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“A Farewell to Arms” The Israeli siege of Gaza, the meltdown of law and order in ISIS-gripped Iraq, and the barbarity of Boko Haram in Cameroon and Nigeria: the spectrum of international terror plays straight into the hands of arms manufacturers.
[ 20 Aug 2014 | 2 Comments | 6,255 views]
‘‘Qu’il soit terrestre ou maritime, le terrorisme reste le terrorisme. Il défie les règles du monde civilisé... Sa victoire serait celle de l’obscurantisme et de la régression.’’ Le Président BIYA. The Bridge MAG. Image

The Twitter saga following Baroness Warsi’s sudden resignation as UK minister of state for the Foreign Office over the Government’s ambivalent stance on the Israeli siege of Gaza, and the condemnation of Boko Haram’s campaign of terror in Nigeria by Cameroon President Paul Biya at the 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Union on peace and security issues, in Malabo, are just two examples of …

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The Bitterest Pill: Policing Pharmaceutical Crime. In spite of the all-encompassing coverage of the FIFA World Cup saga in Brazil, a more fundamental issue, the provision of universal health, is still making the world headlines: the UK Government faces calls to overhaul pharmacy regulation after a BBC investigation exposed numerous chemists illegally selling dangerous and addictive drugs; while the city of Yaoundé in Cameroon simultaneously hosted the fifteenth International Pharmaceutical Forum in a bid to rein in counterfeiters of pharmaceutical brands.
[ 20 Jun 2014 | No Comment | 23,894 views]
FAKE PILLS. No to the international pharmaceutical crime. The Bridge MAG. Image

Universal health concerns and patients’ safety remain among the thornier of topical issues and a huge challenge of our era, in a world where pharmaceutical brands are increasingly being targeted by counterfeiters.
Global life expectancies are at stake as a dangerous drugs trade impinging on the pharmaceutical mainstream has led to plummeting quality and safety standards in the UK and worldwide in recent decades.
According to the …