[RFI] Africa continues to grapple with plastic pollution, a waste crisis, and limited investment, activists report, as discussions unfold at the UN climate meetings in Azerbaijan. To shed light on these overlapping challenges, RFI interviewed campaigners and negotiators from across the continent.

[Africa Check] Viral 'U$57.5bn loan' to Nigerian Biafra secessionists not true

[Africa Check] No, South African political party the Democratic Alliance didn't hoist a giant Israeli flag on Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain

[Vanguard] Vanguard Media Limited hereby issues a public warning to disregard a falsified visual circulating online, which purports to be a screenshot of our website.

[The Conversation Africa] We're increasingly aware of how misinformation can influence elections. About 73% of Americans report seeing misleading election news, and about half struggle to discern what is true or false.

[Nile Post] At a press conference, UPPA president Sam Ibanda Mugabi strongly criticised the decision, underscoring the importance of independent media coverage free from interference.

[RSF] At the summit co-organised by UNESCO and the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa on 6 and 7 November to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on authorities in Sahel countries to sign a regional declaration on the right to information.

[RSF] The political turbulence rocking Mozambique since the start of the protests against fraud in the general elections, which were held on 9 October, has made journalism a dangerous practice. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the repeated attacks on media professionals and calls for their protection as they carry out their work.

[The Herald] The Government is making concerted efforts towards ensuring real-time dissemination of information, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister, Dr Jenfan Muswere, has said.

[Dabanga] Amsterdam -- Since the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began clashing on April 15, 2023, independent media--particularly those operating abroad--have become critical sources of information. However, the warring parties have escalated efforts to silence these channels, seeking to enforce a total media blackout.

[CPJ] The Committee to Protect Journalists, along with 26 other press freedom and human rights organizations, sent a letter on November 12 to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) seeking updates on the urgent appeal filed on November 14, 2023, concerning the imprisonment of Egyptian writer Alaa Abdelfattah.

[CPJ] Dakar -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Cameroonian authorities to investigate and hold accountable those responsible for detaining and violently abusing Nsoyuka Guy-Bruno Maimo, a reporter with the privately owned Volcanic Times newspaper, while he covered a demonstration on October 24.

Casos complicados para pedir un préstamo

Hay muchos casos complicados que pueden conducir a la denegación de un préstamo. Algunas de las razones para una denegación incluyen:

• Estar presente en el fichero de morosos ASNEF

• No tener una nómina

• Una alta relación deuda-ingresos.

• Un historial laboral inestable.

Los departamentos de riesgos de los bancos tradicionales serán reacios a prestar dinero a personas que se encuentren en alguna de las situaciones arriba indicadas. Incluso si el crédito es viable, es posible que soliciten diferentes documentos que pueden alargar el trámite en el tiempo. Esto suele suceder especialmente cuando hay una urgencia o surge una oportunidad que tiene que ser atendida en el acto.

Razones para pedir un crédito rápido y sin papeles

Algunas razones por las que podría necesitar solicitar un préstamo rápido y sin papeles son:

• Tiene una situación de emergencia que necesita atención inmediata

• Necesita fondos para un nuevo proyecto que no está cubierto por su presupuesto actual

• Quiere comenzar o expandir su negocio pero no tiene el capital necesario y se le presenta una oportunidad única que tiene que ser aprovechada rápidamente.

Estos casos pueden ser solicitados en diferentes bancos, pero también pueden requerir papeleo adicional o no ser viables por diversas razones.

Préstalo, préstamos online sin papeleos y en 24 horas

Muchas personas que buscan un préstamo rápido temen tener que aceptar unas condiciones leoninas con altos intereses y en periodos muy cortos. 

Préstalo brinda su avanzada tecnología para comparar diversos productos financieros para dar con la mejor opción y con las mejors condiciones para cada cliente.

Hay casos que parecen imposibles para obtener un crédito personal, pero con Préstalo lo consiguen rápidamente sin aval, sin preguntas, sin papeleos, sin propiedades, incluso estando en el fichero de morosos ASNEF. 

Préstalo también ofrece sus servicios de búsqueda de créditos online a emprendedores, autónomos y empresas que pueden requerir un prétamo desde 250 hasta más de 20.000 euros. Incluso se puede utilizar para la reunificación de deudas, todo esto de manera online y sin cambiar de banco.

