This morning, news broke that President Buhari had asked the World Bank to focus their development efforts in Nigeria on the north. Jim Yong Kim, the World Bank president, said at a press conference in Washington DC that during his very first meeting with President Buhari, Buhari “said specifically that he would like us to …
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Donald Trump has become the first president to address the conference of a recognised anti-LGBT hate group. Trump addressed the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit – classed as a “hate group” – as he told the crowds their anti-LGBT views would “no longer be silenced”. Among those in the crowd were white supremacists, far …
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I work with many compassionate and thoughtful employees, who try their hardest every day to help vulnerable claimants. However, we can only act within the remit of strict guidelines which don’t offer us the flexibility we sometimes need to prevent unnecessary suffering. The problem is compounded by employees’ lack of knowledge about the universal credit …
Thirty years ago, the leader of Burkina Faso’s revolution, Thomas Sankara, was cut down in a hail of bullets — a bloody end to a turbulent yet charismatic life that today has gained cult status in Africa. The young army captain who took power in the deeply poor nation in 1983 has been nicknamed “Africa’s …
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The bar is set so low for Donald Trump that every day he doesn’t trigger a nuclear confrontation with a distant adversary is seen as a bonus. Today was one such day, as Trump signalled that he would not, after all, tear up the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, as many – including his closest …
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