2.4 million people need food aid in the
central Sahel, a figure that could increase. More
than 270,000 live as refugees in the three
countries - 261,000 in Burkina Faso,
187,140 in Mali and 187,360 in Niger. The WFP
urgently needs $150 million for operations under
existing programmes in the three
countries.
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Cambodian
Leader Willing to Lose EU Trade
Privileges
The Associated Press, Nov.
21, 2019 - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said
on Thursday that it is more important for his
country to maintain its independence and
sovereignty than to retain special trading
privileges that the European Union has threatened
to withdraw.
Hun Sen told government officials
that even with the loss of the trade privileges,
Cambodia would be able to export its products to
the EU as before. It would earn lower profits, but
the EU would no longer be able to threaten or put
any conditions on Cambodia, he
said.
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Chinese
Companies Are Worse at Business Than You
Think
Foreign Policy, Nov.21, 2019-
Forest City, a luxury real estate development that
aims to house 700,0000 residents in a futuristic
green utopia across the border from Singapore, is
a case study in how easily Chinese investment
projects that are entirely private can become
boondoggles due to the interference of Chinese
politics and poor Chinese management. An article
by Sagatom Saha per Foreign
Policy.
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Children
deprived of freedom in the world
According
to the Report of the
U.N Global Study on Children Deprived of
Liberty which is commissioned
only every 10 years, more than 5.4 million
children are detained around the world. It should
be noted the relationship with “aggressive”
counter-terrorism measures for the spike in
youngsters held for alleged links with armed
conflict or national security concerns based on
their social media posts. The Report takes into
account street children, those with disabilities
and others who travel with asylum seekers and
migrant families. At least 410,000 children are
held every year in prisons and pre-trial detention
facilities, where violence is “endemic”. At least
330,000 children in 80 countries
are held in immigration detention yearly, while
670,000 children have been placed in institutions
“that meet the legal definition of deprivation of
liberty”.
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Iranians
protested. Then, the Internet was cut, in a new
global pattern of digital
crackdown.
In what is increasingly an
informational warfare between authoritarian
regimes and democracies where knowledge of what is
going on can make all the difference, cut-offs to
the Internet are witnessed more regularly around
the world as authorities attempt to crack down on
protesters’ ability to organize within the country
and to gain support within the international
community, as the Washington Post reports in this
article.
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