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Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 15:35 As a Senior Analyst for the Research and Evaluation Unit at the Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP), Anita van der Veer is on a mission to show how Pacific people enhance Aotearoa New Zealand. At the same time, she is striving to highlight areas of improvement so everyone can lead a prosperous life in New Zealand. Born in South Africa, Anita has been in New Zealand for almost five years. "I ended a long career at the Central Bank of South Africa to raise my two little ones, before starting work at MPP," Anita explains. "A colleague and friend of mine n...

Megarich Taliban get funds to wage war from drugs, mining, extortion By (0) Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi, a representative of the Afghan Taliban movement, attends the the opening session of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, on September 12. File Photo by EPA-EFE Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The Taliban militants of Afghanistan have grown richer and more powerful since their fundamentalist Islamic regime was toppled by U.S. forces in 2001. In the fiscal year that ended in March 2020, the Taliban reportedly brought in $1.6 billion, according to Mullah Yaqoob, son ...