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As the African Union (AU) is preparing to elect its next commission chairperson in February. Three key contenders are now in the spotlight to fill Africa’s top diplomatic seat so who can fix Africa’s problems? There’s a few key issues that any leader must contend with; unity between AU member states and managing the relationship with super powers, whilst ensuring the capitalist structure does not rape every resource from Africa’s continent. whilst finding a path so Africa must break free from foreign aid dependence. One is Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, a seasoned diplomat who is used to navigating…

It has been a busy week so far for the US administration with political warfare taking place everywhere. Trump and Musk in the White House spells trouble for the world, as they look to dominate the global agenda with America first!  This week began with the concern that the Israelis are threatening to restart the genocide, and Trump’s affinity for beachfront property in Gaza. A diplomatic row between the world and the US Although the crisis and genocide in Gaza is of pressing concern There is a diplomatic row brewing between the world and the US. With the Israelis and Elon Musk anchoring the…

There is no aspect that matters more to a retired future than that of the amount of your pension. It is not for less: when he becomes a pensioner that benefit will replace his salary and will become, except in exceptions, in his main source of income until the date of his death. One aspect to keep in mind is that not all workers can collect the retirement tax pension. The General Social Security Law establishes a minimal period of mandatory compliance contribution. Its article 205 (you can consult it in this link) makes it clear so that in order…

Less administrative obstacles for SMEs in Spain as the Governing Council of the Board of Extremadura has given the green light to the processing of the draft of the Open Market Law of Extremadura, which seeks to ensure free movement and establishment of economic operators within the Autonomous Community. Less administrative obstacles for SMEs He stressed that with this law, it will “be facilitated” that companies that operate in other territories can do it in Extremadura “without demanding any additional requirements” to which they have already demanded in their origin territory. So with this step forward, the Board intends to…

Two private jets collided on Scottsdale Airport’s runway in the southwestern US state of Arizona on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring others, officials said. “A Learjet 35A veered off the runway after landing and crashed into a Gulfstream 200 business jet on the ramp at Scottsdale Municipal Airport in Arizona around 2:45 p.m. local time Monday, Feb. 10 (2145 UTC),” according to the US Federal Aviation Administration. At least four people were injured in the crash, according to Scottsdale Fire Department Captain Dave Folio. The FAA added that the number of people on board the colliding jets was…

On the opening day of an AI summit in Paris co-hosted by India, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday a European AI strategy would be unveiled the following day at the event. He declared that France was in the race for artificial intelligence development and called on attendees to choose Europe — broadly seen as lagging far behind the US and China in the sector — for their business needs. Speaking in English, he said “we will adopt the Notre Dame de Paris strategy” on AI projects that saw France rebuild the renowned cathedral in just five years after a devastating…

The lack of professionals and labor costs and the price of energy is killing the economy.  Entrepreneurs maintain the perception of global risk for this first semester of 2025 at the same levels as in the last six months of 2024, while a worsening is noted in the case of Spain. Specifically, 51.4% consider that it will remain in Aragon, while 29.4% points to improvement, which represents 1.4 percentage points more in relation to the previous semester. Only 19.3% believe that there will be a worsening, a percentage that drops from 23.4% of the last six months of 2024. In…

US President Donald Trump has placed new conditions on further financial and military aid to Ukraine. On Monday, he told reporters that Washington would only continue aiding Ukraine in warding off Russian aggression in exchange for rare earth minerals. Kyiv had already indicated it would be willing to trade access to these valuable natural resources for Western support. In fact, it was one of the points Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had outlined in the “victory plan” that he presented late last year when it was still unclear who would occupy the White House in 2025. At the time, Zelenskyy had been in talks with…

Protesters blocked roads across Serbia on Sunday, marking 100 days since the collapse of a canopy at a train station in the northern city of Novi Sad. Hundreds of students blocked a major highway and bridge in the capital, Belgrade, for seven hours. The protest was accompanied by 15 minutes of silence for the victims, with protesters throwing 15 white roses that had been painted red into the Sava river that runs through Belgrade. Also on Sunday, demonstrators blocked three major roundabouts in Novi Sad and threw roses into the Danube. The protests are part of a campaign led by…

Kosovo ruling party set to come first in election, causing a new headache for the EU and Trump

Is it a coincidence that the far right growth is linked to Trump’s presidency? The extremists enabling the far right expand its network on a global scale, shows the enemies are no longer Russia or China, they are from Wall Street. Enabling the far right to expand its network Representatives of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party alongside Argentina’s President Javier Milei, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage from the UK were all among the guests at US President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025. No prizes for guessing the common link between them, but significantly the…

Namibia’s founding father Sam Nujoma dies at 95. Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerilla leader who went on to become Namibia’s first elected president, died on Saturday at the age of 95. The Namibian Presidency made the announcement via social media on Sunday. Struggle against apartheid As the leader of the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), he led guerrilla fighters in an armed struggle against apartheid South Africa Defence Forces from 1960 to 1989. Namibia’s founding father Sam Nujoma dies at 95 “It is with utmost sorrow and sadness that I announce this morning of the 9th of February…

The United States was consolidated before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the main origin of the oil arrived in Spain in 2024, a period in which Brazil seconded him among the main countries of origin of the oil arrived in the country. According to the statistics of the Corporation of Strategic Reserves of Petroleum Products (CORES), as in 2023 the United States led oil exports to Spain in 2024, by increasing its shipments to the country by 17.7%, reaching 10.25 million tons (Mt). With this, it monopolized 15.9% of the oil that entered Spain, 1.8 points more than in…

