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Chinese over-fishing will ruin West African waters

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CHINA

The small fish essential to the diets and livelihoods of coastal communities are much less abundant than in the recent past, and catches by traditional fishing communities are in…

Colombian coffee boost presents opportunity for reform

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COLOMBIA

A recent boost for Colombian coffee could provide space for much-needed reform.

Large US household balance sheets pose macro risks

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UNITED STATES

An examination of the factors behind the expansion indicates that outsized balance sheets will persist and will pose a number of macroeconomic risks.

Bavaria elections spell trouble for German coalition

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GERMANY

The governing Christian Social Union (CSU), sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), suffered a serious blow in Bavaria's October 14 federal state…

War in Ukraine will impel Kazakhstan to diversify

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KAZAKHSTAN

Kazakhstan’s economy has weathered well the turbulences created by the war in Ukraine. A new context for the country’s traditional aspirations to balance and diversify economic…

China cross-border finance system will not aid Russia

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INT

One of these is SWIFT, the global interbank messaging system from which Russian banks have been largely excluded since the invasion. This issue has drawn attention to China’s…

Russian-US arms treaties erode in new era of mistrust

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RUSSIA/US

The likely end of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty will be an important marker in the decline of international stability and a particular blow to long-held…

Nigeria's Rivers State dispute raises instability risk

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NIGERIA

The dispute centres over Wike’s efforts to retain control of state resources, the legislature and administrative machinery and Fubara’s efforts to assert his independence from his…

NATO will consolidate collective cyber defence

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INTERNATIONAL

However, the alliance has struggled both to define the precise role it should play in cybersecurity and to execute effective cyber operations, given differences between the 30…

Remote working fuels crime in stolen data

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INT

Some organisations shifted to remote working haphazardly, allowing hackers to exploit weak security measures to steal sensitive data. Stolen health, financial and other data do…