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Report Warns on Africa Jobs Growth

The number of young Africans is set to boom over the next 20 years, with expected high umemployment and growing frustrations, while most governments are lacking of sufficient strategy and solutions on how to tackle this problem.

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NATO’s biggest security threat is now economic

As the world leaders who attended the NATO Summit in Chicago last week came to an agreement to wind down the unpopular war in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, it came to few people’s concern that the NATO’s biggest threat is now economic. To be more specific, the Europe Crisis has significant implications for the future solidarity of NATO members as the economic issue is having its forseeable strategic consequence. Sharp decline of defense budget due to the financial and economic shifts in Europe puts huge security implications in NATO’s future.

Washington Post

“There is a new geopolitical shift, and those countries that never provided oil and gas can now do so. For the United States, there is a glimmer of the possibility of self-sufficiency.”