Energy prices may take ‘months’ to normalise, despite ceasefire: Analysts
There needs to be a predictable and stable flow of cargo through the strait before markets can stabilise, experts say.

There needs to be a predictable and stable flow of cargo through the strait before markets can stabilise, experts say.

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Is Brazzaville’s stability a result of gradual democratic consolidation or carefully organised political continuity?
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Havana’s streets have changed as a US fuel blockade restricts the movements of vehicles and people and hits businesses.
Boys as young as six scout for scrap metal to sell in a country where 14 percent of children have jobs.
Women in Sudan’s Al-Sarraf camp face hunger and disease during a desperate holy month.
Billionaires threaten to leave the state to avoid paying a tax that would replace the US government’s cuts to Medicaid.
Argentinians are taking on loans, selling their belongings, and living on credit cards to pay for basics including food.
Thousands displaced from December to February as Lagos authorities destroy homes in Africa’s largest floating village.
The health trial by researchers at the University of Southern Denmark has been suspended by Bissau-Guinean authorities.
In mineral-rich Rubaya, source of most of the world’s coltan, miners suffer poverty and dangerous working conditions.