By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri Education Cannot Wait (ECW) - the first global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises – was on the ground in Burkina Faso last week with its Director, Yasmine Sherif, to launch a new multi-year programme that aims to provide an education to over 800,000 children and adolescents in crisis-affected areas.
By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri The bamboo industry in China currently comprises up to 10 million people who make a living out of production of the grass. But while the Asian nation has significant resources of bamboo three million hectares of plantation and three million hectares of natural forests the continent of Africa is recorded to have an estimated three and a half million hectares of plantations, excluding conservation areas.
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The new administration and new Congress in Washington are quickly running into the same old debates about Covid relief.
President Joe Biden has called for a $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package, but Republicans have already dismissed the idea of delivering everything on Biden’s wish list. Democrats, meanwhile, face some internal differences about the best strategy for passing another relief package and on how far they should press their narrow majorities in the House and Senate.
Biden’s plan a ‘non-starter’ for Republicans: “GOP lawmakers on Tuesday dismissed the argument by Janet Yellen, who’s awaiting Senate confirmation as Treasury secretary, that historically low interest rates mean major deficit spending isn’t a problem right now,” Bloomberg News noted. Even Republican moderates like Sens. Mitt Romney (UT) and Lisa Murkowski (AK), both of whom played a key role in enacting last month’s relief package, have
We Regret to Inform You That Republicans Are Talking About Secession Again
The lessons of Brexit remind us that being part of these United States is a really great deal.
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Texas GOP Chair Allen West seems to be in a secessionist mood lately.
A Democratic president just entered the White House, so it’s time for Republican state officials to start discussing secession once again. After Barack Obama’s reelection in 2012, disaffected conservatives flooded the White House petition site with calls to leave the Union. (They were predictably denied.) Now a smattering of state party leaders and lawmakers are once again raising the question: Should we stay or should we go?