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Il 2020 inizia con importanti novità per la Somalia, che grazie alla riduzione del suo debito estero e alle prossime elezioni, potrebbe avviare un percorso di rinascita. Tuttavia, le sfide che l’attendono non sono di certo semplici. Mogadiscio sarà quindi in grado di uscirne vincente?
Minneapolis is literally on fire since George Floyd, 46, became the latest in a long line of black men and women to die in police custody. Derek Chauvin was called to the scene because Floyd was accused of writing a bad cheque; the scene climaxed with Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck, brutally suffocating him in broad daylight.
Zaid Fadl Qaisia, 15 years old, was killed during a raid in the West Bank that aimed at arresting him for having insulted an Israeli soldier on Facebook. The supervision of Palestinians through Facebook is one of the milder ways through which the Israeli government maintains control and surveillance over its public. Not only the West Bank, but also Gaza and East Jerusalem have been exploited as experiment fields to test and develop new tools of digital surveillance.
Albeit being a small nation, Senegal had proved that with the right amount of innovation and determination, a nation could save thousands: in lives and dollars alike. What lessons therefore can fellow States pick up from Senegal’s innovation?
Saudi Arabia has abolished the death penalty for minors. A small step in a country where many fundamental freedoms are still denied and the figure of Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman is increasingly central.
President Trump recently decided to suspend US fundings to the World Health Organization, accusing the body of mismanaging the current COVID-19 crisis and being too China-centric. While the rivalry between Beijing and Washington dates back to the 1970s, today, the tension between the two superpowers could lead to a catastrophic response to the virus.
Sudan has recently been added to the list of countries that prohibit female genital mutilation. This harmful practice is forbidden in different regions of the world, with annexed conventions which recognise it as violation of human rights.
In un mondo dove i confini tra celebrità e politica sono sempre più confusi, occorre fare
chiarezza su cosa significa veramente “Celebrità Politica”. Tra la perdita di valore nella società del partito politico al significato sempre più confuso della parola rappresentatività, la figura del Politico come singolo e come celebrità è cresciuta in questi decenni, modificando completamente il nostro mondo.
TNGO’s Chief Editor Giacomo Di Capua interviewed Una Vaskovic, an expatriate Bosnian graduate student of International Affairs who had a first-hand view over the Bosnian government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Covid-19 pandemic will have irreversible effects on the world economy. The aircraft production sector and the travel sector are even more hurt by the uncertainty on the lifting of the travel ban. Here we explore the role of pandemic’s economic consequences in the dispute between Airbus and Boeing.
