In the 2011 independence referendum, 99 per cent of the population voted to secede from Sudan, signalling a united desire to leave behind years of war for a new future. … Six years was an extremely short period of time to build a sense of nationality …

It's all a far cry from a year or so ago, when emerging market exporters were battling rising exchange rates and Brazil was accusing Western policymakers of waging currency wars by flooding the world with cheap money. Turkey is now tightening its …

Hence the likely winners in a currency war are those countries not tied to a currency union whether explicit (EU) or implicit (US). Amongst the larger countries in the world, Japan and the U.K. both look well positioned to be able to manage their …

Secrets are a radioactive currency. They buy influence and …. He desperately wanted his fellow citizens to know how extensively their government, its officials and elected representatives, lied to them in the course of conducting that war. Snowden …

The U.S. wants Beijing to allow U.S. companies greater access to China's giant market, and wants Beijing to allow its currency, the yuan, to appreciate more. Many U.S. companies, unions and lawmakers contend China holds down the value of its currency …

Sitting down to a cup of bitter Croatian coffee, two young entrepreneurs asked themselves with hefty irony why their people went through an appalling civil war to surrender their hard-won sovereignty to faceless eurocrats. It's true, they said, some …

The country of Brazil used the term “currency war” in 2012 when the Brazilian Prime Minister made this statement, “When the real appreciates, it reduces our competitiveness. Exports are more expensive, imports are cheaper and it creates unfair …

It's all a far cry from a year or so ago, when emerging market exporters were battling rising exchange rates and Brazil was accusing Western policymakers of waging currency wars by flooding the world with cheap money. Turkey is now tightening its …

Civil war has left around 93,000 Syrians dead and sent even more as refugees into neighbouring Turkey. … Egypt relies on foreign donations, UN aid and hard currency contributions from sympathetic countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia to prop it up.