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What’s new? After weeks of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, federal troops removed the regional government and declared victory. Yet thousands have died, hundreds of thousands are at risk of starvation and the conflict continues. Addis Ababa has established an interim administration, but ousted Tigrayan politicians say they will fight back. Why did it happen? Relations between Addis Ababa and Mekelle tanked after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018 and Tigray’s leaders lost federal power. Tensions spiked when Tigray defied central authority by holding regional elections i...

What’s new? In February 2020, South Sudan’s two main belligerents began forming a unity government pursuant to a peace deal inked a year and a half earlier. But the pact is fragile, smaller conflicts are still ablaze and the threat of return to full-blown civil war remains.  Why does it matter? Forthcoming elections could test the peace deal severely. Looking further ahead, conflict will continue to plague South Sudan until its leaders forge a political system that distributes power more widely. The cost of cyclical fighting since 2013 has been steep: hundreds of thousands dead and m...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As part of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) declared effort[1] to keep pace with a mounting demand for faster, cheaper, and more efficient payments, and the widespread adoption of new technologies, the agency’s Senior Deputy Comptroller & Chief Counsel issued an interpretive letter on January 4, 2021 (the “Interpretive Letter”) clarifying the permissibility of independent node verification networks (INVNs) and related stablecoins. Under the Interpretive Letter, national banks and federal savings associat...

  Octagonal (AIM: OCT), announces its unaudited half-year results for the six months to 30 September 2020. These include the trading results for the Company's principal trading subsidiary Global Investment Strategy UK Ltd (GIS) which are being announced along with the consolidated figures for Octagonal's group.   Summary of Octagonal PLC Financial highlights for the six months to 30 September 2020 · Unaudited revenues for the six months to 30 September 2020 were £4.79 million ("m") (September 2019: £3.31m). · Unaudited operating profit f...

What’s new? Crime and violence have simmered along the lengthy Colombian-Venezuelan frontier for decades. But the regional spillover of Venezuela’s political conflict and economic collapse has caused ties between the two states to fray as well, amid border closures, a migrant exodus and rival military exercises. Why does it matter? Numerous armed groups clash with one another and harm citizens along a border marked by abundant coca crops and informal crossings. High bilateral tensions could spur escalating border hostilities while perpetuating the mistreatment of migrants and refugees...