Trade: China revives IFDA push through WTO's CTD after MC14 deadlock (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
China has floated a paper at the World Trade Organization's Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) focusing "on how work at the WTO could support trade and investment integration, thereby advancing industrialisation", in what appears to be a backdoor attempt to revive a controversial issue.

UN: Ebola crisis could cost African economies up to $3.6 billion (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is sparking a far-reaching socioeconomic crisis that risks pushing 985,000 more people into poverty, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

UN: Conflict, falling aid drive north Nigeria hunger crisis to decade-high (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Nigeria's food security crisis is deteriorating more rapidly than earlier assessments suggested, with conflict-affected northern states - especially in the northeast - seeing hunger levels not recorded in nearly ten years, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.

Note to Readers: Holiday Notice (PRIV)
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