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Videos: South Africa begins argument against Israel over Hamas war at The Hague

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10 months ago

January 13, 2024

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague met on Thursday to hear a case brought before it by the South African government against Israel’s alleged genocidal attack on Palestine amidst the ongoing Hamas war.

Irish lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, who represented South Africa in the case, claimed that since the war broke out in October, 247 Palestinians had been killed each day, 1 every 6 minutes, 48 mothers in 2 every hour, and 117 children in 5 every hour.

South Africa petitioned in an 84-page document about Israel’s inability to supply the Gaza Strip with necessities like food, water, medicine, fuel, shelter, and other humanitarian aid.

South Africa has accused Israel of failing to uphold its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention, to which both countries are parties.

In a separate clip, South Africa’s Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Minister Ronald Lamola, noted in his prayer before the ICJ that “the ongoing violence and destruction in Palestine and Israel did not begin on October 7. “The Palestinians have experienced systematic operations and violence for the last seventy-six years,” he argues.

Israel will begin its defence on Friday, but it has maintained all along that it has committed no crime in its actions against Hamas.

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Video: Kenya’s Ruto targets inflation rate below 3%

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2 days ago

October 24, 2024

Ifeoluwa Dada

In this video, Kenyan President, William Ruto, stressed the economic goals of his government and charged the public to believe in the economic reforms of his administration.

Ruto also emphasized that the international community and multilateral bodies had applauded his policy direction, and urged Kenyans to join the train.

“You do have my commitment that we will be disciplined as a public sector… it my target that by next year inflation will be sub 3%”, Ruto said.

Earlier in the month, the Central Bank of Kenya slashed the benchmark rate to 12.0%, 75.0 bps down. The Central Bank’s prescribed target band for headline inflation is 2.5% – 7.5%, 5.0% being the mid-point · The last time Kenya registered <3.0% headline inflation was May 2007

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Video: Amid unpopular reforms, W’Bank chief insists Nigeria must ‘stay in course’ for 15 years

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2 weeks ago

October 15, 2024

Ifeoluwa Dada

In this video, Indermit Gill, the Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank who also serves as the Pension Finance Administrator of the World Bank Group, at an event in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, commended the recent fiscal and monetary reform policies of the government.

He noted that implementing such reforms was impossible without strong resolve from the political class. He also commended the central bank’s decision to raise interest rate.

The central bank has had to hike its policy rate by a huge 850 points in the last 9 months to boost confidence in the Naira and anchor inflationary expectations.

“But this is only the beginning, Nigeria will need to stay the course for at least another 10 to 15 years to transform its economy,” the World Bank chief stressed.

Gill’s remark brings to mind the age-long argument on the actual interest of multilateral bodies in their engagements with developing countries, largely African states, whether through loans or policy framework. Some have argued that the institutions are only bent on impoverishing the continent through policy positions like the removal of subsidy and the devaluation of currencies, both of which Nigeria under the current administration has done under two years— leading to unprecedented inflation rate and soaring cost of living.