North Korea admits it has an outbreak of covid-19
FOR MORE than two years, North Korea insisted that its border controls had kept covid-19 out of the country even as it devastated most of the rest of the globe. No longer. On May 12th state media said that the country had recorded its first cases of the Omicron variant a few days earlier. Pyongyang…
North Korea admits it has an outbreak of covid-19
FOR MORE than two years, North Korea insisted that its border controls had kept covid-19 out of the country even as it devastated most of the rest of the globe. No longer. On May 12th state media said that the country had recorded its first cases of the Omicron variant a few days earlier. Pyongyang…
Zimbabwe’s president orders banks to stop lending
Editor’s note (May 13th 2022): Late on May 12th the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe issued a short statement on Twitter saying that the ban on bank lending would no longer apply to “marketable commodities such as tobacco, cotton, sugar, maize, etc”.“NEITHER A BORROWER nor a lender be” may occasionally be the right answer in a…