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East Africa: New Deals Open Old Wounds in the Horn of Africa

[ad_1] An already tense security environment in the Horn of Africa is growing even more perilous. The new year has already brought a rapidly deteriorating security outlook to the Horn of Africa. The year kicked off with news of a memorandum of understanding signed by Ethiopia and Somaliland giving Ethiopia access to the Port of Berbera and a stretch of coastline along the Gulf of Aden. According to Somaliland's officials, Ethiopia agreed in exchange to recognize Somaliland as a sovereign […]

todayJanuary 11, 2024

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Africa: What’s At Stake for Africa in 2024?

[ad_1] From a year of elections, to multiple summits, as well as conflict hotspots and debt burdens, 2024 will bring mixed fortunes for the African continent. Africa in 2024 will be the second fastest-growing economic region in the world (after Asia) at 4 per cent, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but behind the headline figure is a less auspicious reality. Fresh conflict, more military coups, the renewed Israel-Gaza conflict and the lingering Russia-Ukraine war are contributing to stifling […]

todayJanuary 11, 2024

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Japan’s NRA orders probe on quake damage at Shika nuclear power plant

[ad_1] The Nuclear Regulation Authority has ordered its secretariat to thoroughly investigate the cause of damage to a nuclear power plant from the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1.The regulatory watchdog gave the order at a regular meeting on Wednesday.According to Hokuriku Electric Power, the quake measured an upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale at the basement of the No. 1 reactor building of its Shika nuclear power plant in Ishikawa Prefecture. [ad_2] […]

todayJanuary 11, 2024

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Japan tech firm Fujitsu in firing line over U.K. Post Office scandal

[ad_1] London – A Japanese technology giant is in the crosshairs of British lawmakers for building the faulty accounting software that led to what has been called the country's biggest ever miscarriage of justice.Fujitsu created the Horizon IT system that resulted in some 700 local post office managers being wrongly convicted for theft and false accounting between 1999 and 2005.The U.K. government, which plans to exonerate all victims, has warned the company will be "held to account" if a public […]

todayJanuary 11, 2024

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OECD urges Bank of Japan to gradually raise interest rates

[ad_1] The Bank of Japan should gradually raise short-term interest rates and make its bond yield control policy more flexible, if inflation stays around its 2% target and is accompanied by sustained wage growth, the OECD said on Thursday.While the BOJ made tweaks to yield curve control (YCC) last year to loosen its tight grip on long-term interest rates, markets could challenge the policy again if inflation remains above its 2% target and global yields go up, it said.The central […]

todayJanuary 11, 2024

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Ruling party vice president calls for peace over Taiwan

[ad_1] Washington – Taro Aso, vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, voiced a warning Wednesday about China's increased military pressure on Taiwan, saying in his speech in Washington that there should be more peaceful communication between Beijing and Taipei.Aso, a former Japanese prime minister, said, "China's choice of a hasty military unification of Taiwan will only disrupt the international order for its own convenience" and "this must not be tolerated," when he spoke at an event organized by […]

todayJanuary 11, 2024

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‘Kizumonogatari’: The weirdness is back and better than ever

[ad_1] “Kizumonogatari” is back. Three anime film adaptations of author Nisioisin’s book of the same name, which were released in 2016 and 2017, have been edited together into a single film titled “Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp.”Nisioisin’s long-running “Monogatari” series of so-called light novels (illustrated books targeting young adults) centers on a high school student named Koyomi, who survived an encounter with a vampire. The series prequel, “Kizumonogatari,” reveals the details of that fateful incident. During spring break, Koyomi (voiced by Hiroshi […]

todayJanuary 11, 2024

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