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Parts of a new Welsh law banning some single-use plastics may not be in full effect until 2026, a senior Senedd member has said. The Welsh Parliament passed a law…

The global economy is “perilously close to falling into recession”, according to the latest forecast from the World Bank. It expects the world economy to grow by just 1.7% this…

Africa’s natural resources are at the heart of a heated debate about how to balance economic growth and tackle global warming. At the current COP27 negotiations in Egypt, dubbed by…

The US economy did better than expected at the end of last year, despite higher borrowing costs and rising cost of living dragging on growth. The economy grew at an…

Sri Lanka is, in the words of its own president, “bankrupt”. The Indian Ocean nation defaulted on its sovereign debt in May 2022, plunging the country into economic and political chaos. The…

Mozambique has started exporting liquefied natural gas for the first time, in a move the country’s President Filipe Nyusi has described as historic. The gas has been produced at an…