From Ukraine developments and China’s Covid surge to renewable energy and hope for the Amazon
Hope in Brazil, despair in Haiti
Lula has vowed to reunite a bitterly divided Brazil and roll back some of Bolsonaro’s most controversial policies, such as the dramatic relaxation of gun control laws.and international isolation, Lula has also pledged to make the Amazon and climate emergency priorities and return Brazil to its place on the world stage. A veteran diplomat has been placed in charge of Brazil’s foreign ministry in an attempt to win back former friends alienated by Bolsonaro’s extremist bent.
But given the long and catastrophic history of foreign meddling in Haiti, many fear such an operation would only add fuel to the fire.Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at a discussion about the Amazon rainforest at the Cop27 climate conference in Egypt.Security issues will loom large inresumed test launches of long-range ballistic missiles
For the first time, the guidelines mentioned Chinese military activity as a threat to Japan and its neighbours – namely Taiwan – while Tokyo is seeking to double defence spending to 2% of GDP by 2027, bringing it into line with Nato countries.
But there are some things that will mark the coming 12 months out. One is the double impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the damage done by the Covid pandemic. Inflation has sent food prices soaring, threatening malnutrition and social unrest. Both will be a factor in elections in Nigeria in February and theThen there is the trouble with debt, which has left countries from tiny Djibouti in the far north-east to, the most developed economy on the continent, in deep trouble.
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