Tanzania’s government has signed into law the Public Service Social Security Act 2018, which has resulted into chaos, frustrations, and more outcry among workers. The new Act joins all pension funds into two major entities; the Public Service Social Security Fund (PSSSF) and National Social Security Fund (NSSF), and introduced two new tricky benefits, the survivor’s benefits and unemployment benefits. The Act also specifies retirement age as 60 for compulsory…

On the 84th anniversary of the women’s suffrage in Turkey, the minister of Family, Labor and Social Services Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk visited the mausoleum with female deputies, reeves, bureaucrats, academicians and female representatives of non-governmental organizations.

The Turkish-US High-Level Working Group on Syria met for the third time in Ankara. The group which included senior officials of Turkish Ministries of Foreign Affairs and National Defence and the US Departments of State and Defence came together regarding to continue the negotiations about strengthening the stability and the security of Syria.

IMF representative to Pakistan Teresa Sanchez said, "The government of Pakistan has approached the International Monetary Fund with a request for not only financial assistance but also for policy advice, which are part of the usual services that the IMF provides to its member countries. Remember that the IMF provides countries with financial assistance to support medium-term (three-year) economic programs.”