In his early 30s, after a decade working in microfinance, Jehiel Oliver began pitching a controversial idea – easy access to mechanized equipment for Africa’s smallholder farmers.In Africa, 60 percent of the population relies on agriculture for income.With the majority of work still being done by hand, the yield gap between what Africa’s smallholder farmers
November 30, 2023 2023-11-30T14:10:28-05:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvYmQ4XC8wMDNcLzE3MDEzNzIyMjBfMDAzLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6NTA2fX19Former Homeland Security Department officials from the Trump administration, including former acting Secretary Chad Wolf (2019-21), testified on migration at the southern border before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Topics included exploitation and trafficking of migrants, asylum and pathways to legal migration, combatting fentanyl at ports of entry, and the transporting of
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SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — While hardly a match for the overwhelmingly cutting-edge and highly trained Israeli forces, Hamas’s competency on the battlefield lies not in weapons finesse or accuracy but in its ability to produce and procure a stockpile of improvised rockets, mortars, explosives, anti-tank guided missiles and shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles (MANPADS) cheaply, quickly and under its neighbor’s
November 30, 2023 | Part Of U.S. House of Representatives U.S. House of Representatives 2023-11-30T09:59:51-05:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvZDI3XC8wMDFcLzE3MDEzNTY1ODNfMDAxLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6NTA2fX19The House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic. The House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic. Report Video Issue Go to Live Event Points of Interest For quick viewing
In recent years, Red Sea security has become a key pillar of Saudi Arabia’s domestic and foreign policy. Driven by geostrategic ambitions and plans to diversify its oil economy, the kingdom has strengthened security relations in the area by building alliances with Israel and coastal African countries, and by de-escalating conflicts with Iran and Yemen’s
30/11/2023 Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal has defied the conventional wisdom over the futility of imposing economic sanctions to curtail its nuclear programme. However, the existing literature remains theoretically ill-equipped to deal with the complexities of the Iranian case. By developing a theoretical framework that elaborates on the causal pathways through which economic sanctions affect both
"The Knotted Gun" sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward, sits outside the empty North entrance plaza at United Nations headquarters during the 75th annual U.N. General Assembly high-level debate in New York, U.S., September 21, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar The UN Secretary-General has encountered resistance to many of the ideas for strengthening international peace and
After Asaib Ahl al-Haq sought a halt to the verbal attacks, Kataib Hezbollah doubled down with a cutting public insult. As Militia Spotlight detailed on November 26, Kataib Hezbollah (KH) used the post-November 23 ceasefire in Gaza (mirrored in Iraq and Syria) to chide Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH) for failing to join the kinetic “resistance”
Posted November 30, 2023 by Pavel Baev & filed under Middle East, Regions and Powers, Security, Ukraine War The Kremlin has welcomed the Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza that began on November 24. The pause, however, does not fit into Russia’s larger designs for the Middle East. Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in 2022.