News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 50

DAR ES SALALAM, Dic 09 (IPS) - TANZANIA HAS APPROVED SHORT- AND LONG-TERM MEASURES TO ARREST A POWER CRISIS WHICH HAS BADLY AFFECTED THE COUNTRY'S MANUFACTURING SECTOR.

PARIS, Dic 09 (IPS) - Harping on French complicity in the genocide in Rwanda, human rights and development organisations are grilling the candidates to the 1995 Presidential elections in France on their intentions to reform French-African relations.

PARIS, Dic 09 (IPS) - Harping on French complicity in the genocide in Rwanda, human rights and development organisations are grilling the candidates to the 1995 Presidential elections in France on their intentions to reform French-African relations.

ATHENS, Dic 09 (IPS) - With a civil war raging in south eastern Turkey fleeing Kurdish rebels have sought refuge in neighbouring countries with Greece proving a particularly safe haven for those seeking an independent state for the Kurds.

PHNOM PENH, Dic 09 (IPS) - Cambodians believe national reconciliation is vital for them to achieve peace at last, but this remains an elusive goal more than a year after these war-weary people held their first general elections.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dic 09 (IPS) - Western ideas from free-market economics to media are rushing through the world's open borders, and swamped developing countries say they are finding less and less room with which to shape their own destinies.

BANGKOK, Dic 09 (IPS) - Thailand's fragile democracy was won on the streets of Bangkok in May 1992. Its logical culmination would have been a further deepening of these freedoms by extending them to the rural populace who are still governed by administrators appointed by the interior ministry.

LUSAKA, Dic 08 (IPS) - HEAVILY-ARMED PARAMILITARY POLICE STORMED THE OFFICES OF ZAMBIA'S INDEPENDENT BI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, 'THE POST,' AND SEIZED FOUR UNUSED STORIES THURSDAY.

DUBLIN, Dic 08 (IPS) - On the eve of talks between the British government and the IRA's political wing, Sinn Fein, the political parties close to the loyalist paramilitaries are impressing on London the urgent need to also name a date for talks with them.

BONN, Dic 08 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Thursday charged that this weekend's biannual European Union (EU) summit would ignore issues of particular relevance to the Third World.