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BLACK SUB-SAHARAN STUDENTS TRY TO FLEE TUNISIA AFTER WAVE OF MASS ARRESTS AND VIOLENCE
Students from sub-Saharan African countries are warning they are ready to abandon degree courses in Tunisian universities and colleges, fleeing this north African country in the wake of mass arrests of compatriots and racial violence this month.
Christian Kwongang, president of the Tunisian Association of Sub-Saharan Students (Association des Étudiants et Stagiaires Africains en Tunisie – AESAT) said that as of March 7, at least 400 sub-Saharan African students had been arrested in immigration sweeps by police, and there had been more than 30 racially motivated physical attacks by the against black African students over the past year.…
TUNISIA PRESIDENT OFFERS OLIVE BRANCH OVER BLACK SUB-SAHARAN STUDENTS – BUT REPRESENTATIVES ARE SCEPTICAL
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied seemed to be rolling back on his determination to impose “urgent measures” to reduce what he called the “hordes” of sub-Saharan migrants, but black students say nothing has changed for them. President Saied has offered up the promise of speeding up issuing residency permits known as “cartes sejour” and even waiving the penalties for overstays by sub-Saharan migrant workers and students.…
CAPE VERDEAN DIASPORA FEELS POWERLESS TO IMPROVE HOME COUNTRY’S HIGHER EDUCATION
Academics from the diaspora of Cape Verde, which numbers an estimated 1.5 million people, compared to 587,925 inhabitants of this Atlantic archipelago, are complaining that their talents and expertise are being overlooked by local political and academic leaders.
Indeed, many claim they struggle to see their overseas qualifications recognised in Cape Verde, which they say would enable them to improve the country’s higher education and academic research.…
BURKINA FASO HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HIT HARD BY ISLAMIC INSURGENCY
Higher education and research institutions in Burkina Faso are under threat from a jihadist insurgency, as the west African country’s military government struggles to secure the security initiative. Human Rights Watch says insurgents control 40% of the country’s territory and 1.4 million people have fled their homes out of an overall population of 22.1 million, recounting hundreds of deaths in the conflict – civilian, military and insurgents – although it has not released an overall figure, and nor has the UN.…
EGYPT AND TUNISIA HOLD LONG-TERM PROMISE FOR PAINT AND COATING SECTOR
Egypt was one of the fastest growing paint markets in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in 2021 and early 2022, but the depreciation of its currency on foreign exchange markets, surging inflation and an economic downturn over the past year is now depressing the sector.…
ITALIAN PAINT SECTOR EXPANDS FOLLOWING POST-COVID SUBSIDIES – BUT DIFFICULT YEAR LIES AHEAD
Despite high production costs and continued geopolitical instability, Italy’s domestic market for paints and coatings performed well in 2022 thanks to government tax credit schemes that boosted the building sector. Indeed, according to national paint trade and industry association Assovernici, Italy’s paints and coatings market posted overall satisfactory performance in 2022.…
FUNGIBLE GOLD IS GROWING PRECIOUS METAL OR STONE ML RISK
The precious metals and stones sector is increasingly under the spotlight regarding ML and TF, particularly gold. Given the fungibility of precious metals, the complexity of their supply chains and the varying levels of oversight worldwide, they continue to be an attractive means to launder money – especially gold, which remains the precious metal of choice for launderers.…
EXTERNAL DATA SOURCES A KEY TOOLKIT FOR ML INVESTIGATIONS AND AML GOOD PRACTICE
AML is all about the deft use of IT and the marshalling of data culled from financial records, but comprehensive KYC and client monitoring, as well as proactive ML investigations following up a suspicion, are aided by effective online tools that can uncover essential information.…
BANGLADESH STILL IN BETTER POSITION DESPITE SLOWDOWN OF ORDERS
South Asian clothing manufacturers are facing lean times, with international brands reducing or cancelling orders, but industry association leaders are looking towards a recovery by the end of this year. In major production hub Bangladesh, key purchasers from the USA and Europe have been cutting their order books as continuing high inflation depresses consumer demand and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sharpens nervousness among corporates and investors.…
CHATGPT AND THE APPAREL SUPPLY CHAIN
Like many industries, the global textiles market is waking up to the potentially revolutionary applications of ‘generative’ AI tools able to create insight and hunt for information, such as ChatGPT. Its acronym stands for ‘generative pretrained transformer’ and is a natural language processing model that is free to use.…