one of Africa’s leading cotton producers. Countering China’s influence in Africa, including competition for rare earth minerals powering things like electric vehicles and wind turbines ...
Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961. Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal ...
Generally reflects cotton lost or destroyed in the marketing channel; for Australia, Brazil, China, and the United States, reflects the difference between implicit stocks based on supply less total ...
January 17, 2025 • In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.
small exporting countries – especially those of West Africa – are slated to suffer as a result. World cotton prices, which in 2024 had already declined to their lowest levels since the ...
Evidence of cotton being grown, spun and woven into cloth can be traced as far back as 3,000 BC in the valleys of the Indus and Nile rivers of Pakistan and Egypt.