A guerrilla-to-entrepreneur plan in Colombia leaves some new businesswomen isolated and at risk

Mar 01, 2020 13:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business

Women made up nearly a quarter of the 13,000 guerrilla fighters disarmed by Colombias 2016 peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Though implementation has been halting, the landmark peace...

Is the time right for a single currency in West Africa?

Mar 01, 2020 13:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

The eight Francophone states that form the West African Economic and Monetary Union have agreed to drop the use of the CFA Franc. Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo will soon...

Teck aftermath: Ottawa must reconcile big energy projects with climate policy

Mar 01, 2020 13:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business

The decision by Teck Resources, one of Canadas largest mining companies, to suspend the Frontier oilsands project surprised many. Had it gone ahead, the open-pit mine would have been built across 24,000 acres of boreal...

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Budget shows treasury is desperately short of ideas to fix South Africa's economic woes

Mar 01, 2020 13:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

At the core of this years budget proposals from South Africas national treasury is the admission that national debt is no longer expected to stabilise. In previous years, bar one brief exception, budgets and medium-term...

Grassroots projects make urban sustainability a way of life

Mar 01, 2020 13:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Urban grassroots initiatives do vital work raising awareness and taking action on sustainability issues. Run largely by volunteers, they fill important gaps left by the public and private sectors, addressing specific local...

The growing impact of coronavirus on the global economy

Mar 01, 2020 13:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

As of February 2020, the number of people infected with the coronavirus Covid-19 has surpassed 80,000, with nearly 2,700 deaths. Efforts to contain the outbreak have led to full or partial quarantines of several Chinese...

How North American fashion is indebted to Indigenous and African American cultures

Mar 01, 2020 13:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views

While reading this, you may be comfortably dressed in a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. Perhaps you prefer sweatpants, hoodies and your favourite sneakers. These staples of contemporary sportswear originated in North America,...