The many conflicts that currently bedevil the planet often overlap. The misery caused by war affects, above all, the poorest.
The Yemen conflict threatens to flare up again after the UN-mediated 6-month truce ended on October 2, when the two sides rejected a proposal for a further extension and expansion of the arrangement.
South Africa’s corruption problems have spread to its debt-ridden Eskom, Africa’s largest energy supplier, which supplies 95% of the country’s power supply. Constant blackouts affect everyone, especially the economy. Eskom group CEO André de Ruyter recently told a Daily Maverick event dealing with energy that a just transition away from coal was “the only solution.”
Zimbabwe’s think-tank Veritas has cried foul against some amendments of an Election Amendment Bill tabled by President Mnangagwas government, which is supposed to align elections with the amended constitution. It states that some provisions violate the constitution.