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US fees on Chinese-made ships ‘could be ruinous for Bermuda
The legislation, also known as the Ships Act, would impose a docking fee of as much as $1.5 million on a Chinese-built or Chinese-flagged vessel.

Richard E. Todd, the chief operating officer of Neptune Group Management, which runs the BCL, confirmed that the group held a Chinese-made ship, the MV Oleander.

He added that because the company’s small fleet brought in most of Bermuda’s goods, the Ships Act could have a heavy impact on goods imported from the US.
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He added: “While the outcome of the Ships Act is unclear at this stage, any adoption of the proposed rules is likely to provide disruption to Bermuda’s economy, as approximately 90 per cent of all goods received in Bermuda arrive on the island’s three container ships, with BCL’s MV Oleander the largest of the three ships.”

The MV Oleander, the BCL’s newest ship, was built in China in 2019 and is a combination container and roll-on, roll-off vessel capable of carrying 456 20ft units. She makes weekly trips between Bermuda and Port Elizabeth in New Jersey.
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Chinese shipbuilders produce more than half of all merchant cargo vessels used around the world each year.

This came after a staggering rise from its 5 per cent share of global ship production in 1999, according to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

By comparison, the US builds only five new ships every year, while at its peak in 1975 it produced 70.
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Tayboo said:
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Traore really has inspired West Africa. It's so great to see these types stories. This is what Pan Africanist have been calling for and it's starting to happen. Africa is for Africans

And I hope more Africans who fled can contribute to their home countries
 
The Lonious Monk said:
They could be world leaders in a lot of stuff. Africa still has the biggest repositories of a lot of natural resources that the rest of the world needs.
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They would need funding from a wealthy country and in return they would require cheaper electric etc.

It would benefit the people on the continent but wouldn't help like oil did to the middle east
 
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Namibia swears in first female president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah tells BBC she understands pressure she faces as Africa's second directly elected female leader
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Namibia's new president was sworn in on Friday to lead a country facing high rates of unemployment, inequality and poverty.
And she will be dealing with it with the additional burden of being only Africa's second-ever directly elected female president and Namibia's first female head of state.
"If things go well then it will be seen as a good example," Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told BBC's Africa Daily podcast. "But if anything then happens, like it can happen in any administration under men, there are also those who would rather say: 'Look at women!'"
The 72-year-old won November's election with a 58% share of the vote.

Nandi-Ndaitwah has been a long-term loyalist of the South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) – which has been in power since the country gained independence in 1990 after a long struggle against apartheid South Africa.
She joined Swapo, then a liberation movement resisting South Africa's white-minority rule, when she was only 14.
While the party has made changes and improved the lives of the black majority, the legacy of apartheid can still be seen in patterns of wealth and land ownership.
"Truly, land is a serious problem in this country," she told the BBC ahead of the inauguration.
"We still have some white citizens and more particularly the absent land owners who are occupying the land."
 
Tayboo said:
www.bbc.com

Namibia swears in first female president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah tells BBC she understands pressure she faces as Africa's second directly elected female leader
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Namibia's new president was sworn in on Friday to lead a country facing high rates of unemployment, inequality and poverty.
And she will be dealing with it with the additional burden of being only Africa's second-ever directly elected female president and Namibia's first female head of state.
"If things go well then it will be seen as a good example," Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told BBC's Africa Daily podcast. "But if anything then happens, like it can happen in any administration under men, there are also those who would rather say: 'Look at women!'"
The 72-year-old won November's election with a 58% share of the vote.

Nandi-Ndaitwah has been a long-term loyalist of the South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) – which has been in power since the country gained independence in 1990 after a long struggle against apartheid South Africa.
She joined Swapo, then a liberation movement resisting South Africa's white-minority rule, when she was only 14.
While the party has made changes and improved the lives of the black majority, the legacy of apartheid can still be seen in patterns of wealth and land ownership.
"Truly, land is a serious problem in this country," she told the BBC ahead of the inauguration.
"We still have some white citizens and more particularly the absent land owners who are occupying the land."
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thats dope.. but 72 tho? I still stand by my "Step Aside" mantra
 
Inori said:
thats dope.. but 72 tho? I still stand by my "Step Aside" mantra
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Perhaps, but this will be interesting to watch to see how she navigates the country that's on the verge of a oil boom, yet there's still pretty unequal land ownership...
 
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