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Ethiopia frees AP journalist detained for four months

The Ethiopian justice released this Friday on bail an independent Ethiopian journalist, who worked among other media for the Associated Press (AP) and had been detained for four months without charge, the

April 2, 2022

Panama

Central Bank of Nicaragua retains Leonardo Torres among its directors

In the 2021 annual report, which reflects the economic evolution of the country according to data from the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN), the name of businessman Leonardo Manuel Torres Céspedes appears,

April 2, 2022

Nicaragua

Covid-19 positivity rate decreased from 33.4% in week 4 to 4.6% in week 12.

Both deaths and percentages of positivity from Covid-19 have decreased considerably in recent weeks, according to the latest report issued by the Ministry of Health (Minsa), who reported that the percentage of

April 2, 2022

Panama

US senators ask to extend immigration protection for Venezuela

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat Bob Menendez, and Republican Marco Rubio sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas requesting that he extend the

April 1, 2022

Panama

The US emphasizes that it is the main buyer of beef from Nicaragua

The Joe Biden administration once again reminded the Daniel Ortega regime that the United States is Nicaragua’s largest trading partner. The US Embassy revealed that in 2021 exports of beef of Nicaraguan

April 1, 2022

Nicaragua

Proposal to reduce the working day to 4 days has not been presented to Mitradel

According to the Deputy Minister of Labor, Roger Tejada, in order to evaluate this possibility, it is necessary for the Ministry to have a formal request and to have valid

April 1, 2022

Panama

Opposition organizations demand that CABEI stop financing the regime

A group of 21 opposition organizations in exile once again sent a letter to the Board of Governors of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) requesting that “no further disbursements

April 1, 2022

Nicaragua

The US will apply a new strategy to prevent conflicts in Haiti

The government of US President Joe Biden announced this Friday a ten-year conflict prevention strategy that it will carry out in Haiti and other countries, almost all of them African, to promote

April 1, 2022

Panama

Daniel Ortega will legalize “confiscation” of NGOs with a new law

Illegalized Paulo Freire University condemns that Ortega has “liquidated” university autonomy

The canceled Paulo Freire University (UPF) condemned and denounced the reform approved to Law 89, Law of Autonomy of Higher Education Institutions, executed by the steamroller of Sandinista deputies in the National

April 1, 2022

Nicaragua

They deliver 1,355 medicines to residents of the Ñurum district

During this tour, general and specialty medicine services, swab tests, drug dispatches and Covid-19 tests were provided. General medicine and specialty services were provided. Photo: Courtesy Residents of the

April 1, 2022

Panama

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