Haiti looting caused loss of some $US6 million in relief supplies, WFP says
Reuters Looting in Haiti this month led to the loss of at least $US6 million of relief assistance including 2,000 tonnes of food, a World Food Programme official said on Monday, as the Caribbean nation struggles with civil unrest and chronic gang violence. Protests flared across Haiti following Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s 11th September announcement […]
Gig economy: Workers hit by high fuel prices and layoffs
RINA CHANDRAN and MENNA A FAROUK, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how high fuel prices, income cuts, and a global economic slowdown have put gig workers in a precarious position…
Essay: Pakistan – how an economic crisis has sent prices rocketing
JUVARIA JAFRI, of the University of Cambridge says, in an article first published on The Conversation, that Pakistan’s economic struggles exemplify the “little fires” lit across the global economy by a war during a pandemic…
Facing “severe” energy crisis, Pakistan reverts to five-day work week
Islamabad, PakistanReuters Pakistan will reduce its official work week to five days from six in a bid to reduce energy and fuel consumption as part of an energy conservation plan approved by the country’s cabinet on Tuesday, the information minister said. The move comes as hours-long power outages hit the South Asian country, with demand […]
Sri Lanka promises impartial probe after first death in weeks of protests
Rambukkana, Sri Lanka Reuters Sri Lankan police will launch an “impartial and transparent” investigation into clashes with protesters after the first death in weeks of unrest over the government’s handling of the economy, the president said on Wednesday. Police fired live ammunition to scatter protesters on Tuesday in the town of Rambukkana, northeast of the […]
Peru protest death toll hits five as fuel price rises stoke anger
Lima, PeruReuters Peruvian authorities said on Wednesday that a fifth person has died in recent anti-government protests sparked by rising fuel prices, a sign of how the global energy crunch linked to the war in Ukraine is stoking unrest in countries around the world. Peru’s ministry of the interior said a 25-year-old man had died […]
Peru imposes curfew to stymie protests over rising fuel costs
Lima, Peru Reuters Peruvian President Pedro Castillo imposed a curfew in the capital, Lima, on Tuesday, banning people from leaving their homes in an attempt to curb protests against rising fuel and fertiliser costs that have spread throughout the country. “The cabinet has agreed to declare a ban on the mobility of citizens from 2am […]
Food security: Ukraine war threatens supplies in fragile Arab world
ZEINA KARAM, of Associated Press, reports on the Middle Eastern food crisis which is rippling out of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
Explainer: From stability to turmoil – what’s going on in Kazakhstan?
Reuters Dozens of people have died and thousands have been detained in Kazakhstan over the past week during the worst violence seen in the Central Asian nation since it became independent in the early 1990s. Security forces appeared to have reclaimed the streets of the country’s main city on Friday, a day after Russian paratroopers […]
Kazakh President fails to quell protests, eight deaths reported
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters The President of ex-Soviet republic Kazakhstan appealed to a Russian-led security bloc for help on Thursday after failing to quell days of protests that have seen state buildings torched and eight security personnel reported dead. Initially angered by a fuel price rise, protesters have been storming buildings and chanting against President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s […]