FOR Heaven’s sake, does the United States of America command any moral authority to point an accusing finger at other countries when it comes to human rights? This is a million dollar question that continues to boggle the minds of level headed people.
Time and time again the successive governments of the US have acted as ‘the world police’, imposing on other countries what they describe as human rights and democracy and yet what they have been doing in other countries such as Iraq, Libya, Syria, among others, tells a different story.
IT is no doubt that the three years of President Magufuli in power has ushered in significant progress for Tanzania but this is not good news for prophets of doom whose interests and those of their proxies have been thrashed through the purge on corruption and review of dubious contracts in their favour.
Despite funds collected on a daily basis by the Liberia Marketing Association(LMA) and the Paynesville City Corporation(PCC) from marketers in the Commercial District of Redlight, the removal of garbage from this area remains a major challenge. Many of the marketers who are not opportune to secure a selling spot within the market main building have no option but to often sell close to a garbage site.
The unpleasant odour greets them every day as they go about in search of their daily bread.
When US President Donald Trump decided to leave the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, in 2017 a new chapter on global trade was being designed. The US went ahead to unilaterally impose taxes on imports from the European Union, China, Canada and Mexico. This prompted a “tariff war” as all these countries retaliated by imposing similar taxes on US imports. For the better part of 2018 the US and China the two largest economies have been caught up in a trade war by subjecting imports from each other to what is being interpreted as ‘punitive tariffs’.
According to Food for Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report published earlier this year, despite progress made over the past decades, about seven hundred and sixty-seven million people globally have continued to live in extreme poverty, with half of them in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The majority of the world's poor and hungry live in rural areas and depend largely on agriculture for their survival. However, their livelihoods are often constrained by limited access to resources such as land, services, technologies, markets and economic opportunities, lowering their productivity and income.
