3310 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.johansen.se/blog/2024/04/18/south-africans-tasted-the-fruits-of-freedom-and-then-corruption-snatched-them-away-podcast/Date: 2024-04-18 10:29 Author: Gemma Ware, Head of Audio Original article: https://theconversation.com/south-africans-tasted-the-fruits-of-freedom-and-then-corruption-snatched-them-away-podcast-227087 Five years after his momentous election as South African president, Nelson Mandela stepped down after one term in office in 1999.2024-04-18T12:37+0200johansen-7fdfd7ee38b72331c40fa6b4b652989720240418123700https://sunnewsonline.com/africas-free-trade-zone-attracts-3-3trn-group/From Isaac Anumihe , Abuja African Infrastructure Climate and Investment Summit (AICIS) yesterday said that African Continental Free Trade Area is the largest free trade zone in the world connecting economies worth $3.3 trillion. This is as Africa has 65 per cent of the uncultivated arable land left to feed the world.2024-04-18T04:37+0200sunnewsonline-8273398925ebb550e2759d884a76af9e20240418043700https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/biden-vows-to-block-us-steel-acquisition-by-a-japanese-company-and-promises-tariffs-on/article_8c311581-bfd1-5f13-9ae2-898a51c5c434.htmlPITTSBURGH (AP) — President Joe Biden promised cheering unionized steelworkers on Wednesday that his administration would block the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company and he called for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel, seeking to use trade policy to win over working-class votes in Pennsylvania, an election-year battleground.2024-04-17T22:04+0200news-gazette-547f804d5bc51f37a192150bf1e4323d20240417220400https://www.wral.com/story/biden-to-call-for-tripling-tariffs-on-chinese-steel-products/21384814/President Joe Biden on Wednesday will call on his trade representative to more than triple some tariffs on steel and aluminum products from China, as part of a series of moves meant to help cushion American manufacturers from a surge of low-cost imports. Speaking to the United Steelworkers Union in Pittsburgh, Biden will ask U.2024-04-17T18:02+0200wral-06802d34cc090355ef6fa6cde461eb4a20240417180200