Tag: struggling
Supply chain crisis: US businesses struggling to keep doors open
Across the US and around the world, businesses are struggling to keep their doors open. Prices, pushed up by the pandemic, are being driven higher by supply problems. Now the war in Ukraine has made things worse. Al Jazeera’s @John Hendren reports from Chicago, United States. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera –…
Struggling Sri Lankan fishermen in need of fuel as economic crisis worsens
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The Sri Lankan government announced nationwide 13-hour daily power cuts starting on March 31, 2022. This comes as the country reels under its worst economic outlook since gaining independence in 1948, with rolling blackouts, soaring food prices and fuel shortages the norm. The crisis has left many fishermen moored at harbour, short of fuel and unable…
Premature babies struggling for life in Ukrainian cities bombed by Russia – BBC News
Doctors in some areas of Ukraine have begun seeing a sharp rise in the number of premature births as the conflict enters its second month. Prenatal clinics in both Kharkiv and Lviv have told the BBC that the rate of preterm births has doubled or tripled in the past few weeks, as a result of stress and medical issues linked to the war. Iryna Kondratova,…
Pakistan’s government struggling to fund renewable energy projects
Pakistan is turning to renewable energy to gradually wean itself off reliance on expensive oil imports. But the government is struggling to find the money needed to build the large-scale build wind and solar power plants it would need. Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid reports from Thatta, southern Pakistan. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on…
In Iran, patients are struggling to find their medications
One of the central talking points in Vienna as Western powers and Iran try to revive a 2015 deal has been the impact of economic sanctions. For many sick Iranians, finding the medicines they need is difficult, almost impossible, because of these sanctions. More than 500 thalassemia patients alone have died since the US withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions. And as…