#AD2019 | Eric Ntumba : "The themes we're engaging on makes me want to come"

Les faits ont été largement relayés par la presse : le mardi 28 septembre, le porte-parole du gouvernement français, Gabriel Attal, confirmait sur le plateau de la chaine de télévision Europe 1 la décision de réduire « drastiquement » le nombre de visas accordés aux citoyens des pays du Maghreb (pour la Tunisie un 30% et pour le Maroc et l’Algérie du 50% par rapport aux chiffres de 2020, déjà très bas à cause de la pandémie). Le porte-parole a expliqué cette décision par le fait que ...

Changes in global value chains and reshoring trends brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic represent an opportunity for sustainable and inclusive economic development of the Mediterranean region. While the region has increased its participation in trade and global value chains, it remains below its potential due to limited connectivity and the lack of adequate investment in infrastructures. To boost competitiveness and attract near-shoring investments, an upgrade of the Mediterranea ...

In order to close the financing gap in green technologies, finding new mechanisms to enhance the participation of the private sector, combined with that of the public sector, in financing sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure is a must. In this context, some unlisted instruments are going to be needed to enhance financing of green infrastructure. Besides, the development of properly structured projects, with risks and returns in line with the preferences of the different ...

L’Afrique a un important potentiel pétrolier et gazier, lequel est largement sous-exploité. On ne sera donc pas étonné par le fait que plusieurs pays africains sont sur le point de devenir de nouveaux pays producteurs et exportateurs de pétrole et/ou de gaz naturel et que d’autres, qui sont déjà producteurs, soient prochainement en mesure d’accroître cette production. Pensons notamment au Sénégal pour le pétrole et le gaz naturel ; à la Mauritanie pour le gaz ; à l’Ouganda pour le p ...

In July 2021, the United Nations issued a condemnation against the “dramatic rise” in attacks against “descent-based slaves” in Mali, calling the violence “unacceptable”[i]. The statement was in response to a tragic episode in the eastern region of Kayes, where landowners using machetes and rifles assaulted a group of indentured laborers to prevent them working on the landowners’ fields. Tomoya Okobata, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, said these “assaul ...

Official statistics record more than 4.6 million people as dying of COVID-19 across the world, a population roughly equal to that of New Zealand. About 10,000 people continue to die of the disease every day. Furthermore, there is strong evidence that the number of COVID-19 deaths is underreported in many instances. For example, a continuously updated database of estimated COVID-19 deaths by The Economist suggests that the actual number of deaths across the world could be two to thre ...