No presidential election in 2025 in Ukraine despite being pushed by Trump. When will Ukraine hold a presidential election? It was postponed because of the war with Russia, but it is now almost three years since the start of the Russian invasion, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being asked about it more and more often. When will Ukraine hold a presidential election? He always gives the same response: “The hot phase of the war will end, and when martial law is lifted, elections will be announced,” the Ukrainian president said earlier this week, in an interview with the British journalist Piers…

An American federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to suspend some 2,200 employees and eliminate the United States International Development Agency (USAID) on Friday to consider that it is a fraudulent agency. Two employee representatives had previously filed a lawsuit, arguing that Donald Trump’s government had no authority to suspend employees, as reported by US media such as ‘The New York Times’. The judge clarified that his ruling was provisional while the litigation continued. At the beginning of this week, the US government announced that all “staff directly hired” that would work for the agency anywhere in the world…

What do USAID cutbacks mean for development aid. The decision by US President Donald Trump to suspend development aid has brought US-funded projects in around 130 countries to a standstill. This has had dramatic consequences for millions of people and humanitarian aid workers around the world. Trump has accused the development agency USAID of wastefulness. On February 6, he wrote on his “Truth Social” platform “Looks like billions of dollars have been stolen at USAID.” He did not provide any evidence. What do USAID cutbacks mean for development aid? Opposition politicians in the US have accused Trump of jeopardizing the global…

The Missing Alaska plane found, all 10 on board believed dead and all ten on board a passenger plane that went missing over Alaska are believed to be dead, the US Coast Guard said after locating the wreckage on sea ice about 34 miles southeast of Nome. The US Coast Guard initially reported that three bodies had been found inside the wreckage and then said the remaining seven were also believed to be inside the aircraft but were “inaccessible due to the condition of the plane.” Missing Alaska plane found The plane, which was carrying nine passengers and a pilot,…

The Official Gazette of Extremadura (DOE) has published this Friday, February 7, the Order of the Minister of Finance and Public Administration, Elena Manzano, which sets the conditions and criteria for applying the extension of the General Budgets of The Community of Extremadura for 2024 in the exercise of 2025. The order includes the regulatory framework in which the automatic extension of the budgets approved by law 1/2024, of February 5, of general budgets of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura is regulated by the year 2024 until they are approved, publish and enter in force the new by 2025. This…

Israeli forces said late Thursday it had struck two sites that allegedly contained weapons belonging to the Hezbollah group, a Hamas ally, despite a separate ceasefire deal in that country. Israel’s forces “conducted a precise strike in Lebanese territory on two military sites that contained Hezbollah weapons, which were in violation of the ceasefire agreement,” the Israeli army said in a statement on social media platform X. Previously-sporadic fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalated on 8 October 2023, following Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel. Ceasefire agreement extended until mid-February Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a truce in November 2024, after 13 months of conflict between Israeli…

Authorities in Greece on Thursday moved to declare a state of emergency on the island of Santorini as persistent tremors continued hiking fears of a possible bigger earthquake. The region has been rattled by thousands of tremors and more than a hundred earthquakes since January 26. Emergency measures in effect until March 3 The Greek Civil Protection Ministry issued the declaration that allows authorities to quickly mobilize heavy equipment and emergency personnel. The ministry said the declaration would be in force from February 1 and would remain in effect until March 3. Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis on Thursday said Greece’s “entire state mechanism…

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa came out in defense of his country and said South Africa will not be bullied by Trump during a national address on Thursday, asserting that South Africa would not be bullied by the US administration and Elon Musk. Elon Musk is at odds with the South African government, primarily for domestic DEI issues but also because the are at odds over the Rwanda and DR Congo conflict. On the one side you have the RDF and the M23 rebel group and on the other you SADC (Southern African Development Community) and the DR Congo army.…

Is Ethiopia’s Tigray on the brink of a fresh conflict, is it ready to explode. Insecurity in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has noticeably increased in the last few days.  Many Tigrayans told WTX they are afraid that recent political tensions within the once-dominant Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) could lead to renewed violence — more than two years after one of Ethiopia’s deadliest conflicts claimed nearly 600,000 lives. Amid soaring prices, some Tigray locals have stormed banks to withdraw money to buy and hoard food and other essential goods. Something that is happening throughout Africa. Many gas stations have run…

The European Central Bank has a new reason to be optimistic. One of the last pieces that lack the ECB to be able to sing victory in its fight against inflation is to get salaries to moderate their growth in the euro zone, and these are already beginning to give encouraging signs for the Central Bank. The favorite ECB indicator to anticipate future movements in the salary front has given this week a great joy to the central bank: the growth rate has been moderated so much, that it has fallen to the lowest level of the last inflationary crisis,…

The Aga Khan, imam of the Ismaili Muslims, has died “peacefully” at the age of 88 in Lisbon, his foundation announced on Tuesday. “His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), passed away peacefully in Lisbon on 4 February 2025, aged 88, surrounded by his family,” the Aga Khan Foundation posted on social media. “The announcement of his designated successor will follow,” it added in relation to who could become the fifth person to hold the post since the 19th century. Who was the…

The recovery plan announced by the Generalitat Valenciana and that has not yet been reflected in any document will have as main actors the PWC consultant and the state company Tragsatec. Both will jointly receive 4.5 million for consulting and assistance to prepare the road map to face the day after the DANA and try to recover the levels prior to destruction. The Second Vice Presidency and Department for the economic and social recovery occupied PWC through an emergency procedure. Although Gan Pampols publicly assured that a contest was held to which four consulting firms were presented, the truth is…