Para aprovechar la potente tecnología de Préstalo tan solo hay que seguir un sencillo proceso:

• Se indican los objetivos del crédito en el simulaor de Préstalo

• Se envía la información para su revisión

• Préstalo busca el mejor producto financiero y da una respuesta en un periodo máximo de 24 horas

La búsqueda del préstamo online no implica ninguna obligación posterior de contratación, con lo que puedes encontrar las mejores ofertas de créditos de manera totalmente gratuita.  

La Identidad de Marca en Acción

Maximizando la Experiencia del Visitante

Diferenciación en un Mar de Competidores

December 21, 2005 – Last week a computer tape containing the names, addresses, account information, payment histories and Social Security Number of 2 million people disappeared while in transit. The tape, which contained data on all of LaSalle Bank’s mortgage customers, had been shipped via DHL to Experian by the bank in November. It then reappeared two days ago.

There are bad dreams, there are nightmares and then there are situations like that of Joanne Sims.

January 9, 2006 - On Friday, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich announced that he wants to ban the unauthorized sale of phone records within his state. The practice, know in the industry as “pretexting”, occurs when someone pretending to be the phone company’s customer calls the phone company and gains access to all of the call information available for the actual customer. Surprisingly, no state currently outlaws this practice. And disturbingly, this lack of regulation has seen the birth of a new cottage industry that allows nearly anyone the purchase the phone records of any person they desire.

January 16, 2006 - In 2004, Congress passed the American Jobs Creation Act. As innocuous as the title sounds, it contained a provision allowing the IRS to outsource collection efforts to private contractors. But both the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) are questioning the wisdom of this; saying that the move may jeopardize personal privacy and lead to cases of fraud and identity theft.

January 20, 2006 – Google, the 800 pound gorilla of search engines, is defying a subpoena by the justice department. The government is demanding that the company turn over one full week of user search data. But Google has said that it will fight the subpoena “vigorously” because the company fears the ramifications to privacy for twelve million people who use the company’s website every single day.

February 14, 2006 – ACCESS has been concerned for months that the State Department’s plan to include RFID chips in passports has not been well thought out. The original plan would have placed an RFID chip in every passport which would have contained unencrypted data about the passport holder. After a storm of protest, the State Department revised the standard to include some encryption. Now, a Dutch television news program has along and broken that encryption in less than two hours. The ramifications of this to passport holders are anything but positive.

February 17, 2006 – Google has just released the latest version of its desktop search software, and it some new features. One of them is the ability to share documents across multiple computers. While some may find this feature convenient, it may users to privacy intrusions or even worse.

September 2, 2005 – ACCESS continues to receive a number of complaints about Boyajian Law Offices and JBC. This firm is under investigation in at least 13 states, has lost its license to act as a collection agent in one other, and was recently turned down in its request for a collection license by the state of Connecticut. Consumers are obviously fed-up, but other than complaining to the FTC and their state attorney general, most have felt relatively helpless. Well, there may be something else that you can do.

September 15, 2005 - If you are one of the 35 million Americans who only make minimum payments on your credit cards, you are going to be in for a rude surprise over the next year. The amount that you are going to be required to pay is going to double due to a little publicized federal lending rule that is about to go into effect. Unfortunately, most lenders don’t want you to know about the payment increases until after October 15th. That’s the date that new federal bankruptcy laws go into effect.

January 11, 2006 – If you are missing an old tax refund and wondering when it will show up, the answer may be “never”. That is because the IRS now uses software to identify possible cases of “refund fraud”. Unfortunately, the software appears to be error prone and tax payers are getting caught in the middle.

January 19, 2006 – There is a lot of talk in the media about natural disasters. In the past year the United States has faced hurricanes, flooding, tornados and fires. The first thing on the mind of anyone who goes through a disaster is physical survival. But what very few people consider is economic survival. Just because you lose all of your physical possessions doesn’t mean that you have to lose everything that you have worked for all of your life. But in order to survive economically, you need to do some pre-planning.

January 24, 2006 – Yesterday, Ameriquest Mortgage agree to pay $325 million in restitution to those who had borrowed money from the company. The agreement settles legal disputes with 49 states and the District of Columbia, and is the second largest in US history.

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Tod Maffin posted a 'Five Point Roadmap to Podcasting's Future'. Jake Ludington wrote an excellent and detailed follow-up. Their main focus is technology though, the means.. Two sentences in Jake's piece jump off the page: "Content is the one area technology cannot fix" and "At the core, we need better content". Absolutely. Better recording tools, smarter aggregators and api integration are