Cameroon is not the most stable of African states of late with several secessionist rebellions springing up in the largely English Speaking Northern regions and the latest atrocity involves the kidnapping of around 80 children and teachers from a school in the major city of Bamenda. The attack occurred in the early hours of Monday…
Brazils New President Jair Bolsonaro has wasted no time in stirring up controversy by vowing to move their Embassy from its current location in Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, the status of which remains a bone of contention between Israel and the Palestinians. The USA & Guatemala have already made this move, however other countries have been more diplomatic, especially…
Lloyds Bank is continuing to change its business model in a move that will see 2000 new jobs created. The move involves shedding 6240 high street jobs and replacing them with 8240 in its online division. What is not clear is how many of these “new jobs” will be in the UK and how many…
US mid-term elections are underway and control of the Senate is up for grabs as Donald Trump remains a somewhat polarising President. They take place every four years in November and are so-called because they take place in the middle of the president’s four-year term of office. Right now the Republicans hold both the Senate…
A large number of business leaders in the UK are once again lobbying for a second vote on the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. The rationale seems to be that they were promised frictionless trade with the EU if we left, and now years down the track they still haven’t made any strategic changes…
Once again Middle Eastern politics take centre stage as Bahrain’s opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman gets a life sentence for alleged spying charges. The action was condemned by Amnesty International as a travesty of Justice stating “This verdict… demonstrates the Bahrainian authorities’ relentless and unlawful efforts to silence any form of dissent.” This all stems back to 2011…