Peru: Mining projects worth US$600 million made viable

LIMA, Aug 7 (NNN-ANDINA) — From January to date, the Ministry of Economy-Finance’s (MEF) Specialized Investment Monitoring Team (EESI), in coordination with the competent government entities, managed to boost the assessment of various permits necessary for the development of mining projects. These are initiatives whose administrative procedures were under evaluation for years and have…

Anti-venom shortages, ignorance plague snakebite victims in Venezuela

VALENCIA (Venezuela), Aug 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — When a girl suffered a snakebite in Venezuela, her family had her injected with deer urine along with anti-venom, opting in part for a home remedy. Her leg later had to beamputated. Snakebites in this tropical country are common, and so are misconceptions that…

Firefighters contain wildfire near Spanish-French border

PORTBOU (Spain), Aug 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Firefighters from Spain and France succeeded in containing a wildfire near the countries’ shared Mediterranean coastal border, after winds dropped enough to allow water bomber planes to fly. But officials in the souther region of Andalucia, further to the west, said firefighters were battling…

UK govt announces tech partnership to curb migrant arrivals

 LONDON, Aug 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The British government announced a new partnership between law enforcement and social media companies to crack down on online content encouraging migrants to arrive in the UK illegally using small boats. The Conservative government, struggling in the polls a year before the general election, has…

Morocco: 24 dead in road accident

  RABAT, Aug 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — One of Morocco’s worst-ever road accidents left 24 people dead Sunday in the central province of Azilal, officials said.     They were killed when a minibus carrying passengers to a weekly market in the town of Demnate overturned on a bend, the local authorities…

Singapore interested in sealing trade accord with Mercosur and in the Port of Santos concession

BRASILIA, Aug 5 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — The government of city-state Singapore, in Southeast Asia, intends to participate in the concession process for Brazil’s largest terminal, the Port of Santos (SP), as part of the greater trade negotiation with the Mercosur block. The announcement was made by the head of the Singaporean…

Migrants continue to pour into Libya following expulsions from Tunisia

TRIPOLI, Aug 5 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Hundreds of migrants from Africa continue to arrive in Libya daily amid high temperatures, after Tunisian authorities began conducting mass expulsions in early July, according to the U.N. and humanitarian groups. In the border area between Libya and Tunisia at a Libyan border guard facility,…

Tunisian minister denies expulsion of Black refugees

Refugees and migrants have been found stranded in several remote areas of Tunisia’s borders with Algeria and Libya TUNIS, Aug 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Humanitarian organisations continue to criticise Tunisia for its treatment of sub-Saharan migrants, even as the country denies it is expelling the migrants to its borders with Libya and Algeria. The international…

Suspected deforestation gang leader arrested in Brazil

BRASILIA, Aug 5 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Brazil’s Federal Police arrested a businessman believed to be the leader of a “criminal group” responsible for the logging of 65 square kilometers of rainforest. The suspect is said to have illegally seized the Amazon land in the state of Pará for logging and cattle…

Adverse climate: Hunger threatens thousands in El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR, Aug 5 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Thousands of families in El Salvador will face food insecurity in the coming months due to the adverse climate, according to official sources. A recent report published by United Nations agencies warned that the impact of the El Niño phenomenon on agricultural production…