Day: August 18, 2026

Five years ago, the United Arab Emirates made a quiet but consequential decision: rather than waiting for the multilateral trade system to deliver results, it would build its own. The launch of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement programme (CEPA) in September 2021 was the first move. What has followed is

Perhaps most disturbing is the speed at which people are dying. UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher warned that the epidemic was killing someone approximately every 30 minutes. This is no longer simply a health crisis in one of Africa’s most fragile countries. It is a test of how prepared the