The Turkish central bank had a loss of $25 billion in 2023, with one former official calling it a result of the 'world’s most costly economics experiment' trib.al/EaOWPCQ

Sudan Marks 1 Year Since Outbreak of War: 15,000 Killed, 8.6M Displaced, 25M in Need of Immediate Aid democracynow.org/2024/4/15/head…

Bilal Erdoğan ile beraber Kırgızistan'da kuzu çevirme partisi yapan, el konulan şirketlere atanan kayyumların ihalesiyle zenginleşen ve en sonunda sahibi olduğu teknoliji şirketi, tarım şirketine dönüşüp borsaya açılan Murat Teksöz, hakkındaki her habere erişim engeli aldırdı.

Sezgin Tanrıkulu: THY ve AJet yetkililerine çağrı yapıyorum, bu uygulamadan vazgeçin
gazeteduvar.com.tr/sezgin-tanriku…

Sezgin Tanrıkulu'dan sudan para almaya başlayan THY ve iştiraki AJet'e tepki: Bu kadar mı düştünüz? kisadalga.net/haber/detay/se…

As the last remaining absolute monarch in Africa, King Mswati III holds veto power over all branches of government and is constitutionally immune from prosecution. The royal family has interests in various facets of the economy.

Read all of our findings: buff.ly/43YmLKc

#SwaziSecrets also potentially connects Eswatini to the larger gold smuggling economy.

Files show millions of dollars were passed from a notorious “cash-in-transit” company in South Africa through a gold refining company in Eswatini, and then on to Dubai. buff.ly/3UiSenn

#SwaziSecrets , ICIJ’s latest investigation, reveals the role Eswatini may have played in southern Africa’s gold smuggling economy — and how weak anti-money laundering controls allow those close to the royal family to benefit from proximity to the king.

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The Georgian Parliament’s Committee on Legal Issues passed the bill on foreign agents in the first reading. The committee meeting was live streamed on the parliament’s website:
vk.cc/cwdiEf

Sudan erupted into war one year ago and the conflict has since pushed five million people to the brink of famine.

Al Jazeera’s Virginia Pietromarchi examines how the country spiralled out of control ⤵️

Palestinians queuing for hours in the hope of bread

Israel 🇮🇱

•Blocked aid into 🇵🇸
•Slaughtered those 🇵🇸 waiting for flour
•Murdered aid workers
•Stopped UNRWA, ANERA & World Central Kitchen providing food

Starvation remains 🇮🇱 weapon of genocide.

Is he, a child prisoner taken for two months, a hostage?

I always suspected there was an internal directive not to say 'Palestine,' because it was so strange that the paper only ever says 'Palestinians.' Turns out there is one!

Halit Gürpınar..
41 yaşında, Yeni Anadolu Madencilik İşçisi..
Manisa Soma'daki maden ocağında (16-24 vardiyasında) saat 18.00 sularında çalışırken kömür taşıma hattında tambura sıkışarak hayatını kaybetti..
İki çocuk babası, Kütahya Gediz Altınkent Köyü'nden..

The UN has warned that '222,000 children could die of starvation within a few weeks or months' and 'more than 700,000 this year' in Sudan.

middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-yea…

The Iranian counterattack on Israeli military installations killed around 210 fewer people than the number of Palestinians (mostly civilians) Israel has killed in Gaza every day since October 7...

Folks . Greed . That’s it.
Tax them

'Thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets of Tbilisi to protest against a law that they say imitates repressive measures taken in Russia.' It would enable the government to tar critics as 'foreign agents' based simply on their source of funding.
euronews.com/2024/04/10/geo…

“The protest comes against a legislative initiative which calls for registration of non-commercial legal entities and media outlets in the country as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they derive more than 20 percent of funding from abroad.”

agenda.ge/en/news/2024/3…

“More than 5,000 demonstrators massed outside […] parliament […] demanding the government withdraw legislation requiring [NGOs] that accept funds from abroad to register as foreign agents […].”

Lawmakers brawl as Georgia debates 'foreign agent' bill reuters.com/world/europe/h…