While the US provides monthly updates on the development of wages, eurozone wage data is published quarterly, creating delays of up to six months. This negatively affects how inflation is discussed in Europe and could lead to bad economic policy.
“We saw his body while washing it. There was a scar on his neck as if he had been hanged with a clothesline. Both of his eyes had burst. Blood was coming from his eyes. His nose was completely broken and filled with cotton. There was such a large swelling and bruise on his chest it looked as if a tree had been stuck there. His upper lip was almost as big as a palm. His right foot was stitched.” — Hikmet Yılmaz, elder brother of Ferhan Yılmaz, evidently tortured to death in Silivri prison on April 10, 2022.
In the Shadow of War, the FSB Embraces Stalin’s Methods
Since the spring of 2022, a terrifying new force has coursed through Russian society. Activists who have protested the “special operation” in Ukraine are being rounded up. Opponents of the regime and even ordinary citizens who have had unauthorized foreign contacts are being thrown into Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison, where in Stalinist times, political prisoners were tortured and executed. Special border agents have been interrogating and intimidating Russians who are trying to leave or return. But even those who have made it out are not safe; exiles who have spoken out are being investigated, and their relatives in Russia are being harassed by the regime. And security police are cracking down on Russian companies that buy foreign rather than Russian raw materials and hardware.
Des centaines de militaires et miliciens burundais ont été envoyés clandestinement dans l’Est de la RDC depuis fin 2021 pour traquer le groupe rebelle RED-Tabara, affirme mercredi dans un rapport l’ONG Initiative pour les droits humains au Burundi (IDHB).
C’est l’affaire dont tout le monde parle depuis quatre mois sur les bords de la lagune Ébrié : le démantèlement d’un réseau de trafic de drogue a révélé l’implication présumée de plusieurs hommes d’affaires bien connus sur la place d’Abidjan. JA a mené l’enquête. Éléments exclusifs.
L’hydre jihadiste semble se répandre à une vitesse exponentielle sur le continent, atteignant désormais de nombreux pays longtemps épargnés.
Le 5 juillet 2022, le groupe Etat islamique en Afrique de l’Ouest (ISWAP), faction dissidente de Boko Haram, a attaqué la prison de Kujé, près d’Abuja, la capitale fédérale du Nigeria, et fait évader près de 900 prisonniers, dont des hauts cadres du mouvement.
Attaque kamikaze au coeur du pouvoir malien, incursions de plus en plus au sud: les jihadistes de la nébuleuse sahélienne d’Al-Qaïda ont accentué ces derniers jours la pression sur la junte malienne, avec une coordination des opérations inédite.
Emmanuel Macron veut faire de l’Afrique l’une des priorités de son second quinquennat, face à la concurrence de la Chine et de la Russie, mais en pariant sur le “soft power” plutôt que sur la politique ou le militaire, les outils traditionnels d’influence de la France.
Arabs point out that one of Biden’s biggest mistakes was that he took America’s Arab allies for granted while embarking on a policy of appeasement towards Iran’s mullahs.
“The behavior of the Obama and Biden administrations regarding Iran and Afghanistan served as a wake-up call for the countries of the region.” — Ali Hamadeh, Lebanese Journalist, Annahar, July 20, 2022.
I guess by now we all know that Saudi Arabia will not raise its production capacity beyond 13 million barrels a day by 2027 after the Kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made it clear in his address during the regional summit this month that was attended by US President Joe Biden.