PRETORIA, South Africa.- The South African Trade Union Congress reported that the 69 thousand jobs lost in the second quarter of this year plunged more than 300,000 people into poverty, and called on the government to fix the picture.

In a statement circulated in Pretoria, the central trade union describes the absurd intent of the apologists of banking and market to try to dissociate poverty from unemployment.

Zimbabwe Denounces Illicit Sanctions

UNITED NATIONS, New York.- Zimbabwe’s President Emerson Nangagwa explained his Government’s efforts to develop and fight poverty, despite the economic sanctions imposed on his country.

In intervening at the current session of the UN General Assembly, Nangagwa referred to the US government’s decision to turn Zimbabwe’s Democracy and Economy Recovery Act into law, what hardens the measures against that State.