Taxi driver Wesam Shaath has become used to scouring the street stalls and shops of the southern Gazan city of Rafah for diapers for his twin baby boys. Before the Israel-Hamas war erupted on October 7, 2023, he paid the equivalent of around $6 for a box. Now he says vendors can charge up to...
Two newspaper headlines, which speak to the same issue, recently caught my attention. The first one: ‘Govt’s Abandoned Projects’ – hospitals, schools, houses among delayed initiatives worth N$990 million. And the second one: ‘Tough Times Ahead for Blacklisted Tenderpreneurs’. The government is apparently now waking up to a problem that has not only been there...