Global Austerity Alert: Looming Budget Cuts in 2021-25 and Alternatives
Map of countries with projected austerity cuts in 2021-2022, in terms of GDP, based on IMF fiscal projections. Credit: I. Ortiz and M. Cummins, 2021By Isabel Ortiz and Matthew CumminsNEW YORK and NAIROBI, Apr 15 2021 (IPS) Last week Ministers of Finance met virtually at the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to discuss policies to tackle the pandemic and socio-economic recovery.
But a global study just published by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, international trade unions and civil society organizations, sounds an alert of an emerging austerity shock: Mo...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins Tags: Aid Civil Society Development & Aid Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Equatorial Guinea explosion witness says dynamite blast devastation akin to aftermath of 'an atomic bomb'
A woman who witnessed the aftermath of the explosions that rocked Equatorial Guinea has said the chaotic scenes resembled the detonation... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
At least 20 dead, 600 wounded in explosions in Equatorial Guinea
State TV showed a huge plume of smoke rising above the site as crowds fled, with people crying out, “we don’t know what happened, but it... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Massive explosions rock Equatorial Guinea ’s largest city; 17 dead, hundreds injured
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema blamed the Bata blasts on the negligence of those tasked with guarding stores of dynamite and munitions. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
At least 15 killed in huge blasts at barracks in Equatorial Guinea
Hundreds of people also wounded in explosions that president has blamed on negligent handling of dynamite (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Equatorial Guinea's largest city Bata rocked by explosions injuring hundreds and trapping many under rubble
A series of explosions has injured hundreds of people in the city of Bata in Equatorial Guinea. Many more are feared to be trapped under... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Boon and Bane of LDC Graduation: The Bangladesh Experience
By Iftekhar Ahmed ChowdhurySINGAPORE, Feb 22 2021 (IPS) Bangladeshis at the present time share a modicum of justifiable pride in the fact that the world merits this country worth watching in terms of its economic potentials. To my mind , we have reached this stage for the following reasons: First, effective utilization of early foreign assistance; second a steady ,albeit sustained, move away from a near -socialistic to an open and liberal economy; third , a shift from agriculture to manufacturing as land-space shrank to accommodate urbanization; fourth , an unleashing of remarkable entrepreneurial spirit among private sect...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury Tags: Asia-Pacific Civil Society Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Food & Agriculture Gender Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Call for Urgent Action by 275 World Leaders on Global Education Emergency In Face of Covid19
Credit: UNICEF Mali / DickoBy External SourceNEW YORK, Aug 18 2020 (IPS) We write to call for urgent action to address the global education emergency triggered by COVID-19. With over 1 billion children still out of school because of the lockdown, there is now a real and present danger that the public health crisis will create a COVID generation who lose out on schooling and whose opportunities are permanently damaged. While the more fortunate have had access to alternatives, the world’s poorest children have been locked out of learning, denied internet access, and with the loss of free school meals – once a lifelin...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Economy & Trade Education Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Source Type: news
Equatorial Guinea: GITGE Doubles Down On Price and Capacity During Covid-19 - Will Roll-Out More FTTH Based On Pilot Results
[Balancing Act] London -- Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea is one of the most under-reported telecoms markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. To right the balance a little this week we're running a translation of an interview in CIO Magazine with Dr Oscar Ondo Ngomo Nchama, D-G of the public sector telco GITGE. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 2, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
129 Vietnam virus patients repatriated; local spread widens
A plane carrying 129 Vietnamese citizens diagnosed with COVID-19 has arrived in their homeland from Equatorial Guinea (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - July 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Equatorial Guinea: WHO Representative Is Asked to Leave Country
[WHO] Brazzaville -The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Equatorial Guinea has informed the WHO Regional Office for Africa that its country head of office, Dr Triphonie Nkurunziza must leave Malabo as soon as possible. WHO finds the decision regrettable. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 5, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Exxon Equatorial Guinea offshore workers test positive for coronavirus -sources
Thirty workers at an ExxonMobil-operated offshore oil platform in Equatorial Guinea have tested positive for the new coronavirus, two sources close to the ministry told Reuters. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Africa: UNFPA West and Central Africa Regional Planning Meeting to hold in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
[UNFPA in WCA] To focus on Nairobi summit on ICPD25 commitments in the region (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 20, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Has coronavirus reached AFRICA? Sudan reports two suspected cases
Two citizens of Sudan are being monitored after displaying symptoms of the virus following a visit to Wuhan, local reports say. Officials in Equatorial Guinea have quarantined four travellers from China. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Global Health: Widespread Testing Begins on Malaria Vaccine That Is Only Partly Effective
Despite the vaccine ’ s drawbacks, the W.H.O. endorsed testing on 360,000 children, in an effort to lower death rates in Africa. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Malaria Mosquitoes Clinical Trials GlaxoSmithKline PLC Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Sanaria Inc World Health Organization Unitaid Africa Equatorial Guinea Source Type: news
