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SMALL FIRMS/GLOBAL ECONOMY – Little engines that could save the global economy (Azhar Sukri, Al Jazeera)

Whether it is your local grocery store or a startup with a tiny amount of capital and big dreams, almost everywhere you look, small...

AFRICA – Is Africa ready for a free-trade zone? (Al Jazeera)

A new year and a new start for Africa. The world’s largest single market has opened, enabling all but one of the 55 nations to...

AFRICA – After months of COVID delays, African free trade bloc launches (Al Jazeera)

African countries began officially trading under a new continent-wide free trade area on Friday, after months of delays caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/1/after-months-of-covid-delays-african-free-trade-bloc-launches

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO – Dozens of farmers ‘killed by ADF rebels’ in DR Congo (Al Jazeera)

At least 25 people were killed in an attack on New Year’s Eve by rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern Beni...

SOUTH SUDAN – South Sudan floods displace a million as hunger and diseases loom (Al Jazeera)

On a scrap of land surrounded by flooding in South Sudan, families drink and bathe from the waters that swept away latrines and continue...

IRAN – Iran tells IAEA it plans to enrich uranium to up to 20 percent (Al Jazeera)

Iran has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog it intends to enrich uranium to up to 20 percent purity, a level it achieved before...

IRAQ – Mine found on hull of oil tanker off the coast of Iraq (Khalid Al-Ansary, Verity Ratcliffe and Alex Longley, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

An oil tanker off the coast of Iraq discovered a mine attached to its hull, the latest incident highlighting the risk to ships in...

OMAN – Oman looks to borrow $4.2bn in 2021 to cover budget shortfall (Reema Alothman and Abeer Abu Omar, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Oman’s government will finance most of its budget shortfall in 2021 by borrowing to plug a fiscal gap battered by a decline in oil...

USA/CHINA – Biden’s China policy: balancing engagement with deterrence (Richard Javad Heydarian, Al Jazeera)

After being declared as the President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, a scion of the American foreign policy establishment, has predictably vowed to...

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