“The servicing and defense of the weakening naira with country’s accumulated foreign reserve is not sustainable with shrinking war chest.” – Emeka Chiakwelu, Policy Strategist at AFRIPOL The state and wellbeing of Nigeria’s economy is gradually but steadily losing its momentum and steam, while simultaneously taking its casualty. The first casualty is naira and […]
Samarco Mineração S.A. 10-year Noteholder Alert: Lawsuit alleges Securities Laws Violations
An investor, who purchased certain 10-year notes from Samarco Mineração S.A., filed a lawsuit over alleged Securities Laws violations by Samarco Mineração S.A. n connection with certain allegedly false and misleading statements. Investors who purchased Samarco Mineração S.A.’s 10-year notes respectively due 2022, 2023, and 2024 between October 31, 2012 and November 30, 2015 have […]
Guinea-Bissau: Women’s Groups and Citizenship
By Sara Moreira In a country which has experienced constant political instability, how can civil society mobilise itself to prevent further coups d’état and to build a participative democracy based upon its communities? Some possible ways forward were suggested [1] [pt] by a group of 70 young people at a meeting promoted by the Movimento Ação […]
Sri Lankan Govt.To Amend Motor Traffic Act
The Cabinet has decided to amend Motor Traffic Act to enable imposing of spot fines on those who are violating Vehicle Seat Belt Law Cabinet Spokesman ,Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa has said today (02) during the Cabinet Press Briefing. President Mahinda Rajapaksha too has instructed the Inspector General Of Police (IGP) earlier to amend the […]
Health Ministry Has Temporarily Suspended The Using And Selling Of Pakistan Made Cardiac Drug
The Sri Lankan Health Ministry has today(27) temporarily suspended the selling and using of Drug imported from Pakistan "Isosorbide Mononitrate" 20mg which used to prevent Angina Attacks after more than 100 Heart Patients in Lahore ,Pakistan were reported as died after administering the said drug. This drug reported as imported to Sri Lanka from […]
FBI Was Warned Years in Advance of Mumbai Attacker’s Terror Ties
by Sebastian Rotella Three years before Pakistani terrorists struck Mumbai in 2008, federal agents in New York City investigated a tip that an American businessman was training in Pakistan with the group that later executed the attack. The previously undisclosed allegations against David Coleman Headley, who became a key figure in the plot that killed 166 […]