Haiti is under a UN arms embargo: So why are 500,000 illegal weapons in circulation?

This article is published in association with United Nations. Up to 500,000 illegal weapons ranging from handguns to battlefield-grade semi-automatic rifles are thought to be in the hands of gangs in Haiti, even though the Caribbean country has been under a UN arms embargo for the last three years.  Haiti is facing an acute security crisis […]

DR Congo crisis: WFP condemns looting in Bukavu after M23 rebels take key city

This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned the looting of thousands of tonnes of relief supplies in the city of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels swept in at the weekend, reportedly meeting little resistance. In an online […]

Digitalising SMEs on a shoestring

This article is brought to you in association with EBRD. While large companies readily adopt digital technologies, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle to access the same solutions and are less open to embracing the digital wave. This was one of the key findings of researchers at Cambridge University’s engineering department. They also observed that SMEs […]

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